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

[William Overington]

Doug Ewell wrote

>Any proposed private-use registries would be just as private in nature as a
single PUA character.

Yes, certainly.  I am not suggesting that private use registries would have
any official unicode status, rather that they might be a convenient
self-help facility for the user community.  Certainly, where a large
corporation has a large collection of such characters it might be that that
corporation would be its own registry.  However, for circumstances where a
lot of people might have a few characters each it seems to me that a private
registry might be a convenient way of making characters available.  One
non-exclusive possibility is that a font designer might run a private
registry and, say, produce a font called fontE807.ttf for registry E807.

William Overington

24 April 2001