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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 bradley13 on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:17PM

    by bradley13 (3053) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:17PM (#285161) Homepage Journal

    We are already to the point that - if you need anything special - you have to choose your font carefully. It is entirely unrealistic to expect font makers to keep up with the continual expansion of Unicode, which defeats one of the major reasons for having a unified character set in the first place.

    I can see adding fonts for languages, but only as long as those languages actually have a written form. Osage, for example, does not - it was a purely spoken dialect, and some academic retroactively invented an alphabet for it in 2006. So that's nonsense, and has no business in Unicode.

    Meanwhile, what is the point of adding ever more graphical characters? Why, for example, do we need a unicode character for two wrestlers (U+1F93C)? Anyone who needs that specific image can use...an image.

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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:29PM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:29PM (#285166) Homepage Journal

    Hear ye hear ye! Unicode is fucked!

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:41PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:41PM (#285169) Journal
    That's not an issue with the fonts, that's an issue with the font engine correctly handling fallback. For example, most of the fonts on my system don't have a full set of Chinese ideograms (or, indeed, any of them), but the font engine will happily substitute glyphs from another font when asked to do so. Most applications are therefore completely unaware of this substitution and as long as the system ships with at least one font for each glyph then it's fine.
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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:48PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:48PM (#285257) Journal

    It's so that, say, Comic Neue can replace the wrestlers with xkcd-style stick figures, and WWE can replace the wrestlers in its corporate font with "wrestlers" at the same time it replaces the IPA letter ʬ (LATIN LETTER BILABIAL PERCUSSIVE) [wikipedia.org] with its logo.