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Unicode 6.0.0

Unicode version 6.0.0 has been released. As far as I remember it should be an international standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems, but up to now there is literally a heap of dung in that collection – as the following picture should prove…!

Unicode 1F4A9
Unicode 1F4A9

I understand the focus on embedding all different writing systems, but why those symbols? And where do they draw the line?