Michel MarianiThe latest version v18.1.0 of the open-source application "Unicopedia Sinica" is now available, embedding all data files required to display CJK ideographs as SVG glyphs in the "CJK Sources" and "CJK Variations" utilities...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/116300905939195821
- Technically speaking, Khitan Small Script and Yi script are not included (yet) in the data for non-Han ideographic scripts.
- The Jurchen and Seal scripts are poised to be officially added to Unicode 18.0 in September 2026...
- BabelStone (Andrew West) reference links:
๐ https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Jurchen/
๐ https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Khitan/
๐ https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Yi/
#Unicode #Ideographic #Unihan #CJK #CJKV #Jurchen #Khitan #Nรผshu #Seal #Tangut #Yi
Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (้ญๅฎ), is alive and well!
The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:
๐ https://github.com/babelstone/babelstonehan-ufo/releases/latest
All documents published by the Ideographic Research Group (IRG) are now available on the Unicode web site, and can be easily and efficiently found through the new search bar provided on the IRG homepage.
๐ https://www.unicode.org/irg/
This long-awaited search feature is very convenient, and so useful to find what you're interested in, and even more (ah, the wonderful power of serendipity!)...
#Unicode #IRG #IdeographicResearchGroup #CJK #Ideographs #Unihan
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 โฟฐใ ไน (with images as "pieces of evidence"), which eventually made its way to Unicode 17.0, encoded as U+323BF ๐ฒฟ :
The Ideographic Research Group (IRG) is responsible for preparing and reviewing sets of CJK unified ideographs to be included in the Unicode Standard.
It has recently made available a useful list of so-called disunified CJK ideographs, coming with images of glyphs and IRG source references, which also provides links to documents giving the rationale behind each disunification:
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.
New in Unicopedia Sinica:
- Added all Unihan-related utilities from Unicopedia Plus.
- Added typeface selector between serif and sans-serif in the Pan-CJK Font Variants utility.
Planned:
- Utilities for non-Han scripts: Khitan Small Script, Nรผshu, Tangut.
- Utilities for Jurchen, Small Seal (Unicode 18.0?)
As you might expect, my main application Unicopedia Plus relies heavily on #Unicode...
Today, I updated the #Electron framework to its latest major version 39.0.0, hoping it would at last bring full support to Unicode 16.0, published by the UTC in September 2024 , but unfortunately no; it is still stuck in Unicode 15.1, published in September 2023! Moreover, Unicode 17.0 has already been officially released...
