From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] unicode.7: Document private use areas Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:24:15 +0100 Message-ID: <56BC7D6F.8060801@gmail.com> References: <56B9CD22.3090306@debian.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <56B9CD22.3090306-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 02/09/2016 12:27 PM, Dr. Tobias Quathamer wrote: > there's a quite old bug report in Debian about missing information in > unicode.7. I've attached a patch with a wording suggestion. > > Thanks, Tobias. Applied. Cheers, Michael > --- > 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 > -- -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html