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Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0

Posted by timothy on from the hobo-symbols-and-the-black-tongue-of-mordor dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The newest version of the Unicode standard adds 7,716 new characters to the existing 21,499 – that's more than 35% growth! Most of them are Chinese, Japan and Korean ideographs, but among those changes Unicode adds support for new languages like Ik, used in Uganda.

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  1. I'm going back to ASCII by OrangeTide · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm kind of sick of all of this nonsense. If you have something to say that isn't in ASCII, use a GIF or MP3. Even ASCII has a lot of garbage in it like @.

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