We are pleased to announce the release of The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0.
The character repertoire in Unicode 4.0 is so far identical to that of
Unicode 3.0.1, but it will soon increase thanks to *your* help.
The primary feature of Unicode 4.0 is that the addition of new code points
has now been entirely *liberalized*. The Unicode Technical Committee,
jointly with all involved national bodies, has verified that
all characters that are likely to be needed for use on computers in the next
millennium have already been added with Version 3.0.1.
In a recent e-mail to this mailing list, a respected official of The Unicode
Consortium wrote: "In other words, unless someone manages to wrest the
standard away from the two committees and puts up a public website with an
'Encode Your Character Here For Free and Enter Our Sweepstakes!' interface,
I'm not going to worry about 'precious codespace' and neither should anybody
else."
Well, now we can publicly announce that the words of that official were just
an anticipation of the decision that the UTC was in process of making.
Unicode has now so many empty slots that everybody can get one (or more) and
encode whatever
he or she wishes!
Open the form attached to this mail and be the first one to take advantage
of the new mechanism to propose Unicode characters.
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