New symbols in Unicode 17
Unicode 17.0 was released yesterday. According to the announcement This version adds 4,803 new characters, including four new scripts, eight new emoji characters, as well as many other characters and symbols, bringing the total of encoded characters to 159,801. My primary interest in Unicode is for symbols. Here are some
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