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People are limited by their tools. The author believes that plain text should encode bold, italic, etc., because that's all they had exposure to. Were the text

People are limited by their tools. The author believes that plain text should encode bold, italic, etc., because that's all they had exposure to. Were the text written today, they would claim emojis belong in unicode as well. Most social media don't support it, but on Tumblr, for example, you can specify the color of the text and even choose a different font. I think there was some other social media that allowed you to have animated effects on the text as well, but I forgot the name.

tomxor 2y ago
> Were the text written today, they would claim emojis belong in unicode as well. Not sure what you mean, unicode does contain emojis. That's what most platform use for emojis now,
- nextos 2y ago
  Yes, Unicode even defines characters for subindex and superindex. It's quite capable for basic inline math equations.
  - mmooss 2y ago
    Weren't many of those formatting codes - maybe not sub/superindex? - deprecated (but preserved for backward compatibility)?
    - nextos 2y ago
      I don't think so, but I'm not so familiar with that topic. Julia uses them quite extensively to make source code closer to math.
  - wruza 2y ago
    Which adds complexity and solves nothing. We'd better have a standard markup (we already have) than this half-assed wannabe-markup that is so complex and a minefield that modern forums tend to filter it anyway. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_super... – The wikipedia article about unicode sub/superscripts can't even render half of these symbols on neither of my {ios,windows,android} devices. In theory we have it, in practice it's dead baggage.
- AlienRobot 2y ago
  But should it contain emoji? I can copy and paste bold text from one rich text editor to another just fine. Why not use XML to encode emoji?
  - rhet0rica 2y ago
    <emoticon type="graphical" value="PILE OF POO" entity="&x1F4A9;" fallback="" fallback-encoding="utf-8" />

tomxor 2y ago

> Were the text written today, they would claim emojis belong in unicode as well. Not sure what you mean, unicode does contain emojis. That's what most platform use for emojis now,

nextos 2y ago
Yes, Unicode even defines characters for subindex and superindex. It's quite capable for basic inline math equations.
- mmooss 2y ago
  Weren't many of those formatting codes - maybe not sub/superindex? - deprecated (but preserved for backward compatibility)?
  - nextos 2y ago
    I don't think so, but I'm not so familiar with that topic. Julia uses them quite extensively to make source code closer to math.
- wruza 2y ago
  Which adds complexity and solves nothing. We'd better have a standard markup (we already have) than this half-assed wannabe-markup that is so complex and a minefield that modern forums tend to filter it anyway. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_super... – The wikipedia article about unicode sub/superscripts can't even render half of these symbols on neither of my {ios,windows,android} devices. In theory we have it, in practice it's dead baggage.
AlienRobot 2y ago
But should it contain emoji? I can copy and paste bold text from one rich text editor to another just fine. Why not use XML to encode emoji?
- rhet0rica 2y ago
  <emoticon type="graphical" value="PILE OF POO" entity="&x1F4A9;" fallback="" fallback-encoding="utf-8" />