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Re: Boldface typing
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Rusi |
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Re: Boldface typing |
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Mon, 5 Jan 2015 03:13:15 -0800 (PST) |
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On Monday, January 5, 2015 3:45:25 PM UTC+5:30, Alberto Luaces wrote:
> Rusi writes:
>
> > On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:59:31 AM UTC+5:30, Pascal J. Bourguignon
> > wrote:
> >> twlllmxxx writes:
> >>
> >> > Just learning emacs. Editing text,
> >>
> >> Ok. So what is a text file?
> >
> > You are speaking from a time when ASCII reigned supreme.
> >
> > Today Unicode age...
> > Here is pure text, with 𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐 and 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝
> >
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> MATHEMATICAL_ITALIC and MATHEMATICAL_BOLD? I do not think that is the
> intended use...
>
Which intention?
Ok maybe the OPs intention is mismatched by the use of these unicode blocks.
But I was talking mainly to Pascal and saying that the old text=ASCII
assumption
does not make sense in 2014
In some more detail:
http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html