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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @09:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @09:00PM (#285321)

    Speaking of the posting form, why are the descriptions for the posting modes so weird?

    Plain Old Text: not plain old text, actually allows HTML tags
    HTML formatted: POT but without preserving line endings
    Extrans: What you'd expect Plain Old Text to be
    Code: Extrans but wrapped in a <tt>

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 06 2016, @12:51AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday January 06 2016, @12:51AM (#285432) Homepage Journal

    I have no idea. They were that weird when we got them. At this point I think it would confuse more people than it would make happy to rework them into something that made sense.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @01:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @01:16AM (#285438)

      Maybe an idea for the world-famous Soylent Poll Booth® [soylentnews.org]?