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A Gemini-style proposal

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net

Wed Nov 3 12:35:43 GMT 2021

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Charles Iliya Krempeaux <cikrempeaux at gmail.com> writes:

At least for the alphabet we commonly associate with English, Unicode
has bold versions of those characters:

It's recommended that you not use these (or other Unicode variants ofnormal letters) in regular text — they are generally not handled in afriendly or useful way by screen readers. There are contexts where usingthem is a reasonable trade-off, but I'd say that emphasis in regulartext is not one of those contexts.

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