Mention in NEWS that the Unicode 10.0.0 update causes user visible changes

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+2017-07-26  Mike FABIAN  <mfabian@redhat.com>
+
+       * NEWS: Mention that the Unicode 10.0.0 update causes user visible changes.
+
 2017-07-26  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
 
        * po/sv.po: Update Translation.

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 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
   transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
   generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
+  These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
+  wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
+  are rendered with pango, see for example:
+  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
 
 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
   Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934).  Contributed by