Re: unicode Digest V6 #85

From: Kevin Brown (graphity@adelaide.on.net)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2006 - 18:28:35 CST

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    On Saturday, 22 April 2006 at 1:07 AM, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    >As of Unicode 5.0, there are 875,441 unassigned, reserved code
    >points in the standard.
    >
    >875,441 available code points / 1500 characters encoded per year
    >
    > = 583 years
    >
    >And that is assuming that the committees will continue to encode
    >1500 characters per year indefinitely, which they won't.
    >
    >And that is assuming that Unicode itself will last for more than
    >500 years, which it won't.
    >
    >Would you *PLEASE* stop worrying about running out of code points ...

    What, no provision for the IMP (Intergalactic Multilingual Plane)???

    You can do an awful lot of space exploration in 500 years :)

    Klaatu barada nikto!

    Kevin

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