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| Sujet: | Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 |
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| Date : | Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:02:07 -0700 |
| De : | announcements@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Répondre à : | root@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Pour : | announcements@xxxxxxxxxxx |
Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard is now
available, adding 2,834 new characters. This latest version adds
the new currency symbols for the Russian ruble and Azerbaijani
manat, approximately 250 emoji (pictographic symbols), many other
symbols, and 23 new lesser-used and historic scripts, as well as
character additions to many existing scripts. These additions
extend support for written languages of North America, China,
India, other Asian countries, and Africa. For full details, see http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/.Most of the new emoji characters derive from characters in long-standing and widespread use in Wingdings and Webdings fonts. Additions to emoji characters include, for example:
Unicode character properties were extended to the new characters. The old characters have enhancements to Script and Alphabetic properties, and casing and line-breaking behavior. There were also nearly 3,000 new Cantonese pronunciation entries, as well as new or clarified stability policies for promoting interoperable implementations.
Two other important Unicode specifications are maintained in synchrony with the Unicode Standard, and have updates for Version 7.0. These will be released at the same time:
- UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm — the standard for sorting Unicode text
- UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing — for processing of non-ASCII URLs (IDNs)
http://unicode-inc.blogspot.com/2014/06/announcing-unicode-standard-version-70.html