The Unicode standard sets aside a range of characters--from U+E000 to U+F8FF--for private use in case you need a special set of characters not included in Unicode or you need to assign specific semantics to a character. By convention, this area is divided into an end user zone, which begins at U+E000 and works up, and a corporate use zone, which begins at U+F8FF and works down. This strategy was implemented to help minimize conflicting assignments within the private use area.
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The CommonPoint application system currently reserves the top 255 characters in the corporate use zone for internal use.
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