On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 1) Most or all Chinese and Japanese characters > > Dont know how you count 'most' > > | One possible rationale is the desire to limit the size of the full > | Unicode character set, where CJK characters as represented by discrete > | ideograms may approach or exceed 100,000 (while those required for > | ordinary literacy in any language are probably under 3,000). Version 1 > | of Unicode was designed to fit into 16 bits and only 20,940 characters > | (32%) out of the possible 65,536 were reserved for these CJK Unified > | Ideographs. Later Unicode has been extended to 21 bits allowing many > | more CJK characters (75,960 are assigned, with room for more). > > | From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
So there are 20,940 CJK characters in the BMP, and approximately 55,000 more in the SIP. I'd count 55,000 out of 75,960 as "most". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list