We are pleased to announce the release candidate for Unicode® ICU 70.
ICU 70 updates to Unicode 14, including new characters, scripts, emoji, and corresponding API constants. ICU 70 adds support for emoji properties of strings. It also updates to CLDR 40 locale data with many additions and corrections. ICU 70 also includes many other bug fixes and enhancements, especially for measurement unit formatting, and it can now be built and used with C++20 compilers.
For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/70.
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Please test this release candidate on your platforms and report bugs and regressions by Tuesday, 2021-oct-19, via the icu-support mailing list, and/or please find/submit error reports.
Please do not use this release candidate in production.
The release candidate API reference documents are published on https://unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/ – follow the “Dev” links there.
Note: The prebuilt WinARM64 binaries below should be considered alpha/experimental.