The issue was discussed in a meeting on 2021-07-08

List of resolutions:

Resolution No. 2: Merge PR 1751

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2. Private use areas in HTML

See github pull request #1751.

See github issue #1732.

Dave Cramer: we had a section in spec that said if you use unicode private use area (PUA) characters, then you should embed a font
… just having that statement in there seemed kind of odd. Its just best practice advice, and don't want to mess with unicode PUA
… PR would remove this section of spec
… mgarrish was waiting for confirmation from WG this was okay

Murata Makoto: is the proposal to entirely remove that section, and nothing else?

Wendy Reid: yes, and adding that to the change log

Brady Duga: there was also a comment on issue of moving it to discouraged constructs

Murata Makoto: in spec we refer to CHARMOD matching, but not CHARMOD fundamentals. I think we should refer to Fundamentals, too, fundamentals has a section dealing with PUA codepoints
… we should try to rely on these instead of inventing our own. Don't want to do anything that goes against what is already in Fundamentals

Murata Makoto: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/references.html#references

Wendy Reid: Ivan made the point that we rely on HTML5, which already refers to CHARMOD documents

Dave Cramer: to my mind this is an HTML question, and HTML refers to CHARMOD, so I don't see need for us to explicitly refer as well

Murata Makoto: does SVG refer to CHARMOD too?

Brady Duga: whether or not SVG does seems like a minor thing. It already encompases so much more, e.g. allowing authors to draw whatever characters they want

Matthew Chan: shiestyle addresses JP members in Japanese

Shinya Takami (高見真也): MURATA's opinion is not an objection to this proposal

Murata Makoto: yes, just suggesting a minor change

Dave Cramer: propose we accept this PR. If we have big problems with SVGs and PUA, then we can revisit

Proposed resolution: Merge PR 1751 (Wendy Reid)

Dave Cramer: +1

Murata Makoto: +11

Shinya Takami (高見真也): +1

Brady Duga: +1

Toshiaki Koike: +1

Matthew Chan: +1

Masakazu Kitahara: +1

Wendy Reid: +1

Ben Schroeter: +1

Resolution #2: Merge PR 1751

[EPUB 3.3] [question] Unicode and accessibility #1732

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