Re: ASCII v Unicode

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 02:36:43 -0700
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%c2%a0amusing
> 😀
>
> 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 reasonable comparison would be ASCII v. ISO 10646 v. Unicode. For
example, casing and text boundaries are not normally considered as part
of the scope for ASCII.

Richard.
Received on Sun Nov 12 2017 - 16:20:25 CST