On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 02:36:43 -0700 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 reasonable comparison would be ASCII v. ISO 10646 v. Unicode. For example, casing and text boundaries are not normally considered as part of the scope for ASCII. Richard.
