Unicode 6.1 Released 170
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."
Re:Stick to ASCII (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah but can you write a pile of poo in ASCII?
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm [fileformat.info]
Re:Zomg (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Checking for the release of a new version (Score:5, Funny)
£ is Shift+3, what are you on about?
Re:The next version of the standard (Score:5, Funny)
...filling pages with sexually explicit ASCII art, such as Goatse, male masturbation, and birds perched on a penis...
Yeah, the way they are going they might actually *have* these characters in the set now...
Re:Stick to ASCII (Score:4, Funny)
This is Slashdot, I'm sure you can find any number of examples of people who've written a pile of poo in ASCII.
Re:emoticons? (Score:4, Funny)
The next thing will be teenagers building bigger emoticons out of emoticon characters. Then they will have to be included in the standard as well, and so on...