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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."

3 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. Stick to ASCII by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Unicode seems to break everything and is completely unnecessary.

  2. Alternative proposal: by SuricouRaven · · Score: -1, Troll

    Standardise the world on English. It'll be easier. It's already the second-most-spoken language, and Chinese is a real nightmare of character encoding in itsself. Then we can go back to good old ASCII.

  3. Great, yet another "unified language" by tobiasly · · Score: -1, Troll

    First Google Dart, then Mozilla Rust, and now this "Unicode"? Yet another attempt for a universal "one language for all uses" that is destined to fail.