Usage stats?

[Michael Norton]

I'm trying to get a sense of the range and variance of the Unicode set in
the same way I have with hypertext on the web: for every HTML or XHTML
document URL, for example ,there is going to be a* >0* Minimum of* "<"* and*
">"* characters.   Depending on which Markup set and schema(s) you are
using, char-MIN's and (eventually) char-MAX's are useful to have.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Michael Norton <
michaelanortonster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doug Ewell's getting it.   He sent this back to me, so I asked him if he
> could provide the same dataset drawn from his written reply to me:
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> * For example, your original e-mail (327characters) consists of:U+0020 -
> 14.07%U+0065 - 10.09%U+0061 -  7.03%U+0074 -  6.73%U+006F -  5.81%*
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> This is good because when the volumes of traffic begin to exponentially
> increase over a space, if there are predominant formulations of Unicode for
> each, they need to be recognized for a number of reasons depending on which
> sector or, as you say, corpus, you're in.
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> In the above example, I think it's safe to say U+0020 online, though I
> would like to compare with the other 30 "space" characters you mentioned
> Markus.   If I know traffic figures for where the other space characters
> are used, I can draw a pretty good estimation and correlation of it.
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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Markus Scherer <markus.icu at gmail.com>
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>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Michael Norton <
>> michaelanortonster at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Easy example: what's the code for [blank space] U+020 across all
>>> language sets of Unicode?  Is it the same ie: 100%?
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>> I don't understand what you are asking, and I have a hunch you haven't
>> said it in a way that anyone else understands it either.
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>> The code point value that the Unicode Standard assigns to the normal
>> space is U+0020, but
>> - not every language uses spaces
>> - not every language that uses spaces uses them for the same purpose as
>> English
>> - there are some 30 other "space" characters in Unicode
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>> Statistics of character frequencies vary by corpus, as others have said.
>> Even if you "only" look "on the web", that's undefined until you specify a
>> crawling strategy. Dynamically generated content means that there is an
>> infinite number of "web pages". Every crawler will come up with a different
>> set.
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>> Maybe you are asking about statistics of character encodings? On the web?
>> Such as, Unicode vs. Shift-JIS vs. ISO 8859-2 etc.?
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