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Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-many-to-choose-from dept.

martyb writes:

Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0:

Version 13.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, including the core specification, annexes, and data files. This version adds 5,390 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include four new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters.

The new scripts and characters in Version 13.0 add support for modern language groups in Africa, Pakistan, South Asia, and China:

[...] Support for scholarly work was extended worldwide, including:

[...] Popular symbol additions include:

[...] Important chart font updates, including:

[...] Additional support for lesser-used languages and scholarly work was extended, including:

When will the first, all-emoji story or comment appear on SoylentNews? What are people going to do if they use text-only browsers or are visually-impaired?

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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:52AM (12 children)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:52AM (#976801)

    Still no Klingon. Priorities, people!

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:43AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:43AM (#976810)

    I don't have the email from their list offhand, but they rejected Klingon because it is still under copyright and the rights holders won't release the rights to it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @02:25PM (#976931)

      Rights holder sounds like a real Klingon bastard!

    • (Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:39PM (2 children)

      by gtomorrow (2230) on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:39PM (#976988)

      Ah, well...behind every dark cloud there's a silver lining.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday March 30 2020, @04:07PM (1 child)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 30 2020, @04:07PM (#977261) Journal

        Internet cloud servers have a metallic lining.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Sunday March 29 2020, @04:00AM (6 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Sunday March 29 2020, @04:00AM (#976830)

    Announcing the new Unicode standard! Now with even more emojis, including eight new poop emojis, an explosive diarrhoea emoji, and very topical, dozens of virus emojis! Also, stickers!

    Oh, and some languages and shit as well, but that's just an afterthought.

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:30AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:30AM (#976859)

      Are the poop emojis available in all colors and genders?

      • (Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:39AM (2 children)

        by driverless (4770) on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:39AM (#976861)

        Damn, no, they're only available in brown. Will have to fix that in 13.1.

        • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:26AM

          by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:26AM (#976872) Homepage

          Make the other one black-colored, then. There's Guinness and Coffee that can easily do that to a person. The eyes and smile on a black poop would be more dramatic anyway.

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday March 30 2020, @04:08PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 30 2020, @04:08PM (#977262) Journal

          No!

          It's not just any brown! It's Zunetm Browntm.

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    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:45AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:45AM (#976863)

      This so much. They can add different skin colors, various combinations of people, 3 genders, etc. But they insist on Han unification.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by TrentDavey on Sunday March 29 2020, @04:36PM

      by TrentDavey (1526) on Sunday March 29 2020, @04:36PM (#976960)

      moderate: redundant

      and shit as well,