Unicode 8.0.0 [JEP 267]
Unicode 8.0.0 was released on June 17, 2015. JEP 267 focused on updating the relevant APIs to support Unicode 8.0.0.
New in Unicode 8.0.0
Unicode 8.0.0 added nearly 8,000 characters. Here are the highlights of the release:
- Ahom script for the Tai Ahom language (India)
- Arwi, Tamil language (Arabic)
- Cherokee symbols
- CJK unified ideographs
- Emoji symbols along with flesh-tone symbol modifiers
- Georgian lari currency symbol
- lk language (Uganda)
- Kulango languge (Côte d’Ivoire)
Updated Classes in Java 9
In order to fully comply with the new Unicode standard, several Java classes were updated. The following listed classes were updated for Java 9 to comply with the new Unicode standard:
java.awt.font.NumericShaper
java.lang.Character
java.lang.String
java.text.Bidi
java.text.BreakIterator
java.text.Normalizer