The new standard might be implemented in Fedora 23

Jun 23, 2015 01:15 GMT  ·  By

A new proposal has been submitted today, June 22, on the mailing list of the Fedora Linux project, which includes details about the implementation of the recently released Unicode 8.0 standard in the upcoming Fedora 23 distribution.

Unicode 8.0 was officially released on June 17, 2015, and comes with a total of 7,716 new characters and six new scripts, including 41 new emoji characters, 5,771 new ideographs for the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean languages, a new Georgian lari currency symbol, 86 lowercase Cherokee syllables, as well as Arwi support.

After publishing details about the proposal of an updated Sugar interface for the Fedora SoaS Spin of the acclaimed operating system, two-week Fedora Atomic Host releases, SELinux policy store migration, Frappe Web framework, and system firmware updates on UEFI machines, Jan Kurik comes today with the proposal of implementing Unicode 8.0 in Fedora 23 Linux.

"To get support for these characters in Fedora we will need updates to core libraries Glibc and Lib ICU. We are planning to update our core libraries Glibc and Lib ICU with the help of upstream. [...] By including this change, Fedora users and developers will get the Unicode 8.0 support exactly on the time," reads the new proposal submitted on June 22, 2015.

Fedora users and developers will get Unicode 8.0 support

Thanks to this proposal, Fedora users and developers will be able to benefit from updated Unicode data from locales. Unicode 8.0 support will be implemented in the upcoming Fedora 23 Linux distribution through core libraries. No other new functionality will be added after the implementation of Unicode 8.0 in Fedora.

Fedora 23 Linux is expected this fall, around the Halloween season. The development cycle of the upcoming distribution will include an Alpha and a Beta release. Fedora is known as one of the leading Linux kernel-based operating systems when it comes to internationalization.