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Version 11.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. It comes with 684 new characters, so Unicode now includes 137,374 characters. These additions include seven new scripts, for a total of 146 scripts, as well as 145 new emoji.

The new scripts and characters in Version 11.0 add support for lesser-used languages and unique written requirements worldwide, including:

• Georgian Mtavruli capital letters, newly added to support modern casing practices
• Hanifi Rohingya, used to write the modern Rohingya language in Southeast Asia
• Medefaidrin, used for modern liturgical purposes in Africa
• Mazahua, a Mesoamerican language recognized by law in Mexico
• Mayan numerals used in printed materials in Central America
• Historic Sanskrit, Gurmukhi, and the Buryats
• Five urgently needed CJK unified ideographs: three for chemical names and two for Japan's government administration

Version 11.0 also includes other improvements for emoji handling:

• A mechanism to request the glyph direction for emoji
• Descriptions of the four new emoji hair components
• Descriptions of gender neutral emoji
• Simplified statements of emoji-related rules for grapheme cluster boundaries and for word boundaries.

http://blog.unicode.org/2018/06/announc ... n-110.html

Can I have updated versions of the FC data files for Unicode 11.0?

The files can be Downloaded from Unicode.org