[PATCH] unicode.7: Document private use areas

["Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi,

there's a quite old bug report in Debian about missing information in
unicode.7. I've attached a patch with a wording suggestion.

<https://bugs.debian.org/285444>

Regards,
Tobias


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From df81380020726607bf4da401dc79a6275fd909a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 11:59:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] unicode.7: Document private use areas

---
 man7/unicode.7 | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7
index b21b5fb..dc586d8 100644
--- a/man7/unicode.7
+++ b/man7/unicode.7
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ and
 tells, how many positions (0\(en2) the cursor is advanced by the
 output of a character.
 .PP
-.SS Private area
+.SS Private Use Areas (PUA)
 In the Basic Multilingual Plane,
 the range 0xe000 to 0xf8ff will never be assigned to any characters by
 the standard and is reserved for private usage.
@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ assigned to the Linux zone is maintained by LANANA and the registry
 itself is
 .I Documentation/unicode.txt
 in the Linux kernel sources.
+.PP
+Two other planes are reserved for private usage, plane 15
+(Supplementary Private Use Area-A, range 0xf0000 to 0xffffd)
+and plane 16 (Supplementary Private Use Area-B, range
+0x100000 to 0x10fffd).
 .SS Literature
 .IP * 3
 Information technology \(em Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character
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