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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When reporting bugs, I’ve found it’s best to describe the problem first,
before assuming a particular solution, because others may have better
solutions. And to avoid the word “support”, because avoiding it helps
clarify what you want.

Unicode 8 includes “7,716 new characters … 1,484 characters belong to
these six new scripts: Ahom … Anatolian Hieroglyphs … Hatran … Multani …
Old Hungarian … Sign-writing…; 5,762 … additional CJK unified
ideographs…; 196 characters are Cuneiform signs used during the Early
Dynastic Period (2900–2350 BC)…; 80 … lowercase Cherokee letters; 15
characters are emoji symbols…” <http://babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04
/whats-new-in-unicode-80.html>

Ahom and Anatolian Hieroglyphs and Old Hungarian and Early Dynastic
Cuneiform are all extinct languages. I’m sure they’re fascinating to the
academics who study them. But are they a good use of limited storage
space on a phone OS shipping this decade? Probably not. Even if they
were, would they all be designed, implemented, and shipped in one go?
Definitely not. And if the current emoji are “sparse and few”, is it
sensible to wait until 7716 new characters are designed and implemented
for the sake of only 15 new emoji? Absolutely not.

The actual problem is not that we don’t “support” Unicode 8, it’s that
none of the fonts we ship include the new emoji. That isn’t a Unicode
problem, and it isn’t just (if at all) an ubuntu-keyboard problem, it’s
a font problem.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1537055

Title:
  Support Unicode 8

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  should add support to Unicode 8 (or 9) because the emoji present
  system are sparse and few.

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