The Unicode Version 15.1 release includes the UCD (Unicode Character Database), Code Charts, and Annexes, but the Core Specification is unchanged from Unicode Version 15.0. In addition to new characters, a small number of errata were fixed, along with improved representative glyphs.
Implementers should also take careful note of important changes that were made to the following UAXes:- For UAX #9 (Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm), the text for BD16, the interaction of control flow between W4 through W6, the use of sos, and the treatment of AN/EN with brackets in N0 were clarified, and a reference to UTS #55 was added.
- For UAX #14 (Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm), line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries was added, the handling of French-style quotation marks was improved, and allowed tailorings were more clearly characterized.
- For UAX #29 (Unicode Text Segmentation), explicit conformance rules were added, support for ConjunctLinker clusters was added, the definition of “crlf” was updated, and multiple changes were made to the table of Word_Break Property Values.
- For UAX #31 (Unicode Identifiers and Syntax), multiple changes were made to Section 2, Section 4 was completely rewritten, Section 7 was added, limited contexts for joining controls was moved to UTS #39, and a reference to UTS #55 was added.
- For UAX #38 (Unicode Han Database), 6 new provisional properties were added, 7 provisional properties were removed, the syntax of several properties was updated, and the description of several properties was improved.
- For UAX #45 (U-Source Ideographs), records for 39 new ideographs were added to its data file, Section 3 was added, “ExtI” was added as a new status, two obsolete status values were removed, and four status values were improved.
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