Re: What happened to the CSUR? (< TECH: Unicode Private Use Area)

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> Philip Newton:
> > CSUR is (obviously to me) not a good choice for every
> > little conscript someone comes up with, since it'd fill up pretty
> > quickly if every neography out there were registered.
>
> Not that quickly, I'm thinking.  The PUA has room for over 130,000
> characters.  Say a typical neography has 50 characters, almost double
> the size of the Latin alphabet, that's room for over 2500 scripts..
I can't resist pointing out that the Latin alphabet is larger than 50 chars,
since Unicode treats capitals and small letters as distinct.

An actual concern might be non-little conscripts - wouldn't be surprised if
someone's invented their own logographic script with thousands of characters.

 Andreas