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
- 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.