hmmmm.... I think the only way we can resolve this "X page Unicode book" issue is to recruit an infinite number of monkeys πππππγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγποΈ
AndrΓ© Schappo On 3 Nov 2017, at 12:50, Phake Nick <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The entire Unicode can also be printed onto a single page if you use a very huge paper coupled with smaller font size! βI 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]<mailto:[email protected]>>: On 3 Nov 2017, at 09:36, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <[email protected]<mailto:[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 π AndrΓ© 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 π 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? AndrΓ© Schappo π π π AndrΓ© Schappo https://schappo.blogspot.co.uk https://twitter.com/andreschappo https://weibo.com/andreschappo https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/computer-science-curriculum-internationalization
