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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. Re:I thought by antiperimetaparalogo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That slashdot didn't support unicode

    You thought right, Slashdot does not support unicode, this story is just news for nerds that is reported by accident, as stuff that matters for G[r]eeks only!

    note: i now continue my comment with a very interesting paragraph, but it is in Greek, so you can not read it, not even if you want to translate it:

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    Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!