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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, @06:48PM
It's so that, say, Comic Neue can replace the wrestlers with xkcd-style stick figures, and WWE can replace the wrestlers in its corporate font with "wrestlers" at the same time it replaces the IPA letter ʬ (LATIN LETTER BILABIAL PERCUSSIVE) [wikipedia.org] with its logo.