RE: PUA

From: James E. Agenbroad (jage@loc.gov)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 09:16:40 EST


On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:

> James E. Agenbroad wrote:
> >Using the PUA for glyphs sems contrary to the our basic premises,
>
> Wait. What premises? Who is "we"?
>
> >but can we prevent consenting users from doing so?
>
> [snip]
> Ciao. Marco
>
>
>
                                            Wednesday, February 23, 2000
The 'premise' is for efficient communication among computers one assigns
codes to characters, not glyphs; 'we' is the authors and users of Unicode.
Did I get this wrong?

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          Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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