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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. Why Slashdot won't adopt it by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before anyone chimes in complaining that Slashdot doesn't even support an old version of Unicode, this is for several reasons. For one thing, there was once a fad of posting pornographic ASCII art on Slashdot, so it appears Slashdot disallows any character that would be more useful for glyph art than for English text. For another, there was once a fad of using bidirectionality override control characters for turning text backwards, which would break the layout and allow spoofing a comment's moderation score.

  2. 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

  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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