Font-related problem for linguists

[Peter Kahrel]

> Please note that there is no way to refer to italics in the UNICODE 
> description of a character.
> UNICODE does specify capitalization, but not italicization!

I know that. The division of labour is this: it's up to the Unicode 
consortium to provide a code point for a character. Then it's up to font 
foundries to provide a character shape for that character/glyph in roman 
and italic fonts. Again, the same way as with schwa, open o, etc: 
Unicode provides the unicode point, font foundries the character shapes 
in fonts.

Peter