[HN Gopher] Unicode 15 Released
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Unicode 15 Released
Author : asjo
Score : 33 points
Date : 2022-09-14 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| teddyh wrote:
| > _UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms, changes the zero width
| joiner (ZWJ) and zero width non-joiner (ZWNJ) characters from
| Identifier_Status=Allowed to Identifier_Status=Restricted; they
| are therefore no longer allowed by the General Security Profile
| by default._
|
| Good, I guess, but I wonder how much will break.
| pie_flavor wrote:
| New astrological signs!
| rektide wrote:
| Relaying some LWN comments:
|
| > _Why do we get to use the "bottom left part of glyph is
| damaged" modifier only for hieroglyphs? :(_
|
| (It'd be interesting to consider modifiers not always necessarily
| needing to be pre-encoded... to allow casual flexibility in
| implementation)
|
| Wifi and Honk are new symbols.
|
| (Tiktok/instagram will be thrilled... "can I get a honkkkk". (Im
| ok with the idea but honking is in general a nuissance that needs
| to be shut the f down, huge anti-social problem)).
| AdamH12113 wrote:
| > _This version adds 4,489 characters, bringing the total to
| 149,186 characters. These additions include two new scripts, for
| a total of 161 scripts, along with 20 new emoji characters, and
| 4,193 CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs._
|
| That seems like a lot of new CJK characters! How did they end up
| with so many new characters after so long? Is there some gradual
| process of adding historical or extremely rare characters, or
| were some deliberately left out of earlier versions?
| ks2048 wrote:
| On the wikipedia page for "CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H",
| under "History"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideog
| raphs_Extensi...), you can find dozens of linked documents
| describing why someone thought they should be added.
|
| One random example I opened
| (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17099-haifeng-county-
| uax45....) is a 9 page PDF proposing a single character used
| for "congee shop signs in Haifeng County".
| lifthrasiir wrote:
| More like the former. There was indeed a deliberate omission in
| the past standard called Han unification [1], but it's now
| pretty much toned down thanks to the expansion of Unicode
| codepoint space in 2.0, following subsequent disunification
| processes and the eventual introduction of Ideographic
| Variation Database [2] to handle remaining cases.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
|
| [2] https://unicode.org/ivd/
| pacaro wrote:
| https://blog.unicode.org/2022/09/announcing-unicode-standard...
|
| Seems like it might be a better link
| gmfawcett wrote:
| > Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java,
| C#, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc.,
|
| TIL that CORBA is still around, and that someone considers it
| modern.
| rektide wrote:
| Repeating my general request, someone please do a Speaking
| for the Dead on COBRA that includes the good, the hopeful,
| the smart.
|
| Also the bad too. These days it's just a sign a symbol for
| bad, but in this hyperreity we dont know the referrant, dont
| know the lessons of the bad either.
|
| But i want to hear the good most of all. And how good was
| avoided. Because it I think like so much else might possibly
| have gone great, if things & times & adoption had been only
| slightly barely different. It was just too soon for open
| source, is a huge possibility in my mind.
|
| Also comparison versus DCOM/OLE would be informative, for
| historical context.
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