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Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:49AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:48AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:48AM (#976826)

    I have been pondering about two ideas for handling emoji.

    One is a font that renders them as "words" instead of pictures. It would generate huge glyphs, and it would need to be created multiple times, one per language to support, as it would be a different glyph for each. It would be like those email address in webpages that are a picture of text, it would be visually readable but not searchable. The font would be huge, unless there is a font format that allows referencing strokes.

    The other is a system that filters all emojis and makes them plain text, probably marking them with with colons, curlies or something, :pistol: {banana} etc. This could be done with unix tools, no doubt (pipes with sed, perl... and uniname from uniutils handling the definitions), but "inserting" that into GUIs would be a lot trickier. This way should work for text to speech.

    In both cases, it would show how stupid they are, specially when the intended use is not the official meaning.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @06:11AM (#976867)

    It is sort of funny to get random emojis read out loud. Two messages that I've seen recently with replacements made as to how I heard them.

    Gonna get some tonight!! WINKING FACE AUBERGINE SPLASHING SWEAT SYMBOL

    Support CLAPPING HANDS SIGN our CLAPPING HANDS SIGN troops CLAPPING HANDS SIGN FLAG OF LIBERIA FLAG OF LIBERIA FLAG OF LIBERIA