Serious writing (in the Latin script) needs italics

[Petite Abeille]

> On Nov 12, 2020, at 15:58, Ecmel Berk Canlıer <me at ecmelberk.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu Nov 12, 2020 at 12:18 PM +03, Jason McBrayer wrote:
>> Which markers should we use? [...] We can use '_', but it's less used
>> (to imply underlines). I'm open to suggestions.
> 
> Using '_' would also conflict with snake_cased_variables in various
> programming contexts, which would also require the addition of a "inline
> preformatted" marker, which probably would complicate this even more.

Considering we have the full power of Unicode at our disposal -Thomas mentioned italicized math symbols previously- perhaps one could use some fancy combining diacritic ala "combining low line" at U+0332 to achieve the same effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underscore#Unicode

My 2¢: enough fidgeting with text/gemini. Let us try to use what we have in creative, forward looking ways ✌︎