In a message dated 2001-04-23 7:09:31 Pacific Daylight Time,
WOverington@ngo.globalnet.co.uk writes:
> I therefore put forward for discussion a suggestion of the possibility of
> guidance code points for the private use area. I do this knowing that it
> cannot ever be endorsed by the Unicode Consortium. However, I put the idea
> forward in the hope that, maybe after such modification as people on this
> list may suggest, the idea might be generally recognized by private
> agreement by most people for most applications.
etc.
You should be aware that the Unicode Standard does state the following about
the PUA (TUS 3.0, p. 323):
"By convention, the Private Use Area is divided into a Corporate Use subarea,
starting at U+F8FF and extending downward in values, and an End User subarea,
starting at U+E000 and extending upward."
There is some further discussion about the envisioned use of the two subareas
and the fact that the border between them is undefined, but this is about all
Unicode intends to dictate about the use of the PUA, now or apparently in the
future. Any proposed private-use registries would be just as private in
nature as a single PUA character.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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