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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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(Score: 2) by wisnoskij on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:30PM
What the the reason we need to update the Unicode standard all the time? Typically character sets stay relatively constant, why has Unicode needed to be updated 9 times in under 30 years?
Who are the people eagerly waiting for this update so that they can more easily do their jobs/hobbies?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:36PM
However, we're both overlooking the fact that unicode is no longer about textual communication, it's basically a giant clip-art library now.
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(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:36PM
Young people use technology differently. Sure we can debate whether encoding emojis as single characters is the best thing to do as opposed to some other solution (maybe even encode it as bitmaps?), but suffice to say that the young are looking forward to these so the need for such emojis should not be critiqued.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:42PM
For the next 3 years or so, after which it will probably be passe.
Good thing we got it into Unicode, though!
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by snick on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:58PM
If there was just some way to discover that the update adds Osage [wikipedia.org], Bhaiksuki [wikipedia.org], Marchen [wikipedia.org] and Tangut [wikipedia.org] ...
Not very useful for you and me, but probably pretty useful for academics studying/writing about dead languages.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:56PM
Because people are finding character sets that are in use and which would benefit from standardisation.
It's a pity that the Unicode committee saw fit to not approve a codeset for Klingon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_alphabets), but as far as I know Tolkien's written languages (Cirth and Tengwar) have not been rejected as yet.