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janrinok
on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:04AM
from the how-did-we-communicate-before-the-brocolli-emoji? dept.
from the how-did-we-communicate-before-the-brocolli-emoji? dept.
The consortium that approves emojis has signed off on 56 new ones, including a woman breastfeeding a baby, a woman wearing a hijab and a "gender-inclusive" child, adult and older adult.
Among the other emoji that will be released in 2017 by Unicode are a face vomiting, a head exploding and a man and woman practising yoga. A flying saucer, vampire and T-rex also made the cut, as did a sandwich, broccoli and a pair of socks.
Unicode 10.0 will also include 285 hentaigana (obsolete/historical variants of Japanese hiragana) and 3 additional Zanabazar Square characters.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:48AM
Well, maybe that would be a good idea. It would also be a chance to undo the very few errors done by the early Unicode versions.
Basically I think there are two: One is the UTF16 encoding, due to the fact that originally they thought 16 bits should be enough, and then having to extend it to more bits; starting over with more bits from the beginning should allow a better UTF16 replacement, and the second is that they decided that combining characters *follow* the base character instead of preceding it. After avoiding to require lookahead in the code point encoding (you can decide if your code point is finished without reading the code unit following the code point), they reintroduced it in the glyph composition (you don't know if your glyph is finished until you've read the first code point belonging to the next glyph, to see that it isn't yet another combining character).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.