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Frankly when I clicked I expected to read that the Tibetan language has been recently added to Unicode.

I mean, they're too busy adding emojis over there to work on support for human scripts any more...



Tibetan script has been in Unicode since version 2 from 1996, with some characters added in later versions. Is there are particular human script you want added to Unicode?


I don't know, I want them to self disband if they're done instead of adding emojis.


But it sure seems like they greatly exceeded your initial expectations, no? They aren't adding it today, they already did it in 1996! Maybe they aren't what you thought they were?


So... they've been obsolete since '96?


Ok but this thread is about Tibetan and not about emojis.


> I mean, they're too busy adding emojis over there to work on support for human scripts any more...

What makes you say that there are human scripts being left out, or which nobody is working on (or that the work is displaced by emoji support)?

One challenge of large projects is that what's essential for some users is not even within the experience of other users. Sometimes humans make the fundemental error of thinking the range of their own experience defines the range of everyone's experiences, when the truth is that each of us sees only a tiny portion of an enormous canvas.


They just added Pac-Man and some other video game characters too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41535317


Aren’t they exposing font users to legal liability this way? I don’t think anything from the gaming industry is out of copyright yet…


They've renamed Pac-Man to "BLACK LARGE CIRCLE MINUS RIGHT QUARTER SECTION" (really!).


Hmm it's Bandai-Namco. Haven't heard about them sending black helicopters to authors of pac man implementations so maybe it's safe.

Did they add anything from Atari to Unicode? Wikipedia says the focus of the current name owner is "licensing and blockchain".




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