Re: On the possibility of guidance code points for the Private Use Area

[Timothy Partridge]

Peter recently said:

> William is certainly touching on an important issue: how does your software
> know how to interpret my PUA codepoints. I commend him for thinking about
> the issue, and his thinking outside the box. I don't think I or SIL would
> buy into his suggestion, however. The biggest flaw, which thoroughly
> undermines the ability of this system to work, is that your software has no
> way to actually know whether I'm following these conventions or not.
> Effectively, you're still dependent upon individual agreement between users
> as to the meaning of PUA codepoints.

A good point. A possible workaround would be a new plane-14 tag character.
But as Ken points out the world isn't complex enough yet to need a
standardised way of describing how you're being non-standard.

   Tim


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