Marco Cimarosti wrote:

> > 2. how many are known (living and dead) in the
> > world/throughout history?
>
> Ugh! Who knows?
>
> If Daniels or Everson don't come up with an answer for this, there are very
> few other people in the world you could ask to...

I posted my answer 16 minutes before you posted yours.

Everson just said "look at Unicode," which is unhelpful for two reasons.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...