Emphasis mark support not interoperable

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This issue is applicable to Japanese & Chinese, in particular.

Chinese and Japanese have a native way of indicating emphasis for short ranges of inline text which involves placing a small mark above or below the characters being emphasised in horizontal text, and to the right/left in vertical text.

The actual marks used vary, depending on author preference, although some marks are more common in vertical text and others in horizontal. Typically, dots, circles, or 'sesame seed' shapes are used.

The following illustrates this:

For more details, see this GitHub issue, which is being used to track this gap.

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Relevant gap analysis documents include: Chinese • Japanese