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[William_J_G Overington via Unicode]

James Kass wrote:

> If a user has thousands of files using PUA characters, and all the files are using the same PUA convention, why would each file need to contain metadata for each PUA character used within?  (Rhetorical)

Because each such file would then be self-contained and free-standing.

Such metadata need not necessarily be a huge quantity of data.

William Overington

Monday 27 August 2018