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Date:      Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:22:34 -0500
From:      "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
To:        Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
Cc:        Jason <nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unicode on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000405182234.A226@whizkidtech.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004051521550.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>; from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:30:22PM -0700
References:  <20000405221720.3209.qmail@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004051521550.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>

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On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:30:22PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote:
>  Lack of extensibility and variants. Don't they just love the great
>extensibility means aka non-standardized and non-standardizable "private
>use area" that defeats the whole idea of having a standard charset?

Absurd! The private use area is for application specific usage.
Suppose you want to design a database of cleaning supplies. You create
a font for the use with your application, which will draw soap, mop,
towel, and things like that. These are not in Unicode, and your odds
of convincing the Consortium to include them are slim. So, your
application will assign points within the private use are to soap,
mop, towel, etc.

You are fighting wind mills, my friend.

Cheers,
Adam

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