On Monday, 11 November, 2019 14:34, Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote:
>Unicode has decreed that the highest code-point that can be called a >code-point is 0x10FFFF because to go higher breaks UTF-16, so there >isn't as much room as you might think. >This give us 1,114,112 possible code points. >There are currently 137,994 code points assigned to characters, 66 >assigned as non-characters, 2048 reserved for the surrogates, and a >number reserved for private use, leaving 836,536 currently unassigned. >This says we have some space to grow, but there are still a lot of >archaic and unusual scripts that are being proposed or worked on. Ah yes. Like the "Poo Emoji Anti Distrimination Society". They are complaing that the current poo emoji is racist, specist, and does not adequately reflect the actual distribution of colours of poo. They want unicode charcters allocated for "runny poo", "poo pebles", "liquid poo", and "poo-corns". This is in addition to the current "pile-of-poo". They also want all these variants to have non-discriminatory colouration: "green poo", "brown poo", "grey poo", "black poo" and "white poo". They also want all the composed variants such as "liquid white poo with black streaks", "green poo pebles with red streaks". They also want to have a "steaming", "smelly", "perfume" modifiers as well as "wet", "dry", and "fossilized" versions. This will take up about 600 unicode code points. So yes, the unicode code point space is being rapidly used up. Soon there will be a new standard called "wonkycode" which will use a 64-bit encoding. It is anticipated that it will last about 2 years before the entire code space is used up, and which time "googlecode" will take over which uses a 1024 bit encoding space. Hopefully this will last until the turn of the next century by which time quantum computing will be available and all possible code points can be encoded in one qubit which can have all values simultaneously. Until you look, of course, at which point the status will become fixed. This will be called shroedingers code. :) -- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
