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What's New in Unicode 9.0?

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 05 2016, @12:55PM   
from the emoji-are-the-modern-world's-hieroglyphics dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:frankly, 7-bit ascii is the one true way. Re:frankly, 7-bit ascii is the one true way. (Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:40PM

  by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:40PM (#285143)

  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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• Elvish languishes (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:35PM

  by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:35PM (#285250) Journal

  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.)

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