From: announcements@unicode.org
Date: Wed Jun 02 2010 - 18:26:43 CDT
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.
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