Hi - the academical TITUS project occupied U+E000 thru U+EFFF of the Private Use Area, and it is somewhat advisable to regard U+F000 thru U+F800 as Corporate Use Area. I know this to be silent private agreement only - no official politics of Unicode at all! So at least Apple takes U+F800 thru U+F8FF on my Mac OS X Mountain Lion - and Adobe seems to be in from U+FD00 thru U+FEFF and MS from U+F000 thru U+F0FF… Just try: "elbrecht.com/utf8site/utf8site.htm" — and see for yourself/your machine…
HE # # # On Feb 19, 2013, at 3:38 AM, Leslie Turriff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 18 February 2013 07:43:00 Erkki I Kolehmainen wrote: >> This looks quite clear to me. If I create something and somebody else uses >> my creation in the intended context, he agrees to my definition. his >> agreement is private, outside the standard, since the same code points may >> represent a multitude of different meanings. It may also be the result of a >> negotiating process within a special purpose user group. >> >> Sincerely, Erkki > > Erkki, > This appears to be one of those intercultural misunderstandings that > may be > difficult to grasp. To native users of english the term "private agreement" > is commonly understood to imply "private formal contract," something which > must be created before one can proceed. > Perhaps the first paragraph of 16.5 should read something like: > > Private-use characters are assigned Unicode code points whose interpretation > is not specified by this standard. Use of the private area code points may be > determined by individuals for their own use (for experimentation or in > non-shared documents) or by private agreement among cooperating users. These > characters are designated for private use and do not have defined, > interpretable semantics except by private agreement. > > This would make it clear that there is no need to obtain authorization > from > e.g. the Unicode Consortium to use private area code points. > > Leslie > >
