Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0
Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:47 am
Version 7.0.0 is planned for release in July 2014.
A first glimpse shows over 2800 new characters in the beta version of the 7.0.0 Unicode Character Database files. This includes the new Nordic mark sign, Manat sign, and the ruble sign, but also numerous new Arabic, Coptic, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin (Extended-D), Myanmar, Old Permic, Elbasan, Caucasian, Palmyrene, Nabataean, Old north Arabian, Manichaean, Psalter Pahlavi, Mahajani, Sinhala, Khojki, Khudawadi, Grantha, Tirhuta, Siddham, and many more characters, as well as new Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows.
The official beta information page for Unicode 7.0.0 is located at: http://www.unicode.org/versions/beta-7.0.0.html
If you can't wait to use this new version with FontCreator, then do download these files:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/7.0.0/ucd ... .0.0d2.txt
http://www.unicode.org/Public/7.0.0/ucd ... 0.0d19.txt
And rename them to:
Blocks.txt
UnicodeData.txt
Then place them in this folder:
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\FontCreator\Unicode\
Now restart FontCreator to make it use this new version!
A first glimpse shows over 2800 new characters in the beta version of the 7.0.0 Unicode Character Database files. This includes the new Nordic mark sign, Manat sign, and the ruble sign, but also numerous new Arabic, Coptic, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin (Extended-D), Myanmar, Old Permic, Elbasan, Caucasian, Palmyrene, Nabataean, Old north Arabian, Manichaean, Psalter Pahlavi, Mahajani, Sinhala, Khojki, Khudawadi, Grantha, Tirhuta, Siddham, and many more characters, as well as new Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows.
The official beta information page for Unicode 7.0.0 is located at: http://www.unicode.org/versions/beta-7.0.0.html
If you can't wait to use this new version with FontCreator, then do download these files:
http://www.unicode.org/Public/7.0.0/ucd ... .0.0d2.txt
http://www.unicode.org/Public/7.0.0/ucd ... 0.0d19.txt
And rename them to:
Blocks.txt
UnicodeData.txt
Then place them in this folder:
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\FontCreator\Unicode\
Now restart FontCreator to make it use this new version!