ASCII v Unicode

[Andre Schappo via Unicode]

On 3 Nov 2017, at 09:36, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org<mailto:unicode at unicode.org>> wrote:

On 11/3/2017 2:13 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote:

You may find https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/926163719331176450 amusing ��

André Schappo


You're wildly off in your page count.

The "book" part of Unicode (Core Specification) alone is 1,500 pages. I haven't looked at the single file code charts in a while, but I believe you get at least that number again. Then add the dozen or so "Annexes" for a few hundred additional pages and be happy that nobody prints the Unicode Character Database (or the Unihan Database for that matter).

A./

Yes, I agree, my page count is much lower than it should be for Unicode, if I was being literal. I was being figurative rather than literal. I was just making a point to the ASCII developers/programmers and ASCII Academics ��

Prior to tweeting I did consider other numbers. My considerations included 1000, 5000 and 10000. But in my mind "Unicode is a 500 page book" seemed to flow better. I don't know why.

Actually, it probably for the best that I wrote "500 page" because otherwise ASCII developers/programmers and ASCII Academics would not even start reading the Unicode book if they thought it was (say) 5000 pages long.

Let's now look at it literally and here is a template "Unicode is a X page book".

My guess would be "Unicode is a 10000+ page book"

Anyone care to estimate X?

André Schappo


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