RE: Unicode 5.0 Character Count?

From: Brian Gould (bgould@viapeople.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2006 - 09:52:59 CST

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    911 new emoticons!

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    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    Behalf Of John H. Jenkins
    Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:55 AM
    To: Unicode List
    Subject: Re: Unicode 5.0 Character Count?

    On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Curtis Clark wrote:

    > On 2006-04-12 18:05, Mark Davis wrote:
    >> *99,089*
    >> Too bad we were just 11 short of 100,000 for 5.0!
    >
    > Maybe it's a floating point error in my calc.exe, but I come up
    > with 911 short (which will be just about right to encode *all* the
    > Phaistos characters, when the rest of the corpus is discovered). :-)

    I think we could also come up with enough turtle ideograph and grass
    radical variants to fill the gap. :-)

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