Unicode

9

2016-02-06 pixiv Inc. Study Session

@hakatashi

Unicode 9

May be released in June 2016

(beta was authorized last week)

Disclaimer

All these things are...

  • just drafts
  • subject to change til the official release of Unicode 9

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F

caused scandal

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/NAOI/20131106/1383711274

...will be not

included at all!!!

Postponed until Unicode 10

https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/files/2016/01/ideographs-unicode-10.pdf

New Feature:

Prepended Concatenation Marks

Prepended Concatenation Marks

  • Existing “Marks” are defined to be appended to leading character
  • New property defines which character is considered to be prepended to the following “character
  • And makes “what character is about” more complex!

http://www.unicode.org/review/pri310/pri310-background.html

New Characters:

emoji

Face With One Eyebrow Raised

→accepted

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15325-raised-eybrow.pdf

Dumplings

→accepted

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16024-dumpling-emoji.pdf

Fortune Cookie

→accepted

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16025-fortune-cookie-emoji.pdf

Chinese Takeout Box

→accepted

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16026-takeout-box-emoji.pdf

Chopsticks

→accepted

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16023-chopsticks-emoji.pdf

Condom

→withheld

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16022-condom-emoji.pdf

New Character:

Ideographic

Tally Marks

This one

https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2016/01/ideographic-tally-marks.html

This one!!!

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24190584

Misc

  • Modification of East_Asian_Width property of Emoji
  • Modification of General_Category property of Mongolian character
  • New Document: UTS #52 Unicode Emoji Mechanisms
  • New Characters:
    • LATIN LETTER U WITH STROKE
    • LATIN SMALL CAPITAL Q
    • KANNADA SIGN SIDDHAM

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16031-kannada-siddham.pdf

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Unicode 9

By Koki Takahashi

Unicode 9

2016-02-05 Weekly Study Session in pixiv Inc.

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