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Unicode 6.1 Released
An anonymous reader writes "The latest version of the Unicode standard (v. 6.1.0) was officially released January 31. The latest version includes 732 new characters, including seven brand new scripts. It also adds support for distinguishing emoji-style and text-style symbols and emoticons with variation selectors, updates to the line-breaking algorithm to more accurately reflect Japanese and Hebrew texts, and updates other algorithms and technical notes to reflect new characters and newly documented text behaviors."
Yeah but can you write a pile of poo in ASCII?
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm
I believe you mean to say that lolcats are in ur standardz, occupyin ur code-points; but not necessarily prescribing ur particular choice of glyph...
£ is Shift+3, what are you on about?
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
...filling pages with sexually explicit ASCII art, such as Goatse, male masturbation, and birds perched on a penis...
Yeah, the way they are going they might actually *have* these characters in the set now...
This is Slashdot, I'm sure you can find any number of examples of people who've written a pile of poo in ASCII.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
The next thing will be teenagers building bigger emoticons out of emoticon characters. Then they will have to be included in the standard as well, and so on...