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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: 3, Insightful) by snick on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:58PM

    by snick (1408) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:58PM (#285150)

    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.

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