On 30/06/2014, David Starner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]> > wrote: >> They might be seen as “not displayable by normal rendering”, so yes. On >> the >> practical side, although Private Use characters should not be used in >> public >> information interchange, they are increasingly popular in “icon font” >> tricks.
> Since when is HTML necessarily public information interchange? I can't > imagine where you would better use private use characters then in HTML > where a font can be named but you don't have enough control over the > format to enter the data in some other format. +1 If the font specified in the CSS has glyphs for those characters they should be displayed. There are also some Chinese national standards (do they count as a "private" agreement?) that make use of use of PUA and supplementary PUA characters - and quite a few web pages using them. - C _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
