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on Tuesday January 05 2016, @12:55PM
from the emoji-are-the-modern-world's-hieroglyphics dept.
from the emoji-are-the-modern-world's-hieroglyphics dept.
Unicode version 9.0 is scheduled for release in June 2016. The final repertoire is not yet fixed, but currently 7,227 characters are scheduled for addition to Unicode 9.0, which will bring the total number of graphic and format characters in the Unicode Standard to 127,899 characters (in case you are concerned that Unicode is running out of space, that still leaves room for another 846,566 characters to be encoded). In summary, Unicode 9.0 will include 9 new blocks (named ranges of characters) and cover 4 new scripts (Osage, Bhaiksuki, Marchen and Tangut), making a total of 268 blocks and 133 scripts.
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Is that really YOU that is reading this?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:26PM
Laugh all you want, but some of us old geezers have most of the first 127 characters indelibly inscribed in our aging grey matter.
Not sure why I need 30.000 unicode emoji, but there we are.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by pTamok on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:33PM
Yup. And Unicode 8.0 has the control code pictures, used to represent the control codes in text: ␍

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2400.pdf [unicode.org] ␃␄
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:40PM
My problem is that there's options between 7bit and Unicode. There really shouldn't be any. You either support all languages, LTR and RTL, or you don't. It's the crap in-between that pissed me off.
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(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:35PM
You either support all languages, LTR and RTL, or you don't.
For one thing, Unicode doesn't support Quenya and Sindarin because the tengwar script proposal has languished in for well over a decade.
Besides, which way is Mongolian written? (Not to mention sarati.)
(Score: 1) by DannyB on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:52PM
> Not sure why I need 30.000 unicode emoji, but there we are.
Let me give you a reason.
Reason to have 30,000 unicode emoji: so someone can design a new programming language whose source code is written entirely using these emoji.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fritsd on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:03PM
we already have the APL language [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:03PM
APL even has symbols to show how you feel, no emoji necessary.
⍤ somewhat shocked
⍥ really shocked
⍢ really happy
⍨ a bit unsure
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:15PM
Surely it would be trivial to add emoji support to Brainfuck [muppetlabs.com] as a replacement for the existing 8 tokens that make up one of the nuttiest Turing-complete languages ever devised.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:41PM
Nuttiest, but first. Brainfuck is P'' (P prime prime) [wikipedia.org], the first language using while instead of goto to be proven Turing-complete, plus two I/O instructions.
(Score: 1) by WillR on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:34PM
(And yes, we get it, you're better than those kids today who can't stop instabooktweeting in emoji.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @12:12AM
Granted, the Japanese carriers' emoji were nicely unified with Unicode. But what's the reason for adding more and more new emoji with little rationalization other than 'we have a fish, why not shark too?'
(Score: 1) by driverless on Wednesday January 06 2016, @03:30AM
'we have a fish, why not shark too?'
If you can compose glyphs of a shark and someone jumping then you'd have the representative symbol for Unicode 9.