unicode.7: Document private use areas
PATCH 1/1 unicode.7: Document private use areas
Hi,
there's a quite old bug report in Debian about missing information in unicode.7. I've attached a patch with a wording suggestion.
<https://bugs.debian.org/285444>
Regards,
Tobias
From df81380020726607bf4da401dc79a6275fd909a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:59:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] unicode.7: Document private use areas
--- man7/unicode.7 | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
man7/unicode.7 +6 -1
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ and tells, how many positions (0\(en2) the cursor is advanced by the output of a character. .PP -.SS Private area +.SS Private Use Areas (PUA) In the Basic Multilingual Plane, the range 0xe000 to 0xf8ff will never be assigned to any characters by the standard and is reserved for private usage.
@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ assigned to the Linux zone is maintained by LANANA and the registry itself is .I Documentation/unicode.txt in the Linux kernel sources. +.PP +Two other planes are reserved for private usage, plane 15 +(Supplementary Private Use Area-A, range 0xf0000 to 0xffffd) +and plane 16 (Supplementary Private Use Area-B, range +0x100000 to 0x10fffd). .SS Literature .IP * 3 Information technology \(em Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character
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Quoted 4 lines · Dr. Tobias Quathamer
there's a quite old bug report in Debian about missing information in unicode.7. I've attached a patch with a wording suggestion.
Thanks, Tobias. Applied.
Cheers,
Michael
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--- man7/unicode.7 | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)man7/unicode.7 +6
-1@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ and tells, how many positions (0\(en2) the cursor is advanced by the output of a character. .PP -.SS Private area +.SS Private Use Areas (PUA) In the Basic Multilingual Plane, the range 0xe000 to 0xf8ff will never be assigned to any characters by the standard and is reserved for private usage.@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ assigned to the Linux zone is maintained by LANANA and the registry itself is .I Documentation/unicode.txt in the Linux kernel sources. +.PP +Two other planes are reserved for private usage, plane 15 +(Supplementary Private Use Area-A, range 0xf0000 to 0xffffd) +and plane 16 (Supplementary Private Use Area-B, range +0x100000 to 0x10fffd). .SS Literature .IP * 3 Information technology \(em Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character
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