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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: 1) by ShadowSystems on Sunday March 29 2020, @04:30AM (2 children)

    by ShadowSystems (6185) <{ShadowSystems} {at} {Gmail.com}> on Sunday March 29 2020, @04:30AM (#976840)

    Jaws considers emoji the same way it considers icons -- as tiny pictures with no text to OCR. No text means nothing to read & therefore inherently useless to the blind.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @05:51AM (#976864)

    Mine reads the official description out loud. I believe JAWS can be set to do that too.

  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:52PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Sunday March 29 2020, @03:52PM (#976952) Journal

    I'd say submit a patch, but then I remembered what JAWS is. Is there still a reason you're on JAWS and not on something under a free software license, such as NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) [wikipedia.org]?