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Because the title appears next to a bunch of other titles.

It should be consistent, or else compromise browsing.

The content has no such situation.

You haven’t engaged with my second paragraph, or my responses to other responses in this thread. Meaningful inconsistency is already easy with just Unicode, nor does limited HTML make things materially inconsistent.

While it’s true Unicode pushes the boundaries of “plain text” having a consistent font face, font size, font weight, letter spacing, font color, text wrapping, etc is good.

I don’t want one title 16pt and another 28pt.

Or one Helvetica and the other Arial.

I already addressed that in this ancestor thread.

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