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

[aboobacker sidheeque mk]

What about atomic chillu ?

On 10/1/13, Hrishi <hrishi.kb at gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The improvements come with new rigor: the Consortium now offers two
> reference implementations and greatly improved testing and test data.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Version 6.3 includes other improvements as well:
>>
>> 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/
>>
>>
> http://unicode-inc.blogspot.com/2013/09/announcing-unicode-standard-version-63.html
>>
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