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Index of Posts (reverse)

2023

Marble Slips from the Central Capital of the Jin Dynasty [2023-01-22]

2020

Tangut Paizi [2020-11-27]
Tangut Discoveries at the Shanzuigou Caves [2020-07-07]

2019

Fragments of Tang Inscriptions from Karabalgasun [2019-10-01]

2018

Khitan Fragments from the Tomb of Yelü Pugu [2018-12-08]
Khitan Fragment from the Liao Mausoleum at Yiwulü Mountain [2018-11-29]
Rediscovery of a Lost Tangut Manuscript [2018-04-15]
Jurchen Inscription on the River Arkhara [2018-03-31]

2017

2016

What's new in Unicode 9.0 ? [2016-01-01]

2015

Preliminary Analysis of a Newly-Discovered Tangut Wordbook [2015-08-11]
Tangut Texts for Sale [2015-08-03]
Ode to the Tangut Tripitaka : Part 1 [2015-07-03]
Grains of Gold [2015-05-30]
A Web of Tangut Catalogues [2015-04-27]
Hundred Dharmas of Mahayana [2015-04-21]
What's new in Unicode 8.0 ? [2015-04-01]
Two Tangut Families Part 2 : Xiaoli Qianbu [2015-01-29]
Two Tangut Families Part 1 : Laosuo [2015-01-11]

2014

Accounts of Khitan Life and Language [2014-05-05]
A Chronology of Khitan Inscriptions [2014-01-01]

2013

Internet Explorer 11: Two Steps Forward and Two Steps Back [2013-11-14]
What's new in Unicode 7.0 ? [2013-10-20]
BabelPad Version 6.3.0 [2013-10-05]
The Ogham Stones of Scotland [2013-06-08]
Khitan Geography Part 2 [2013-05-11]
Khitan Geography Part 1 [2013-05-01]
Jurchen Geography [2013-04-28]
A Fragment of Tangut Geography [2013-04-10]
Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]
What's new in Unicode 6.3 ? [2013-01-08]
Fake Khitania [2013-01-01]

2012

One to Ten in Tangut and Flute [2012-12-27]
One to Twenty in Jurchen, Khitan and Lute [2012-12-18]
Khitan Seals [2012-10-16]
What's new in Unicode 6.2 ? [2012-05-26]
BabelPad and BabelMap Version 6.1.0 [2012-05-23]

2011

Tangut in Tibetan [2011-12-22]
Phags-pa Uyghur Seals [2011-11-11]
Phags-pa Graffiti [2011-11-04]
Diligently Carved in Tangut [2011-10-29]
Fragments from a Dead City [2011-10-26]
Oh, How the Gods Mock Us! [2011-10-22]
The Myth of the Tangut Ritual Language [2011-08-29]
A Mirror on the Khitan Language [2011-07-11]
The Ogham Stones of the Isle of Man [2011-06-30]
What's new in Unicode 6.1 ? [2011-06-13]
Unicode 6.0 — One block at a time [2011-05-08]
Unicode 6.0 — One character at a time [2011-04-16]
The Lost Game of Liubo Part 4 : Game Boards and Equipment [2011-01-01]

2010

The Mystery of Two Khitan Scripts [2010-12-26]
BabelPad and BabelMap Version 6.0.0.0 [2010-10-24]
Prototyping Tangut IMEs, or Why Windows 7 Sucks [2010-05-24]
Untangling the Web of Characters [2010-04-27]
The Ogham Stones of Wales [2010-03-01]

2009

The Staffordshire Hoard : Anglo-Saxon Epigraphy and the Manuscript Tradition [2009-12-25]
BabelPad Version 5.2.0.0 [2009-12-13]
The Penwith Ogham Stone [2009-11-15]
The Ogham Stones of Elsewhere [2009-11-12]
The Ogham Stones of Cornwall and Devon [2009-11-08]
What's new in Unicode 6.0 ? [2009-11-01]
A Modest Proposal to Encode Ultra-Simplified Chinese Characters [2009-10-10]
BabelMap Version 5.2.0.0 [2009-10-01]
How Complex is Tangut ? [2009-08-28]
Antedating the Caron [2009-08-16]
The Lost Game of Liubo Part 3 : Pictures of Immortals playing Liubo [2009-08-08]
The Lost Game of Liubo Part 2 : Pictures of People playing Liubo [2009-07-12]
The Lost Game of Liubo Part 1 : Funerary Statuettes [2009-05-10]
A Pictorial History of the Game of Go [2009-04-15]
Moon Runes and Goblin Alphabet [2009-01-01]
72 Modern Views of the Tower of Babel [2009-01-01]

2008

72 More Views of the Tower of Babel [2008-12-31]
Byrhtferth's Ogham Enigma [2008-12-25]
Vertical Layout in IE8 [2008-10-13]
Souvenirs from China [2008-09-27]
Tangut Chess [2008-07-24]
Playing Go on a Chinese Chess Board [2008-07-12]
A Throng of Fifty Warriors Routed by a Single Scholar : An Exercise in Ogham Decipherment [2008-05-15]
What's new in Unicode 5.2 ? [2008-04-27]
BabelMap Version 5.1.0.0 [2008-04-06]
Pigpen and Fowl Fonts [2008-02-06]
Caveat Emptor : A Buyers' Guide to Seals [2008-01-13]
Zhang Zhung Royal Seal [2008-01-01]

2007

CJK-B Case Study #1 : U+272F0 [2007-12-02]
Marco Polo and the Universal Script [2007-11-09]
Old Hanzi [2007-07-08]
CJK Unified Ideographs : To Infinity and Beyond [2007-07-02]
The Secret Life of Variation Selectors [2007-06-28]
A Brief History of CJK-C [2007-06-21]
What's new in Unicode 5.1 ? [2007-06-08]
Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 [2007-06-05]
BabelStone Tibetan sMar-chen [2007-05-30]
Zhang Zhung Scripts [2007-05-27]
The Emperor's Treasure [2007-05-04]
Numbers that Don't Add Up : Tibetan Half Digits [2007-04-07]
Numbers that Don't Add Up : U+5EFE [2007-04-01]
The Morrison Collection : Lost and Found [2007-03-18]
Tangut Coins [2007-01-29]
Zhida Tongbao [2007-01-10]
Vanished in the Twinkling of an Eye [2007-01-08]
72 Views of the Tower of Babel [2007-01-01]

2006

More about Phags-pa Seal Script [2006-12-31]
Christmas Presents [2006-12-30]
Phags-pa Fonts 3 : BabelStone Phags-pa Seal [2006-12-29]
Phags-pa Fonts 2 : BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan [2006-12-24]
Phags-pa Alternate Letters YA, SHA, HA and FA [2006-12-23]
Phags-pa Shaping Behaviour [2006-12-23]
Phags-pa Fonts 1 : BabelStone Phags-pa Book [2006-12-21]
Christian Tombstones of Zayton [2006-11-25]
Mani Stones in Mani Scripts [2006-11-05]
Manchu Letter LHA [2006-10-22]
Tibetan Shorthand Contractions [2006-09-20]
Precomposed Tibetan Part 2 : Stuck in the PUA [2006-09-17]
Precomposed Tibetan Part 1 : BrdaRten [2006-09-14]
Tibetan Extensions 2 : Balti [2006-08-31]
BabelMap 5.0.0.2 : Unicode in Colour [2006-08-27]
Welsh Double L [2006-08-19]
Welsh Double D [2006-08-13]
What's That ? [2006-07-30]
R Rotunda Part 2 [2006-07-24]
R Rotunda Part 1 [2006-07-23]
BabelMap Version 5.0.0.1 [2006-07-15]
The Long and the Short of the Letter S [2006-07-09]
The Rules for Long S [2006-06-12]
The Grand Old Trade of Basket-Making [2006-06-04]
Barbarians at the Breakfast Table [2006-05-23]
Chimps with Clogs [2006-05-01]
The Legend of the Babel Stone [2006-04-01]
Unicode Character Names Part 3 : A Name by any other Name [2006-03-26]
Unicode Character Names Part 2 : A Name is for Life [2006-03-25]
Unicode Character Names Part 1 : the Good the Bad and the Ugly [2006-03-25]
The Origins of Go [2006-03-04]
Tibetan Go [2006-03-04]
Stacking Diacritics and Complex Tibetan Stacks [2006-02-23]
When is a Swastika not a Swastika ? [2006-02-15]

2005

BabelMap Version 1.11.6 [2005-12-22]
What's new in Unicode 5.0 ? [2005-11-26]
How many Unicode characters are there? [2005-11-24]
BabelPad Version 1.9.3 [2005-11-16]
BabelMap Version 1.11.4 [2005-11-16]
Tibetan Extensions 1 : Astrological Pebble Symbols [2005-11-12]

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