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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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(Score: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:56PM
Because people are finding character sets that are in use and which would benefit from standardisation.
It's a pity that the Unicode committee saw fit to not approve a codeset for Klingon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_alphabets), but as far as I know Tolkien's written languages (Cirth and Tengwar) have not been rejected as yet.