Private use

Private use

Refers to designated code points in the Unicode Standard or other character encoding standards whose interpretations are not specified in those standards and whose use may be determined by private agreement among cooperating users.

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Industry/Domain: Computer; Software
Category: Unicode standard
Company: Unicode Consortium
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private use

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

Refers to designated code points in the Unicode Standard or other character encoding standards whose interpretations are not specified in those standards and whose use may be ...

private use area (PUA)

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

Any one of the three blocks of private-use code points in the Unicode Standard.

private-use code point

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

Code points in the ranges U+E000..U+F8FF, U+F0000..U+FFFFD, and U+100000..U+10FFFD. These code points are designated in the Unicode Standard for private use. * Private-use code ...

private-use zone

Software; Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

The area in Unicode repertoire from U+E000 through U+F8FF, U+F0000 through U+FFFFD, and U+100000 through U+10FFFD that is set aside for vendor-specific or user-designed ...

use

Law; General law

An old method of holding land, similar to a trust, in which one person got legal ownership, but another person got the use of the land. The statute of uses was a law in England ...

use

Language; Slang

To use (drugs); to take drugs habitually. (Drugs and now widely known.) * I tried to stop using, but I couldn’t. * I couldn’t face myself if I started using the stuff again.

Unicode encoding form

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A Unicode encoding form assigns each Unicode scalar value to a unique code unit sequence. The Unicode Standard defines three Unicode encoding forms: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. * ...

Unicode encoding scheme

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A specified byte serialization for a Unicode encoding form, including the specification of the handling of a byte order mark (BOM), if allowed. * For historical reasons, the ...

Unicode locale data markup language (LDML)

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

The XML specification for the exchange of locale data, defined by Unicode Technical Standard #35, "Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)." (See also Unicode Common Locale ...

Unicode scalar value

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

ny Unicode code point except high-surrogate and low-surrogate code points. In other words, the ranges of integers 0 to D7FF16 and E00016 to 10FFFF16 inclusive. * As a result of ...

Unicode signature

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

An implicit marker to identify a file as containing Unicode text in a particular encoding form. An initial byte order mark (BOM) may be used as a Unicode signature.