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Mojibake Tengu [soylentnews.org] writes:

New Unicode version 17.0.0 specification, datafiles and algorithms is now released:

Unicode® 17.0.0
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/ [unicode.org]

Important feature for communications and data stores is technical standard #39 Unicode Security Mechanisms, which collects data for confusables and may help righteous programmers to prevent (or mischievous ones to employ) character spoofing in their pieces.
https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-32.html [unicode.org]

For us early adopters of fancy new characters or added scripts, Unifont by unifoundry is now conformal too:

Unifont 17.0.01 Released
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10809 [gnu.org]

Unicode is a top critical technology for everyone on this globe, both machines and humans, so no more words need to be said. Study it yourself.

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