Re: How many characters?

From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 19:53:32 CST

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    Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    > Unicode 5.0:
    >
    > 51986 graphic characters assigned (BMP)
    > 31 format control characters assigned (BMP)
    > 65 control characters assigned (BMP)
    > 6400 private use characters assigned (BMP)
    > 2048 surrogate code points designated (BMP)
    > 34 noncharacter code points designated (BMP)
    > 4972 reserved code points (BMP)
    > 47007 graphic characters assigned (supplementary planes)
    > 131068 private use characters assigned (supplementary planes)
    > 32 noncharacter code points designated (supplementary planes)
    > 870469 reserved code points (supplementary planes)
    > ------------------------------------------------------------------
    > 1114112 code points altogether

    Do the 5.0 numbers include Phoenician? http://www.unicode.org/charts/
    implies that it is included, but the German position stated in
    http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/N2990.pdf (15 September 2005)
    implies that it is not.

    Richard.

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