Why wouldn't Unicode itself have it? On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Ken Whistler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Search engine companies (and in particular, Google) have such > information squirreled away in their index databases, at least as > far as usage stats for Unicode characters on the web go -- but it > is proprietary information, and they generally don't publish > information about such statistics. > > Perhaps there are researchers out there who have set web crawlers > on a mission to generate such web statistics for publication, and maybe > somebody on this list knows of such research -- but it would be > virtually impossible to generate such information for the much > wider collection of documents and data that are not easily accessible > for web indexing. (Behind password walls, in pdf document archives, > in proprietary databases, ... ) As an example of why this is a problem, > consider the fact that there are *peta*bytes of information picked up > and stored in databases from scanners and other devices used at > tens of millions of retail points of sale. Such data, by its nature, would > tend > to skew heavily towards use of ASCII a-z and digits 0-9 in its > character data. How would you end up weighting such (mostly > publicly inaccessible) data in trying to count up for overall statistics > on character use? > > There are more traditional usage count studies that focus on > counts of character frequency within single language orthographies > in single scripts (e.g., letter frequences for French text), but I don't > think that is what you were asking about. > > Here is some discussion of a similar question posted on stackoverflow: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22184624/unicode- > character-usage-statistics > > --Ken > > On 3/27/2015 9:31 AM, Michael Norton wrote: > >> Hello and thank you for an incredible service (just joining the list). >> Is there a list of usage statistics per character of the Unicode set >> available somewhere? >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > -- Michael A. Norton, B.A. Cinema, M.P.A. My Cinema Home: http://www.NortonsNook.com "All great actors are mere mathematical masters of speech and the human body."
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