Re: ASCII v Unicode

Lets create another Annexe for standardising " Printing of Unicode
standard - "usage of fonts, paper size " etc etc.... ;-)

LOL !!

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Phake Nick via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
wrote:

> The entire Unicode can also be printed onto a single page if you use a
> very huge paper coupled with smaller font size! ​I think a football field
> sized paper could possibly do the job?
>
> 2017-11-03 19:29 GMT+08:00 Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
> :
>
>>
>> On 3 Nov 2017, at 09:36, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/3/2017 2:13 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote:
>>
>>
>> You may find https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/926163719331176450 amusing
>> 😀
>>
>> André Schappo
>>
>> You're wildly off in your page count.
>>
>> The "book" part of Unicode (Core Specification) alone is 1,500 pages. I
>> haven't looked at the single file code charts in a while, but I believe you
>> get at least that number again. Then add the dozen or so "Annexes" for a
>> few hundred additional pages and be happy that nobody prints the Unicode
>> Character Database (or the Unihan Database for that matter).
>>
>> A./
>>
>>
>> Yes, I agree, my page count is much lower than it should be for Unicode,
>> if I was being literal. I was being figurative rather than literal. I was
>> just making a point to the ASCII developers/programmers and ASCII Academics
>> 😀
>>
>> Prior to tweeting I did consider other numbers. My considerations
>> included 1000, 5000 and 10000. But in my mind "Unicode is a 500 page book"
>> seemed to flow better. I don't know why.
>>
>> Actually, it probably for the best that I wrote "500 page" because
>> otherwise ASCII developers/programmers and ASCII Academics would not even
>> start reading the Unicode book if they thought it was (say) 5000 pages long.
>>
>> Let's now look at it literally and here is a template "Unicode is a X
>> page book".
>>
>> My guess would be "Unicode is a 10000+ page book"
>>
>> Anyone care to estimate X?
>>
>> André Schappo
>>
>>
>>
>

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