On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:50:36 +1000, Steve D'Aprano > <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> declaimed the following: > >> >>Although, the Unicode Consortium thinks of them as more like private use >>characters, only even more private, and not characters :-) >> >>(If you ask me, I think the noncharacters exist because "it seemed like a good >>idea at the time" -- the use-case for them seems particularly ill-defined. I >>suspect that if we were to redo Unicode from scratch, they wouldn't be >>included.) >> > Almost sounds like the Unicode equivalent of the private LAN IP > addresses (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x, whatever the "class B" address is) > > IE: available for your use but should never get out into the wild.
No, because there are "private use areas" for that. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
