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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. Ithought by rossdee · · Score: 4, Funny

    That slashdot didn't support unicode

    1. Re:Ithought by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 4, Funny

      Slashdot supports Unicode / UTF8 from 0x20 to 0x7F.

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      Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
  2. bloatware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Adding a bunch of useless characters, especially from computer-illiterate regions... Most languages can be written with English characters (ie. plain latin). That would make things a lot simpler.