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.

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