Unicode 6.1 standard released, 732 new characters added

On January 31, a new version of the Unicode standard 6.1.0 was officially introduced; this is a minor release compared to Unicode 6.0.0 ( October 2010 ).

The latest version includes 732 new characters , including seven new scripts: Chinese, Asian and African. Among 110 thousand Unicode characters, you can find glyphs for every taste, for example, here is the LOVE HOTEL (U + 1F3E9) symbol:



Unicode 6.1 adds support for 200 variators for Emoji icons (emoticons), so now these icons can be described both in black and white (text style) and in color (emoji style).
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26FA FE0E		TENT text style
26FA FE0F		TENT emoji style
26FD FE0E		FUEL PUMP text style
26FD FE0F		FUEL PUMP emoji style

Among other improvements in Unicode 6.1: two new line break properties have been added for Japanese and Hebrew texts; improved segmentation of texts for Thai, Lao and similar languages; improved processing of Chinese texts due to more accurate mapping between simplified and traditional Chinese characters.