Characters that should be displayed?

[Christopher Fynn]

On 30/06/2014, David Starner <prosfilaes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela at cs.tut.fi>
> wrote:
>> They might be seen as “not displayable by normal rendering”, so yes. On
>> the
>> practical side, although Private Use characters should not be used in
>> public
>> information interchange, they are increasingly popular in “icon font”
>> tricks.

> Since when is HTML necessarily public information interchange? I can't
> imagine where you would better use private use characters then in HTML
> where a font can be named but you don't have enough control over the
> format to enter the data in some other format.

+1

If the font specified in the CSS has glyphs for those characters they
should be displayed.
There are also some Chinese national standards (do they count as a
"private" agreement?) that make use of use of PUA and supplementary
PUA characters - and quite a few web pages using them.

- C