Re: Text output encodings

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan]

The very definition of “plain text” precludes what you're hoping to 
get.  The closest thing of which I know to what you want is RTF 
(rich-text format).

On 02/18/2018 11:55 PM, F M Salter wrote:

Hi

     When plain text is used as output, emphasised text loses emphasis.

     Is there any way by which text output may be specified with utf-8
encoding?   Emphasis could then be maintained.

Regards

Frank Salter