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

[Ayers, Mike]

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> A good point. A possible workaround would be a new plane-14 
> tag character.

        I don't see this as a good solution.  This is not because of any
objection to the plane 14 characters, but because I think the problem can be
handled well with existing conventions.  Currently, when sending email or
interpreting HTML, the content is tagged for its encoding.  Wouldn't PUA
users simply use their own tag (say, PUA-mike-1) instead of UTF-8?  Am I
missing something?

        For usage other than email/HTML, (i.e. data files), it's just the
age-old problem of matching data files with the applications that understand
them, yes?

        Am I missing something here?


/|/|ike