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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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Is that really YOU that is reading this?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:15PM
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.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:41PM
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.