Unicode version 5.1 was recently released, and includes some new code blocks as well as new specifications. As with all new versions of Unicode there will be a time lag until the new items can be incorporated into fonts and utilities, but here is a partial list of new items
If you’re interested in the new characters, the best place to view them is at http://www.unicode.org/charts/
New Plane 0 Scripts
- Cham (Cambodia/Vietnam)
- Kayah Li (Thailand/Myanmar)
- Lepcha (India)
- Ol Chiki/Santali (India)
- Rejang (indonesia)
- Saurashtra (India)
- Sundanese (Indonesia)
- Vai (Liberia)
Script Extensions
These blocks add characters to previously encoded scripts.
- Cyrillic Extended-A
- Cyrillic Extended-B
- Arabic – characters for math, 4 Qu’ranic and multiple characters for different languages
- Indic – Malayalam, Tamil character sequences, Devanagari chandra a,
Sanskrit sounds in Gurmukhi, Oriya, Telegu - Latin – characters for minority languages and capital German sharp S (rare)
- Math Symbols
- Medievalist Punctuation – for research
- Myanmar Additions
New Plane 1 Ancient Scripts and Miscellaneous Symbols
- Carian (Anatolia/Turkey)
- Lycian (Anatolia/Turkey)
- Lydian (Anatolia/Turkey)
- Phaistos Disk (Crete)
- Domino Tile Symbols
- Mahjong Tile Symbols
