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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: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:33PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:33PM (#976970) Homepage

    Pirate a discrete math textbook and read the first few chapters of it. Truth tables are tedious as fuck but then you get into predicate logic and that's kinda counterintuitive. Then do Set theory and then see how it neatly applies to combinatorics. Then if you really want a kick in the dick, keep on reading to those page-long proofs that prove the sum of two integers is an integer, or if you're an especially sick puppy, Stirling numbers of the second kind by hand.

  • (Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:10PM

    by crafoo (6639) on Sunday March 29 2020, @11:10PM (#977048)

    I might just do that. A textbook would be handy. I've just been watching pieces of this video series building up the math necessary for modern physics. How I got there was confusing but fun.