On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:14 PM, David Starner <prosfil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They were units of things being interchanged in formats of MIME types > starting with text/ . From the beginning, Unicode has supported all the > cruft that's being interchanged in formats of MIME types starting with > text/. Yes, except that Unicode "supported" all manner of things being interchanged by setting aside a range of code points for private use. Which enabled certain cell phone companies to save some bandwidth by assigning various popular in-line graphics to PUA code points. The "problem" was that these phone companies failed to get together on those PUA code point assignments, so they could not exchange their icons in a standard fashion between competing phone systems. [Image of the world's smallest violin playing.] I've personally exchanged text data with others using the PUA for both Klingon and Ewellic. [winks]
