[icu-design] CLDR/ICU proposal: collation rules for import only

[Kent Karlsson]

Den 2014-05-02 17:14, skrev "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>:

> In standards like these, "private" doesn't mean "secret." It means "not
> defined by the standard, but by end users, using a mechanism built into
> the standard for that purpose." Private agreements can be distributed
> very publicly.
> 
> See, for example, the Unicode Private Use Area and the code elements in
> ISO 15924 that are "reserved for private use."

Well, not in this case.

For the collation rules (as suggested in this thread) or the RBNF rules,
"private" means "internal" in about the same way as "methods" can be
"private" (internal to a class) in C++, Java and several other programming
languages.

They are still not "secret", but is is not "private" in the sense as used
in various "tagging" standards (where it is "private-use" rather than
"private").

    /Kent K