The week before last, the Unicode Consortium which manages standards for Unicode and Locale published the 6.0 version of Unicode to their site. These standards represent the common set of symbols and locales software vendors use to internationalize their solutions. Over time, the Unicode Standard set of characters has grown in size from 28,294 assigned graphic and format characters in Version 1.0, to 109,384 characters in Version 6.0. This release represents the first time the full specification has been published online in its entirety.
The new blocks in version 6.0.0 are: Specifically added: To view all components of this release browse here.
0840..085F
Mandaic
1BC0..1BFF
Batak
AB00..AB2F
Ethiopic Extended-A
11000..1107F
Brahmi
16800..16A3F
Bamum Supplement
1B000..1B0FF
Kana Supplement
1F0A0..1F0FF
Playing Cards
1F300..1F5FF
Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs
1F600..1F64F
Emoticons
1F680..1F6FF
Transport And Map Symbols
1F700..1F77F
Alchemical Symbols
2B740..2B81F
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D
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Unicode 6.0.0 Standard Published
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