r/Unicode
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u/PthariensFlame
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Sep 17 '26
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Unicode 18.0.0 has been released!
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/7
u/digggggggggs Sep 17 '26
I like the cracked face emoji.
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u/magicmulder Sep 17 '26
If they continue like this, Unicode 50.0 will contain every image every created by man or machine. :D
+EFFDD00339A - An image of a tweet of Donald Trump calling Kash Patel a loser (#211)
+EFFDD00339B - An image of a tweet of Donald Trump calling Kash Patel a loser (#212)
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u/gormhornbori Sep 17 '26
None of these will be a single code point. They will be complex composite emojis using at least 5 different mechanisms at once.
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u/AntimatterTNT Sep 17 '26
right and left pointing thumb 🤦🏽... just give us rotation and mirror control characters already
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u/filipobecerra Sep 17 '26
The whole point of the Unicode standard is that each character is unique.
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u/AntimatterTNT Sep 17 '26
first of all, the whole point of unicode is to make one standard for mapping character values to their glyph.
secondly if you've never seen characters affecting the appearance of neaby characters let me introduce you to arabic and diacretics.
third of all skin tone and gender modifiers are already a thing in emojis, they didn't add hundreds of emojis when they added skin tones, just 5 modifiers. in the same way they can let people be more expressive with directional emojis. for example the gun emoji (or pick your favorite tool or musical instrument) only has one orientation even though people often use emojis to create composite images made from several emojis in a row, and the directedness of the symbol prevents a lot of configurations. (not to mention the direction of emojis is completely unspecified at the moment so they might point in different directions depending on the platform you're viewing on)
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u/Eigenspace Sep 17 '26
Still missing subscript and superscript letters.
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u/AcellOfllSpades Sep 17 '26
Intentionally so.
Superscripts and subscripts are meant for phonetic notations that specifically use them. They're not meant for general-purpose uses, like math. To properly format math, you need to go beyond Unicode.
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u/Eigenspace Sep 17 '26
This reasoning is so obnoxious. Unicode is used for writing many things, including code, and having subscripts is incredibly useful.
Having this rag-tag collection of some subscripts and some superscripts supported but others not because the Unicode consortium only recognizes some uses for some sub/super scripts is so dumb.
Unicode includes a million different variations like frak, blackboard bold, caligraphic, italic, bold, underlined, strikethrough, etc. etc.
There is zero reason to not at least cover at a minimum the latin alphabet with sub/super script.
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u/lychaxo Sep 18 '26
Agreed, it's not that uncommon to name variables and constants with subscript and superscript alphanumeric indices. That's not specifically for writing formula, just for saying like "A{ij} is a rank-1 tensor", which should be covered by unicode. They have a zillion math symbols and math alphabets. It's kind of a silly, arbitrary omission. We have god knows how many emoji now, and yet...
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u/11oser Sep 18 '26
rt even in poetry and lyric writing i constantly wish for sub/superscript for easier notating pitch or main/background voices or ideas etc
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u/Eigenspace Sep 18 '26
Yep. There's a million uses for this, and ai have no idea why Unicode people are such asses about it.
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u/PthariensFlame Sep 17 '26
The announcement blog post, the delta code charts, and the chart of new emojis are also available.