closes bpo-40166: Change Unicode Howto so that it does not have a specific number of assigned code points. (GH-19328)
Change the number of code points from a specific number to a link to the latest standard that has a description of how many code points there are.
diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index 4825b39..e948c1e 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -41,8 +41,9 @@
The Unicode standard describes how characters are represented by
**code points**. A code point value is an integer in the range 0 to
-0x10FFFF (about 1.1 million values, with some 110 thousand assigned so
-far). In the standard and in this document, a code point is written
+0x10FFFF (about 1.1 million values, the
+`actual number assigned <https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/#Summary>`_
+is less than that). In the standard and in this document, a code point is written
using the notation ``U+265E`` to mean the character with value
``0x265e`` (9,822 in decimal).