Re: On the possibility of guidance code points for the Private Use Area

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 11:53:03 EDT


In a message dated 2001-04-24 5:01:23 Pacific Daylight Time,
WOverington@ngo.globalnet.co.uk writes:

> This is a quibble about the usage of the terms "private" and "public".
> Any shared private use is by definition public. And of course, if you
> publish private usage of code points and encourage others to make use
> of your interpretation, that is even more public.

Let's not spend valuable time searching Webster or Black's Law Dictionary for
the meanings of "public" and "private." Unicode employs a very specific
definition for the purpose of discussing "private-use characters," namely
that any character used in the Unicode framework, but not explicitly defined
by the Unicode standard, is considered "private."

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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