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Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 1 January 2014 at 20:00
A chronology of Khitan inscriptions babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/chrono…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 11 January 2014 at 18:03
Version of the "Promotion Chart" 陞官圖 (De Ludo Promotionis Mandarinorum) in Thomas Hyde's 1694 "De Ludis Orientalibus" babelstone.co.uk/Ludus/DeLudisO…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 12 January 2014 at 22:43
The rambling antiquarian goes to the Ancient Lotus Pond in Baoding in search of Tangut dharani pillars babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/ancien…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 00:05
"Proposal to encode the Tangut script" take five std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D… (697 pages) and std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D… (code charts)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 26 January 2014 at 14:02
When I was in China last month I didn't buy any books, but I didn't need to as I got these Tangut & Yi books for free
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 26 January 2014 at 14:18
Lives and careers of four generations of a Tangut family in Baoding during the Yuan dynasty babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/ancien… (rough translation by me)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 26 January 2014 at 19:57
9 years ago today I went in search of Phags-pa inscribed Christian tombstones in Quanzhou (Marco Polo's Zayton) babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2005/01/quanzh…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 02:19
"BabelStone Han" font version 1.12 released (952 additional CJK chars and 288 additional PUA chars) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 7 February 2014 at 20:41
"Why dedicate your life to deciphering 4,000-year-old tax returns?" -- Gandhari, Sogdian and Tangut manuscripts idp.bl.uk/downloads/SunT…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 8 February 2014 at 01:03
Early Pleistocene footprints at Happisburgh now on #Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happisbur…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 18:39
#Wikipedia Happisburgh footprints article viewed over 160,000 times in five days stats.grok.se/en/201402/Happ…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 19:11
Slinging swords and casting corns - a brief foray into experimental archaeology wp.me/p1y9xe-O4 from @SurreyMedieval
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 28 March 2014 at 22:24
Some fonts already supporting forthcoming Unicode 7.0 babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/whats-… h/t @FakeUnicode
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 March 2014 at 14:43
BabelStone Moon Runes font babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/MoonRune… updated for Unicode 7.0 (plus 3 Tolkien runes and 5 Franks Casket runes)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 March 2014 at 15:36
Thror's map with BabelStone Moon Runes -- magic spells work under Firefox but not IE or Chrome babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/ThrorsMa…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 4 April 2014 at 21:38
My prototype Unicode flags font with Regional Indicator Symbol sequences mapped to colorized flag glyphs
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 18:50
BabelStone Anglo-Saxon runic fonts updated to Unicode 7.0 (+ 3 Tolkien runes and 5 Franks Casket cryptogrammic runes) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/AngloSax…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 23:07
Transcription of the right panel of the Franks Casket using five new Unicode 7.0 runic letters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/FranksCa…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 11:11
Excavations at the Liao Upper Capital at modern Bairin Left Banner in Inner Mongolia kaogu.cn/html/en/News/N…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 19 April 2014 at 12:54
Excellent blog posts by Marc Miyake on aspects of Khitan large script amritas.com/140419.htm#041… and Khitan small script amritas.com/140419.htm#041…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 18:10
"Accounts of Khitan Life and Language" babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/accoun… -- did you know that Khitan emperors were reborn every twelve years?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 18:11
Glossary of Khitan words in Chinese transcription babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/accoun…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 21:40
Khitans and golf -- new appendix to "Accounts of Khitan Life and Language" babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/accoun…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 20:18
Ogham practice piece on a slate slab from a monastic school on the isle of Inchmarnock pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/arch…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 19 May 2014 at 22:51
One to ten in cursive Tangut characters babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Cursive… (and you thought Chinese cursive characters were hard enough)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:54
BabelMap online for Unicode 7.0 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:55
BabelMap Online en français (beta)babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:57
Unicode 7.0 Slide Show -- 112,956 characters in 249 blocks covering 123 scripts in 188 minutes babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/unicod…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 16 June 2014 at 23:10
BabelMap version 7.0.0.0 supporting #Unicode7 has now been released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 16 June 2014 at 23:18
BabelMap 7.0.0.0 supports IDS version 2014-05-16, includes 3.5K additional Cantonese readings, and supports ctrl+clicking on a character
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 16 June 2014 at 23:20
BabelPad for #unicode7 is planned for release by the end of this month.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 16 June 2014 at 23:49
Charting the inexorable rise of Unicode from 7,000 characters in 1991 to 113,000 today babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2005/11/how-ma…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 17:41
Gradation in Chinese and Tangut by Marc Miyake amritas.com/140621.htm#062…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 20:00
Man explains how he carved SKRAYLINGÆ in runes on the Narragansett Runestone as a 13 year old boy in 1964 stonewings.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/a-p…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 22 June 2014 at 16:04
"The Avengers: Age Of Ultron" (code name "After Party") filming at the Bourne Wood from June 16 to July 19 (nothing much to see yet)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 4 July 2014 at 23:13
My Liangshan Yi (Nuosu) Transliteration Converter now available online as a javascript tool babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/yi.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 July 2014 at 23:03
New javascript tool converts text to bold, italic, sans-serif, fraktur, double-struck, monospace Unicode characters babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/text.h…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 July 2014 at 23:12
𝕁𝕒𝕫𝕫 𝕦𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝕋𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝕊𝕥𝕪𝕝𝕖𝕣 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/text.h…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 July 2014 at 09:05
Unicode Text Styler now improved to allow application of style only to selected text.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 July 2014 at 15:06
Confusing statement that "planned date of publication is October 15, 2014" unicode.org/versions/Unico… when Unicode 7.0 was released on 16 June
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 July 2014 at 15:16
My tweets "translated from Slovak by Bing" -- yet another reason why I never use Bing.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 7 July 2014 at 23:25
The unauthorised history of four Unicode characters (࿕࿖࿗࿘) that will probably render as little square boxes for you babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/when-i…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 20:24
Swastikas in the Marchen and Nüshu scripts babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/when-i…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 18:22
Copies of my 1996 book 《三國演義版本考》 are still available for purchase directly from me babelstone.co.uk/Publications/B…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 20:48
ISO/IEC 10646:2014 has passed its final ISO ballot and will be published shortly std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d… (=> next version of Unicode in 2015)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 21:00
7,565 new characters in ISO/IEC 10646:2014 including Old Hungarian and CJK-E will be in Unicode next year std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 11 July 2014 at 21:52
Unicode 7.0 page has now been amended to clarify that it was released June 16 unicode.org/versions/Unico… -- thanks @unicode
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 11 July 2014 at 22:00
David Helliwell on the recent Proscholium Exhibition at the Bodleian about the Chinese Imperial Examination System oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/pro…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 15:47
How to enter and use Emoji on Windows 8.1 hanselman.com/blog/HowToEnte… -- use BabelMap says @shanselman
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 20:02
New symbol for the Georgian national currency
en.trend.az/regions/scauca… (coming to Unicode soon).
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 17:14
89 Noto Sans fonts at the click of a button google.com/get/noto/#/ including Mongolian, Phags-pa, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Linear B, Old Turkic
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 21:51
BabelMap v.7.0.0.1 -- minor update that better copes with font families such as Source Sans Han with multiple weights but different names
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 18 July 2014 at 22:05
PhD studentship sorting and cataloguing the British Library Tangut Manuscripts? bl.uk/aboutus/higher… -- if only I was 30 years younger!
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 20 July 2014 at 08:14
Mysteries of medieval graffiti in England's churches bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 17:32
A leaf from a medieval manuscript in an unknown script, in red, blue, and black ink, possibly liturgical in nature bl.uk/manuscripts/Vi…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 17:57
A stellar set of manicules by Cade Cran losttype.com/blog/2014/07/2… Unicode has 👌🖖🖔🖕 etc., but what about gun hand, flat hands and Chinese "six"?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 21:01
T.I. Yusupova, "P.K. Kozlov's Mongolia and Sichuan Expedition (1907-1909): the Discovery of Khara-Khoto" orientalstudies.ru/rus/images/pdf…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 21:02
E.I. Kychanov, "The Tangut Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts: History and Study" orientalstudies.ru/rus/images/pdf…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 25 July 2014 at 17:33
"Sic inter schachos Alphinus inutilis extat, Inter aves bubo" oed.com/view/Entry/4901 -- can someone explain why the eagle owl is so useless?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 18:15
Model Answers for the Chinese Imperial exams, acquired by Thomas Bodley in the early 17th century, by David Helliwell oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/mod…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 18:19
David Helliwell's list of Chinese books in European collections in the 17th century bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/djh/17th…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:34
#BabelPad 7.0.0.0 finally released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel… -- supports #Unicode 7.0, and has the following new features ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:38
#babelpad Converts Webdings/Wingdings symbol font characters to corresponding Unicode characters, e.g. Webdings "m" ⇒ U+1F574 🕴
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:38
#babelpad Converts between plain characters and math alphanumeric styled characters, e.g. BabelPad ⇒ 𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖊𝖑𝕻𝖆𝖉 ⇒ 𝓑𝓪𝓫𝓮𝓵𝓟𝓪𝓭 ⇒ BabelPad
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:39
#babelpad Converts between Perl escape sequences and Unicode characters, e.g. ☕ ⇒ \\x{2615} ⇒ ☕
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:41
#babelpad Improved line breaking behaviour, based on (but not conforming to) UAX #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm unicode.org/reports/tr14/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:41
#babelpad Option to customize normalization for Hebrew (see sbl-site.org/Fonts/SBLHebre… for explanation of issues)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:42
#babelpad Option to customize normalization for Tibetan (see thlib.org/tools/scripts/… for explanation of issues)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:42
#babelpad Ctrl+backspace after a precomposed character removes its last combining mark, e.g. ṓ ⇒ ō ⇒ o, 각 ⇒ 가 ⇒ ᄀ
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:43
#babelpad Shift+backspace after an extended grapheme cluster deletes the entire grapheme cluster, e.g. ṓ (3 chars), རྒྱུ (4 chars)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:43
#babelpad Shift+delete in front of an extended grapheme cluster deletes the entire grapheme cluster, e.g. 각 (3 chars), 🇬🇧 (2 chars)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 09:07
Newly discovered Pictish symbol stone at Dandaleith aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/moray/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 12:53
Variation selectors lead a way towards racially diverse #unicode #emoji 👉 unicode.org/L2/L2014/14173…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 13:07
Potential #emoji additions unicode.org/L2/L2014/14174… (including taco and hot dog by popular demand)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 18 August 2014 at 20:14
Icon set for The State Alcohol and Tobacco Company of Iceland (ÁTVR) behance.net/gallery/157628…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 11:51
US Copyright Office "will not register works produced by animals [e.g.] A photograph taken by a monkey" copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/… #monkeyselfie
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 August 2014 at 19:19
Thinking of quitting Twitter in futile protest at searches for "babelstone" now returning "Showing results for babelstore"
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 23 August 2014 at 20:46
Survey of Free and Commercial 3rd Party Chinese Fonts pinyinjoe.com/pinyin/pinyin_… (BabelStone Han will never cover all CJK characters ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 23 August 2014 at 20:47
... but is only 277 characters away from complete coverage of the main CJK block and the next release)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 22:16
96 Google Noto fonts google.com/get/noto/#/ gives 57% Unicode 7.0 coverage (64,431 out of 113,021 characters) ... and 91.5% non-CJK coverage
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 22:33
Oops, "Noto Sans Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform" font name is too long for Windows' self-imposed 32 byte font name buffer
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:13
BabelMap version 7.0.0.3 released -- now supports pref. font family/subfamily; new Fonts Overview tool (groups.google.com/d/msg/babelsto… for details)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:19
BabelPad version 7.0.0.1 released -- major changes, with bug fixes, enhancements and new features (see groups.google.com/d/msg/babelsto… for details)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:24
Enumerating fonts by preferred family and subfamily in latest versions of #BabelMap and #BabelPad
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:27
New Fonts Overview tool in #BabelMap and #BabelPad provides summary info for all enumerated T/T and O/T fonts
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:48
Latest version of #BabelPad allows user-defined highlighting of arbitrary text strings
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:53
Latest version of #BabelPad also allows quick highlighting by selecting text, right-clicking and choosing "Highlight"
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 00:34
BabelStone Han v. 7.0.0 released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html -- 1,357 new CJK chars (CJK 819, CJK-A 129, CJK-B 263, CJK-C 146) + 68 PUA
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 00:37
It's taken me 5 years but BabelStone Han finally has complete coverage of the main CJK block babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 00:40
BabelStone Han covers 33% of all encoded CJK unified ideographs babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 00:43
Over the last 5 years I've added over 10,000 CJK glyphs to BabelStone Han, with an average time of 5 mins. per glyph babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 10:29
Tangut is hard, Tangut glyphs are hard std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 11:29
Just added the first new character to my new working draft of BabelStone Han: U+203F9 𠏹 ほとけ "Buddha"
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 6 September 2014 at 17:54
Study of the "Manuscript Codex Written in the Khitan Large Script" by Viacheslav Zaytsev orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 8 September 2014 at 11:14
Shang or Zhou dynasty bronze sword found in a river in Jiangsu bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-new…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 8 September 2014 at 18:31
Arrived today, Sofronov's 1968 "Grammar of the Tangut Language" (М. В. Софронов, Грамматика тангутского языка).
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 8 September 2014 at 18:56
Also arrived today, Nevsky's monumental 1960 "Tangut Philology" (Н. А. Невский, Тангутская филология) ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 8 September 2014 at 18:59
... published posthumously 23 years after Nevsky was cruelly murdered by the NKVD during the Great Purge of 1937 (himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pd…)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 19:23
ISO/IEC 10646: 2014 (4th ed.) has now been published (although not yet available for free download) isotc.iso.org/livelink/livel… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 19:28
... ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…) plus Amendment 1 (std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…) will correspond to Unicode 8.0 in summer 2015 ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 19:35
... ISO/IEC 10646:2014 incorporates CJK Extension E, so I guess it is legitimate to release CJK-E fonts now; the question is, ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 19:36
... should I release a first draft of my CJK-E font now (with 620 chars done) or wait until I have finished the next 2,235 chars on my list?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:21
Recipe for displaying colour fonts on Windows 7 (main ingredients @highlogic FontCreator and latest version of Firefox) ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:23
1) Take a handful of #Unicode Regional Indicator characters and mix into an html page @highlogic
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:27
2) Use @highlogic FontCreator to bake up a mixture of multicolour flag glyphs;
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:29
3) Sprinkle in some OpenType magic using the @highlogic FontCreator OpenType Layout Features Editor;
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:32
4) Serve in the latest version of the #Firefox browser (running on Windows 7 in my case) [my thanks to @highlogic]
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:38
Notes on my BabelStone Flags font: 1) Yes, I am deliberately contravening the #Unicode rules for the use of Regional Indicator characters;
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:39
Notes on my BabelStone Flags font: 2) No, there is no flag for Northern Ireland, as Northern Ireland does not have an official flag.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 21:26
BabelStone Flags test page using WOFF font babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/FlagsTes… (try it in latest version of Firefox)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 09:20
Arrived today, Kychanov's 1966 "Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation" (Китайская классика в тангутском переводе)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 09:23
ex libris Johannes Rahder (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_…), prof. of Japanese at Yale University from 1947 until 1965 ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 09:26
...I once shared the same address as stamped on this book. It would be funny if his office in HGS was the same one I occupied 30 years later
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 15 September 2014 at 18:43
天子千秋萬歲常樂未央 -- a mysterious Chinese-style palace thousands of miles from home in Siberia siberiantimes.com/science/casest…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 15 September 2014 at 20:22
"Unicode version of Tulu script released" thehindu.com/news/national/… -- surely some some mistake ! (preliminary proposal std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 18:03
Arrived today, the crucial 1969 edition of the "Sea of Characters" (Море письмен), a Tangut rime dictionary.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 21:47
《三国演义》解释苏格兰独立公投： ＂天下大势，分久必合，合久必分＂ ... 问题是三百年还算久吗？ #indyref #sanguoyanyi
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 12:10
Photographs of the Cultural Revolution by Li Zhensheng 李振盛, official photographer of the Red Guard photographyofchina.com/blog/li-zhensh…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 12:13
Photographs of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the Shanghai Commercial Press 1909-1915 by Francis E. Stafford searchworks.stanford.edu/view/th998nk07…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 17:39
ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (which includes CJK-E and other Unicode 8.0 additions) is now available for free download standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyA…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 26 September 2014 at 10:37
吉林「春捺缽」遺址：大陸最大遊牧民族漁獵遺址 chinatimes.com/realtimenews/2…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 13:46
Maps attributed to Marco Polo sketch what looks like the coast of Alaska smithsonianmag.com/history/did-ma…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 04:07
At the WG2 meeting in Colombo Sri Lanka all this week, plenty of interesting stuff on the agenda std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 04:09
... Tangut, Tangut radicals, Khitan Large, Nüshu, Naxi Dongba, Shuishu, Small seal script, and controversial emoji skin tone characters
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 05:20
Unicode's skin tone modifier symbols proposal for emoji std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 05:22
Alternate proposal for Tone Modifier Symbols for Emoji
from Japanese experts std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 05:24
Alternate proposal for Portrait Symbols instead of skin tone modifier symbols from @Evertype std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 07:52
Final Tangut radicals proposal std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 11:10
Tangut glyph corrections revised and expanded std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 October 2014 at 06:02
Unicode 9.0 (June 2016) will be huge -- currently includes CJK-F, Nüshu, Tangut + radicals, Marchen, Bhaiksuki, Zanabazar Square ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 October 2014 at 06:03
... at 11,630 characters Unicode 9.0 will have the largest number of new characters since CJK-B was added to Unicode 3.1 in 2001
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 October 2014 at 08:31
After 7 years and 35 documents totalling 250 megabytes the Tangut script is getting close to being encoded babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutD…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 16:21
Just arrived back from Colombo WG2 meeting; next year Matsue in Japan; and hopefully St Petersburg in Russia in 2016 std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 16:30
After 25 years as WG2 convener Mike Ksar hands his gavel over to Michel Suignard on last day of Colombo WG2 meeting std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 17:27
111 "Afroji" (Afrocentric #emoji symbols) proposed for encoding unicode.org/L2/L2014/14229… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 17:29
... all I can say is that there was unanimous agreement among WG2 experts this week never to encode any more realistic human symbols #emoji
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 6 October 2014 at 19:56
EAP550: Preservation of Yao manuscripts from South Yunnan (eap.bl.uk/database/overv…) via @bl_eap
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 6 October 2014 at 22:25
Presentation by SC2 chair to Mike Ksar on retiring from being WG2 convener after 25 years std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D… … (photo by @evertype)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 7 October 2014 at 20:58
Draft additional repertoire of 11,630 characters for ISO/IEC 10646:2014 Amd.2 (will correspond to #Unicode 9.0) std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 10 October 2014 at 22:13
Three volumes of the Yongle Dadian now on display at the British Museum britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-afri… via @BLAsia_Africa
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 11 October 2014 at 12:13
Tongyin Lookup Tool -- lookup Tangut characters in four editions of the 'Tongyin' ('Homophones') babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Tongyin…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 12 October 2014 at 20:37
Did you know #babelmap and #babelpad have a secret stealth mode that does not read/write the registry? - simply run with "-clean" parameter
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 21:40
ISO/IEC 10646:2014 PDAM 2.2 now open for 3-month ballot (CJK-F, Marchen, Nüshu, Tangut, Zanabazar, etc.) isotc.iso.org/livelink/livel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:30
"Proposal on Encoding Khitan Large Script" (395 pages) unicode.org/L2/L2014/14234… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:31
... preliminary review of "Proposal on Encoding Khitan Large Script" by Andrew West and Viacheslav Zaytsev unicode.org/L2/L2014/14233…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:36
Proposal to encode Tangut radicals (238 pages) by Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Sun Bojun and Michael Everson unicode.org/L2/L2014/14228…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:52
"Tangut glyph corrections" (2nd revision) by Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Sun Bojun and Michael Everson unicode.org/L2/L2014/14209…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 17 October 2014 at 18:05
BBC Genome Project -- BBC radio and television listings from 1923 to 2009 genome.ch.bbc.co.uk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 13:21
"Recommendations to UTC from Script Meeting in Nepal" unicode.org/L2/L2014/14253…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 17:58
"How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it" bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-… ... sadly no mention of Unicode babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/when-i…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 19:34
"Response to the Recommendation for Nepalese Scripts" by @anshumanpandey_ unicode.org/L2/L2014/14258… -- well-reasoned and convincing points
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 24 October 2014 at 11:26
Egyptian Philae obelisk revealed anew using Reflectance Transformation Imaging bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 24 October 2014 at 11:27
... Reflectance Transformation Imaging so needs to be applied to the corpus of Khitan large script and Khitan small script inscriptions
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 24 October 2014 at 17:43
"Grave robbery is endemic across China ... in 2012 as many as 100,000 people across the country were involved" mongolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.nl/2014/10/1300-r…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 24 October 2014 at 17:46
"We used to say nine out of 10 tombs were empty because of tomb-raiding, but now it has become 9.5 out of 10" mongolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.nl/2014/10/1300-r…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 24 October 2014 at 19:33
Just noticed that the Tang dynasty inventory of Buddhist texts 開元釋教錄 (Taishō #2154) lists 6 copies of itself cbeta.org/result/T55/T55…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 27 October 2014 at 18:24
Unicode roadmap for the TIP (Plane 3) updated -- Small Seal Script moved to the top and so-called "bronze script" out unicode.org/roadmaps/tip/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 27 October 2014 at 18:47
Unicode roadmap for the SMP (Plane 1) updated -- 15,888 code points still completely free unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 18:50
"The story of the Chinese [porcelain] seals found in Ireland [during the 19th century]" by Imre Galambos shahon.org/2011/06/chines…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 19:03
Imre Galambos on last month's Tangut workshop at Cambridge University shahon.org/2014/10/tangut… with @sam_vanschaik & me
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 6 November 2014 at 19:24
New CJK swastika character to be included in CJK-F babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/when-i… (that's 3 swastika-derived characters scheduled for Unicode 9.0)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 20:04
Coming to Unicode soon? EMOJI MODIFIER BRISTOL STOOL TYPE-1 thru 7 for U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO 💩 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_s… (h/t Karl Williamson)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 22:16
Double-printed pages of a woodblock edition of the Tangut translation of the Flower Garland Sutra (ch.45)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 22:24
Stupa and flower interlinear decoration in a woodblock edition of the Tangut translation of the Flower Garland Sutra
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 22:33
More stupas in a woodblock edition of the Tangut translation of the Buddha Names Sutra
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 23:13
Siddham seed syllable hūṃ 𑖮𑖳𑖼 in a woodblock edition of a Tangut Buddhist text
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 23:15
Siddham seed syllable oṃ 𑖌𑖼 in a woodblock edition of a Tangut Buddhist text
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 23:48
Vajras ࿅ on the loose in a woodblock edition of a Tangut Buddhist text
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 9 November 2014 at 13:44
Some examples of incidental decoration in Tangut woodblock printed texts babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutD…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 10 November 2014 at 20:09
BabelStone Han font now has a Tangut stupa symbol in its PUA -- many thanks to Chris Fynn
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 15:21
Received today, Kychanov's "Catalogue of Tangut Buddhist Monuments at the IOS of RAS" (1999) -- more on this soon!
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 17:35
Tangut manuscript with three ducks (?) (and swastika) added in at a later date eap.bl.uk/database/overv… (image #3)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 16 November 2014 at 11:17
Marc Miyake asks whether Tangut comets are beautiful brooms? amritas.com/141115.htm#111…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 18 November 2014 at 20:38
Taco Bell petitions @Unicode to ensure Taco emoji is added to Unicode 8.0 change.org/p/unicode-cons… -- how did character encoding go so wrong?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 18:18
Public feedback on #emoji skin tone modifiers unicode.org/review/pri286/ -- if you have views on the subject why not make your voice heard too?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 18:33
"skin-tone modifier characters are unnecessarily politically correct, possibly racist, and out of scope for plain-text encoding"— @DougEwell
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 18:42
Unicode also soliciting feedback on 36 of the 37 Unicode 8.0 #emoji candidates unicode-inc.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/new-em… (no feedback on taco emoji required)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 22 November 2014 at 11:33
Unicode enforces religious harmony by proposing to encode Mosque and Synagogue symbols on adjacent codepoints (next to Dove of Peace 🕊).
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 22 November 2014 at 20:02
Unicode trivia quiz: what are the only two Unicode characters which have palindromic character names?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 18:56
Winged immortal with enormous ears riding a dragon from a W. Han tomb mural in Chang'an babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/lost-g…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 20:19
铜骰…分别错出篆书或隶书“一”至“十六”以及“酒来”和“娇”字。“一、三、七、十、娇、酒来”等六面为嵌金地错银一周，另十二面为嵌银地错金一周。在各面空隙间用金丝错出三角卷云纹，中心镶嵌绿松石或红玛瑙。—《满城汉墓发掘报告》图一八三
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 09:23
Eastern Han mural of Liubo players coloured with "Han Blue" and "Han Purple" pigments babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/lost-g…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 11:21
Just added one more Han dynasty stone picture of Liubo players to my Liubo blog series babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/lost-g…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 15:47
Just added three more recentish discoveries of Liubo boards and game pieces to my Liubo blog series babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2011/01/l…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 15:50
I've just updated my Google map of Liubo sites (red = boards, blue = picture stones) google.com/maps/d/viewer?…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 18:28
Decoding the week's news in Unicode emoji bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30253… by @BBCNewsbeat
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 12:11
#whiskyemoji submission to Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2014/14298… — but will it end up as WHISKY GLASS or as a generic TUMBLER WITH ICED DRINK?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 12:40
Marc Miyake on Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1922-2013) amritas.com/141206.htm#120…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:54
David Helliwell discusses the great Yongle Dadian 永樂大典 oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/yon… @bodleianlibs
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:56
David Helliwell's catalogue of Yongle Dadian 永樂大典 holdings in Europe bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/djh/seri…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:19
Princeton Conference on Dunhuang manuscripts orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 12:18
What Is This Symbol? by @TranslatorTools — learn how to identify any Unicode symbol that you may encounter translatortools.net/articles/whati…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 21:32
In 1909 Pyotr Kozlov buried 50 or so Tangut sculptures outside walls of Kharakhoto, but when he returned in 1926 he could not find them ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 21:37
... because at least some of them were found by Langdon Warner in 1923, and are now in the Fogg Museum at Harvard University ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 21:39
... this head harvardartmuseums.org/collections/ob… was photographed by Kozlov in 1909 when it was still attached to its body
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 12 December 2014 at 19:32
Contribution préliminaire à l'étude de l'écriture et de la langue si-hia (1904) par M. Morisse gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 12 December 2014 at 20:01
6 vols. of the Tangut Lotus Sutra found in a heap by the White Stupa of Miaoying Temple in 1900 during the chaos of the Boxer Rebellion
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 14:24
Should a Tangut character reflect how it is drawn in Tangut sources or how modern scholars think it should be drawn? unicode.org/L2/L2014/14301…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 17:26
Fragment of a 12th century Tangut - Old Cornish glossary covering birds and beasts.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 18 December 2014 at 18:56
Rubbing of Liangzhou Stele Tangut inscription of 1094 in Devéria's 1898 "L'Écriture du Royaume de Si-Hia ou Tangout"
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 13:09
番國寶錢 -- a new type of Western Xia coin or a new type of fake? zeno.ru/showphoto.php?…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 13:54
2 pieces reportedly found in Ningxia bbs.chcoin.com/show-7777853-1… but I have learned to be sceptical about the world of Chinese coin collecting
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 15:08
Decorating the stupa — illustration of Tangut stupa in Tangut edition of "Maitreya's Ascension to the Tuṣita Heaven"
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