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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. It needed to be flexible, so it's a VM now. by VortexCortex · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "It needed to be flexible, so it's a VM now."

    I fear this is the next step. The right to left and line wrapping BS is complicated enough that I'd welcome a specialized VM with loadable bytecode & glyph data. Yes, from a security standpoint this could create a wider attack surface. However, I'd argue it would be less attack surface considering that the VM for my unlimited precision scientific & programming calculator is smaller than my UTF-8 text display implementation.

    I'd also argue that it would be faster to adopt new glyphs and behaviors if all I needed was to drop in a new batch of bytecode.

    I'd also argue just to argue... because, well this IS Unicode we're talking about.