- From: Bob Rosenberg <webmaster@rockmug.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:06:28 -0500
- To: "Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de>
- Cc: "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
At 07:31 -0500 on 02/27/2002, Newton, Philip wrote about Support UTF-16 in the validator?: >Well, since that page uses the "private use area" with characters in the >U+Exxx range Warning: Attempting to use U+Exxx "private use" glyphs on a Web Page is asking for problems since, as they ARE "private use", there is no Glyph to be displayed there unless each user that is trying to display the page has a font that has glyphs for those codepoints. Usually the Private Use area is used between parties who have agreed on th mappings for these codepoints and who have private fonts for display purposed (IOW: It is for Word-processing Use not Web Use [unless the site is a Private Internal not a Public Site]). -- -- Bob Rosenberg Rockmug Webmaster webmaster@rockmug.org www.rockmug.org
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