Re: Filtering and displaying untrusted UTF-8

From: Petr Tomasek (tomasek@etf.cuni.cz)
Date: Wed Dec 30 2009 - 21:08:54 CST

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> * 0xE000 - 0xF900 (private use; since everyone can make up a
> different character for a code point in private use, filter them all)

This is very bad idea since it efectively blocks people using other
chars that those defined in the unicode standard. (BTW, microsoft
and others have their own PUA assignements...)

P.T.

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