The entire Unicode can also be printed onto a single page if you use a very huge paper coupled with smaller font size! I think a football field sized paper could possibly do the job?
2017-11-03 19:29 GMT+08:00 Andre Schappo via Unicode <[email protected]>: > > On 3 Nov 2017, at 09:36, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 11/3/2017 2:13 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote: > > > You may find https://twitter.com/andreschappo/status/926163719331176450 > amusing > 😀 > > 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./ > > > Yes, I agree, my page count is much lower than it should be for Unicode, > if I was being literal. I was being figurative rather than literal. I was > just making a point to the ASCII developers/programmers and ASCII Academics > 😀 > > Prior to tweeting I did consider other numbers. My considerations included > 1000, 5000 and 10000. But in my mind "Unicode is a 500 page book" seemed to > flow better. I don't know why. > > Actually, it probably for the best that I wrote "500 page" because > otherwise ASCII developers/programmers and ASCII Academics would not even > start reading the Unicode book if they thought it was (say) 5000 pages long. > > Let's now look at it literally and here is a template "Unicode is a X page > book". > > My guess would be "Unicode is a 10000+ page book" > > Anyone care to estimate X? > > André Schappo > > >
