"William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering whether the range from U+F200 through to > U+F2FF is being used by anyone for anything.
By its very nature anyone can use PUA codepints for anything and I'm sure by now someone is already using those codepoints for something* - and probably several different people are using them for several different things. I think it's silly to even suggest that there are any PUA codepoints on the BMP which remain unused by anyone. * e.g. Some Microsoft software maps the EUDC characters in the widely used Big-5 encoding for Chinese to the Unicode PUA range U+E000 to U+F848 - specifically Chinese Big 5 EUDC characters 8140 - 8DFE are mapped to Unicode U+EEB8 - U+F6B0. see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us /w98ddk/hh/w98ddk/intl_8q2h.asp If you want to avoid all conflict with other people's existing usage of the PUA, your only chances are in the PUA areas beyond plane 0 - and of course there's no guarantee that someone else won't decide to use whatever codepoints you choose there for their own private purposes. - Chris
