----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Zsigri Gyula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 22 april 2002 17:35 Subject: Re: How many printable characters in 3.2.0?
> Zsigri Gyula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How many printable characters are there in Unicode 3.2.0? I tried > > desperately to find the answer at the Unicode web site but could > > not. > > There are 95,156 total assigned characters. > > To find the number of "printable" characters, you must first determine > what you mean by "printable" and then subtract that number. This is > where it might get tricky. Control characters, formatting characters, > and such are obviously not "printable," but what about things like > spaces? (Unicode 3.1 had about 20 of them.) Also, you can add accents and such to just about any character. Shall "a" with an acute accent be considered a printable character? And what about the Chinese character for "one" with an acute accent? And different kinds of accents from different scripts can be added to the same character... Stefan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
