On 30/03/2004 17:32, Michael Everson wrote:
At 17:02 -0800 2004-03-30, Mike Ayers wrote:
I feel obligated to take this one step further - these folks are
forgetting that "P" stands for "private". Their use of this space is
their own problem, in all senses. It does not seem reasonable to me
that *any* standard behavior could be expected of PUA code points,
from operating systems or applications, as such may have chosen to,
or may yet choose to, use those code points to encapsulate very
un-font-rendering-like behavior, and such a decision, made past,
present or future, is a perfectly valid private use.
Which I assume means: "it's wrong for Unicode to make ANY property
pronouncements for ANY PUA characters, since that defines them, and
removes the P from the Use."
This is of course a principle which they have already broken, as they
have defined "default" properties for all of them. Although in principle
people can implement non-default properties, no one has, as far as I
know. The result is that in practice the P has been removed from the PUA
and it has been restricted to LTR base characters.
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Peter Kirk
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