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Unicode 8.0.0

Version 8.0.0 has been superseded by the latest version of the Unicode Standard.

This page summarizes the important changes for the Unicode Standard, Version 8.0.0. This version supersedes all previous versions of the Unicode Standard.

A. Summary
B. Technical Overview
C. Stability Policy Update
D. Textual Changes and Character Additions
E. Conformance Changes
F. Changes in the Unicode Character Database
G. Changes in the Unicode Standard Annexes
H. Changes in Synchronized Unicode Technical Standards
M. Implications for Migration

Unicode 8.0 adds a total of 7,716 characters, encompassing six new scripts and many new symbols, as well as character additions to several existing scripts. Notable character additions include the following:

• A set of lowercase Cherokee syllables, forming case pairs with the existing Cherokee characters
• A large collection of CJK unified ideographs
• Emoji symbols and symbol modifiers for implementing skin tone diversity; see Unicode Emoji.
• Georgian lari currency symbol
• Letters to support the Ik language in Uganda, Kulango in the Côte d’Ivoire, and other languages of Africa
• The Ahom script for support of the Tai Ahom language in India
• Arabic letters to support Arwi—the Tamil language written in the Arabic script

Other important updates in Unicode Version 8.0 include:

• Change in encoding model of New Tai Lue to visual order

Two other important Unicode specifications are maintained in synchrony with the Unicode Standard, and include updates for the repertoire additions made in Version 8.0, as well as other modifications:

• UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm
• UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing

This version of the Unicode Standard is synchronized with ISO/IEC 10646:2014, plus Amendment 1. Additionally, it includes the accelerated publication of U+20BE LARI SIGN, nine CJK unified ideographs (U+9FCD..U+9FD5), and 41 emoji characters.

See Sections D through H below for additional details regarding the changes in this version of the Unicode Standard, its associated annexes, and the other synchronized Unicode specifications.

Version 8.0 of the Unicode Standard consists of the core specification (download), the delta and archival code charts for this version, the Unicode Standard Annexes, and the Unicode Character Database (UCD).

The core specification gives the general principles, requirements for conformance, and guidelines for implementers. The code charts show representative glyphs for all the Unicode characters. The Unicode Standard Annexes supply detailed normative information about particular aspects of the standard. The Unicode Character Database supplies normative and informative data for implementers to allow them to implement the Unicode Standard.

A complete specification of the contributory files for Unicode 8.0 is found on the page Components for 8.0.0. That page also provides the recommended reference format for Unicode Standard Annexes. For examples of how to cite particular portions of the Unicode Standard, see also the Reference Examples.

The navigation bar on the left of this page provides links to both the core specification as a single file, as well as to individual chapters, and the appendices. Also provided are links to the code charts, the radical-stroke indices to CJK ideographs, the Unicode Standard Annexes and the data files for Version 8.0 of the Unicode Character Database.

Version 8.0.0 of the Unicode Standard should be referenced as:

The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 8.0.0, (Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium, 2015. ISBN 978-1-936213-10-8)
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/

The terms “Version 8.0” or “Unicode 8.0” are abbreviations for the full version reference, Version 8.0.0.

The citation and permalink for the latest published version of the Unicode Standard is:

The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/

Several sets of code charts are available. They serve different purposes:

• The latest set of code charts for the Unicode Standard is available online. Those charts are always the most current code charts available, and may be updated at any time. The charts are organized by scripts and blocks for easy reference. An online index by character name is also provided.

For Unicode 8.0.0 in particular two additional sets of code chart pages are provided:

• A set of delta code charts showing the blocks in which characters were added for Unicode 8.0.0. The new characters are visually highlighted in the charts.
• A set of archival code charts that represents the entire set of characters, names and representative glyphs at the time of publication of Unicode 8.0.0.

The delta and archival code charts are a stable part of this release of the Unicode Standard. They will never be updated.

Errata incorporated into Unicode 8.0 are listed by date in a separate table. For corrigenda and errata after the release of Unicode 8.0, see the list of current Updates and Errata.

• The case folding stability policy has been clarified to account for the fact that the case folding target may be either lowercase or uppercase.
• A new constraint has been added to the property value stability policy to ensure that whenever a character has an explicit Script value (that is, a value other than Common, Inherited, or Unknown), then that same explicit Script value must also be contained among the set of values constituting the Script_Extensions property value for that character.

Six new scripts were added with accompanying new block descriptions:

Letters used in Arabic and in a number of modern and historic writing systems of South Asia were added. Version 8.0 also has a new notational system, Sutton SignWriting, used for transcription of various sign languages.

A number of popular emoji and other pictographic symbols are now included, as well as a mechanism for supporting diversity in emoji representing faces or people. More user interface symbols were also added to the standard.

Changes in the Unicode Standard Annexes are listed in Section G.

7,716 characters have been added, including 5,771 CJK unified ideographs. Most character additions are in new blocks, but there are also character additions to a number of existing blocks. For details, see Delta Code Charts.

The newly-defined blocks in Version 8.0 are:

Range

AB70..ABBF

108E0..108FF

10C80..10CFF

11280..112AF

11700..1173F

12480..1254F

14400..1467F

1D800..1DAAF

1F900..1F9FF

2B820..2CEAF

There were no significant changes to the conformance clauses of the core specification for Unicode 8.0. However, there were minor changes to the rules in the algorithms specified in UAX #9, UAX #14, and UAX #29. Those rule changes will impact conformant implementations of the respective algorithms. See Section G. Changes in the Unicode Standard Annexes.

The detailed listing of all changes to the contributory data files of the Unicode Character Database for Version 8.0 can be found in UAX #44, Unicode Character Database. The changes listed there include character additions and property revisions to existing characters that will affect implementations. Some of the important impacts on implementations migrating from earlier versions of the standard are highlighted in Section M.

• The Script property of the Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660..U+0669) changed from "Common" to "Arabic".
• In the Unihan data files, over 2,800 values of the normative kIRG_JSource field were updated to more contemporary Japanese source references.
• The General_Category property of existing Cherokee syllables changed from Other_Letter to Uppercase_Letter, in accordance with the conversion of Cherokee to a bicameral script.
• The General_Category property of New Tai Lue vowel signs and tone marks changed from Spacing_Mark to Other_Letter, and the Logical_Order_Exception binary property was set for pre-base vowel signs, reflecting the change in encoding model.
• The properties Indic_Syllabic_Category and Indic_Positional_Category (renamed from Indic_Matra_Category) were promoted from provisional to informative status.
• The Indic_Syllabic_Category property was expanded with four new property values and multiple assignments.
• Numerous existing characters of Brahmi-derived scripts were assigned Indic_Positional_Category property values.
• The tag characters U+E0020..U+E007E were un-deprecated.
• The Line_Break property value of U+22EF MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS was changed to prevent line breaks between ideographic characters and U+22EF.
• The Joining_Type property values of two Mandaic letters were corrected.

In Version 8.0, some of the Unicode Standard Annexes have had significant revisions. The most important of these changes are listed below. For the full details of all changes, see the Modifications section of each UAX, linked directly from the following list of UAXes.

There are also significant revisions in the Unicode Technical Standards whose versions are synchronized with the Unicode Standard. The most important of these changes are listed below. For the full details of all changes, see the Modifications section of each UTS, linked directly from the following list of UTSes.

UTS #39, Security Mechanisms, has also been updated for Version 8.0.

There are a significant number of changes in Unicode 8.0 which may impact implementations which are upgrading to Version 8.0 from earlier versions of the standard. The most important of these are listed and explained here, to help focus on the issues most likely to cause unexpected trouble during upgrades.

The character encoding model for the Cherokee script changed from unicameral to bicameral. The conversion was done by reclassifying all existing syllables as uppercase and adding a corresponding set of lowercase syllables. In terms of properties, the General_Category of the existing characters changed from Other_Letter to Uppercase_Letter, and the new characters were given the value Lowercase_Letter. A new case pair for the archaic syllable mv was also added.

The casing was chosen in order to reduce the migration cost for implementations, allowing them to preserve the font metrics for the existing characters and reduce the implications on layout. However, the formation of case pairs by adding lowercase characters is unusual. As a result, case folding of Cherokee maps to uppercase instead of lowercase. This mapping also has consequences on identifiers, as described in the changes to UAX #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax.

The character encoding model for New Tai Lue changed from logical order, in which pre-base vowels are stored after an initial consonant, to visual order, in which the pre-base vowels are stored before the initial consonant, as for Thai, Lao, and Tai Viet. The model was changed to better serve the primary user community in the Xishuangbanna region of China, who have been accumulating data input and stored in visual order, and have been using fonts with a visual order encoding to render it.

The encoding model change incurred a uniform General_Category reclassification of all New Tai Lue vowels signs and tone marks from Spacing_Mark to Other_Letter, the assignment of the property value Logical_Order_Exception=Yes to the pre-base vowels U+19B5..U+19B7 and U+19BA, and the addition of 176 pre-base vowel + initial consonant contractions to the Default Unicode Collation Element Table.

A visual order model complicates syllable identification and the processes for searching and sorting. Implementations switching to the visual order model can take advantage of techniques developed for processing Thai script data to address the issues associated with visual order encoding, and data stored in logical order should be carefully migrated.

Version 8.0 adds six new scripts, so implementations which process script data should be carefully checked.

Additionally, there was a significant Script property value change affecting the common Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660..U+0669). These were changed from having the value "Common" to the value "Arabic". Their use with scripts other than Arabic is now more consistently dealt with by the Script_Extensions property, instead. Implementations which may have had special treatment for the Script property value of the Arabic-Indic digits should be checked to ensure that the change in Script property value does not cause unexpected behavior.

The range of tag characters (U+E0020..U+E007E) was changed from Deprecated=True to Deprecated=False in Version 8.0. This change was done to clear the way for the potential future use of tag characters for a purpose other than to represent language tags.

Note that two characters, U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG and U+E007F CANCEL TAG, remain deprecated. Furthermore, the use of tag characters to represent language tags in a plain text stream is still a deprecated mechanism for conveying language information about text.

Implementations which deliberately remove or refuse to interpret deprecated characters may need updates to prepare them for the potential use of U+E0020..U+E007E in Unicode 8.0 data in the future.

The representative glyph for U+301C WAVE DASH was updated, so that it now shows a tilde shape instead of a reversed tilde shape. The updated glyph now aligns with majority practice in fonts for this character.

The representative glyph for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I was changed from a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation. The updated glyph now aligns with majority practice for both horizontal and vertical layout of Bopomofo text, but implementations should be checked to verify correct behavior for rendering of this character.

Version 8.0 made small adjustments to line break and other segmentation rules. In particular:

• In UAX #14, the line break opportunities were adjusted for Hebrew letters adjacent to a solidus "/" and to prevent breaks between exclamation marks and ellipses.
• In UAX #29, the default grapheme cluster segmentation was adjusted for the New Tai Lue script. This is part of the overall model change for New Tai Lue.
• In UAX #29, the default sentence segmentation rules were adjusted to prevent spurious sentence breaks at full stops occurring interior to words. This is colloquially known as the "Mr.Hamster" problem.

• A collection of 5,762 CJK unified ideographs were encoded in a new block, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E, and nine other ideographs were added to the CJK Unified Ideographs block.
• Over 2,800 values of the normative kIRG_JSource field were updated to reflect the more contemporary JIS X 0213:2004 (J3, J3A, and J4) source references, replacing outdated JIS X 0212-1990 (J1) and "Unified Japanese IT Vendors Contemporary Ideographs" (JA) source references.

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