Unicode 8.0.0 was released on June 17, 2015. Java's relevant APIs were updated to support Unicode 8.0.0.
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 language (Cote d'Ivoire)
Updated classes in Java 9
In order to fully comply with the new Unicode standard, several...