Jim DeLaHuntYay! #Unicode version 16.0 is released!
Announcement: https://blog.unicode.org/2024/09/announcing-unicode-standard-version-160.html
A cool change is that the Core Specification of the Unicode Standard is now released as a static HTML subsite, backed up by an archiveable #PDF of 1,140 pages.
https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/
You can now link to specific sections and paragraphs, e.g.
"Unicode is about plain text, see: https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-2/#G642" .
I helped out in a small way with the project to produce the core spec as HTML + PDF. I think it is a marvellous improvement.
Codepoints.net@jdlh whoa! This is great! Thank you very much for sharing and for supporting that effort!
Jeffrey Yasskin@jdlh Oh thank goodness, and thank you for helping with the transition.
Kevin C@jdlh Thank you for this!
William B Peckham@jdlh I love Unicode, where it works, but I have to use a bunch of legacy tools that understand 8-bit ASCII only.
@wbpeckham sigh, I feel your pain. There is a lot of legacy about. But the real old-school ASCII will be 7-bit, not 8-bit.
Fun fact: any data which is ASCII-compliant is also Unicode UTF-8 compliant, because the latter is by design a subset of the former. So, you probably use UTF-8 all the time! :-)
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@blogdiva I am glad for your enthusiasm!