Re: Beyond 17 planes, was: Java char and Unicode 3.0+

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 13:31:13 CST

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Michael wrote...

> Someone calculated that at the present rate of character encoding
> (1000 a year) it would take something like 700 years to fill the
> whole range of characters....

I think Ken and I have both done similar calculations, which are a matter
of record in the mail list archives, if anyone cares to dig them up...

Rick

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