Re: Usage stats?

Doug Ewell's getting it. He sent this back to me, so I asked him if he
could provide the same dataset drawn from his written reply to me:

* For example, your original e-mail (327characters) consists of:U+0020 -
14.07%U+0065 - 10.09%U+0061 - 7.03%U+0074 - 6.73%U+006F - 5.81%*

This is good because when the volumes of traffic begin to exponentially
increase over a space, if there are predominant formulations of Unicode for
each, they need to be recognized for a number of reasons depending on which
sector or, as you say, corpus, you're in.

In the above example, I think it's safe to say U+0020 online, though I
would like to compare with the other 30 "space" characters you mentioned
Markus. If I know traffic figures for where the other space characters
are used, I can draw a pretty good estimation and correlation of it.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Markus Scherer <markus.icu_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Michael Norton <
> michaelanortonster_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Easy example: what's the code for [blank space] U+020 across all language
>> sets of Unicode? Is it the same ie: 100%?
>>
>
> I don't understand what you are asking, and I have a hunch you haven't
> said it in a way that anyone else understands it either.
>
> The code point value that the Unicode Standard assigns to the normal space
> is U+0020, but
> - not every language uses spaces
> - not every language that uses spaces uses them for the same purpose as
> English
> - there are some 30 other "space" characters in Unicode
>
> Statistics of character frequencies vary by corpus, as others have said.
> Even if you "only" look "on the web", that's undefined until you specify a
> crawling strategy. Dynamically generated content means that there is an
> infinite number of "web pages". Every crawler will come up with a different
> set.
>
> Maybe you are asking about statistics of character encodings? On the web?
> Such as, Unicode vs. Shift-JIS vs. ISO 8859-2 etc.?
>
> markus
>

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