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Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 14:18
Somehow I missed the most important Tangut discovery of 2014, a Yuan gravestone with Chinese & Tangut inscriptions epaper.yzdsb.com.cn/201404/04/4976…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 14:23
Tangut experts (a few familiar faces) gathered around the Tangut-Chinese gravestone discovered in Hebei last year
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 14:29
The Chinese side of the Yuan dynasty Tangut-Chinese gravestone discovered at Daming in Hebei
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 16:57
The text of the Tangut side of Chinese-Tangut gravestone from Daming (= Chinese 小李統軍、大田氏、夫兒、阿母)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 16:59
Actually found in September 2013, but the photographs were taken in March 2014. The Chinese inscription dates it to 1278.
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Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 17:28
The 8th and 9th characters are transliteration characters for Chinese 'fu' and 'er', translated oddly as "夫也" in Chinese articles ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 17:30
... I think that they perhaps transliterate a Chinese female name 福兒 Fú'ér "Fortune".
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Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 17:47
Location of Tangut, Jurchen and Khitan inscriptions google.com/maps/d/viewer?… — the southernmost blue tag is the Chinese-Tangut gravestone ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 18:02
... and therefore the most southerly discovery of Tangut writing to date.
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Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 20:08
2,200+ year old dried fish found in Warring States period Chu tomb in Hubei mongolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.nl/2015/01/ancien…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 02:18
Two Tangut Families in Yuan China Part 1 babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/two-ta…
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Friday, 23 January 2015 at 21:10
Accumulated Feedback on Unicode Public Review Issue #286 "Unicode Emoji" unicode.org/review/pri286/ -- you have until Monday to add your voice.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 19:04
The development of the Unicode Standard (and #emoji) is not just controlled by Unicode Consortium, but depends on the ISO ballot process ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 19:05
... ballot comments by China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, UK and USA on the repertoire for Unicode 8.0 and 9.0 unicode.org/L2/L2015/15020…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 30 January 2015 at 00:42
Two Tangut Families Part 2 babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/two-ta… -- annotated translation and study of the Chinese-Tangut stele unearthed in Daming in 2013
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 30 January 2015 at 12:12
Recommended disposition of #emoji feedback to Unicode Consortium by @mark_e_davis unicode.org/L2/L2015/15032…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 30 January 2015 at 19:09
Is this the solution to representing arbitrary #emoji combinations of people and things using Unicode characters? unicode.org/L2/L2015/15029…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 30 January 2015 at 19:20
Multiracial family #emoji in Unicode? <WOMAN + EMOJI MODIFIER TYPE-1-2 + ZWJ + BOY + EMT-3 + ZWJ + GIRL + EMT-1-2 + ZWJ + MAN + EMT-4> !!!
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 19:22
BabelStone Han v. 7.0.1 released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html — includes 703 new Han ideographs: +156 CJK-A, +392 CJK-B, +155 CJK-C characters
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 2 February 2015 at 12:59
WG2 site (std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/) now defunct; all new WG2 docs at isotc.iso.org/livelink/livel… but invisible & password protected w/o login :(
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 2 February 2015 at 13:32
WG2 membership is also secret, but currently 53 committee members: AT 1, CA 2, GB 1, IE 1, IN 1, JP 17, LK 6, NO 1, RU 1, and US 22 !
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 2 February 2015 at 14:03
Why is WG2 changing web site and now only meeting once a year? All in response to JTC1 N12032: unicode.org/L2/L2014/14206…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 2 February 2015 at 18:22
Marc Miyake's Tangut Phonetic Database Version 1.0 amritas.com/150207.htm gives simple & complex transcriptions for 6,074 Tangut characters
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 10:09
ISO/IEC 10646:2014 PDAM 2.3 now available isotc.iso.org/livelink/livel… (public download) — CJK-F, Nüshu and Zanabazar Square out; Taco et al. in
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 16:51
Baoding, the most polluted city in China in 2014 bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 16:53
... but luckily not when I visited in December 2014 to see its famous Tangut dharani pillars babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/ancien…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 17:27
"The complex Chinese language requires the use of both parts of the brain, while English only uses one side" bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-new… Noooooo!
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Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 17:31
"Mandarin is a notoriously difficult language to learn" news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/30… ... really ?! ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 3 February 2015 at 17:39
Must be all those conjugations, declensions, grammatical gender & irregular verbs that Mandarin does not have that makes it so hard to learn
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Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 19:06
འཇོར་ཇི་ཨོར་ཝེལ་གྱིས་བརྩམས་པའི་《གཅིག་དགུ་གྱ་བཞི》ཞེས་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཚེ་བརྟན་གྱིས་བོད་ཡིག་ཏུ་བསྒྱུར་ནས་པར་སྐྲུན་བྱས་ཡོད་པ། tibetcm.com/news/2015-02-0…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 19:25
George Orwell's "1984" translated into Tibetan by Dorje Tseten has recently been published by the Gansu People's Publishing House
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 19:56
Mummified monk recently discovered in Mongolia is not necessarily dead bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
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Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 20:57
Thou shalt not desyre thy neighbours house, his wyfe, his seruaunt, ... *wrongfully or vniustly* notes Henry VIII twitter.com/RareBooksOfBod…
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Saturday, 7 February 2015 at 05:40
Genghis Khan and Tangut by @Jakujin amgalant.com/genghis-khan-a…
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Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 21:16
In 1985 I spent 10 days travelling by truck from Chengdu to Lhasa, celebrating Losar at Chamdo this day 30 years ago
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 21:51
Now uploaded to Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Losa… -- one day I'll get round to digitising all my photos from that trip
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 00:17
Tangut writing practice piece from Kharakhoto with five characters repeated multiple times idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo… ...
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Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 00:21
Today I suddenly realised the characters are copied from the preface to the "Grains of Gold in the Palm of your Hand"
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Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 00:30
Tang dynasty stone figurines of dragon, snake, sheep & chicken commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ston… @BLAsia_Africa #ChineseNewYear
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 23:40
My annual reminder to everyone of what today's date in Tangut is babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Tangu…
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Friday, 20 February 2015 at 20:26
I'm waiting until the afternoon of 18th July 2015 to celebrate the Year of the Goat babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Manch…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 21 February 2015 at 22:58
United States Geological Survey set of fossil symbols -- symbols that would actually be useful to encode in Unicode ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geols…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 20:59
Duang ! BabelStone Han PUA version 1.007 released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 21:06
"The sinographic form of "duang" doesn't yet exist in any electronic font" -- Victor Mair @LanguageLog -- now it does babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 16 March 2015 at 19:39
Babelstone's Dissection of Khitan 'succession' amritas.com/150321.htm#031… raises more questions than it answers
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 13:12
Somebody asked me where they could find a list of Tangut place names -- babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-frag… is the answer
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 19:48
Recommendations for emoji glyph changes in Unicode charts unicode.org/review/pri294/… ...
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 19:50
... No to adding eyes to U+1F4A9 Pile of Poo @Evertype ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 19:53
... and definitely No to changing glyph for U+1F3B1 Billiards to an "8 ball" as that narrows scope down to a particular American game
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 22:09
Reluctantly and incompletely I ask What's New in Unicode 8.0 ? babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/whats-… (post to be completed tomorrow)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:01
I conclude my story of Unicode 8.0 with a long rant about emoji babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/whats-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:34
What's new in Unicode 8.0? -- It's the Taco Stupid! babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/whats-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 April 2015 at 20:20
Liao dynasty clay coins with Khitan Large Script 天朝萬順 inscription bbs.chcoin.com/show-7330804.h…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 April 2015 at 20:23
Finding Phadampa in Bhutan tibeto-logic.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/findin…
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Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 09:43
For context please read Gary Ashkenazy's @primaltrek blog post on Chinese Burial Money primaltrek.com/blog/2015/03/2…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 00:03
New version of "BabelStone Han PUA" released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html with 398 additional unencoded CJK characters, including ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 00:07
... 68 Oracle Bone script transcription characters and 194 Chu script transcription characters (latter for typesetting a forthcoming book)
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Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 15:49
"Buried Ideas — Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts" by Sarah Allan sunypress.edu/p-6111-buried-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 16:23
Only 199 characters left to make before BabelStone Han version 7.0.3 is ready for release; then version 8.0.0 will be released in May
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Monday, 13 April 2015 at 18:54
"The Berries" — field name evidence for the Viking-age fortification of Eashing Burh surreymedieval.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/wil… via @SurreyMedieval
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 19:30
BabelStone Han v. 7.0.2 released — 921 additional CJK characters (66 CJK-A, 212 CJK-B and 643 CJK-C) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 19:35
BabelStone Han font now covers all G-source characters in CJK Extension C (c. 1,000 CJK-E characters in next version) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 20 April 2015 at 19:30
"大般若[波羅蜜多]經第十二卷" — title slip from a copy of the Tangut "Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra" idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 00:54
Tangut Manuscript Miscellanea—the Mahāyāna śatadharmā-prakāśamukha śāstra (大乘百法明門本母) babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/tangut…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 16:30
Waverley Abbey after end of filming for the Huntsman (Snow White & the Huntsman prequel) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wave…
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Monday, 27 April 2015 at 23:23
A Web of Tangut Catalogues babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/web-of…
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 00:13
#Tangut manuscript illustration of a plant ... looking particularly #Voynich manuscriptish
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 22:21
Index of #Tangut texts digitised under the Endangered Archives Project @bl_eap @idp_uk babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/EAP140.…
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 11:46
"Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs" by Bob Richmond unicode.org/L2/L2015/15123… — seems like a good idea to me
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 11:57
Proposal to encode one UNC Chinese character {石示} unicode.org/L2/L2015/15114… — evidence seems sufficient to me @CJKType
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 21:06
The same location after end of filming for "Into the Woods" in September 2013 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Into…
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 at 19:10
Sarah Allan's study of Chu bamboo ms "When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House" 赤{⿰鳥咎}之集湯之屋 journals.cambridge.org/action/display…
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 at 19:12
BabelStone Han PUA v. 1.009 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html includes 5 additional unencoded CJK characters, including ⿰石示 and ⿰鳥咎
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Friday, 1 May 2015 at 22:12
Proposal to add further regional indicator symbols to allow Unicode representation of flags for country subdivisions unicode.org/L2/L2015/15145…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 1 May 2015 at 22:19
As you can tell from this tweet twitter.com/BabelStone/sta… I am very much in favour of this proposal
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 1 May 2015 at 22:40
Font test page (in Firefox) showing English, Scottish and Welsh flags that are currently not representable in Unicode
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 May 2015 at 13:50
A general index of Tangut titles babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutT…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 May 2015 at 11:41
Looking forward to Unicode 9.0, the disposition of comments for PDAM2.3 unicode.org/L2/L2015/15125… are well worth reading (esp. pp.2-3 re IRG)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 May 2015 at 11:56
Code charts for DAM2 (final ISO technical ballot) unicode.org/L2/L2015/15124… showing new repertoire (inc. #Tangut) that will be in Unicode 9.0.
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Thursday, 7 May 2015 at 21:04
BabelMap Online for Unicode 8.0 BETA babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm… (and Unicode 8.0 BETA slide show babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/unicod…)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 7 May 2015 at 21:13
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E with BabelStone Han in BabelMap Online for Unicode 8.0 BETA babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 7 May 2015 at 21:34
No change to glyphs for Billiards, Pile of Poo, Face with Look of Triumph, or Sleepy Face. twitter.com/mark_e_davis/s…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 8 May 2015 at 07:45
Segoe UI Historic for W10 msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/bb688099 covers Brahmi, Carian, Cypriot, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Glagolitic, Gothic, ...
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Friday, 8 May 2015 at 07:46
... Imperial Aramaic, Inscriptional Pahlavi, Inscriptional Parthian, Kharoshthi, Lycian, Lydian, Meroitic Cursive, Phoenician, Ogham, ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 8 May 2015 at 07:46
... Old Italic, Old Persian Cuneiform, Old South Arabian, Orkhon, Runic, Shavian, Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, and Ugaritic Cuneiform. Nice!
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Friday, 8 May 2015 at 11:07
Resurrecting TAG characters to represent sub- and supra-national flags in Unicode ? unicode.org/L2/L2015/15145… — can't help thinking it's not...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 8 May 2015 at 21:36
Latest emoji candidates, including Mother Christmas, Selfie and (appropriately) Face Palm unicode.org/L2/L2015/15054…
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Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 19:25
Tibetan shorthand contractions བསྐུངས་ཡིག babelstone.co.uk/Tibetan/Contra… — newly revised, corrected and expanded
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 21:18
劉鳳翥編著《契丹文字研究类编》：汇集契丹文字研究最新成果 stv.cssn.cn/index.php?opti…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 11 May 2015 at 19:25
Unicode 8.0 implementation notes: remember that Cherokee case-folds to UPPERCASE (all other bicameral scripts case-fold to lowercase)
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Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 11:40
Will Coleman on Plen an Gwari, the Playing Places of Cornwall oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-05-1…
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Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 13:19
Unicode 8.0 implementation notes (2): New Tai Lue is not old New Tai Lue (encoding model for NTL changed so many NTL char props changed)
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Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 13:20
Unicode 8.0 implementation notes (3): 5 variation sequences for Manichaean are first script-specific var seqs since Phags-pa in Unicode 5.0
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Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 13:22
Unicode 8.0 implementation notes (4): Indic_Matra_Category property out, Indic_Positional_Category property in unicode.org/reports/tr44/t…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 21:42
BabelMap beta for Unicode 8.0 available now babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
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Friday, 15 May 2015 at 18:46
Ask the Emojic 8 Ball xkcd.com/1525/ — those are actual Unicode text emoji characters in the ball not drawings
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 16 May 2015 at 21:01
BabelPad beta for Unicode 8.0 available now babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 18 May 2015 at 21:38
Unicode 8.0 implementation notes (5): Tag chars U+E0020..U+E007E are no longer deprecated (but E0001 & E007F remain deprecated)
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Friday, 22 May 2015 at 11:26
BBC announce the coming of 38 new #emoji to #Unicode 9.0 next year bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic… ... no mention of #Tangut I'm sorry to say
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 May 2015 at 11:29
Shame they don't need a cataloguer for the Tangut project twitter.com/idp_uk/status/…
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Monday, 25 May 2015 at 22:06
#Tangut "Heaven" idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…
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Monday, 25 May 2015 at 23:01
Namo Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva 南無虛空藏菩薩 idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo… #Tangut
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Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 20:04
Noticed amongst the latest batch of Tangut fragments from @idp_uk : 《新集藏經音義隨函錄》 idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…
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Friday, 29 May 2015 at 19:44
David Helliwell continues his series of posts on the Yongle Dadian oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/yon…
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Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 00:38
Tangut Manuscript Miscellanea 2: Grains of Gold babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/tangut…
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Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 10:34
"A mosque & a synagogue, side by side, only in Yazd, city of Zoroastrians!" twitter.com/Iran_Style/sta… And in #Unicode!
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Monday, 1 June 2015 at 08:21
ISO/IEC 10646 5th ed. CD ballot isotc.iso.org/livelink/livel…, inc. Adlam, Masaram Gondi, Newa, Nüshu, Soyombo, Zanabazar Square, CJK-F & 38 emoji
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Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 12:27
Preliminary proposal to encode Old Sogdian script in #Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2015/15089…
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Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 12:16
Now revised and updated with three additional fragments of #Tangut "Grains of Gold" practice pieces babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/tangut…
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Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 21:41
And on the other side, Vaiśravaṇa the Deva King of the North "北方多聞天王" #Tangut
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Sunday, 14 June 2015 at 13:46
BabelStone Han v. 8.0.0 released — plus 1,642 CJK characters, including 1,125 CJK-E characters for Unicode 8.0 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 17:32
BabelMap v. 8.0.0.1, supporting #Unicode8, has just been released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 17:32
BabelPad v. 8.0.0.1, supporting #Unicode8, has just been released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 17:34
You can now open uninstalled TTF/OTF fonts with BabelMap and BabelPad (i.e. right-click on a font file and open with BabelMap or BabelPad)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 23:24
BabelMap Online for #Unicode8 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…
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Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 23:27
If you've got 201 minutes to spare why not watch the 120,672 characters in #Unicode 8.0 (font support required) babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/unicod…
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Monday, 29 June 2015 at 20:31
Dear #Unicode Consortium "Say Yes to Fun: Vote for a bubble-blowing emoji" change.org/p/unicode-cons… — I can't think of any reason not to ...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 18:55
Dear #Unicode Consortium "is it not time that your average man-with-beard gets represented [as an #emoji]?" change.org/p/the-unicode-… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 19:00
... yes, but not without a bearded lady #emoji as well #ConchitaWurst #Unicode
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Friday, 3 July 2015 at 21:23
Ode to the Tangut Tripitaka Part 1 babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/ode-to… ... in which I start to reconstruct a lost #Tangut odic text.
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Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 11:06
The problem with not encoding traditional forms for #Unicode simplified characters like 𬲱 & 鿕 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuzhou_cu…
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Monday, 13 July 2015 at 10:53
Unique and hitherto unknown "Tangut Dictionary" pmgs.kongfz.com/item_pic_54538… robbed from a tomb (?) and sold for $100K
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Monday, 13 July 2015 at 10:59
Eight more Tangut texts of unknown provenance (i.e. robbed from a tomb or pagoda) in the same November 2014 sale douban.com/note/456762770/
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Monday, 13 July 2015 at 11:35
Higher resolution image at dbpm.cn/auction/sdetai…
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Monday, 13 July 2015 at 21:46
The Baisigou Square Pagoda (拜寺沟方塔) in Ningxia, blown up by treasure hunters in 1990 babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Baisigo…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 13 July 2015 at 21:47
Wikipedia article on the Baisigou Square Pagoda en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baisigou_…
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Friday, 17 July 2015 at 22:07
史金波 "存世最早的文字木雕版——西夏文木雕版" twitter.com/Romain_Tangout…
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Friday, 24 July 2015 at 19:09
Right-to-left mirrored runic text renders correctly with BabelStone A/S runic fonts on Firefox babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/AngloSax…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 17:47
Emojification of #Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs ? unicode.org/L2/L2015/15208… No, just no!
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 18:36
#emoji bible at Reading Museum — "the face of a 🦁 on the right side; and they had the face of an 🐂 on the left side"
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 1 August 2015 at 23:27
Russia could ban same-sex #emoji (#Unicode U+1F46C 👬 and U+1F46D 👭 Two wo/men holding hands) theguardian.com/world/2015/aug…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 1 August 2015 at 23:34
Microsoft is already ahead of the game with its Segoe UI Symbol font (on Windows 7) — conspicuously avoiding 👬 & 👭 !
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 3 August 2015 at 21:28
"Tangut Texts for Sale" babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/tangut… — a prelude to my preliminary analysis of a newly-discovered Tangut text
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 at 22:48
Preliminary Analysis of a Newly-Discovered Tangut Wordbook babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/prelim… #Tangut
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 at 22:54
新發現的西夏文字書初探 babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2015/08/p… #西夏文
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 11:36
Kitan-Language Crash Course to be held by Professor Daniel Kane at Yale University in May 2016 networks.h-net.org/node/22055/dis…
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Sunday, 16 August 2015 at 15:17
BabelPad v.8.0.0.2 released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel… (several enhancements + fixes regression bugs for pinyin conversion and Mongolian NNBSP)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 17 August 2015 at 21:16
"Preliminary Analysis of a Newly-Discovered Tangut Wordbook" now available as a PDF download from independent.academia.edu/AndrewWest/Pap…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 18:20
My "Musical Notation for Flute in Tangut Manuscripts" (2012) now available for download from independent.academia.edu/AndrewWest/Pap…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 11:30
Enhancements: dropdown lists for find/replace dialog; remove blank lines; remove trailing whitespace; option to remove whitespace on save.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 22:52
Tangut "Sea of Characters" 《文海》 lookup tool babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiL… now available, a companion to ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 22:54
... the Tangut "Homophones" 《同音》 lookup tool babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Tongyin… (newly updated and extended to cover British Library fragment)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 31 August 2015 at 09:24
BabelStone Han PUA v.1.11 released, +129 characters, inc.110 for "Sourcebook of Archaic Chinese Bronze Inscriptions" babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 08:51
Does anyone know what script this Kharakhoto ms fragment is? idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo… @idp_uk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 23:23
Revised version of my analysis of a Tangut text babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/prelim… incorporating suggestions from @Romain_Tangoute and @MarcMiyake
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 23:32
Is this the only evidence of a Tangut translation of a lost biography of Qingjue (1043-1121)? babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/prelim…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 14:02
Counting rod numerals (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_…) are found on some Tangut manuscripts, e.g. idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 11:39
BabelStone Han PUA v.1.12 released, +123 characters for oracle bone transcription in Takashima's Concordance babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 12:17
Precious Seals of the Qing Dynasty 故宮信片第五集：清代寶璽 (most with Manchu seal script) babelstone.co.uk/Manchu/Qingdai…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 14 September 2015 at 20:43
BabelStone Han PUA v. 1.13 released, now with simplified form of "biang" at F300 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html @CJKType
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 19 September 2015 at 18:09
Mao badge issued by 计量局 Bureau of Metrology, using 二简字 that is in forthcoming Ext. H submission @CJKType twitter.com/ClintTwist/sta…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 19:43
Recent Advances in Old Chinese Historical Phonology at #SOAS 5 November 2015 soas.ac.uk/south-asia-ins…
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(reply to @ken_lunde)
Monday, 19 October 2015 at 00:31
@ken_lunde @CJKType WG2 meeting starting here at the Kunibiki Messe in Matsue in half an hour, on a hazy morning.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 19 October 2015 at 05:22
New WG2 documents are now mirrored at unicode.org/wg2/docs/ #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 00:12
Nüshu 女书 ad hoc just started, with experts from China, Japan, US, UK and Ireland, expected to last all morning #WG2_64
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Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 02:32
... after nearly two and half hours successfully dealt with 33 UK comments on Nüshu 女书 code chart ... 32 glyph changes and/or moves accepted
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Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 03:10
Nüshu 女书 ad hoc completes successfully, with final repertoire agreed upon, now break for lunch.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 03:29
Group photo with Chinese Nüshu 女书 experts and @Evertype (Prof. Zhao Liming 赵丽明 on my right)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 07:14
CJK Ext. F all afternoon ... long and detailed discussions of some problematic characters: 2D13F unified with 𠦑 and removed #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 23:39
2CEF1 in Ext F may be the Bopomofo letter ㄛ with a dot indicating light tone ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 23:42
... but no-one knows for sure (the dictionary source just tells us it's a phonetic symbol), so we are encoding it as a CJK ideograph anyway!
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 00:31
Japanese presentation on Hentaigana and Hentaigana proposal unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4674… #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 00:21
Chinese presentation on Shui script 水书 in preparation for a forthcoming encoding proposal #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 01:40
Presentation on state of Chinese Small Seal Script 小篆 encoding project #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 02:21
Discussing 2CEF1 now unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4695… #WG2_64 @lianghai
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 02:37
Removing 2CEF1, and encoding a new Bopomofo letter at 312E with the name BOPOMOFO LETTER O WITH DOT #WG2_64 @lianghai @CJKType
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 03:35
Discussed unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4661… — Stupa and Pagoda symbols accepted; #Indalo #Ichthys and #DarwinFish symbols deferred for now #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 06:33
Added 2 Tangut components, removed 1 Tangut ideograph, and moved 2 Tangut ideographs, as recommended in unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4667… ... #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 06:38
... Codepoints for 6,125 Tangut ideographs and 755 Tangut components are now stable, and Tangut will be in #Unicode9 in June 2016 #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 06:52
New Nüshu code chart after reordering 14 characters and correcting glyphs for 20 characters unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4697… #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 07:07
吉祥如意 — #Nüshu 女书 calligraphy by Prof. Zhao Liming 赵丽明, a kind present to me at the end of #WG2_64 meeting in Matsue
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 08:57
Matsue castle 松江城 on an early morning walk #WG2_64
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 09:00
The UTC wants feedback on Ichthys and Darwin Fish characters, so if you have any opinion unicode.org/reporting.html twitter.com/CodepointsNet/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 18:32
BabelStone Han PUA version 1.015 released — plus 1,288 additional unencoded CJK ideographs babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 29 October 2015 at 13:33
"Is 'biang' the hardest Chinese word to write?" bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… @CJKType #biang
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 29 October 2015 at 21:15
"Chinese characters are among the most difficult languages in the world to write and master"—why is the concept of script so hard to master?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 29 October 2015 at 21:19
"The word [biang] holds no meaning", except that it means "kick the bucket", as in (excuse my language) 狗日的这回才biang了 (《都市方言辞典（陕西卷） 》) #biang
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 15:45
Proposal for #Unicode Customized #Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2015/15252… ... a loosely-defined tag-based glyph definition language
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 12:56
BabelStone Han PUA v.1.016 released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html —now covers all characters in pending UTC IRG submission unicode.org/L2/L2015/15223…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 5 November 2015 at 22:21
"Emoji ZWJ Sequences Considered Harmful" unicode.org/L2/L2015/15319… #emoji
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 16:16
Finnish #emoji including Sauna ♂ and ♀, Headbanger and the Unbreakable Nokia 3310 finland.fi/life-society/t…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 18:42
Just received my copy of "Buried Ideas" by Prof. Sarah Allan sunypress.edu/p-6111-buried-… ...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 18:45
... with 166 not yet in Unicode archaic characters typeset using my BabelStone Han PUA font babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 18:48
... these and other characters used to transcribe oracle bone and bamboo texts submitted for encoding as IRGN2107 appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg45…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 21:49
New pages on the as yet unencoded Sani Yi script babelstone.co.uk/Yi/Sani.html #unicode
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 12:25
List of 1,390 unique Sani Yi script characters babelstone.co.uk/Yi/Sani_list.h…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 12:26
Sani Yi font used on my Sani Yi script pages babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/YiScan.h…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 17:35
BabelStone Han v. 8.0.2 released (correcting mistakes in 8.0.1)—over a 1,000 additional CJK-A, B, C and E characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 14:25
Filming Wonder Woman (code name Night[ingale]) at the Bourne Wood in Farnham yesterday
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 19:43
Starting to prepare for Unicode 9.0 and Tangut (June 2016) #Unicode #Tangut #BabelMap
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 December 2015 at 23:12
Workshop on Tangut Studies at Hamburg University on 14 December manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/cal-details/15… —I will be there with @Romain_Tangoute & @MarcMiyake
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 20:27
The KitKat Break #emoji petition to #Unicode Consortium change.org/p/thebreakemoji — an emoji petition too far I think!
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 21:33
In Memoriam Michael Kaplan @michkap unicode.org/consortium/mem… #Unicode
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 12 December 2015 at 01:43
BabelStone Han PUA v. 1.19 released, with 130 additional characters used for Chu script transcription (清华简《系年》) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 14 December 2015 at 22:19
Tomb raiders in China infographic scmp.com/sites/default/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 09:04
Gathering of Tangutologists in Hamburg yesterday manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/cal-details/15… #Tangut
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Friday, 25 December 2015 at 11:08
The nativity story as told in the earliest Chinese version (mid C7th): 天尊當使涼風向一童女，名為末豔。涼風即入末豔腹內。…末豔懷後產一男，名為移鼠。 (cbeta.org/result/T54/T54…)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 26 December 2015 at 22:20
Jin dynasty brocade depicting the Jurchen's annual spring swan hunt twitter.com/metmuseum/stat…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 00:58
BabelStone Han PUA v. 1.20 released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html —141 new characters (mostly dialect use), in total 3,209 non-Unicode characters
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 01:28
BabelStone Han PUA 新版本收3,209非Unicode字，包括“十日九不见，入山见大虫”（lāi dài）两个山西方言用的字 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html (下图是电视剧《打狗棍》的剧照)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 13:48
BabelStone Han v. 8.0.3 released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html —end of year minor update with 233 additional CJK characters and 272 PUA characters
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 14:37
BabelStone Han now supports the 49 secret characters of the "Ninja alphabet" 忍びいろは in 《萬川集海》 babelstone.co.uk/CJK/Images/Ban…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 16:09
Draft documents for a possible future IRG submission babelstone.co.uk/CJK/IRGDraft/ (already includes 359 characters ) @CJKType
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 19:07
Does anyone have a print source showing the character ⿰奚力 and/or ⿰⿱爫夫力 used as a promoted piece in Wa Shōgi 和将棋 (ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A3%9B… ?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 30 December 2015 at 12:13
I don't particularly care for gold and glitter, but I really do hope that his library was buried with him! twitter.com/NEAarchaeology…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 30 December 2015 at 18:02
Draft code charts for ISO/IEC 10646, including 7,485 characters in CJK Ext. F unicode.org/L2/L2015/15339… (expect in #Unicode 10.0 in June 2017)
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