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Bug 789600 - Support Unicode 10
Support Unicode 10
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-characters
Classification: Other
Component: general
3.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Characters maintainer(s)
GNOME Characters maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-10-28 18:44 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2018-02-08 13:19 UTC
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2017-10-28 18:44:32 UTC 
gnome-characters 3.26.1 verified on Ubuntu 17.10 and Fedora 27 (pre-release)

In the "Smileys and People" section, click the emoji that shows a face with censored letters across the mouth.

It shows as "Unicode U+1F92C".

What I expect to see instead is "Face With Symbols On Mouth"

See also https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%AC/
Comment 1 Daiki Ueno 2017-10-29 05:44:58 UTC 
That's because the character was introduced in Unicode 10.0.0, while Characters is based on 9.0.0.
Comment 2 Jeremy Bicha 2017-10-29 06:01:53 UTC 
Thanks, I'm updating the bug title. How difficult is it to support a new Unicode version?
Comment 3 Daiki Ueno 2017-10-29 15:49:04 UTC 
It's not so difficult but not so trivial.  Characters uses libunistring (part of gnulib) as the data source, which provides more than character names.  

Since last year the upstream (me et al) has been struggling to adapt it to Unicode 9.0.0, due to the complex new rules added to UAX#29.  For Characters I used a locally modified version of libunistring.

Fortunately, in the last week we had some time to work on it:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libunistring/2017-10/msg00000.html
I hope we can land the change soon.  After that we will be able to start working on Unicode 10.0.0.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-02-08 13:19:23 UTC 
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