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What's New in Unicode 9.0?

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 05 2016, @12:55PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1) by DannyB on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:52PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:52PM (#285147) Journal

    > 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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by fritsd on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:03PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:03PM (#285154) Journal

    Reason to have 30,000 unicode emoji: so someone can design a new programming language whose source code is written entirely using these emoji.

    we already have the APL language [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:03PM (#285236)

      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

    by Thexalon (636) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:15PM (#285159)

    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.

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    • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:41PM

      by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:41PM (#285252) Journal

      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.