From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Mar 30 2004 - 20:32:56 EST
At 17:02 -0800 2004-03-30, Mike Ayers wrote:
>I feel obligated to take this one step further - these folks are
>forgetting that "P" stands for "private". Their use of this space
>is their own problem, in all senses. It does not seem reasonable to
>me that *any* standard behavior could be expected of PUA code
>points, from operating systems or applications, as such may have
>chosen to, or may yet choose to, use those code points to
>encapsulate very un-font-rendering-like behavior, and such a
>decision, made past, present or future, is a perfectly valid private
>use.
Which I assume means: "it's wrong for Unicode to make ANY property
pronouncements for ANY PUA characters, since that defines them, and
removes the P from the Use."
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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