New in Unicode 8.0.0

Unicode 8.0.0 added nearly 8,000 characters. Here are the highlights of the release:

  • Ahom script for the Tai Ahom language (India)
  • Arwi, Tamil language (Arabic)
  • Cherokee symbols
  • CJK unified ideographs
  • Emoji symbols along with flesh-tone symbol modifiers
  • Georgian lari currency symbol
  • lk language (Uganda)
  • Kulango languge (Côte d’Ivoire)

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