BabelStone Twitter Archive : 2014

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…

February

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…

March

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…

April

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…

May

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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)

June

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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)

July

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…

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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…

August

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"

September

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…

October

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

November

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

December

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