Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Actually the though it may sound a little rediculous the PUA starts  
> to look suprizingly small when when starts talking about CJKV, as  
> the Wenlin institute knows from experience. Assuming that the  
> current project is successful, Zhuang estimated [10 thousand  
> unencoded characters in publications over the past 30 years] the  
> next stage is to extend to Yao CJKV (say @5 thousand in various  
> manuscripts), and possibly smaller sets such as Buyi ( a few  
> hundred), Dong ( maybe 1000) , Miao ( unknown ), etc CJKV. not to  
> mention other huang documents etc. The above figures do not include  
> variants, or highly idiosyncratic charcters which though would be in  
> the database, though not in any proposal, which takes the above @20  
> thousand to several times that number.
>


Yes, but remember that you have two PUA planes to use, planes 15 and  
16.  Unless you're anticipating more than 100K total, I think you'll  
be OK.

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John H. Jenkins
[email protected]