Serious writing (in the Latin script) needs italics

[Michael Lazar]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:16 AM Petite Abeille
<petite.abeille at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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 ︎

It's 👏 2020 👏 we 👏 don't 👏 need 👏 italics 👏 to 👏 show 👏 emphasis.