well, geez, Unicode, just quietly drop version 14.0 when i’m not paying attention, why don’t you

i’ve got a thing to finish up rn but i’ll take a look at recent additions / etc after i’m done

🆗🆗 here we go

The entire Latin Extended-F block (U+10780..U+107BF), which contains extended IPA characters and characters for VoQS. Mostly it’s a bunch of modifier letter (subscript) versions of existing IPA symbols.

a bunch of historical scripts, plus:

• Toto, a very new script (2015!) for writing the Toto language (previously, Toto was written in the Bengali script).

• Vithkuqi, an older script for writing Albanian, which fell out of use because the guy who invented it died. It is now being revived! Most of the contemporary evidence provided in the proposal comes in the form of tattoos.

• Tangsa, a new script which has been under development since 1990 for writing the Tangsa languages.

More North American Syllabic characters, primarily to support the Nattilik language in Western Nunavut

In case Latin Extended-F didn’t satisfy you, there’s also Latin Extended-G! What’s in Latin Extended-G?! You guessed it, more IPA‐related characters.

You ever heard of the Ormulum?! Written by this dude named Orm?! Well they encoded four new combining marks for it.

Programming languages have ++i and i++ but now in Unicode you are able to do “++ above” and “++ below”, which are evidently used by some linguist for something.

There is also COMBINING NUMBER SIGN ABOVE, which has the wonderful annotation “superscript octothorp”.

Unicode ⁜finally⁜ added the medieval exclamation point and question mark signs, which look like the exclamation point and question mark signs you know and love, but a little wonky.

Also in the “encoding punctuation marks, but wonky” category is OBLIQUE HYPHEN, which is like a hyphen, but oblique.

Both SIGMOID S and MIDDLE SCOTS S have been added in both uppercase and lowercase; MIDDLE SCOTS S is kinda like that ß thing from German, but cooler and Scottish

Unicode finally realized that there wasn’t an equals emoji, so you might have difficulty doing basic arithmetic in emoji characters (why not?). They added one!