2004: German scholar determines 26,000 characters

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I was here
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/字位
and read
"2004年德國有人對幾本大型漢語字典收錄的變體數量進行了研究,得出的結果是:
1. 經過幾千年的積累,漢字系統的規模(總量)為:26,000左右個單位"

Does anyone know where I could read about this, or the scholar's name? By the way, due to the topic, the other languages with this article don't mention this. Cantonese doesn't either. Thank you :)
 
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