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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: 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.

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  • (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.

        --
        The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.

  • (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,