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Date : Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:26:43 -0700
Subject : [Unicode Announcement] Unicode 6.0 Beta, including new support fo=
r mobile phones
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Mountain View, CA, USA =E2=80=93 June 2, 2010 =E2=80=93 The Unicode=C2=AE C=
onsortium today=20
announced the availability of the Unicode 6.0 beta. A smooth transition=20
to each new version of the Unicode Standard is vital, because it is the=20
foundation for all modern software and communications around the world,=20
including all modern operating systems, browsers, and smartphones;=20
modern web protocols (HTML, XML,...); and internationalized domain names.=
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Software developers and other experts are strongly encouraged to review=20
the beta data files and documentation for Unicode 6.0 carefully, and to=20
provide any feedback regarding errors or other issues to the Unicode=20
Consortium. Software developers can also get an early start in testing=20
their programs with the beta data files so they they will be ready for=20
the release of Unicode 6.0 at the end of September.=20
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A long-awaited new feature of Unicode 6.0 is the support of new=20
characters for mobile phones. The emoji (pictographic) characters are in=20
very widespread use, especially in Japan. They have distinct semantics,=20
and are often substituted for related words. For the first time, there=20
is a standard encoding for these characters that allows lossless=20
interchange between different vendors. Unicode 6.0 also adds 222 new CJK=20
unified ideographs in common use in China and Japan, and a number of=20
other symbols and letters used by other languages.=20
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 * See http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ for the current=20
draft summary.=20
 * See http://unicode.org/versions/beta.html for more information=20
about the beta.=20
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About the Unicode Consortium=20
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The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop,=20
extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization=20
standards. The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum=20
of corporations and organizations in the computer and information=20
processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, Apple, DENIC eG,=20
Google, Government of India, Government of West Bengal, IBM, Microsoft,=20
Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, Sybase, The University of California=20
(Berkeley), The University of California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!, plus well=20
over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual members.=20
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For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium.=20
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