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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:It's not Unicode, it's the fonts (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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