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Mark ** On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:06 PM, <announceme...@unicode.org> wrote: > ** > > Version 6.2 of the Unicode Standard is now available. This version adds > only a single character, the newly adopted Turkish Lira sign; however, the > properties and behaviors for many other characters have been adjusted. > Emoji and pictographic symbols now have significantly improved > line-breaking, word-breaking and grapheme cluster behaviors. The script > categorizations for some characters are improved and better documented. > > The Unicode Collation Algorithm has been greatly enhanced for Version 6.2, > with a major overhaul of its documentation. There have also been > significant changes to the collation weight tables, including improved > handling of tertiary weights for characters with decompositions, and > changed weights for some pictographic symbols. > > The newly encoded Turkish Lira sign, like other currency symbols, is > expected to be heavily used in its target environment. The Unicode > Consortium accelerated the release of Unicode 6.2, to accommodate the > urgent need for this character. > > For more details of this release, see > http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/. >
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