Re: Characters that should be displayed?

From: David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:48:34 -0700

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> They might be seen as “not displayable by normal rendering”, so yes. On the
> practical side, although Private Use characters should not be used in public
> information interchange, they are increasingly popular in “icon font”
> tricks.

Since when is HTML necessarily public information interchange? I can't
imagine where you would better use private use characters then in HTML
where a font can be named but you don't have enough control over the
format to enter the data in some other format.

-- 
Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
_______________________________________________
Unicode mailing list
Unicode_at_unicode.org
http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
Received on Sun Jun 29 2014 - 16:49:40 CDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Sun Jun 29 2014 - 16:49:41 CDT