[smc-discuss] Fwd: Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 6.3

[Hrishi]

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From: <announcements at unicode.org>
Date: Oct 1, 2013 3:38 AM
Subject: Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version6.3

> The Unicode Consortium announces Version 6.3 of the Unicode Standard and
with it, significantly improved bidirectional behavior. The updated Version
6.3 Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm now ensures that pairs of parentheses
and brackets have consistent layout and provides a mechanism for isolating
runs of text.
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> Based on contributions from major browser developers, the updated
Bidirectional Algorithm and five new bidi format characters will improve
the display of text for hundreds of millions of users of Arabic, Hebrew,
Persian, Urdu, and many others. The display and positioning of parentheses
will better match the normal behavior that users expect. By using the new
methods for isolating runs of text, software will be able to construct
messages from different sources without jumbling the order of characters.
The new bidi format characters correspond to features in markup (such as in
CSS). Overall, these improvements also bring greater interoperability and
an improved ability for inserting text and assembling user interface
elements.
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> The improvements come with new rigor: the Consortium now offers two
reference implementations and greatly improved testing and test data.
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> In a major enhancement for CJK usage, this new version adds standardized
variation sequences for all 1,002 CJK compatibility ideographs. These
sequences address a well-known issue of the CJK compatibility ideographs —
that they could change their appearance when any process normalized the
text. Using the new standardized variation sequences allows authors to
write text which will preserve the specific required shapes of these CJK
ideographs, even under Unicode normalization.
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> Version 6.3 includes other improvements as well:
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> Improved Unihan data to better align with ISO/IEC 10646
> Better support for Hebrew word break behavior and for ideographic space
in line breaking
> Get started with Unicode 6.3 today!
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.3.0/
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>
http://unicode-inc.blogspot.com/2013/09/announcing-unicode-standard-version-63.html
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