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Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:49AM   
from the so-many-to-choose-from dept.

martyb writes:

Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0:

Version 13.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, including the core specification, annexes, and data files. This version adds 5,390 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include four new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters.

The new scripts and characters in Version 13.0 add support for modern language groups in Africa, Pakistan, South Asia, and China:

[...] Support for scholarly work was extended worldwide, including:

[...] Popular symbol additions include:

[...] Important chart font updates, including:

[...] Additional support for lesser-used languages and scholarly work was extended, including:

When will the first, all-emoji story or comment appear on SoylentNews? What are people going to do if they use text-only browsers or are visually-impaired?

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• No animated glyphs yet? No animated glyphs yet? (Score: 2) by progo on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:17AM (4 children)

  by progo (6356) on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:17AM (#976813) Homepage

  I was half expecting the next major spec version to have support for animated glyphs to support more emoji.

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• NO! don't give them ideas! (Score: 5, Insightful) by bussdriver on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:41AM

  by bussdriver (6876) on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:41AM (#976823)

  When they put in those stupid skin colored modifiers that break some parsing (in a minor way) while ignoring REAL scripts needing support you know priorities are foobar.

  Emjoi need to STOP becoming virtual stickers. we had text faces before; we didn't need these and certainly not a ton of them. Food?? Really?

  Just leave open a range for pictures... oh, wait they did create a range for whatever Klingon BS you want to make up! That is where the excessive stuff needs to go and let some other unofficial standard fight over it. Maybe if something gets commonplace then you make a script to handle that subset.

  Every traffic and warning label symbol should get a set... universal symbols. Maybe 5 face expressions? I can type faster than look over 100 symbols. >:-(

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• Re:No animated glyphs yet? (Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:44AM

  by SomeGuy (5632) on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:44AM (#976824)

  Yea, all they have got so far is an animated "work in progress" roadsign glyph. It's right next to the "Best Viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4" glyph.

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• Re:No animated glyphs yet? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:36PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:36PM (#976919)

  Stop giving them ideas. Please.

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• Re:No animated glyphs yet? (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday March 30 2020, @04:19PM

  by DannyB (5839) on Monday March 30 2020, @04:19PM (#977264) Journal

  Java source code DOES support using Unicode. For example any language's letters for variable names.

  public final double π = Math.PI;    // Pi
  public final double τ = 2.0 * π;    // Tau
  public final double ℯ = Math.E;        // e

  private final int £€$æøå = 42;

  public void £€$æøåσΣ() { }

  /**
    * Sigma function.
    * @param fn a Java 8 Function that takes an integer an returns an integer.
    * @param first
    * @param last
    * @param step
    * @return Sum of calling fn over range from first to last, incremented by step.
    */
  public int Σ( java.util.function.Function<Integer,Integer> fn, int first, int last, int step ) {
      int sum = 0;
      if( step > 0 ) {
          for( int i = first;  i <= last;  i += step ) {
              sum += fn.apply( i );
          }
      }
      else if( step < 0 ) {
          for( int i = first;  i >= last;  i -= step ) {
              sum += fn.apply( i );
          }
      }
      else {
          throw new IllegalArgumentException( "step cannot be zero." );
      }
      return sum;
  }

  But I don't think Java will support animated animated glyphs in its source code. Yet.

  I can see that animated glyph characters in the source code are so important that I need to propose a JEP to get this into an upcoming version of Java!

  In the spirit of true Java over-engineering, the mechanism that implements animated characters should be deeply more general than just animated Unicode glyphs. It should be possible to create subclasses of characters for animated GIFs or video files, just to give two examples of the need for true extensibility. (At least a dozen XML files should be required for configuration.)

  You can be assured that the implementation will be of the highest quality, industrial strength and battle tested. Even if nobody uses animated characters in their source code.

  But it could make code reviews interesting.

  --
  If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious

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