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Unicode 6.1 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the tent-emoji-style dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Stick to ASCII by cc1984_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah but can you write a pile of poo in ASCII?

    http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm

  2. Re:Zomg by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  3. Re:Checking for the release of a new version by Canazza · · Score: 5, Funny

    £ is Shift+3, what are you on about?

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    It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
  4. Re:The next version of the standard by StuartHankins · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...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...