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<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Ishida</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ishida@w3.org">ishida@w3.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:43 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 8.0<br>To: www International <<a href="mailto:www-international@w3.org">www-international@w3.org</a>><br><br><br><br>
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Subject: Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 8.0<br>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:36:48 -0700<br>
From: <a href="mailto:announcements@unicode.org" target="_blank">announcements@unicode.org</a><br>
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To: <a href="mailto:announcements@unicode.org" target="_blank">announcements@unicode.org</a><br>
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<<a href="http://unicode.org/announcements/champagne-bottle-vector2.jpg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/announcements/champagne-bottle-vector2.jpg</a>>Version<br>
8.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. It includes 41 new emoji<br>
characters (including five modifiers for diversity), 5,771 new<br>
ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the new Georgian lari<br>
currency symbol, and 86 lowercase Cherokee syllables. It also adds<br>
letters to existing scripts to support Arwi (the Tamil language written<br>
in the Arabic script), the Ik language in Uganda, Kulango in the Côte<br>
d’Ivoire, and other languages of Africa. In total, this version adds<br>
7,716 new characters and six new scripts.<br>
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The first version of Unicode Technical Report #51, Unicode Emoji<br>
<<a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/</a>> is being released at the same time.<br>
That document describes the new emoji characters<br>
<<a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Standard_Additions_8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Standard_Additions_8</a>>. It provides<br>
design guidelines and data for improving emoji interoperability across<br>
platforms, gives background information about emoji symbols, and<br>
describes how they are selected for inclusion in the Unicode Standard.<br>
The data is used to support emoji characters in implementations,<br>
specifying which symbols are commonly displayed as emoji, how the new<br>
skin-tone modifiers work, and how composite emoji can be formed with<br>
joiners. The Unicode website now supplies charts of emoji characters<br>
<<a href="http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/index.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/index.html</a>>, showing vendor variations<br>
and providing other useful information.<br>
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The 41 new emoji in Unicode 8.0 include the following:<br>
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Diversity<br>
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five emoji modifiers<br>
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Faces and Hands<br>
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NERD FACE, FACE WITH ROLLING EYES, ROBOT FACE<br>
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Food-Related<br>
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HOT DOG, TACO, CHEESE WEDGE, POPCORN<br>
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Sports<br>
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CRICKET BAT AND BALL, VOLLEYBALL, BOW AND ARROW<br>
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Animals<br>
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UNICORN FACE, LION FACE, CRAB, SCORPION<br>
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Religious<br>
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MOSQUE, SYNAGOGUE, PRAYER BEADS<br>
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(For the full list, including images, see emoji additions for Unicode<br>
8.0 <<a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Standard_Additions_8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Standard_Additions_8</a>>.)<br>
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Phones and computers often need operating system updates to support new<br>
emoji, which may take some time. It is also now clear which existing<br>
characters, such as the often requested SHOPPING BAGS, can be used as<br>
emoji. Once phones and computers support these characters, people will<br>
be able to see colorful images such as the BOTTLE WITH POPPING CORK above.<br>
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Three other important Unicode specifications are updated for Version 8.0:<br>
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* UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm<br>
<<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/</a>> — for sorting Unicode text<br>
* UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms<br>
<<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/</a>> — for reducing Unicode spoofing<br>
* UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing<br>
<<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/</a>> — for compatible processing<br>
of non-ASCII URLs<br>
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Some of the changes in Version 8.0 and associated Unicode technical<br>
standards may require modifications in implementations. For more<br>
information, see Unicode 8.0 Migration<br>
<<a href="http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/#Migration" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/#Migration</a>> and the migration<br>
sections of UTS #10, UTS #39, and UTS #46. For full details on Version<br>
8.0, see Unicode 8.0 <<a href="http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/</a>>.<br>
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<a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2015/06/announcing-unicode-standard-version-80.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blog.unicode.org/2015/06/announcing-unicode-standard-version-80.html</a><br>
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