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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 Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:25PM
HTML5 removed the <strike> element in favor of the otherwise synonymous <s> element [mozilla.org], an element whose phrasing contents "represent things that are no longer relevant or no longer accurate". Contrast with the <del> and <ins> elements, which are intended for documents that include inline diffs.
Until Rehash on SoylentNews is configured to allow the <s> element, you can add ^W times the number of words to delete after the text: "I know why legislators let this piece of dung law through: brib^W campaign contr^W^W contributions to the super PACs supporting them."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @11:55PM
Yeah, the ^W (or ^H) thing was mildly amusing 20 years ago.
Not so much today.
Pretty lame, actually.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday January 06 2016, @12:18AM
Semantically, it seems like most usages of strikethrough in posts would use the tag and not the tag.
For example, "Praise be to Big Brother^H^H^HGoogle".
Here, "Big Brother" isn't "no longer relevant", but rather text deleted in the course of censorship^H^H^Hediting. So fits semantically.
Since SoylentNews doesn't allow editing posts, shouldn't ever be needed; if it's no longer accurate at the time of writing the post, don't include it at all.
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