From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Mon Jan 22 2007 - 21:35:28 CST
The Wenlin Institute, see http://www.wenlin.com/cdl/, has a long list
of Chinese characters, and those associate with CDL.
This is however just the tip of the iceberg. The definition of a
charcter in unicode means that for Chinese, it is a little like saying
every word needs to be agreed upon before encoding it.
Estimates of the number of Chinese type charcters vary, here are some:-
Known charcaters:-
Present unicode 75000
submited in some form including draft proposals @30000 (my estimate)
Other characters being researched, suitable for encoding 10000-?? (I
know of about 10000 , on top of this there is the Chu nom list to
come, and others)
Total 115000 plus {115000 is definitely too low}
Other systems:-
Tron (japanese) apparently encodes at least 175000 Chinese type characters
Guess-imates and possibles.
China has over 200 languages -- if each language uses 5000 unique
characters total 1 000 000 ( one million!),
Chinese characters use approximately 200 parts or radicals ,if one
uses exactly 3 parts to make each character then there are 200x200x200
= 8 000 000 million possibles.
The average writeer of Chinese knows about 5000 characters -- if that
person makes new characters by combining just two together 5000 x 5000
= 25 000 000 (25 million)
The Chinese encoding gb18030 has over 50% more possible code-points
than the present unicode standard (@ one million), maybe they know
something we don't about how many charcters will need to be encoded.
John Knightley
Quoting Ruszlan Gaszanov <ruszlan@ather.net>:
>> Furthermore, some existing sets of PUA characters, being over 65536 in
>> number, already cover plane 15 and part of plane 16. Some of us would
>> be delighted if there was more PUA space.
>
> BTW, just curious, where did someone find all those characters to
> fill up the entire
> Plane 15 and part of 16? That should be about as many (if not more)
> as officially
> encoded in ISO-10646 right now.
>
> Ruszlán
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