[function_seven]

I can't tell if you're being serious or tongue-in-cheek, but I like this comment nonetheless.

Did Unicode ever have any business assigning separate code points for italic versions of latin glyphs? Am I ignorant as to their true purpose?

EDIT: SEMI just answered my second question. Math. Makes sense.

[wgjordan]

> Did Unicode ever have any business assigning separate code points for italic versions of latin glyphs?

Here's the official answer to this question from the Unicode spec [1]:

"Mathematical notation requires a number of Latin and Greek alphabets that initially appear to be mere font variations of one another. For example, the letter H can appear as plain or upright (H), bold (𝐇), italic (𝐻), and script (ℋ). However, in any given document, these characters have distinct, and usually unrelated, mathematical semantics. For example, a normal H represents a different variable from a bold H, etc. If these attributes are dropped in plain text, the distinctions are lost and the meaning of the text is altered."

[1] https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/UnicodeStanda...

[jancsika]

> I can't tell if you're being serious or tongue-in-cheek, but I like this comment nonetheless.

Thanks! I started by interpreting the tool as a serious and important feature of putting styling where UIs don't allow it. Then I did a quick stream-of-consciousness advocacy for fitting the feature in all the places where it isn't allowed.

The results are obviously bad, which is reassuring.