Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (魏安), is alive and well!

The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:

🔗 https://github.com/babelstone/babelstonehan-ufo/releases/latest

#BabelStone #BabelStoneHan #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/115583941639906512

Generally, new CJK Ideographs proposed by members of the IRG (Ideographic Research Group) go through several rounds of exchanges/discussions until they get approved or possibly postponed or rejected.

For instance, here is the page dedicated to UK-20538 ⿰㐅也 (with images as "pieces of evidence"), which eventually made its way to Unicode 17.0, encoded as U+323BF 𲎿 :

🔗 https://hc.jsecs.org/irg/ws2021/app/?id=00029

#Unicode #Unihan #IdeographicResearchGroup #IRG #CJK #CJKV

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/115571389315099716

> This increases the number of encoded CJK ideographs to over 100,000!

十万字【じゅうまんじ】！

#Unicode #Jūmanji #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

The latest version of the open-source application "Unicopedia Sinica" is now available, adding support for all the new CJK/Unihan characters defined in Unicode 17.0.

🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica

#Unicopedia #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

The Ideographic Research Group (IRG) is responsible for preparing and reviewing sets of CJK unified ideographs to be included in the Unicode Standard.

Current and future IRG source prefixes used to be listed in the main IRG homepage, but are now available in a separate dedicated page:

🔗 https://www.unicode.org/irg/prefixes.html

#unicode #unihan #irg #cjk #cjkv #cjkui

The Ideographic Research Group (IRG) is responsible for preparing and reviewing sets of CJK unified ideographs to be included in the Unicode Standard.

The IRG homepage is now including comprehensive lists of current and future IRG source prefixes...

🔗 https://www.unicode.org/irg/

#unicode #unihan #irg #cjk #cjkv #cjkui

Zi Tools, by Yi Bai: a wealth of information about all #Chinese characters defined in #Unicode, and even more...

zi.tools 字統网
Yet another full index of CJKV Ideographs

🔗 https://zi.tools

#CJK #CJKV #Unihan

Unicopedia Sinica is a developer-oriented set of #Unicode utilities related to ideographs, wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.

Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica

#characters #chinese #cjk #cjkrelated #cjkv #codecharts #codepoints #components #confusables #desktopapplication #electronjs #glyphs #ideographs #ideographicdescriptionsequences #ids #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #localfonts #opensource #strokes #tangut #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #vietnamese