From: Kevin Brown (graphity@adelaide.on.net)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2006 - 18:28:35 CST
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
"All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess
I should have been more specific."
Lily Tomlin
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