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Eike ----- Forwarded message from announceme...@unicode.org ----- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:26:43 -0700 Subject: [Unicode Announcement] Unicode 6.0 Beta, including new support for mobile phones Message-id: <4c06e8b3.5030...@unicode.org> Mountain View, CA, USA – June 2, 2010 – The Unicode® Consortium today announced the availability of the Unicode 6.0 beta. A smooth transition to each new version of the Unicode Standard is vital, because it is the foundation for all modern software and communications around the world, including all modern operating systems, browsers, and smartphones; modern web protocols (HTML, XML,...); and internationalized domain names. Software developers and other experts are strongly encouraged to review the beta data files and documentation for Unicode 6.0 carefully, and to provide any feedback regarding errors or other issues to the Unicode Consortium. Software developers can also get an early start in testing their programs with the beta data files so they they will be ready for the release of Unicode 6.0 at the end of September. A long-awaited new feature of Unicode 6.0 is the support of new characters for mobile phones. The emoji (pictographic) characters are in very widespread use, especially in Japan. They have distinct semantics, and are often substituted for related words. For the first time, there is a standard encoding for these characters that allows lossless interchange between different vendors. Unicode 6.0 also adds 222 new CJK unified ideographs in common use in China and Japan, and a number of other symbols and letters used by other languages. * See http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ for the current draft summary. * See http://unicode.org/versions/beta.html for more information about the beta. 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 in the computer and information processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, Apple, DENIC eG, Google, Government of India, Government of West Bengal, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, Sybase, The University of California (Berkeley), The University of California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual members. For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium. ---- All of the Unicode Consortium lists are strictly opt-in lists for members or interested users of our standards. We make every effort to remove users who do not wish to receive e-mail from us. To see why you are getting this mail and how to remove yourself from our lists if you want, please see http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html#announcements ----- End forwarded message ----- -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. SunSign 0x87F8D412 : 2F58 5236 DB02 F335 8304 7D6C 65C9 F9B5 87F8 D412 OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to the e...@sun.com account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Use er...@sun.com Thanks.
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