2010/10/12 Janusz S. Bień <jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl>: > >>>> The newly finalized Unicode Version 6.0 adds 2,088 characters, >>> What is the current total? Are other statistic informations available >>> somewhere? > > However it does not provide the precise answer to my primary question, > which is not purely arithmetic but depends on the definition of the > character. In particular, do noncharacters belong to characters?
The Wikipedia article on Unicode gives the current total, and explains what the various categories of characters are: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode> I give a detailed break down of character statistics by Unicode version (from 1.0.0 to 6.0) at: <http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-many-unicode-characters-are-there.html> Andrew
