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martyb
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: 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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