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Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 1 January 2016 at 22:28
What's new in #Unicode 9.0 ? babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/whats-… — Osage, Bhaiksuki, Marchen and Tangut, and maybe a few #emoji
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 1 January 2016 at 23:47
Thanks! Eight years! twitter.com/DopefishJustin…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 21:41
First #Unicode #Tangut font babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/TangutUn… (although it only covers half of the 6,125 Unicode Tangut characters)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 21:44
First #Unicode encoded #Tangut web page (uses web font) babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiU…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 21:40
Alpha builds of BabelPad & BabelMap for Unicode 9.0 are now available babelstone.co.uk/Software/Beta.… for testing Osage, Bhaiksuki, Marchen, Tangut
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 January 2016 at 21:01
There seem to be way more readers of my blog than normal due to interest in #Unicode #Emoji babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/whats-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 21:28
"Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching #Tangut Culture" by Imre Galambos degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/pr… (open access)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 8 January 2016 at 23:46
"A Hanseatic afternoon of pure #Tangut joy" par Xun Gong indosinica.hypotheses.org/63 avec @MarcMiyake
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 22:55
Combined basic data attributes for IRG Working Set 2015 (candidates for #CJK Ext. G) babelstone.co.uk/CJK/IRG2015/ (newly corrected files)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 22:56
UTC 311; UK 1,640; ROK 469; PRC 1,009 + 1,268; SAT 350; TCA 500 = 5,547; minus 54 duplicates = 5,493 characters in #CJK Working Set 2015
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 23:09
See IRGN2091 and IRGN2107 at appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg45… for these characters (IRG Working Set 2015) twitter.com/unicode/status…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 18 January 2016 at 19:57
Kinnara or Kalaviṅka? How can you tell the difference? (silkroadfoundation.org/newsletter/vol… calls it a Kinnara but I'm not sure)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 18 January 2016 at 20:01
Too little too late? twitter.com/TiroTypeworks/…
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Monday, 18 January 2016 at 21:25
Edward Schafer ("The Golden Peaches of Samarkand" p.103) notes that the Kinnara "is really a very different creature" from the Kalaviṅka ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 18 January 2016 at 21:27
... but what exactly is the difference?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 18:37
Japan plans to replace #swastika with #pagoda as symbol for temple in maps for foreigners bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi… #卍
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 18:39
There is no #Unicode pagoda symbol ... so it's a good thing I proposed one for encoding last year, which should be in Unicode 10 next year
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 12:42
I am eager to learn about this "little known nation" (as the BBC blurb puts it) twitter.com/HelenWangLondo…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 12:45
#Emoji proposals for Dumpling, Fortune Cookie, Chopsticks and Chinese Takeout Box now submitted to #Unicode unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 13:00
Condom #emoji proposal submitted to #unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16022… ... why not?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 21:12
Yay! Now we're just one short of a full set ᴀʙᴄᴅᴇꜰɢʜɪᴊᴋʟᴍɴᴏᴘʀꜱᴛᴜᴠᴡʏᴢ ... LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL X next?! twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 21:25
Has anyone got any more examples of #Bopomofo Letter N (not in #Unicode) #cjk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 29 January 2016 at 12:48
Here are hm and hng from the same dictionary 《國語辭典》 using ㆬ for m and ㆭ for ng
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 29 January 2016 at 19:16
3 control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs accepted for #Unicode to enable quadrat format unicode.org/L2/L2016/16018…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 22:59
The origins of Surrey — a mammoth eight-part post by Rob Briggs @SurreyMedieval
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 4 February 2016 at 19:55
Tibeto-Logic discusses the #Tangut connection to #Padampa tibeto-logic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/the-ta…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 4 February 2016 at 22:14
3 painted Japanese inscriptions found on @RISDMuseum's 12th-century Dainichi Nyorai Buddha risdmuseum.org/manual/137_bud…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 09:43
What's New in Unicode 9.0? updated to include Adlam & Newa babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/whats-… — now exactly 7,500 characters scheduled for #Unicode 9.0
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 23:43
Draft proposal to encode four additional #Tangut characters in #Unicode babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Tangut… @JerryYou517
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 19:08
To celebrate the New Year I have converted "Today's Date in #Tangut" to Unicode characters babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Tangu…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 21:52
"New IsiBheqe SoHlamvu script could soon be recognised by the global #Unicode Consortium" mybroadband.co.za/news/science/1…
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Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 21:55
...but I can find no mention of the IsiBheqe SoHlamvu script in the Unicode document registry, let alone an encoding proposal for the script
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 22:00
Learn how to read and write the IsiBheqe SoHlamvu script at isibheqe.org/ingcazo.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 8 February 2016 at 19:52
Right this moment I'm eating dumplings with chopsticks, but I feel absolutely no need to represent my meal with #Unicode #emoji ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 8 February 2016 at 19:53
... but I would really like to wish everyone a Happy New Year in #Unicode #Tangut !!!
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 20:41
See no Emoji, Hear no Emoji, Speak no Emoji ... twitter.com/CJKType/status…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 22:35
18 years ago an agreement on encoding #Mongolian in #Unicode was reached std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/D… ... and today there is still no agreement !
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 4 March 2016 at 19:34
Draft proposal for three #Tangut glyph corrections babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Tangut…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 4 March 2016 at 19:35
Draft proposal for standardized variation sequences for 178 #Tangut ideographs babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Tangut…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 4 March 2016 at 19:38
Draft proposal to encode five additional #Tangut ideographs babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Tangut…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 16:18
BabelStone Han PUA updated with 119 characters used for Hakka Chinese in 19th-century Hong Kong babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 16:21
BabelStone Han v. 8.0.4 released (many glyph corrections and improvements, and 190 additional CJK characters) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 7 March 2016 at 20:30
BabelStone Han PUA updated again, with 8 more Cantonese characters and one Cantonese place name babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 7 March 2016 at 20:33
My draft IRG submission for encoding CJK ideographs now includes 498 characters (and 300-400 in the pipeline) babelstone.co.uk/CJK/IRGDraft/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 19:39
An open letter to Rupa Huq, MP, regarding official Parliamentary videos pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-letter-ru… by @pigsonthewing #Wikipedia
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 14 March 2016 at 22:09
Is there a double lozenge symbol in #Unicode ? @FakeUnicode (from 汉语方言大词典 @ken_lunde)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 14 March 2016 at 23:05
Example of the double lozenge character in use, indicating that the example refers to 2+ preceding dialects
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 21:26
BabelStone Han PUA font in use for displaying unencoded characters in 《成都话方言词典》! twitter.com/mo_nigeria/sta…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 21:35
Latest version of BabelStone Han PUA released today covers 《亳州老君碑》 characters (PUA in red) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 21 March 2016 at 19:07
《〈亳州老君碑古字谱〉考释》 dao.ccnu.edu.cn/daodoc/down.as…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 20:12
《佛頂心觀世音菩薩大陀羅尼經》上卷 #西夏文 twitter.com/idp_uk/status/…
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 20:40
《𗢳𗵣𗤶𗯨𗙏𘝯𘋢𗥤𘜶𗁬𗓽𘆵𗖰𗚩》𗨁𘐳 #𗼇𘝞 twitter.com/idp_uk/status/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 20:51
One day (not too far in the future I hope) this will be legible
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 20:53
According to the new ISO Policy on Communication of Committee Work iso.org/iso/policy_on_… I can announce that ...
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 20:54
... ISO/IEC 10646:2014 Amendment 2 (≈ Unicode 9.0) has passed its final ballot, and will soon be published ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 20:59
... and when it is published it will be legitimate for me to tweet in #Tangut
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 21:36
Digitization is great, but with no associated description or even title, these digitized images are of limited use if you do not read Tangut
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 19:49
What this tweet should look like
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 25 March 2016 at 08:46
Just need better evidence than a cup and Wikipedia @CJKType twitter.com/Kei5_k/status/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 25 March 2016 at 12:14
Today's BabelStone Han PUA update adds 13 characters for Leizhou dialect 雷州话 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html @eisoch (still ~200 characters to add)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 25 March 2016 at 12:18
BabelStone Han PUA now has 3,456 as yet unencoded CJK characters; 580 are candidates for a future IRG submission babelstone.co.uk/CJK/IRGDraft/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 5 April 2016 at 20:53
It's nice when someone chooses BabelStone Han for typesetting rare Unicode CJK characters in three academic papers ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 5 April 2016 at 20:54
... Not so nice when the publisher asks me to remap all CJK B-E characters to the PUA because their s/w only supports UCS-2 #UnicodeFailure
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 5 April 2016 at 21:12
After 10 years and $1025 I have decided not to renew my Unicode membership—there are no benefits of membership and they don't need my money
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 19:16
Welcome return to blogging by David Helliwell after 10 months hiatus oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/the… #oxford #bodleian
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 19:17
Nice! twitter.com/idp_uk/status/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 19:17
Very Nice!! twitter.com/idp_uk/status/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 19:18
Very Very Nice!!! twitter.com/idp_uk/status/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 21:19
"China's most important historical object [ever to be put under auction]" — really ?! (and what about provenance ?) twitter.com/CraigClunas/st…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 18:39
Looks like Indonesia and Russia are more important to Microsoft than gay emoji users 👬 👭 #Unicode twitter.com/jim_beaming/st…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 9 April 2016 at 10:19
Glad to be corrected! twitter.com/windowsinsider…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 9 April 2016 at 14:20
It was OK (ish) in 2011 and 2013; have to see how things are when I'm in China later this year twitter.com/kendraschaefer…
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Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 18:31
I would second that, and nominate @FakeUnicode for this year's #Unicode Bulldog Award unicode.org/conference/bul… twitter.com/martineno/stat…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 15 April 2016 at 21:21
Not an unreasonable supposition ... twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Saturday, 16 April 2016 at 20:26
Would there any interest? Definitely! twitter.com/zenodotus/stat…
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Friday, 22 April 2016 at 11:10
I'm pretty sure you could sneak the Prince symbol into Unicode in this proposal unicode.org/L2/L2016/16080… without anyone noticing @FakeUnicode
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Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 17:46
List of 556 Unicode characters set to be emojified unicode.org/L2/L2016/16088…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 18:10
The new official unofficial web site for WG2 (the ISO mirror of Unicode) is now hosted by the Unicode Consortium unicode.org/wg2/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 18:14
And the WG2 document register (which has a curious relationship to the Unicode document register) is here unicode.org/wg2/WG2-curdoc…
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Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 18:30
2nd century sculpture of Buddha footprints & religious symbols (shh, don't mention the 卐卐卐) bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 19:12
See also UK Comment T4 to ISO/IEC 10646 CD2 ballot unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4713… p. 24 twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Friday, 29 April 2016 at 21:26
A new version of the Unicode Proposal Summary Form is released
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Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 19:33
Orange Heart Emoji gets past the Unicode Emoji subcommittee unicode.org/L2/L2016/16124… —∵ we really don't have enough hearts ♡♥❤❥💓💔💕💖💗💘💞💟💙💚💛💜💝🖤
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 19:42
Well, they added shark emoji as a metaphor for Unicode jumping the shark, so I think #dodoemoji would be appropriate twitter.com/hhpapazian/sta…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 21:50
I wonder what the Unicode heartless emoji would look like?
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Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 11:25
Unicode for Tuskless elephant, Garuda, Naga and Guinea Pig (?!) needed for Burmese astrology en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_z… twitter.com/qvarie/status/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 19:57
Weird, even the Burmese Wikipedia calls ပူး < pūḥ> guinea pigs my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%95… but they are in fact pika (鼠兔)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 21:27
Proposal to Include Menstruation Characters (Femojis) unicode.org/L2/L2016/16126… #Unicode #Emoji
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Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 21:32
Proposal for more winter activity emoji unicode.org/L2/L2016/16127… Sleigh (sled or sledge) and curling stone emoji 👍 #unicode
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Friday, 6 May 2016 at 18:48
I'm sure they mean Tangut! twitter.com/FakeUnicode/st…
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Friday, 6 May 2016 at 21:34
Plan to stop encoding any Unicode emoji that will not be deployed by "at least one full Unicode member" unicode.org/L2/L2016/16128…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 6 May 2016 at 21:35
... proposal authored by Microsoft, Apple and Google representatives to Unicode Consortium
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Friday, 6 May 2016 at 21:41
Proposal for Unicode named sequences for Japanese voiced vowels unicode.org/L2/L2016/16133…
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Monday, 9 May 2016 at 21:53
This week I am updating BabelPad and BabelMap to support Unicode 9.0 (by which I mean Tangut of course)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 19:20
Now weakened to "major vendors would plan to include the proposed emoji character into very widely deployed fonts" unicode.org/L2/L2016/16128…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 07:23
In other news the new emoji for Unicode was accepted as 🕴-ZWJ-🦈 (man in business suit levitating over a shark) twitter.com/jeremyburge/st…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 07:26
Interestingly U+1F574 🕴 is annotated as "= jump" in the Unicode code charts unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F…
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 18:48
Small script, big proposal (50MB) ! twitter.com/srl295/status/…
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 19:35
BBC reports that "Google designs emojis depicting professional women" bbc.co.uk/news/technolog… —even mentions Unicode
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 20:32
Does anyone use copyleft symbol nowadays? Creative Commons symbols would be more useful creativecommons.org/about/download… twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 20:59
Their skin color can be specified with Emoji Modifier characters but there is still no Unicode solution for redheads twitter.com/wordsmeet/stat…
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 21:56
I wonder if 💜 (purple heart) is indigo or violet? twitter.com/alolita/status…
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 22:10
Need some work on those names twitter.com/Emojipedia/sta…
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 22:51
Proposal document already updated to reflect new names unicode.org/L2/L2016/16127… —need to add sledge to the annotation
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Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 18:26
As adoptions are permanent they should be dated so that in 10 or 100 years time we know when each started @unicode twitter.com/FakeUnicode/st…
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Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 18:37
What Google shows me when I search for Orange Heart Emoji @pauldhunt @alolita
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Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 19:34
I said we could have got the Prince symbol into Unicode by sneaking it into this proposal! twitter.com/alolita/status…
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Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 21:09
she-moji.com twitter.com/alolita/status…
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Friday, 13 May 2016 at 00:05
Not approved, shall we say. The feedback I got was that ESC wanted more usage data to show how popular mammoths are twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Friday, 13 May 2016 at 10:51
#mammothemoji twitter.com/dominik_schwar…
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Friday, 13 May 2016 at 19:14
Or maybe not! Please let the Unicode Consortium know if you want a range of dinosaur emoji unicode.org/reporting.html twitter.com/alyssabereznak…
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Friday, 13 May 2016 at 21:01
Yay! That takes my #UTC147 count up to six! twitter.com/alolita/status…
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Friday, 13 May 2016 at 21:05
Yay! Joins ㄭㆸㆹㆺ and unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4695… as the 6th bopomofo character that I have successfully proposed. twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Friday, 13 May 2016 at 21:06
Indeed! #🤴 twitter.com/roozbehp/statu…
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Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 21:37
BabelMap Online for Unicode 9.0 beta final is now available babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm… (featuring the #Marchen script)
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Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 21:48
Unicode 9.0 beta slideshow now available babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/unicod… (128,172 characters in 213 minutes 36 seconds)
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Monday, 16 May 2016 at 11:18
好! twitter.com/andreschappo/s…
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Monday, 16 May 2016 at 19:31
If only the dinosaurs were here to enjoy the moment ... twitter.com/dorkrawk/statu…
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Monday, 16 May 2016 at 19:39
Case for encoding VULGAR FRACTION ONE ONETH ?? twitter.com/TiroTypeworks/…
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Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 17:41
Only if you tell the Unicode Consortium that you support a set of dinosaur emoji unicode.org/reporting.html twitter.com/ADuffie26/stat…
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Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 19:58
UK response to comments on UK submission for IRG Working Set 2015 (CJK Ext. G) appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg46… @CJKType #Unicode #CJK #IRG
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Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 18:28
Lack of component used in 島梟裊鳬鳬 is a real problem which needs to be addressed @CJKType twitter.com/fasihsignal/st…
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Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 18:31
Two Issues Regarding UAX #38 and IRG Sources unicode.org/L2/L2016/16166… #IRG #CJK #Unicode
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Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 19:24
Failing to get my Unicode 9.0 Marchen font to render correctly anywhere outside VOLT
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Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 19:27
What about the Universal Shaping Engine? Does it need to be updated for Unicode 9.0 before my font will work in W10? @TiroTypeworks
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Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 19:52
@CJKType @fasihsignal Other characters with this component: 𠒎𠝷𣁓𤀴𨕙𨖂𪀋𪂧𪆔
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Friday, 20 May 2016 at 22:09
Draft minutes for #UTC147 unicode.org/L2/L2016/16121…
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Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 09:22
UTC minutes are frustratingly terse, and give no hint of the discussion involved in the issues ...
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Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 09:23
... On the other hand,WG2 minutes (e.g. unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4603… at Colombo 2014) give the detailed cut and thrust of discussion and argument
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Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 20:34
"Unicode should ... Collect random things"—What do you think we have been doing for the last 25 years?! twitter.com/letterror/stat…
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Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 20:36
128,019 random things in Unicode 9.0.
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Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 20:37
It's only natural that people like me who compulsively collect Han and Tangut characters will want to collect dinosaur emoji as well!
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 18:09
Oops, not an emoji! @jeremyburge @FakeUnicode twitter.com/botmoji/status…
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 19:11
Disposition of comments on CJK Ext. F (for Unicode 10) appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg46… by my count 25 removed (unified) & 13 added (disunified) #IRG
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 19:42
Corrections for misplaced Miao glyphs (𖼬𖼭𖼮𖼯𖼰𖼲) 4 years after Miao was encoded in Unicode is a little embarrassing
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 11:18
Revised (and probably final) code chart for CJK Ext. F for Unicode 10 appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg46… (7,473 characters in range 2CEB0..2EBE0)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 21:13
I'm still mulling over the implications of the decisions on CJK Ext. G made at this week's IRG meeting appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg46… @CJKType
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 21:38
Disputa en Unicode eldiario.es/hojaderouter/i… Great picture (hint, I took it — thanks for the credit cc-by-sa-3.0 !)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 27 May 2016 at 21:42
#Tangut calligraphy: U+18250 𘉐 "achievement" (idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…) @idp_uk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 3 June 2016 at 11:44
Nearly 10 years, and Tangut's not finished yet babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutD… twitter.com/ectowombat/sta…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 4 June 2016 at 17:13
Revised preproposal to encode the Khitan Small Script unicode.org/L2/L2016/16113… (not funded by any Unicode characters)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 5 June 2016 at 11:59
I wish Unicode had tested new layout of the Character Sponsors page on all major browsers unicode.org/consortium/ado…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 5 June 2016 at 16:03
"Choose the gold level and you or your business will be the sole gold level sponsor for your character" #Unicode 🐺🐺
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 12:14
All fixed now! unicode.org/consortium/ado… #UnicodeAdoptACharacter
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 12:15
All fixed now! 🐺 unicode.org/consortium/ado… #UnicodeAdoptACharacter
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 18:59
Buckquoy spindle whorl ogham inscription shows a "serifed A" or "Hammerhead A" ogham letter @Evertype twitter.com/grungeviking/s…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 19:00
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 19:23
And the @Eagles should adopt #Unicode9 emoji U+1F985 EAGLE 🦅 unicode.org/consortium/ado… twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 19:24
Unicode 9.0 characters now open for adoption unicode.org/consortium/ado… @FakeUnicode
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 19:28
And @CincinnatiZoo should adopt #Unicode9 emoji U+1F98D GORILLA 🦍 unicode.org/consortium/ado…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 19:31
But I have no idea what #Unicode9 character the @NRA should adopt
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 20:16
My "Musical Notation for Flute in Tangut Manuscripts" (2012) is now available online at orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 13 June 2016 at 18:16
My updated list of 7,473 characters in CJK Ext. F for inclusion Unicode 10.0 babelstone.co.uk/CJK/CJK-F/inde… (code points not yet stable)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 13 June 2016 at 18:25
My draft BabelStone Han font covers 517 of the 7,473 CJK Ext. F characters (only 971 characters from 古壮字字典 to add)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 20:01
Just added U+1F6D1 🛑 Octagonal Sign to my BabelStone Han font in preparation for the upcoming Unicode 9.0 release
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 18:53
#Tangut calligraphy #2: U+17FE2 𗿢 "imperial edict" (eap.bl.uk/database/large…) @idp_uk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 21:47
BabelStone Han v. 9.0.0 released, adding 661 CJK unified ideographs, 124 PUA ideographs, and 63 other characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 21:49
@BabelStone BabelStone Han font includes 32 characters added in Unicode 9.0
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 22:14
"How many Unicode characters are there?" updated for Unicode 9.0 and at new home babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/HowMan…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 22:16
Unicode roadmaps have now been updated for Unicode 9.0 unicode.org/roadmaps/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 22:38
Which Unicode scripts have the most characters? Han (CJK) easily wins, but Tangut comes in third place after Hangul.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 24 June 2016 at 11:16
List of 38,822 characters in BabelStone Han font version 9.0.0 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/BabelSto…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 25 June 2016 at 20:25
BabelMap online is back online after being updated for Unicode 9.0 and some enhancements babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 25 June 2016 at 20:38
My "What Unicode character is this?" tool has been updated and improved for Unicode 9.0 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatis…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 26 June 2016 at 15:07
Just taken 4.5 hours to compile the release build of BabelMap after adding additional Tangut, CJK and Hieroglyphic data.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 27 June 2016 at 20:20
At least fruit and veg growers understand the purpose of emoji 🥑 🥝 🍐 🍓 twitter.com/unicode/status…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 27 June 2016 at 20:25
Wot, no shovel or trowel emoji! twitter.com/SarahEBond/sta…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 2 July 2016 at 06:58
That falſe and ſenſeleſs Way of tranſcribing "Unſound" as "Unfound" @LanguageLog twitter.com/LanguageLog/st…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 00:21
BabelMap v. 9.0.0.0 supporting #Unicode9 has now been released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 00:21
BabelPad v. 9.0.0.0 supporting #Unicode9 has now been released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 00:35
New to BabelMap and BabelPad v. 9: Emoji Data tool which lists details of all Unicode emoji singletons and sequences
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Monday, 4 July 2016 at 00:42
New to BabelMap and BabelPad v. 9: Tangut Character Reference Lookup — lookup Tangut characters by reference codes
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 00:46
New to BabelMap and BabelPad v. 9: Show extended data for any Tangut character (Ctrl+Shift+I in BabelPad)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 00:48
New to BabelMap and BabelPad v. 9: Show extended data for any Han (CJKV) character (Ctrl+Shift+I in BabelPad)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 01:05
New to BabelMap and BabelPad v. 9: Show Gardiner's glyph descriptions for Egyptian hieroglyphs (Ctrl+F9 in BabelMap)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 19:18
BabelStone Han PUA v. 1.038 just released with new character at F30A: 党在国上——那当然！ babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 4 July 2016 at 19:19
Background @LanguageLog languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=26587 "I don't think it will take long for someone to create a typable form of the character ..."
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 16:40
Does anyone know how to report errors in the Universal Shaping Engine? (@TiroTypeworks)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 11 July 2016 at 21:46
Wow, the most completely wrong definition of tofu I've ever seen. twitter.com/watchpocket/st…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 20:15
Picture source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yang… twitter.com/_EricHu/status…
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Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 20:21
You can now adopt all Unicode 9.0 characters, including Tangut and Marchen unicode.org/consortium/ado… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 20:26
... but wouldn't your money be better spent sponsoring someone to develop free fonts for Tangut and Marchen?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 19:49
Proposal to encode 4 half star symbols in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16186…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 19:53
Revised proposal to encode four symbols for Go in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16185…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 19:54
(Circled numbers will be is separate forthcoming proposal)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 19:57
Concrete proposal to solve the problem of no #ENG #SCO #WAL #NIR flag emoji in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16184…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 23:06
Where are all the hashflags now? Unlike Unicode flag emoji, the twitter hashflags softly and suddenly vanish away.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 18:54
"Google's emoji for working women get thumbs up from Unicode" engadget.com/2016/07/14/uni… (approved by the shadowy emoji subcommittee that is)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 19:04
Google Gender Emoji sequences proposals just posted to the Unicode document registry unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 20:57
This is just wrong, it's not the way Unicode is meant to work
👩 + 🔬 = fem scientist
👩 + 💻 = fem technologist
👷 + ♂ =male construction worker
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 21:51
Here's a fun game to play:
Who am I?
👩 + 🔬 + 🐋
I'm a whale biologist!
(not to be confused with 🐋 + 🔬 + 👩 which is a 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑒 biologist)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 23:00
For just $10K Ford Motor Company grabs all the Unicode characters named automobile (sucks to be Toyota)
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Friday, 15 July 2016 at 22:22
Revised Hentaigana proposal unicode.org/L2/L2016/16188… #変体仮名
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Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 07:53
Do text messages still not support writing Turkish in 2016? @FakeUnicode twitter.com/AlevScott/stat…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 09:11
Source for St Kew Ogham stone: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_K… twitter.com/PeritiaEditors…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 18 July 2016 at 21:53
If Salt Shaker emoji, then why not sugar, soy sauce, and vinegar dispensers (and five kinds of pepper grinders)? twitter.com/qvarie/status/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 18 July 2016 at 22:16
"If the Unicode Consortium wants proper gender representation in emoji, it needs to be able to represent pregnant people who aren't female"
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 18 July 2016 at 22:17
—Charlotte Buff unicode.org/L2/L2016/16193…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 19:15
Please tell me they didn't pay someone for this cover? twitter.com/unicode/status…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 22:44
Revised proposal to encode the Mandombe script in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16077…
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Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 22:47
And a revised proposal for Pitman shorthand unicode.org/L2/L2016/16196… (I'm not interested in Pitman, but anything to get away from emoji!)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 23:33
Sauna emoji proposed by Finland unicode.org/L2/L2016/16197…
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Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 18:24
It must just be me, but what does this cover design have to with Unicode? twitter.com/unicode/status…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 18:34
Ok, they really did blog.unicode.org/2016/07/unicod…
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Friday, 22 July 2016 at 21:10
Revised proposal to encode the Cypro-Minoan script by @Evertype unicode.org/L2/L2016/16179…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 July 2016 at 21:51
Proposal for a Flying Saucer emoji by @vXBaKeRXv unicode.org/L2/L2016/16206…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 July 2016 at 21:54
Encoding the Flying Saucer emoji will fix the inappropriate unification of Alien and UFO in pre-Unicode emoji sets twitter.com/FakeUnicode/st…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 July 2016 at 22:27
UTC and UK responses & reviews for IRGN2155 (the future CJK Ext. G) now available at appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg47… (encoding doesn't just happen)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 08:04
Some companies are beginning to release how adopting Unicode emoji can help with their branding (more will follow) twitter.com/berrycongress/…
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Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 10:43
Excel spreadsheet for proposed set of Hentaigana characters for Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16188… #変体仮名
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 10:49
Why do we have green, blue and orange book emoji 📗📘📙 but no little red book emoji?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 24 July 2016 at 18:26
Bitcoin was never scheduled for Unicode 9.0, but will be in 10.0 in June 2017 (see 20BF in unicode.org/L2/L2016/16170…) twitter.com/bitcoin_ita/st…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 July 2016 at 19:16
Today I visited an underground concrete storeroom at a secret location to see the famous #Silchester #Ogham stone
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Monday, 25 July 2016 at 21:43
Public feedback for forthcoming UTC meeting unicode.org/L2/L2016/16205… (including two on need for multiple #dinosaur #emoji)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 July 2016 at 21:45
Why ZWJ emoji sequences may not be such a great idea unicode.org/L2/L2016/16208…
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Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 19:42
Unicode Regional Indicator sequences for Eurozone (EZ) and United Nations (UN) coming soon unicode.org/L2/L2016/16207… ...
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Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 19:44
... "Macroregion region sequences generally do not have official flags, with the exception of the UN and EU" unicode.org/draft/reports/… ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 19:46
... but there are several Eurozone flag designs out there, so no reason not to implement EZ as a flag as well
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Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 21:42
Should I add 《香港新政字》 characters to my BabelStone Han (PUA) font?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 22:05
如果有香港朋友能把《香港新政字》買給我，我就加入所有創造的新字。
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 21:32
The Khitan Large Script genitive particle *-un in regular, cursive and seal script calligraphies
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 22:45
Context for my earlier piece of Khitan Large Script cursive calligraphy: "中京之..." (... of the middle capital)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 22:46
From the Khitan Large Script manuscript codex Nova N 176 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_N_176
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Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 07:45
Additional Unicode ZWJ sequences for Professions unicode.org/L2/L2016/16221… (I want paleontologist & linguist as well)
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Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 11:32
Unicode will eventually have to implement all of ISCO-08 ilo.org/public/english… as emoji : 7,018 occupations from Abbess/Abbot to Zoologist
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 21:28
Interesting discussion about defining Unicode emoji flags for England, Scotland, Wales & NI unicode.org/L2/L2016/16184… at #UTC148 just now ...
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Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 22:07
Plan to move Canadian Aboriginal, Miao, Mongolian, Tifinagh, Yi from Aspirational Use Scripts to Limited Use Scripts unicode.org/L2/L2016/16222…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 22:08
I think that at least Mongolian should move the other way, to Recommended Scripts unicode.org/reports/tr31/#…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 22:51
Emoji were accepted into Unicode to allow for the interchange of data between Japanese mobile phone carriers and the internet ...
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Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 22:52
... PISTOL 🔫 was originally intended to indicate action genre movies アクション(ピストル) ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 22:53
... but now for Apple users PISTOL 🔫 would better indicate children's movies ... is this interchange of data or data corruption?
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Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 18:55
🏂, 🏇, 🏌, 🤼 and other Unicode emoji characters (but not 🤺) set to become skin tone modifiable unicode.org/L2/L2016/16228…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 18:59
(following feedback by me on the issue unicode.org/L2/L2016/16205…)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 19:04
Unicode half stars: my proposal dated 11 July unicode.org/L2/L2016/16186…; Ken Shirriff's proposal dated today unicode.org/L2/L2016/16230…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 19:08
I claim credit for this one; it was missing in the original Chinese proposal, and was added at my suggestion twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 21:21
4 symbols for Go notation twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 21:44
Testing my Flags font with RI sequences & Tag sequences babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/FlagsTes… @srl295 @mark_e_davis @jeremyburge
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 22:26
Proposal of this character dates back 7 years to April 2009 WG2 meeting in Dublin std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/d…
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Friday, 5 August 2016 at 12:11
.@jeremyburge urges Apple to rethink Unicode gun emoji change bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
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Friday, 5 August 2016 at 14:55
BBC report on proposal for Unicode emoji flags for Wales, England and Scotland by @jeremyburge bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-… (with link to my doc)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 5 August 2016 at 20:41
@srl295 @mark_e_davis @jeremyburge I forgot to compile the font — tag sequences actually work in Firefox only
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Friday, 5 August 2016 at 21:49
Proposal for Tag Extended Regional Indicator Sequences (TERIS) unicode.org/L2/L2016/16234… by @mark_e_davis
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Friday, 5 August 2016 at 21:54
Works with Firefox on W10 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/FlagsTes… @mark_e_davis @srl295 @jeremyburge ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 5 August 2016 at 21:57
... but IE fallback is possibly problematic @mark_e_davis @srl295 @jeremyburge
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Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 08:51
The history of 🔫 and 🔪 emoji goes way back before Unicode twitter.com/mwichary/statu…
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Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 08:56
You can tell they're proto-emoji because they only have one camel 🐫 (but no 🐪) twitter.com/mwichary/statu…
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Monday, 8 August 2016 at 22:40
Seems reasonable. Unicode already has one 🖕, two 🖔 and four 🖖 finger emoji, so why not a three finger emoji as well? twitter.com/worldscouting/…
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Sunday, 14 August 2016 at 18:00
On Windows 10, Phags-pa Unicode variation sequences completely broken, and candrabindu sometimes shows dotted circle
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 14 August 2016 at 18:05
What the same Phags-pa text correctly looks like on Windows 7 (Variation sequence OK and no dotted circle on U+A873)
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Thursday, 1 September 2016 at 23:23
Yinchuan Day 2: Ningxia Musuem and Chengtian Temple Pagoda with @cosmicore (cloudy all day)
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Saturday, 3 September 2016 at 18:10
Yinchuan Day 3: 108 stupas at Qingtongxia (still cloudy, and raining on and off)
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Sunday, 4 September 2016 at 19:08
Clay elephant found at the 108 Stupas in Ningxia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundr…
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Sunday, 4 September 2016 at 20:40
Yinchuan Day 5: The obligatory conference photo (with @Evertype & @cosmicore & @JerryYou517) xww.nun.edu.cn/2061/54299.html
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Monday, 5 September 2016 at 19:23
Yinchuan Day 6: Still raining, and flooding cuts short our excursion to the Western Xia tombs and beyond
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Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 19:38
Day 7: Bus from Yinchuan to Bayanhot (阿拉善左旗) with @cosmicore (still cloudy and raining lightly)
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Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 21:52
Proposal for a Unicode climber emoji unicode.org/L2/L2016/16247…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 21:55
Skateboarding will also be in the 2020 Olympics, so someone needs to submit a Unicode skateboarding emoji proposal as well
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Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 22:16
Summary of Meeting on Khitan Scripts, 20 August 2016 (Yinchuan, China) unicode.org/L2/L2016/16243…
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Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 22:19
Summary of Meeting on Khitan Scripts, 22 August 2016 (Yinchuan, China) unicode.org/L2/L2016/16244…
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Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 18:34
Day 8: 10+ hour bus from Bayanhot (阿拉善左旗) to Dalaihob (额济纳旗) around the edge of the Gobi desert (still cloudy)
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Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 18:37
Day 8: Lunch break at Wuliji (乌力吉苏木) — colourful school and public toilets with emoji gender signs
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 20:50
An unnamed Tibetan city, as imagined by an English illustrator of Marco Polo's Travels, c. 1400 twitter.com/PiersatPenn/st…
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 20:51
"Ci devise le C et XIIII chapitre de la province de Tebet, comment les genz qui y demeurent sont vestuz de piaux des bestes sauvages, ...
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 20:51
... dont il y a grant plenté, et comment il les enchassent par feu."
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 20:58
Day 9: We reach the dead city of Kharakhoto in a minor sandstorm that clouds the cloudless sky (but soon clears).
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:05
Day 9: Stupas on the northwest corner of the walls of Kharakhoto.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:07
Day 9: Remains of the Western Xia stupa inside the city of Kharakhoto.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:13
Day 9: Islamic tomb ("Gumbaz") outside the walls of Kharakhoto.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:15
Day 9: The carefully laid-out path around Kharakhoto to the East Gate is blocked by a huge sand dune.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:18
Day 9: Pottery shards are scattered everywhere within the city of Kharakhoto.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:20
Day 9: The base of the "celebrated suburgan" where Kozlov found a huge hoard of Tangut texts and artefacts in 1908.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:22
What the suburgan (stupa) looked like during its process of destruction by Kozlov.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:38
Day 9: Datong Fort (大同城), several km west of Kharakhoto.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:39
"The ruins of the citadel of Altan-khoto, where, according to legend, was once situated the cavalry guard detachment of Khara-khoto"—Kozlov
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:44
Day 9: The Red Fort (红城), apparently dating back to the Han dynasty, near the start of the road to Kharakhoto.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 22:41
Today I was invited to talk about dinosaurs and emoji at #Emojicon (the first ever conference on #emoji) unicode.org/L2/L2016/16103…
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Friday, 9 September 2016 at 18:05
Day 10: In a change of plan, we travel to Hohhot by overnight train (16 hours), where we have a 6-hour stopover.
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Friday, 9 September 2016 at 18:26
Day 10: We visit the Nationalities Museum of IMU (内蒙古大学民族博物馆) which has the largest collection of Khitan epitaphs
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Friday, 9 September 2016 at 18:52
Day 10: No Khitan epitaphs on display; but we find 3 unpublished Khitan Large Script epitaphs leaning against a wall
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Friday, 9 September 2016 at 18:55
The epitaphs are unpublished and unknown to us; but they look very fishy, and we are not convinced that they are genuine.
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Friday, 9 September 2016 at 21:44
Day 10: After the museum we have time for book shopping, and I bought this important addition to my Tangut library.
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 09:57
They look like Ichthys symbols to me. twitter.com/rosieshawpaint…
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 17:56
New version of BabelStone Han PUA with 61 additional characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html @mo_nigeria @eisoch
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 18:36
Day 11: Night train from Hohhot to Lindong (巴林左旗), site of Liao Upper Capital, and we head for Liao Shangjing museum
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 18:40
Day 11: No Khitan epitaphs on public display here either, but several fragments of Khitan Large Script inscriptions.
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 18:41
...the stones wrapped in rubbing paper to make inscription clear.
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 18:49
Day 11: Next we go to the private Khitan Museum, but it is closed. However, we manage to gain entrance anyway.
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 18:57
Day 11: Downstairs are piles of boxes and stones and stuff, including a *fantasy* Khitan Small Script dharani pillar
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 19:04
Day 11: Upstairs the gallery is ready for opening, and we see our first Khitan (Small Script) epitaph of the trip
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 19:16
Day 11: At the back of the public museum is an external gallery of dharani pillars that doubles as a bike shed
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 19:30
Day 11: At midday we go to the Liao pagoda south of town, and the clear sky turns to pouring rain and lightning.
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 19:33
Day 11: By the time we get to the small (possibly Liao) North Pagoda in town the weather is clearing.
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 19:39
Day 11: In the afternoon we explore the vast empty site of the Upper Capital, where the annual dig is under way ...
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 19:41
... We are lucky enough to be shown around the dig (at the south gate of the palace) by the archaeologist in charge.
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 19:48
Day 11: Scattered across the Upper Capital site are pieces of Liao or Jin masonry (note the distinctive ridges)
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Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 19:48
Day 11: View of the South Pagoda from the Upper Capital site.
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Sunday, 11 September 2016 at 12:47
Day 12: Early in the morning, before catching the train back to Hohhot, I head back to the Liao dynasty South Pagoda
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Sunday, 11 September 2016 at 13:09
Sign at Lindong station — No Witches ?
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Sunday, 11 September 2016 at 13:23
Day 12: Train police and swat team investigate a crime that happened right under the chair I was sitting on.
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Monday, 12 September 2016 at 18:56
Day 13: An uneventful train journey from Hohhot to Yinchuan—giant and very tasteful statue of Genghis Khan at Wuhai.
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Monday, 12 September 2016 at 19:10
If you have €500,000.00 spare (inlibris.at/?s=Mao) twitter.com/CraigClunas/st…
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Monday, 12 September 2016 at 23:23
Unicode document register just updated with revised ½-stars proposal and proposal for Chinese Chess symbols unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 22:23
Day 14: Western Xia Imperial Tomb No. 3 (believed to be for Li Yuanhao, first Emperor of Western Xia)
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 22:33
Day 14: Western Xia Tombs 1 and 2, believed to be for Li Jiqian and Li Deming (father and grandfather of Li Yuanhao)
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 22:39
(I mean grandfather and father!) Here's a close-up of Tombs 1 (Li Jiqian) and 2 (Li Deming).
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 23:11
As we approach the Twin Pagodas at Baiskou I begin to appreciate the enormity of last week's flash floods.
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 23:15
Day 14: The twin Western Xia pagodas of Baisikou (拜寺口双塔).
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 23:18
Day 14: The east pagoda.
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 23:21
Day 14: The west pagoda.
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 23:25
Detail of the west pagoda.
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 23:36
Day 14:The remains of the Western Xia Basigou Square Pagoda 拜寺沟方塔 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baisigou_…).
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 23:41
Day 14: The Western Xia Hongfo Pagoda (宏佛塔), the final view of these fourteen days in Ningxia and Inner Mongolia.
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Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 23:53
One of several statues of Arhats discovered in a room in the peak of the pagoda during renovations in 1990.
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Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 19:27
Final proposal to encode the Khitan Small Script unicode.org/L2/L2016/16245… by @Evertype and @cosmicore (I doubt it will be the final proposal)
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Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 19:31
Proposal to encode 348 circled and negative circled numbers unicode.org/L2/L2016/16256… — my 2nd attempt, with double the evidence.
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Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 22:28
Not so rare, but still nice to have, Grube's 1896 Jurchen dictionary "Die Sprache und Schrift der Jučen" @cosmicore
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Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 22:43
Jin Qizong's 1984 Dictionary of Jurchen 女真文辞典 which I bought in Beijing when it was newly published @cosmicore
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Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 17:30
Today's acquisition for my Tangut library, Bonaparte's 1895 "Documents de l'époque mongole des XIIIe et XIVe siècles" @cosmicore @jerryyou
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Plates I, II, III, IV
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Plates V, VI, VII, VIII
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Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 17:35
Plates XII, XIII
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Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 18:34
Went to British Museum today, and pleased to see the Fardel Ogham stone is now on display (used to be in storage, and 1st time I've seen it)
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Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 13:48
Newly discovered fragments of Khitan large script written on the wall of a tomb in Inner Mongolia sssc.cn/a/20160922/147… twitter.com/JerryYou517/st…
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Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 21:41
Epitaph for Hudujin Shenmi 胡睹堇審密 dated 1091.
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Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 21:50
I have now seen and photographed all certain examples of ogham stones found in England (including Silchester stone) babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/ogham-…
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Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 22:59
Now all we have to do is work out what it means! twitter.com/cosmicore/stat…
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Friday, 30 September 2016 at 19:47
Highlights of this week's #WG2_65 meeting in San Jose (see unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4772… and code chart at unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4770…) #Unicode :
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Friday, 30 September 2016 at 19:48
1) 2 half-star symbols and 2 half-filled star symbols accepted for encoding @kenshirriff
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2) My proposal for 14 Xiangqi symbols rejected in favour of 30 circled and negative circled Chinese characters unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4766…
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Friday, 30 September 2016 at 19:55
3) Khitan Small Script accepted for encoding (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4768…) but my simple model for cluster-forming replaced by hideous model ...
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Friday, 30 September 2016 at 19:57
... which requires n-1 format characters to represent cluster of n characters (e.g. 7 format characters for the largest 8-character cluster)
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Friday, 30 September 2016 at 20:01
4) 285 Hentaigana characters accepted for encoding (254 in existing Kana Supplement block, and 31 in a new Kana Extended-A block)
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Friday, 30 September 2016 at 20:08
Seem to be greatly down in numbers since Japan last year and Sri Lanka 2014 (std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/d…) twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Friday, 30 September 2016 at 20:30
As I stated elsewhere, either they were unbelievably lucky, or 10% of Roman London were Asian, or their methodology is flawed. twitter.com/waymarksblog/s…
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Saturday, 1 October 2016 at 19:24
How do you implement Western Tally Marks 2 through 4 in a fixed width font? @ken_lunde @CJKType unicode.org/L2/L2016/16065…
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Monday, 3 October 2016 at 22:48
I often get confused with Batman righto.com/2016/10/inspir… 🦇🕴
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Tuesday, 4 October 2016 at 19:49
V. Zaytsev & Chung-pui Tai, Re-examination of the Tangut Fragment Or. 12380/3495 academia.edu/28898931/Zayts…
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Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 20:39
Pie emoji (unicode.org/L2/L2016/16272…) and Coconut emoji (unicode.org/L2/L2016/16273…) accepted by Unicode Emoji Subcommittee
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Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 22:45
I gave the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee 25 pages of twitter quotes for my Ostrich emoji proposal (babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Ostric…) ...
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Wednesday, 5 October 2016 at 22:47
... and the feedback was omit the twitter quotes and give us Google Trends and Instagram statics — which I think are totally irrelevant
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Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 11:20
I don't know why everyone's so happy about Unicode Pie Emoji—once it is implemented everyone will complain that it is the WRONG KIND OF PIE!
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Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 18:35
That's simply not true: "Noto Sans CJK covers a little under 30K of the 80K CJK Unified Ideographs in Unicode" github.com/googlei18n/not… twitter.com/jes_sherborne/…
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Friday, 7 October 2016 at 11:45
Google Noto font coverage has jumped from 110,000+ to "hundreds of thousands of characters" monotype.com/resources/case… (actually about 64,000)
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Friday, 7 October 2016 at 11:49
Mermaid emoji gets the thumbs up from Unicode Emoji Subcommittee unicode.org/L2/L2016/16274… — presumably as ZWJ sequences: 🐟👩 🐟👨 🐟👧 🐟👦
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Friday, 7 October 2016 at 11:53
Almond emoji gets the thumbs up from the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee unicode.org/L2/L2016/16275… — what about walnuts, hazelnuts and pistachios?
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Friday, 7 October 2016 at 18:05
My proposed Stork carrying Baby emoji babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/StorkE… may be a candidate for representation as <STORK ZWJ BABY>
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Friday, 7 October 2016 at 18:11
I guess the Unicode Pie emoji could work if Pork Pie is <PIE ZWJ PIG> and Apple Pie is <PIE ZWJ APPLE> except there is no APPLE EMOJI ...
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Friday, 7 October 2016 at 18:13
... only RED APPLE 🍎 and GREEN APPLE 🍏 so you will have to specify whether your apple pie is made from red apples or green apples!
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Friday, 7 October 2016 at 18:55
My 𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊 𝕋𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝙎𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙧 tool babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/text.h… (certified tongue-in-cheek)
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Saturday, 8 October 2016 at 10:00
I wonder how LessonOne.ppt, LessonTwo.ppt, LessonThree.ppt, LessonFour.ppt, LessonFive.ppt, LessonSix.ppt ... are meant to sort? twitter.com/m13253/status/…
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Monday, 10 October 2016 at 22:47
Wikipedia article seems to be better information on Noto fonts than the Google developers blog twitter.com/alolita/status…
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Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 21:07
Proposal to encode Creative Commons license and public domain icons in the Unicode Standard unicode.org/L2/L2016/16283…
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Friday, 21 October 2016 at 11:02
A Chinese archaeologist's lament (ccrnews.com.cn/index.php/Zhua…):
我多么希望，有一座古墓
从来，没有被盗掘过
我们站着
看着自己的考古工地
墓很多，
但每一座都被盗了
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Sunday, 23 October 2016 at 21:14
BabelStone Han v. 9.0.1 released (1,041 additional CJK unified ideographs, now 31,289 in total) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
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Wednesday, 26 October 2016 at 17:53
Asking for a "dinosaur emoji" in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16289… is like asking for an "animal emoji" or a "fruit emoji"
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Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 19:56
Emoji Subcommittee recommend four animal emoji for inclusion in Unicode 10.0: Giraffe, Sauropod, Zebra, Hedgehog unicode.org/L2/L2016/16295…
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Thursday, 27 October 2016 at 22:03
Brain emoji unicode.org/L2/L2016/16299… — why?!
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Friday, 28 October 2016 at 11:37
Cricket (insect) emoji unicode.org/L2/L2016/16300… — why is this more important than Mammoth, Dodo or Raptor emoji?
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Friday, 28 October 2016 at 19:12
Proposal for 11 fantasy emoji—Fairy, Vampire, Zombie, Mermaid, Witch, Elf, Griffin, Wizard, Pegasus, Djinn, Werewolf unicode.org/L2/L2016/16304…
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Saturday, 29 October 2016 at 10:21
"False teeth and bad back emojis could soon be in use after being sent off [to Unicode] for official approval" bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 19:17
36 emoji faces proposed for Unicode 10.0 unicode.org/L2/L2016/16313…
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 19:22
14 additional food emoji proposed for Unicode 10.0 –Pie, Pretzel, Sandwich, Hummus, Coconut, Bagel, Cereal, Steak... unicode.org/L2/L2016/16316…
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 19:29
Proposal for gender inclusive emoji representation in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16317… by @pauldhunt
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 19:32
Proposal to encode ten color swatch emoji characters by @pauldhunt unicode.org/L2/L2016/16318… – BLACK HEART 🖤 with RED swatch anyone?
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 19:39
Proposal for ten additional hand gesture symbols for Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16308… – seems that Chinese hand numbers 6-10 are also needed
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 22:25
The future is now. twitter.com/wrenpile/statu…
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Friday, 4 November 2016 at 20:18
Fragment of the 1,000 Buddha Names of the Present 現在賢劫千佛名經:
𗢰𘓩𘞙… 南無利益佛 — Namo Buddha of Benefit
𗢰𘓩𗯨… 南無世月佛 — Namo Buddha of the World Moon twitter.com/vaniavassis/st…
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Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 10:10
Unicode Emoji Subcommittee Terminology and Process unicode.org/L2/L2016/16337… — the five-stage process to emojidom
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Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 10:17
Discussion of Cluster Formation in Unicode Khitan Small Script unicode.org/L2/L2016/16296… — this is the big point of contention with the UTC
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Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 11:17
New proposal to encode Klingon pIqaD alphabet in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16329… — hard to argue against it given recent Unicode additions
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Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 11:51
Apple & Google belatedly oppose racially segregated emoji wrestlers in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16332…
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Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 12:17
Whose idea was it to apply skin tone modifiers to groups of people in the first place? Yep, it was Apple & Google unicode.org/L2/L2014/14173…
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Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 12:35
Apple's proposal for gender sequences and skin tone modifiers for SELFIE 🤳 unicode.org/L2/L2016/16333… ...
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Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 12:37
... but what about children, old people, people in wheelchairs, people with beards and redheads — are they not allowed to take selfies?!
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Monday, 7 November 2016 at 19:39
Summary of emoji proposed for Unicode 10.0 unicode.org/L2/L2016/16355… — Zombie but no Troll; Sauropod but no T. Rex; Hedgehog but no Squirrel
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Wednesday, 9 November 2016 at 19:25
I just don't get why Unicode is so accepting of random astrological crap unicode.org/L2/L2016/16174… twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Wednesday, 9 November 2016 at 19:29
Revised proposal to represent "Coded Hashes of Arbitrary Images" in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16105… — please just say no.
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Wednesday, 9 November 2016 at 19:32
Updated proposal for animal emoji for Unicode 10.0 now includes "T-REX" as well as SAUROPOD unicode.org/L2/L2016/16295… (but only their heads)
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Wednesday, 9 November 2016 at 19:44
Because it so very important to encode astrological symbols for minor planets in the outer reaches of the Solar System twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 19:55
8 existing emoji candidates unicode.org/emoji/charts/e… plus 48 on this list unicode.org/L2/L2016/16369… I think twitter.com/mark_e_davis/s…
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:39
#Tangut #西夏文 #𗼇𘝞 twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:41
#西夏文 #𗼇𘝞 twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:42
#西夏文 #𗼇𘝞 twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…
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Friday, 11 November 2016 at 21:46
Interesting contrast in emoji scheduled for Unicode 10.0 #sauna #hijab unicode.org/L2/L2016/16355…
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Friday, 11 November 2016 at 23:45
Interesting fallbacks when you copy the unencoded glyphs, e.g. Circled 01..07 => ♳ through ♹, and Circled & Negative Circled 08..09 => ⓼⓽ twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…
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Sunday, 13 November 2016 at 13:29
Large imperial tomb dating to Wei dynasty excavated in Luoyang, possibly the tomb of Empress Guo, wife of Cao Rui mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI3MD…
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Sunday, 13 November 2016 at 15:03
I created a moment for my travels in Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in August twitter.com/i/moments/7978…
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Sunday, 13 November 2016 at 20:23
catb.org/esr/unicode/th… twitter.com/the_gwalla/sta…
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Monday, 14 November 2016 at 19:05
Stone tags for funerary items from Wei tomb: ink lacquer writing table 墨漆書案 and two-sheng ink-lacquer picture bowl 二升墨漆畫椀 (漆 not 淶!)
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Monday, 14 November 2016 at 21:48
Still can't work out why there is a cricket but no badger or mammoth. twitter.com/unicode/status…
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Monday, 14 November 2016 at 22:46
Exactly, T. Rex's most distinctive feature is its puny hands. twitter.com/Vanoual/status…
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Thursday, 17 November 2016 at 13:28
"Recent Advances in Tangut Studies" 28 Feb 2017 at SOAS soas.ac.uk/south-asia-ins… #Tangut
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Friday, 18 November 2016 at 12:18
First count of Unicode 10.0 (for June 2017): 8,518 new characters, of which 7,494 CJK unified ideographs, 285 Hentaigana, and ...
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... four new scripts: Zanabazar Square (72), Soyombo (80), Masaram Gondi (75), Nüshu (397); ...
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Friday, 18 November 2016 at 12:19
... as well as Bitcoin and 56 emoji (< 1% of 8,518 additions to Unicode 10.0, but > 99% of social media interest in Unicode 10.0)
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Friday, 18 November 2016 at 20:07
Provisional list of new Unicode 10.0 characters here babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Unicod…
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Thursday, 1 December 2016 at 00:33
BabelMap v. 9.0.0.2 released, with bug fixes, UI enhancements, some new features, and updated for IVD and Emoji 4.0 babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
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Thursday, 1 December 2016 at 00:34
BabelPad v. 9.0.0.1 released, with bug fixes, UI enhancements, some new features, updated for CLDR, IVD & Emoji 4.0 babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
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Friday, 2 December 2016 at 18:52
Tudor scribe practicing the England flag emoji, which (together with Scotland and Wales flags) is unfairly excluded from Unicode
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