On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:16:43AM -0700, Rick McGowan wrote:
> For the most-part, it's been my impression that actual PUA usages are very
> localized and platform-specific, and the characters tend not to leak all
> over the place. If end-users have a demonstrable need to widely
> communicate some set of characters, I would think they might first consider
> them as candidates for standardization; not as evidence that arcane
> regulatory mechanisms need to be engineered for the PUA.
Most of the PUA usages seem to be stuff the UTC refuses to encode
(Apple's logo, Klingon (I've seen it used on the web with the
ConScript encoding, though I didn't have a font that would display
it), etc.), not stuff that would be encoded if submitted, with the
exception of the MathML stuff, which was proposed and encoded.
As for the suggestion to use another encoding marker (x-mike-pua1),
that has the problem that non-PUA parts of the page can't be
displayed and that doesn't work for untagged Unicode only systems
(dict protocol, for example).
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