Unicode Emoji 15.0 Provisional Candidates

The Unicode Technical Committee has approved the list of provisional candidates for Emoji 15.0. They are slated for release in September 2022 together with Unicode 15.0. These candidates were identified by the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee after reviewing proposals ranked according to previously-determined selection factors.

The list of provisional emoji candidates can be found here. Note that they have not yet been assigned code points or properties. For comments on these candidates, please reference PRI #435 in your feedback.

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Feedback is reviewed by the relevant committee according to their meeting schedule.

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ICU4X 0.4 Released

Unicode® ICU4X 0.4 has just been released. This revision brings an implementation of Unicode Properties, major performance and memory improvements for DateTimeFormat, and extends the data provider data loading models with BlobDataProvider.

ICU4X 0.4 also adds initial time zone support in DateTimeFormat, week of month/year, iteration APIs in Segmenter and experimental ListFormatter.

The ICU4X team is shifting to work on the 0.5 release in accordance with the roadmap and a product requirements document setting sights on a stable 1.0 release in Q2 2022.

ICU4X aims to develop a highly modular set of internationalization components for resource-constrained environments, portable across programming languages.

Multiple early adopters use ICU4X in pre-release software in Rust, C, C++, and WebAssembly. The team is ready to onboard additional early adopters to refine the APIs, build processes, and feature sets before the 1.0 release. The team is also looking for contributors to write code generation for additional target programming languages. For more information, please open a discussion on the ICU4X GitHub.

For details, please see the changelog.

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Over 144,000 characters are available for adoption to help the Unicode Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages