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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: 1) by WillR on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:34PM

    by WillR (2012) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:34PM (#285249)
    Because putting them into Unicode solved a problem with phone carriers having different shift-JIS encodings for the emoji glyphs their users were trying to send out. That's what a single unified text encoding is supposed to do, right?

    (And yes, we get it, you're better than those kids today who can't stop instabooktweeting in emoji.)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @12:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @12:12AM (#285404)

    Granted, the Japanese carriers' emoji were nicely unified with Unicode. But what's the reason for adding more and more new emoji with little rationalization other than 'we have a fish, why not shark too?'

    • (Score: 1) by driverless on Wednesday January 06 2016, @03:30AM

      by driverless (4770) on Wednesday January 06 2016, @03:30AM (#285472)

      'we have a fish, why not shark too?'

      If you can compose glyphs of a shark and someone jumping then you'd have the representative symbol for Unicode 9.