As of today, the Unicode Standard has been updated to include 5,185 new characters: seven emoji, 3,995 Egyptian hieroglyphs, seven new scripts, and over 700 symbols from legacy computing environments. So, what happens next? jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/from-unico...
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![Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Range U+13000..U+1342F
(1,072 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Assigned 1,072 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009) 1,071 (+1,071)
15.0 (2022) 1,072 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Range U+13000..U+1342F
(1,072 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Assigned 1,072 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009) 1,071 (+1,071)
15.0 (2022) 1,072 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
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This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.
Look up Appendix:Unicode/Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block containing the Gardiner's sign list of Egyptian hieroglyphs.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:mo6uhnow7qhlj6abtiqzcvhk/bafkreigpngamcf2lt7hdhdvb56x7j3dpbavfip5ajb2dwe5npn5kao3ffi@jpeg)
Always fun when they hit a symbol with a pronounceable hex code. e.g. U+1FACE "🫎" (amazed I can see that symbol already)