how many characters has… the world? (Unicode 5 is out)
Seems like earlier in July Unicode 5 has been released. Here is a bit from the press release:
“The Unicode Consortium announces the release of a significant update of its widely-used Unicode Character Database (UCD). The new version, Version 5.0, defines more than 99,000 characters for the languages of the world, and provides the detailed properties needed for computer software implementations. This latest level of the UCD contains all the information needed to update software to support the characters and algorithms that are the foundation for all modern computer programs — including the latest data for Unicode security mechanisms, collation, and locales.”
that is a long way from ASCII with its 128 characters (or are there 256?)