Unicode 13.0
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Unicode 13.0
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#2> Unicode 13.0 adds 5,930 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters.
So how far off is Unicode from being 'done'? At what point will they be able to stop adding characters and scripts?
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#3The next one needs a coronavirus emoji. Maybe a flu one too while we're at it.
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#4> Unicode 13.0 adds 5,930 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters. So how far off is Unicode from being 'done'? At what point will they be able to stop adding characters and scripts?
Once people stop needing and/or inventing new characters and scripts.
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#5The next one needs a coronavirus emoji. Maybe a flu one too while we're at it.
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#6adding the "lungs" emoji at the right time
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#7> Unicode 13.0 adds 5,930 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters. So how far off is Unicode from being 'done'? At what point will they be able to stop adding characters and scripts?
Once people stop needing and/or inventing new characters and scripts.
And emojis, don't forget about the all-important emojis.
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#8> Unicode 13.0 adds 5,930 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters. So how far off is Unicode from being 'done'? At what point will they be able to stop adding characters and scripts?
Once people stop needing and/or inventing new characters and scripts.
"214 graphic characters that provide compatibility with various home computers from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s and with early teletext broadcasting standards"
This part is dear to me, as I helped craft it. It includes 2x3 videotext mosaic characters that will make it much easier to draw large text have have better quality charts in text terminal interfaces.
And, of course, the ability to properly encode documents that were generated in computers in the 70's and 80's that contained those platform-specific characters.
For 14 we are planning on adding symbols from the Sharp MZ series and the large text characters (3x3 cells) of HP terminals.
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#9You just gotta feel for the Unicode staff, setting out to improve communication across all of humanity. Turns out what we're REALLY interested in are funny emojis.
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#10The next one needs a coronavirus emoji. Maybe a flu one too while we're at it.
or not useful enough?
Edit: Apparently HN doesn't support unicode?
I was trying to say:
U+1F637 or U+1F912 not good enough?