ASCII v Unicode

[Phake Nick via Unicode]

The entire Unicode can also be printed onto a single page if you use a very
huge paper coupled with smaller font size! ​I think a football field sized
paper could possibly do the job?

2017-11-03 19:29 GMT+08:00 Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>:

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> On 3 Nov 2017, at 09:36, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
> wrote:
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> On 11/3/2017 2:13 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote:
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> You may find https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/926163719331176450 amusing
> ��
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> André Schappo
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> You're wildly off in your page count.
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> 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).
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> A./
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>
> 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
> ��
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Let's now look at it literally and here is a template "Unicode is a X page
> book".
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> My guess would be "Unicode is a 10000+ page book"
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> Anyone care to estimate X?
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> André Schappo
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