From: Michael Everson <everson_at_evertype.com> > On 21 Jun 2012, at 09:47, Raymond Mercier wrote: > > > While I am very glad to have this, I really do wonder why there was not a > full publication of Unicode 6 or 6.1 from the corporation itself, with all > the > charts, as we have had with Unicode 1 to 5. Surely there is a market > for this ? > > Perhaps less than us character mavens would imagine. Books don't publish > themselves, and publishing takes resources of various kinds. > > But I understand that the Powers That Be are looking into the matter. > > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Not to mention, it would be freaking HUGE! The Core specification is published at 600+ pages, code charts are another 2000+, and all the UAXs, Radical-Stroke indices, etc would push it to well over 3k pages. Even if you didn't list CJK code charts, you are still looking at a good 1500-2000 pages. Not that I don't have a vested interest in getting this to happen for future versions, but publishing Unicode in its entirety is an undertaking getting orders of magnitude more difficult to accomplish each year. Van