On 8/14/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
We need to change how we indicate italics and bold because the way it is implemented is incompatible with some natural languages.
They're incompatible, in a very minor way, with a somewhat uncommon grammatical construct, which occurs in exactly one natural language, spoken by comparatively few people - let's not exaggerate here. And the last I heard, the one problem they were having (notably, categories) had a simple workaround: using the unicode in place of one of the ' characters, like ' or something.
Steve