Re: [Private Use Area] Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 15:23:27 EDT

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    At 17:01 +0100 2003-07-17, William Overington wrote:
    >Michael Everson raises some interesting points.
    >
    >>William.
    >>
    >>If CENELEC wishes to standardize a set of icons, they will do so. If
    >>they have a need to interchange data using those icons, they will (if
    >>they are wise) come to us an ask to encode them. If they want to use
    >>the Private Use Area before they do that, they will.
    >
    >Perhaps I may explain the situation?

    No, thank you. If CENELEC wants to propose characters to the Unicode
    Standard, they can contact us. I'd be interested in helping, if they
    had a good case. But I'm not looking for extra work right now.

    >Now, I have never heard of the MES-2 whatever that is. However, I do not
    >have deep knowledge of the various standards which exist. Could you
    >possibly say some more about MES-2 please.

    A.4.2 282 MES-2

    282 MES-2 is specified by the following ranges of code positions as
    indicated for each row.

    Rows Positions (cells)

    00 20-7E A0-FF

    01 00-7F 8F 92 B7 DE-EF FA-FF

    02 18-1B 1E-1F 59 7C 92 BB-BD C6-C7 C9 D8-DD EE

    03 74-75 7A 7E 84-8A 8C 8E-A1 A3-CE D7 DA-E1

    04 00-5F 90-C4 C7-C8 CB-CC D0-EB EE-F5 F8-F9

    1E 02-03 0A-0B 1E-1F 40-41 56-57 60-61 6A-6B 80-85 9B F2-F3

    1F 00-15 18-1D 20-45 48-4D 50-57 59 5B 5D 5F-7D 80-B4 B6-C4 C6-D3
    D6-DB DD-EF F2-F4 F6-FE

    20 13-15 17-1E 20-22 26 30 32-33 39-3A 3C 3E 44 4A 7F 82 A3-A4 A7 AC AF

    21 05 16 22 26 5B-5E 90-95 A8

    22 00 02-03 06 08-09 0F 11-12 19-1A 1E-1F 27-2B 48 59 60-61 64-65 82-83 95 97

    23 02 10 20-21 29-2A

    25 00 02 0C 10 14 18 1C 24 2C 34 3C 50-6C 80 84 88 8C 90-93 A0 AC B2
    BA BC C4 CA-CB D8-D9

    26 3A-3C 40 42 60 63 65-66 6A-6B

    FB 01-02

    FF FD

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