Perhaps what is meant by the original request would be satisfied by the property:
Default_Ignorable_Code_Point defined in http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.2-Update/DerivedCoreProperties-3.2.0.t xt These are essentially characters that have no visible glyphs and no advance width, but may have a different effect on the rendering of the text in which they are found (depending on context). Mark ————— Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr] http://www.macchiato.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Zsigri Gyula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 08:35 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.) > > You might try subtracting those characters in > http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt that have specific > properties, such as "Cc". Again, though, which properties are to be > excluded is up to you. > > -Doug Ewell > Fullerton, California > > > >
