The Unicode Consortium has delayed Unicode 14.0 for at least six monthsWe might have to wait until 2022 for new emoji characters.
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Unicode 14.0 has been delayed by 6 months.
The release has been moved from March to September 2021.
The organization says that the pandemic is to blame for the delay.
Today, the Unicode Consortium announced in a blog post that, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it would be postponing the release of Unicode 14.0 for six months. This will push the release of the next version of the Unicode Standard from March to September 2021.
Mark Davis, President of the Consortium, says that since the organization relies heavily on volunteers and that its members are dealing with a variety of situations during the pandemic, it was decided to push the release of the next standard.
"Under the current circumstances we've heard that our contributors have a lot on their plates at the moment and decided it was in the best interests of our volunteers and the organizations that depend on the standard to push out our re...
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The Unicode Consortium has delayed Unicode 14.0 for at least six months
