From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 07:34:22 EST
On 11/02/2002 10:06:53 AM jameskass wrote:
>Many "Unicoders" regard the PUA as some kind of a "Phantom Zone"
>into which all of the "bad glyphs" are banished forever, never
>to again be mentioned in "polite society".
That's not how I would characterise the situation at all. It's that
they're tired of repeated suggestions by certain individuals either to use
the PUA for things that are not appropriate for character encoding at all
in the first place, or to encourage widespread agreement on private-use
assignments, or more likely both.
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
Tel: +1 972 708 7485
E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
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