Lets create another Annexe for standardising " Printing of Unicode standard - "usage of fonts, paper size " etc etc.... ;-)
LOL !! On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Phake Nick via Unicode <[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! 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 >> >> >> > -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.
