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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: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:27PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:27PM (#285244)
    I see <s> but not <strike> in the html5.1 October 2015 draft: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/single-page.html .
    <s> is described as "Inaccurate text".

    There's also <del> and <ins> (still tagged "non-normative") which would actually be more appropriate for all the <del>stupid jokes</del><ins>whimsical usages</ins> I had in mind... but I'm not sure it's worth it.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @08:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @08:48PM (#285312)

    What are you talking about? The <del> and <ins> elements are standard. The only thing non-normative is the sections are the descriptions about their behavior in lists and across paragraphs.

    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday January 06 2016, @04:04AM

      by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday January 06 2016, @04:04AM (#285488)
      Look under 4.7.4. It seems the implied paragraph boundaries aren't fully agreed on in some cases that don't necessarily concern tables and lists. I think the issue is merging and cutting paragraphs. In those instances, you'd want to <del> foo.</p><p>Bar...</del> but with the current rules you won't be able to.

      Well, I haven't really looked too hard at it so you might be right... But that's what I'm getting from it at a moment's glance.
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