Unicode 9.0 Beta Review

[Adlam Sample] Mountain View, CA, USA – The Unicode® Consortium today 
announced the start of the beta review for the forthcoming Unicode 
9.0.0, which is scheduled for release in June, 2016. All beta feedback 
must be submitted by May 2, 2016.

Unicode is the foundation for all modern software and communications 
around the world, including all modern operating systems, browsers, 
laptops, and smart phones – plus the Internet and Web (URLs, HTML, XML, 
CSS, JSON, etc.). Thus it is important to ensure a smooth transition to 
each new version of the Unicode Standard.

Unicode 9.0.0 comprises several additions and changes which require 
careful migration in implementations. These include asymmetric case 
mappings, numerous variation sequences, new fractional numeric values, 
and changes to property values, especially East_Asian_Width values. The 
line breaking and text segmentation algorithms handle character 
sequences that represent emoji as indivisible units via the addition of 
new property values and rules. Implementers need to modify code and 
check assumptions for all affected processes to support these additions 
and changes.

The new character repertoire includes 74 emoji symbols, 19 symbols used 
in Japanese TV broadcasting, and multiple additions to existing scripts. 
There are six new scripts, of which three are in modern use (Adlam, 
Osage, and Newa) and three are historic (Bhaiksuki, Marchen, and 
Tangut). Adlam and Osage have case pairs and require data updates for 
casing functions. Tangut is a large ideographic script whose addition 
incurred changes to the Unicode Collation Algorithm (used as the basis 
for sorting text in all languages).

Please review the documentation, adjust your code, test the data files, 
and report errors and other issues to the Unicode Consortium by May 2, 
2016. Feedback instructions are on the beta page.

Seehttp://unicode.org/versions/beta-9.0.0.htmlfor more information about 
testing the 9.0.0 beta.

Seehttp://unicode.org/versions/Unicode9.0.0/for the current draft 
summary of Unicode 9.0.0.


    About the Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, 
extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization 
standards. The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum 
of corporations and organizations, many in the computer and information 
processing industry. Members include: Adobe, Apple, Emoji One, 
EmojiXpress, Facebook, Google, Government of Bangladesh, Government of 
India, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Sultanate of Oman MARA, 
Oracle, SAP, Tamil Virtual University, The University of California 
(Berkeley), Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and 
Individual members. For more information, please contact the Unicode 
Consortiumhttp://www.unicode.org/contacts.html.

http://blog.unicode.org/2016/03/unicode-90-beta-review_10.html

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