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/announcing-unicode-standard-version-110.html