1 in 1000

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 24 2000 - 13:27:43 EDT


Is the following statement accurate?

Probably less than one person in a thousand today speaks a language that
cannot be reasonably represented in Unicode.

Can anyone be more accurate than that? If the number is higher than 1 in
a 1000, what scripts still need to be encoded to get the ratio below 1
in a 1000? If it's already much less than 1 in a 1000, how low is it
approximately? 1 in 10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000?

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