http://www.unicode.org/alloc/CurrentAllocaiton.html => http://www.unicode.org/alloc/CurrentAllocation.html
Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033> * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Whistler, Ken <ken.whist...@sap.com> wrote: > Stephan Stiller continued: > > > Occasionally the question is asked how many characters Unicode has. This > > question has an answer in section D.1 of the Unicode Standard. I > > suspect, however, that once in a while the motivation for asking this > > question is to find out how much of Unicode has been "used up". As > > filling in holes would be dispreferred, it might be interesting to know > > how much of Unicode has been filled if one counts partially filled > > blocks as full. I have no reason to disagree with the (stated and > > reiterated) opinion that our codespace won't be used up in the > > foreseeable future, but it's simply a fun question to ask. > > > > The editors maintain some statistical information relevant to this fun > question at: > > http://www.unicode.org/alloc/CurrentAllocaiton.html > > Feel free to reference those fun facts the next time Unicode comes up in > conversation at the bar. ;-) > > There have been a few notable examples where particularly egregious > examples of holes in blocks that seemed unlikely to be filled with like > material in the future were "reprogrammed" as it were, and grabbed for the > encoding of unrelated sets of characters. The most notable of these is the > range U+FDD0..U+FDEF in the middle of the Arabic Presentation Forms-A > block. There was a clear consensus in both committees that nobody wanted to > add any more encodings for presentation forms of Arabic ligatures. So, when > a need arose to add another range of noncharacters, the UTC simply decided > that the otherwise unused range U+FDD0..U+FDEF could serve for that, while > not requiring the addition of a new two-column block that could otherwise > be used on the BMP. There are several symbol blocks on the BMP which have > also had a somewhat colorful and creative history of "hole-filling" over > time. > > --Ken > > > >