Re: OT: Unicode 5.0

Paul Bennett wrote:
> Am I alone in being rather excited by Unicode 5.0?
>
> In particular, I'm personally excited by Latin Extended-C & -D on the
> BMP,  and Cuneiform on the SMP. Looking around the SMP Roadmap, I was
> also quite  entertained by the discussion of color as a unit of meaning
> rather than a  type of formatting, as found in the Basic Egyptian
> Heiroglyphs proposal.  They weasel their way around it in typical "once,
> always and evermore  infallible" fashion by recommending a pair of zero
> width bracketting  characters to surround red text, and leaving the
> rendering of text thus  marked as undefined user agent behavior, which
> kinda renewed my faith in  human nature.
>
> Anyway, my point is this: if you haven't nosed around the Unicode home
> page in a while, you might find it repays a second look. They've really
> come a long way.
Hmm.... I can't seem to find the specifics about what's new in 5.0. What
sorts of characters are included in Latin Extended C & D?

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