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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/29/2024 11:06 AM, William_J_G
Overington via Unicode wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:75c724d3.70f1.18f2b09a95f.Webtop.101@btinternet.com">the
phrase "private agreement" in The Unicode Standard...</blockquote>
<p><font face="Candara">...is deliberately unconstrained.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">If you tell a buddy that you included some
unusual private use characters in a document and where he can
get the font to display them, and he does so, then you and he
have exercised a "private agreement".</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">If another friend tries to view the document
without the font, or with a different font, and doesn't see what
she expects, it does not in any way affect the claim of her
font, software or platform to be conformant to the Unicode
Standard.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">That's all this ever means.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">A./</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">PS: you are free to solicit other parties to
join such private agreements and you may even choose to write
them down. However, it's up to you to resolve any issues due to
non-compliance with your private agreements. Unicode doesn't
care -- as long as you don't agree to things that conflict with
conformance to the Standard. In which case, such any conformance
by participants in your agreement may no longer be valid.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">PPS: the mathematical single angle brackets
had to be added to correct a mistaken canonical unification. The
name without "mathematical" was already used for characters that
are now deprecated. <br>
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