<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><p>I have written a poem, which I hope will be of interest and possibly of help to some people.</p><p><br></p><p>Alt sixty thousand on the keys</p><p>is E A six zero if you please</p><p><br></p><p style="">The poem is intended as a useful poem, and could be very useful for people making fonts, and people using those fonts, where the font includes one or more characters in the Private Use Area.</p><p style=""><br></p><p style="">The thing is, for an end user, the getting of a Private Use Area character into a document from a font can be awkward at times, particularly if one does not have access to much software, such as if using a basic Windows system and one is doing what one can using WordPad<span style="display: inline !important;">.</span></p><p style=""><span style="display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p style="">So if a font has, say, one non-standard character and that character is in the Private Use Area, then placing it at U+EA60 means that when using a program such as WordPad one can access that character easily by using Alt 60000 as the way to access the character.</p><p style=""><span style="display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p style=""><span style="display: inline !important;">Also, if, say, a new script of twenty characters is being added to a font, adding the characters starting at U+EA61 allows access from WordPad using an Alt code of sixty thousand plus the index number of the character in the new script.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>Mostly one Private Use Area code point is as good as any other, so if people trying to develop a new script choose to add in the characters starting at U+EA61 that could be a good choice as, compared with other choices, it can, in some circumstances, give better access to the characters. In that case the glyph at U+EA60 could be used to provide a visual indication of the name of the script.</p><p><br></p><p>Choosing to use this method can be helpful in some circumstances, yet for people with access to more specialised software the using of this method rather than placing the characters elsewhere in the Private Use Area does no harm.</p><p><br></p><p>William Overington</p><p><br></p><p>Monday 18 October 2021</p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div></body></html>