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Unicode 6.1 Released 170

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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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  • Why Slashdot won't adopt it (Score:5, Informative)

    by tepples (727027) <<moc.liamg> <ta> <selppet>> on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @12:27PM (#38892197) Homepage Journal
    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.

  • Re:emoticons? (Score:4, Informative)

    by snowgirl (978879) on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @01:06PM (#38892701) Journal

    And little horseys, too?

    U+1F40E ... no, seriously...

  • Tetris, Chess, Baseball, and gang symbols (Score:5, Informative)

    by tepples (727027) <<moc.liamg> <ta> <selppet>> on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @01:30PM (#38893073) Homepage Journal

    all the Tetris pieces

    The polyominoes up to five squares can be composed from U+2580 (upper half block), U+2584 (lower half block), and 2588 (full block) characters. Unicode tends not to introduce precomposed ligatures except when needed for round-tripping with pre-Unicode encodings.

    glyphs of game pieces of all well known games

    A lot of well-known pre-1923 tabletop games' game pieces already exist in Unicode. Chess is U+2654 through U+265F, and Checkers is U+26C0 through U+26C3. A lot of game pieces are simple enough in form that the Geometric Shapes (U+25A0 through U+25FF) represent them just fine. For example, Othello is U+25CB and U+25CF, as is Connect Four. Even the enemy in Fast Eddie for Atari 2600 is in Miscellaneous Technical (U+237E) as is home plate in Baseball (U+2302).

    heck, instead of just the suit symbols why not 52 glyphs for a standard deck of cards

    Those can already be composed from a Basic Latin letter or number and a suit symbol. Unicode tends not to introduce precomposed ligatures except when needed for round-tripping with pre-Unicode encodings.

    throw the Major Arcana tarot cards in there too

    I don't know about Tarot, but all twelve signs of the zodiac are in Miscellaneous Symbols, even the "69" looking sign of Cancer (U+264B).

    gang symbols

    The symbol of "Folk Nation" gangs is similar to that of Judaism: a Star of David (U+2721). The symbol of "People Nation" gangs is similar to that of Islam: a 5-point star and crescent (U+262A).

  • Re:Stick to ASCII (Score:4, Informative)

    by Pieroxy (222434) on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @02:44PM (#38894115) Homepage

    ASCII is just 128 characters.

Someone is speaking well of you. How unusual!

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