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Im reading a book which uses italic text to mean something distinct from roman text. Doesn that mean that italics should be encoded in Unicode?

April 26, 2017book distinct encoded italic italics mean Reading Roman text uses

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Im reading a book which uses italic text to mean something distinct from roman text. Doesn that mean that italics should be encoded in Unicode?

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No. It’s common for specific formatting to be used to convey some of the semantic content—the meaning—of a text. Unicode is not intended to reproduce the complete semantic content of all texts, but merely to provide plain text support required by minimum legibility for all languages.