Re: Displaying Plane 1 characters (annotating the code table

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Mon Nov 09 1998 - 16:55:04 EST


Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> Unicode 2.1:
>
> 6813 Misc. characters

[snip]

> Unicode 3.0 (prospective, as of November 3, 1998):
>
> 10554 Misc. characters

From which we may deduce that all of the "Accepted" and "Pending"
characters on http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html
are slated to appear in Unicode 3.0, since they add up to the
requisite number of new non-Han characters (3741).

In summary, this means that Unicode 3.0 should include:

        the Syriac, Thaana, Sinhala, Extended Tibetan, Myanmar,
        Ethiopic, Cherokee, Unified Canadian Syllabics, Ogham,
        Runic, Khmer, Mongolian, Braille, Extended Bopomofo,
        and Yi scripts, plus the 214 KangXi radicals, for a total
        of 38 scripts;

        the 6582 Han characters from Unihan Extension A;

        35 new Latin letters, 6 new modifier letters, 10 new
        combining marks, 5 new Greek letters and symbols,
        16 new Cyrillic letters and marks, 1 new Armenian mark,
        12 new Arabic letters and marks, 8 new punctuation marks,
        2 new currency symbols, 2 new combining marks for
        symbols, 58 new general symbols, 4 new CJK symbols, 1 new
        Hebrew compatibility character, and 3 new specials.

Obviously the above is subject to change.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
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	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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