Re: On the possibility of encoding webdings in Unicode (from Re: square bullets added to unicode.)

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On Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:28:08 pm David Starner wrote:
> I don't know that that's true. If a user decides to use the PUA in an
> internal system, who are we to object? They implicitly promise it
> won't see open use,

Sorry, but PUA use does not in any way promise it won't be used in the open.
If such a rule is desired, Unicode needs to start allocating regions for open
usage of non-notorious scripts. Until then, PUA is the only reasonable way to
openly use characters Unicode refuses to encode.

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