No representative glyphs are provided, and character semantics are left to private agreement. Their category is " Other, private use (Co)", and no character names are specified. Under the Unicode definition, code points in the Private Use Areas are assigned characters-they are not noncharacters, reserved, or unassigned. 5 Private-use characters in other character sets.By definition, multiple private parties may assign different characters to the same code point, with the consequence that a user may see one private character from an installed font where a different one was intended.
a graphics character for a "print document" function).
Such publication may include a font that supports the definition (showing the glyphs), and software making use of the private-use characters (e.g. Under the Unicode Stability Policy, the Private Use Areas will remain allocated for that purpose in all future Unicode versions.Īssignments to Private Use Area characters need not be "private" in the sense of strictly internal to an organisation a number of assignment schemes have been published by several organisations. They are intentionally left undefined so that third parties may define their own characters without conflicting with Unicode Consortium assignments. The code points in these areas cannot be considered as standardized characters in Unicode itself. Three private use areas are defined: one in the Basic Multilingual Plane ( U+E000–U+F8FF), and one each in, and nearly covering, planes 15 and 16 ( U+F0000–U+FFFFD, U+100000–U+10FFFD). In Unicode, a Private Use Area ( PUA) is a range of code points that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the Unicode Consortium. For other uses, see Private use area (disambiguation). This article is about the Unicode PUA range of codepoints.