Tuesday, June 17, 2014

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The release of the Unicode 7.0 standard

The release of the Unicode 7.0 standard



The Unicode Consortium today announced the seventh version of the standard Unicode - a list of characters, "which describes the appearance of text in all modern software products and standards." In Unicode 7.0 added 2834 new symbol to the list of existing 110,187 characters defined in Unicode 6.3. They are symbols of new currencies, new historical, and common symbols, as well as enhanced support for the North American, Chinese, Indian and other language groups. estvestvenno, developers have used and the popularity of modern messengers and now the new standard were added 250 new smiley symbols declared in the project Emojipedia . 

Added not only classic smile, but also a variety of exotic images as "hot pepper," "sleuth or spy," "man in business suit levitating," "reversed hand with middle finger extended," or "raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers ". Note that many of the manufacturers and the messengers had already previously used in various applications, pictures, symbols, but they described the internal code of the product, while now the creators of such applications have the ability to use Unicode 7.0 and create a multimedia communication system between different messengers . should also be noted that before users can take advantage of new characters, their support must implement manufacturers of application and system software.
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