http://blog.unicode.org/2024/09/announcing-unicode-standard-version-160.html skip to main | skip to sidebar The Unicode Blog News, announcements, release info, and calendar updates from the Unicode Consortium Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Announcing The Unicode(r) Standard, Version 16.0 [image] Version 16.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. This is a major version update that includes new characters and code charts, new data files and annexes, an updated core specification, and updated annexes and synchronized standards. This version adds 5,185 new characters, including 3,995 additional Egyptian Hieroglyph characters plus seven new scripts, seven new emoji characters, and over 700 symbols from legacy computing environments, for a total of 154,998 characters. See the delta code charts for details on all the new scripts and characters. For additional details regarding new emoji, see Emoji Recently Added, v16.0. In addition to new characters, new "Moji Joho Kiban" (Wen Zi Qing Bao Ji Pan ) Japanese source references have been added for over 36,000 CJK unified ideographs. This is reflected in the code charts for virtually all CJK unified ideograph blocks by additional representative glyphs in the "J" column. The core specification for Version 16.0 is now available for browsing online as per-chapter web pages with "breadcrumb" and other links for easy navigation. Two new annexes have been added to this version: * UAX #53, Unicode Arabic Mark Rendering: This annex, which was previously published as a Technical Report, specifies an algorithm for handling combining marks when rendering to ensure correct and consistent display of Arabic script text. * UAX #57, Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyph Database (Unikemet): This annex documents the format of the Unikemet.txt data file, which provides information clarifying the identity of Egyptian Hieroglyph characters and properties useful for implementations. 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