Code to use unicode to bold and italic styles to text

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Yaytext example and the proposed HTML input and Unicode output in this issue; no repository files, tests, or entry points are named. Done would mean converting the requested bold and italic markup into Unicode-styled text suitable for a Twitter or Facebook post.

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Description

Have you ever seen Yaytext?

It's an interactive tool that adds style to text using Unicode. Try it out. I'm glad to see it's possible to do this.

But I want to do it in code. Say I have a string with HTML markup for bold and italic. I want to pass that string to a routine and have it return a string with the bold and italic done with Unicode mapping. So it can be in a FB or Twitter post, for example. I want to bake this into thread.center, if possible.

I did a quick search for a JS code that does this. But it must be around. If not, it should be.

A little pseudocode:

var s = "This is <b>bold</b> text, and this is &i>italic</i> text.";
var unicodeversion = convertHtmlStyleToUnicode (s);
twitter.tweet (unicodeversion);
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