Shift-JIS encoded text (was: RE: Tags and future new technologies [...])

Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote:

> The only requirement of Unicode was to provide a way to map Shift-JIS
> encoded text involving emoji to Unicode / 10646 in a way that could be
> round-tripped,

This is the part that has always confused me. At what point does text
encoded in a vendor's private-use extension to Shift-JIS become
"Shift-JIS encoded text"? Because I know for sure that I'm not supposed
to refer to characters assigned to the Unicode PUA, my own or anyone
else's, as being "encoded in Unicode."

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