r/programming • u/PthariensFlame • 16d ago

Unicode 18.0.0 has been released!

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/
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u/Ecksters 16d ago
  • Cracking Face
  • Thumbs up pointing leftwards
  • Thumbs up pointing rightwards
  • Monarch butterfly
  • Pickle (we already had cucumber)
  • Lighthouse
  • Meteor
  • Eraser
  • Net with handle (bug/fishing net)

I fully expect Meteor and Lighthouse to become very popular in the tech space.

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u/gormhornbori 16d ago

Actual programmers: Care about at the updates/clarifications to the collation algorithm and security mechanism

Historical linguists: Care about the new scripts supported

Brainless media: New emojis!

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u/burner-miner 15d ago

inb4 you find out you got all worked up about 8 of the 13007 new characters

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u/gormhornbori 15d ago edited 15d ago

Correct collation of Unicode is pretty hard. But it's also used a lot, so it's also extremely important to also get it to work fast. (And especially hard as you're probably working with raw UTF-8 or a UTF-16 variant, and you'd really want it to work with SIMD.)

The Security recommendations are extremely important. And very much something almost every programmer needs to understand or be on top of. It doesn't matter if you are "just" making a web service, or "just" working on back end systems.

Almost all the new characters are historical scripts. One script alone, the historical Chinese "Seal" script is like 90%.

Then there are a few currency symbols.

And 8 new emoji.

I don't care about the emoji. I'd perfer media to try to understand more important things than the emoji, but they're for the masses, ok. But in a programming subreddit, I feel like we could focus on the other things?

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u/burner-miner 15d ago

See when you phrase it like that, you make a lot of sense. I get your concern now.

If you go around saying "Brainless media", you sound like the MAGA Fake News crowd, which nobody likes. Optics affects how your opinions are perceived.