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

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 12:51:46 EDT


At 11:30 -0400 2001-04-23, DougEwell2@cs.com wrote:

>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."

This has nothing to do with ISO/IEC 10646.

Who decides who is corporate?

The fact is that all users are free to use any position in the PUA
that they wish.

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