On 18/02/13 18:09, William_J_G Overington wrote:
The first sentence of section 16.5 is as follows.
quote
Private-use characters are assigned Unicode code points whose interpretation is
not specified by this standard and whose use may be determined by private
agreement among cooperating users.
end quote
Suppose that there is a person, perhaps someone who is trying to produce a
font, for whom the Private Use Areas is something that he or she has not
encountered before he or she reads that sentence.
Is there ambiguity in that sentence such that such a person, a not unreasonable
person, could ask himself or herself the following question?
Where can I find some cooperating users who will make a private agreement among
themselves in order that I can make my font using code points from a Private
Use Area?
William Overington
18 February 2013
It makes sense to implement something for yourseld first, before you
start to recruit people to use it.
Produce a font, and some documentation for it. Publicise it. See who
uses it.
You might want to try Twitter, Facebook, your own website, etc. etc. to
do this.
There's your group of cooperating users.
-- Neil
