Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 9.0

?Version 9.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. Version 9.0 adds
exactly 7,500 characters, for a total of 128,172 characters. These
additions include six new scripts and 72 new emoji characters.

The new scripts and characters in Version 9.0 add support for
lesser-used languages worldwide, including:

    * Osage, a Native American language
    * Nepal Bhasa, a language of Nepal
    * Fulani and other African languages
    * The Bravanese dialect of Swahili, used in Somalia
    * The Warsh orthography for Arabic, used in North and West Africa
    * Tangut, a major historic script of China

Important symbol additions include:

    * 19 symbols for the new 4K TV standard
    * 72 emoji characters such as the following

/Smileys & people/

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ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING

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FACE PALM

/Hand gestures/

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HAND WITH INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS CROSSED

/Animals/

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BUTTERFLY

/Food/

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AVOCADO

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SHALLOW PAN OF FOOD

/Drink/

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CLINKING GLASSES

/Travel/

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MOTOR SCOOTER

/Sports/

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PERSON DOING CARTWHEEL

For the full list, see emoji additions for Unicode 9.0
<http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-released.html>. For a
detailed description of support for emoji characters by the Unicode
Standard, see UTR #51, Unicode Emoji <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/>.

Three other important Unicode specifications have been updated for
Version 9.0:

    * UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm
      <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/> --- sorting Unicode text
    * UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms
      <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/> --- reducing Unicode spoofing
    * UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing
      <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/> --- compatible processing
      of non-ASCII URLs

Some of the changes in Version 9.0 and associated Unicode technical
standards and reports may require modifications in implementations. For
more information, see Unicode 9.0 Migration
<http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode9.0.0/#Migration> and the migration
sections of UTS #10, UTS #39, UTS #46, and UTR #51. For full details on
Version 9.0, see http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode9.0.0/

http://blog.unicode.org/2016/06/announcing-unicode-standard-version-90.html

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