>What if UNICODE devote a Web Site for PUA, that user will
provide
>a BMP of the Code point they used (if it is of General
Intereset),
>the next user will not use the point and will use the next,
>this should be on volunteer basis and the user must be free to
use
>it or not.
Addendum to what I just sent off:
The PUA is for *private* use, meaning that a particular use of
it can be made by a (relatively) small set of users that have
common purposes. Rather than communicating to the entire world
how a PUA codepoint is used, it's only necessary for a set of
users that have common purposes to communicate that information
to one another. If an organisation of people interested in, for
example, Sign Writing want to work on some ideas of encoding
that writing system as text, they could agree on some PUA
assignments, and then it would make sense to publish those on a
web site of interest to users of Sign Writing, with clear
communication of what the status of these characters is.
If an application developer is going to make use of the PUA
such that their code assumes particular semantics for PUA
characters , then it would be *very* helpful for users if it
was clearly communicated to them what use of the PUA is being
assumed. I hope this doesn't happen often - not at all would be
better, and I think it would be a good idea if such uses of the
PUA began at the top end and worked down.
Again, it would be very good if there were an interoperable way
for end users to provide information about semantics of their
custom PUA characters in a way that applications can make use
of it.
Peter
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