BabelStone Twitter Archive : 2009

Saturday, 5 July 2014 at 23:12

𝕁𝕒𝕫𝕫 𝕦𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝕋𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝕊𝕥𝕪𝕝𝕖𝕣 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/text.h…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 6 July 2014 at 09:05

Unicode Text Styler now improved to allow application of style only to selected text.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 6 July 2014 at 15:06

Confusing statement that "planned date of publication is October 15, 2014" unicode.org/versions/Unico… when Unicode 7.0 was released on 16 June

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 6 July 2014 at 15:16

My tweets "translated from Slovak by Bing" -- yet another reason why I never use Bing.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 7 July 2014 at 23:25

The unauthorised history of four Unicode characters (࿕࿖࿗࿘) that will probably render as little square boxes for you babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/when-i…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 20:24

Swastikas in the Marchen and Nüshu scripts babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/when-i…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 18:22

Copies of my 1996 book 《三國演義版本考》 are still available for purchase directly from me babelstone.co.uk/Publications/B…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 20:48

ISO/IEC 10646:2014 has passed its final ISO ballot and will be published shortly std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d… (=> next version of Unicode in 2015)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 21:00

7,565 new characters in ISO/IEC 10646:2014 including Old Hungarian and CJK-E will be in Unicode next year std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 11 July 2014 at 21:52

Unicode 7.0 page has now been amended to clarify that it was released June 16 unicode.org/versions/Unico… -- thanks @unicode

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Friday, 11 July 2014 at 22:00

David Helliwell on the recent Proscholium Exhibition at the Bodleian about the Chinese Imperial Examination System oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/pro…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 15:47

How to enter and use Emoji on Windows 8.1 hanselman.com/blog/HowToEnte… -- use BabelMap says @shanselman

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 20:02

New symbol for the Georgian national currency

en.trend.az/regions/scauca… (coming to Unicode soon).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 17:14

89 Noto Sans fonts at the click of a button google.com/get/noto/#/ including Mongolian, Phags-pa, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Linear B, Old Turkic

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 21:51

BabelMap v.7.0.0.1 -- minor update that better copes with font families such as Source Sans Han with multiple weights but different names

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 18 July 2014 at 22:05

PhD studentship sorting and cataloguing the British Library Tangut Manuscripts? bl.uk/aboutus/higher… -- if only I was 30 years younger!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 20 July 2014 at 08:14

Mysteries of medieval graffiti in England's churches bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 17:32

A leaf from a medieval manuscript in an unknown script, in red, blue, and black ink, possibly liturgical in nature bl.uk/manuscripts/Vi…

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Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 17:57

A stellar set of manicules by Cade Cran losttype.com/blog/2014/07/2… Unicode has 👌🖖🖔🖕 etc., but what about gun hand, flat hands and Chinese "six"?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 21:01

T.I. Yusupova, "P.K. Kozlov's Mongolia and Sichuan Expedition (1907-1909): the Discovery of Khara-Khoto" orientalstudies.ru/rus/images/pdf…

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Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 21:02

E.I. Kychanov, "The Tangut Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts: History and Study" orientalstudies.ru/rus/images/pdf…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 25 July 2014 at 17:33

"Sic inter schachos Alphinus inutilis extat, Inter aves bubo" oed.com/view/Entry/4901 -- can someone explain why the eagle owl is so useless?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 18:15

Model Answers for the Chinese Imperial exams, acquired by Thomas Bodley in the early 17th century, by David Helliwell oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/mod…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 18:19

David Helliwell's list of Chinese books in European collections in the 17th century bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/djh/17th…

August

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Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:34

#BabelPad 7.0.0.0 finally released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel… -- supports #Unicode 7.0, and has the following new features ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:38

#babelpad Converts Webdings/Wingdings symbol font characters to corresponding Unicode characters, e.g. Webdings "m" ⇒ U+1F574 🕴

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:38

#babelpad Converts between plain characters and math alphanumeric styled characters, e.g. BabelPad ⇒ 𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖊𝖑𝕻𝖆𝖉 ⇒ 𝓑𝓪𝓫𝓮𝓵𝓟𝓪𝓭 ⇒ BabelPad

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:39

#babelpad Converts between Perl escape sequences and Unicode characters, e.g. ☕ ⇒ \\x{2615} ⇒ ☕

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:41

#babelpad Improved line breaking behaviour, based on (but not conforming to) UAX #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm unicode.org/reports/tr14/

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:41

#babelpad Option to customize normalization for Hebrew (see sbl-site.org/Fonts/SBLHebre… for explanation of issues)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:42

#babelpad Option to customize normalization for Tibetan (see thlib.org/tools/scripts/… for explanation of issues)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:42

#babelpad Ctrl+backspace after a precomposed character removes its last combining mark, e.g. ṓ ⇒ ō ⇒ o, 각 ⇒ 가 ⇒ ᄀ

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:43

#babelpad Shift+backspace after an extended grapheme cluster deletes the entire grapheme cluster, e.g. ṓ (3 chars), རྒྱུ (4 chars)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 20:43

#babelpad Shift+delete in front of an extended grapheme cluster deletes the entire grapheme cluster, e.g. 각 (3 chars), 🇬🇧 (2 chars)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 09:07

Newly discovered Pictish symbol stone at Dandaleith aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/moray/d…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 12:53

Variation selectors lead a way towards racially diverse #unicode #emoji 👉 unicode.org/L2/L2014/14173…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 13:07

Potential #emoji additions unicode.org/L2/L2014/14174… (including taco and hot dog by popular demand)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 18 August 2014 at 20:14

Icon set for The State Alcohol and Tobacco Company of Iceland (ÁTVR) behance.net/gallery/157628…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 11:51

US Copyright Office "will not register works produced by animals [e.g.] A photograph taken by a monkey" copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/… #monkeyselfie

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 August 2014 at 19:19

Thinking of quitting Twitter in futile protest at searches for "babelstone" now returning "Showing results for babelstore"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 23 August 2014 at 20:46

Survey of Free and Commercial 3rd Party Chinese Fonts pinyinjoe.com/pinyin/pinyin_… (BabelStone Han will never cover all CJK characters ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 23 August 2014 at 20:47

... but is only 277 characters away from complete coverage of the main CJK block and the next release)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 22:16

96 Google Noto fonts google.com/get/noto/#/ gives 57% Unicode 7.0 coverage (64,431 out of 113,021 characters) ... and 91.5% non-CJK coverage

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 22:33

Oops, "Noto Sans Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform" font name is too long for Windows' self-imposed 32 byte font name buffer

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:13

BabelMap version 7.0.0.3 released -- now supports pref. font family/subfamily; new Fonts Overview tool (groups.google.com/d/msg/babelsto… for details)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:19

BabelPad version 7.0.0.1 released -- major changes, with bug fixes, enhancements and new features (see groups.google.com/d/msg/babelsto… for details)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:24

Enumerating fonts by preferred family and subfamily in latest versions of #BabelMap and #BabelPad

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:27

New Fonts Overview tool in #BabelMap and #BabelPad provides summary info for all enumerated T/T and O/T fonts

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:48

Latest version of #BabelPad allows user-defined highlighting of arbitrary text strings

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 August 2014 at 22:53

Latest version of #BabelPad also allows quick highlighting by selecting text, right-clicking and choosing "Highlight"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 00:34

BabelStone Han v. 7.0.0 released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html -- 1,357 new CJK chars (CJK 819, CJK-A 129, CJK-B 263, CJK-C 146) + 68 PUA

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 00:37

It's taken me 5 years but BabelStone Han finally has complete coverage of the main CJK block babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 00:40

BabelStone Han covers 33% of all encoded CJK unified ideographs babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 00:43

Over the last 5 years I've added over 10,000 CJK glyphs to BabelStone Han, with an average time of 5 mins. per glyph babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 10:29

Tangut is hard, Tangut glyphs are hard std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 11:29

Just added the first new character to my new working draft of BabelStone Han: U+203F9 𠏹ほとけ "Buddha"

September

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Saturday, 6 September 2014 at 17:54

Study of the "Manuscript Codex Written in the Khitan Large Script" by Viacheslav Zaytsev orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 8 September 2014 at 11:14

Shang or Zhou dynasty bronze sword found in a river in Jiangsu bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-new…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 8 September 2014 at 18:31

Arrived today, Sofronov's 1968 "Grammar of the Tangut Language" (М. В. Софронов, Грамматика тангутского языка).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 8 September 2014 at 18:56

Also arrived today, Nevsky's monumental 1960 "Tangut Philology" (Н. А. Невский, Тангутская филология) ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 8 September 2014 at 18:59

... published posthumously 23 years after Nevsky was cruelly murdered by the NKVD during the Great Purge of 1937 (himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pd…)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 19:23

ISO/IEC 10646: 2014 (4th ed.) has now been published (although not yet available for free download) isotc.iso.org/livelink/livel… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 19:28

... ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…) plus Amendment 1 (std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…) will correspond to Unicode 8.0 in summer 2015 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 19:35

... ISO/IEC 10646:2014 incorporates CJK Extension E, so I guess it is legitimate to release CJK-E fonts now; the question is, ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 19:36

... should I release a first draft of my CJK-E font now (with 620 chars done) or wait until I have finished the next 2,235 chars on my list?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:21

Recipe for displaying colour fonts on Windows 7 (main ingredients @highlogic FontCreator and latest version of Firefox) ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:23

1) Take a handful of #Unicode Regional Indicator characters and mix into an html page @highlogic

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:27

2) Use @highlogic FontCreator to bake up a mixture of multicolour flag glyphs;

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:29

3) Sprinkle in some OpenType magic using the @highlogic FontCreator OpenType Layout Features Editor;

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:32

4) Serve in the latest version of the #Firefox browser (running on Windows 7 in my case) [my thanks to @highlogic]

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:38

Notes on my BabelStone Flags font: 1) Yes, I am deliberately contravening the #Unicode rules for the use of Regional Indicator characters;

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 20:39

Notes on my BabelStone Flags font: 2) No, there is no flag for Northern Ireland, as Northern Ireland does not have an official flag.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 21:26

BabelStone Flags test page using WOFF font babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/FlagsTes… (try it in latest version of Firefox)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 09:20

Arrived today, Kychanov's 1966 "Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation" (Китайская классика в тангутском переводе)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 09:23

ex libris Johannes Rahder (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_…), prof. of Japanese at Yale University from 1947 until 1965 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 09:26

...I once shared the same address as stamped on this book. It would be funny if his office in HGS was the same one I occupied 30 years later

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 15 September 2014 at 18:43

天子千秋萬歲常樂未央 -- a mysterious Chinese-style palace thousands of miles from home in Siberia siberiantimes.com/science/casest…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 15 September 2014 at 20:22

"Unicode version of Tulu script released" thehindu.com/news/national/… -- surely some some mistake ! (preliminary proposal std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 18:03

Arrived today, the crucial 1969 edition of the "Sea of Characters" (Море письмен), a Tangut rime dictionary.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 21:47

《三国演义》解释苏格兰独立公投：＂天下大势，分久必合，合久必分＂ ... 问题是三百年还算久吗？ #indyref #sanguoyanyi

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 12:10

Photographs of the Cultural Revolution by Li Zhensheng 李振盛, official photographer of the Red Guard photographyofchina.com/blog/li-zhensh…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 12:13

Photographs of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the Shanghai Commercial Press 1909-1915 by Francis E. Stafford searchworks.stanford.edu/view/th998nk07…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 17:39

ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (which includes CJK-E and other Unicode 8.0 additions) is now available for free download standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyA…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 26 September 2014 at 10:37

吉林「春捺缽」遺址：大陸最大遊牧民族漁獵遺址 chinatimes.com/realtimenews/2…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 13:46

Maps attributed to Marco Polo sketch what looks like the coast of Alaska smithsonianmag.com/history/did-ma…

October

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 04:07

At the WG2 meeting in Colombo Sri Lanka all this week, plenty of interesting stuff on the agenda std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 04:09

... Tangut, Tangut radicals, Khitan Large, Nüshu, Naxi Dongba, Shuishu, Small seal script, and controversial emoji skin tone characters

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 05:20

Unicode's skin tone modifier symbols proposal for emoji std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 05:22

Alternate proposal for Tone Modifier Symbols for Emoji

from Japanese experts std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 05:24

Alternate proposal for Portrait Symbols instead of skin tone modifier symbols from @Evertype std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 07:52

Final Tangut radicals proposal std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 October 2014 at 11:10

Tangut glyph corrections revised and expanded std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 3 October 2014 at 06:02

Unicode 9.0 (June 2016) will be huge -- currently includes CJK-F, Nüshu, Tangut + radicals, Marchen, Bhaiksuki, Zanabazar Square ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 3 October 2014 at 06:03

... at 11,630 characters Unicode 9.0 will have the largest number of new characters since CJK-B was added to Unicode 3.1 in 2001

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 3 October 2014 at 08:31

After 7 years and 35 documents totalling 250 megabytes the Tangut script is getting close to being encoded babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutD…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 16:21

Just arrived back from Colombo WG2 meeting; next year Matsue in Japan; and hopefully St Petersburg in Russia in 2016 std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 16:30

After 25 years as WG2 convener Mike Ksar hands his gavel over to Michel Suignard on last day of Colombo WG2 meeting std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 17:27

111 "Afroji" (Afrocentric #emoji symbols) proposed for encoding unicode.org/L2/L2014/14229… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 17:29

... all I can say is that there was unanimous agreement among WG2 experts this week never to encode any more realistic human symbols #emoji

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 6 October 2014 at 19:56

EAP550: Preservation of Yao manuscripts from South Yunnan (eap.bl.uk/database/overv…) via @bl_eap

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 6 October 2014 at 22:25

Presentation by SC2 chair to Mike Ksar on retiring from being WG2 convener after 25 years std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/D… … (photo by @evertype)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 7 October 2014 at 20:58

Draft additional repertoire of 11,630 characters for ISO/IEC 10646:2014 Amd.2 (will correspond to #Unicode 9.0) std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/d…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 10 October 2014 at 22:13

Three volumes of the Yongle Dadian now on display at the British Museum britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-afri… via @BLAsia_Africa

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 11 October 2014 at 12:13

Tongyin Lookup Tool -- lookup Tangut characters in four editions of the 'Tongyin' ('Homophones') babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Tongyin…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 12 October 2014 at 20:37

Did you know #babelmap and #babelpad have a secret stealth mode that does not read/write the registry? - simply run with "-clean" parameter

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 21:40

ISO/IEC 10646:2014 PDAM 2.2 now open for 3-month ballot (CJK-F, Marchen, Nüshu, Tangut, Zanabazar, etc.) isotc.iso.org/livelink/livel…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:30

"Proposal on Encoding Khitan Large Script" (395 pages) unicode.org/L2/L2014/14234… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:31

... preliminary review of "Proposal on Encoding Khitan Large Script" by Andrew West and Viacheslav Zaytsev unicode.org/L2/L2014/14233…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:36

Proposal to encode Tangut radicals (238 pages) by Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Sun Bojun and Michael Everson unicode.org/L2/L2014/14228…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 15 October 2014 at 17:52

"Tangut glyph corrections" (2nd revision) by Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Sun Bojun and Michael Everson unicode.org/L2/L2014/14209…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 October 2014 at 18:05

BBC Genome Project -- BBC radio and television listings from 1923 to 2009 genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 18 October 2014 at 13:21

"Recommendations to UTC from Script Meeting in Nepal" unicode.org/L2/L2014/14253…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 17:58

"How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it" bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-… ... sadly no mention of Unicode babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/when-i…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 19:34

"Response to the Recommendation for Nepalese Scripts" by @anshumanpandey_ unicode.org/L2/L2014/14258… -- well-reasoned and convincing points

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 October 2014 at 11:26

Egyptian Philae obelisk revealed anew using Reflectance Transformation Imaging bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 October 2014 at 11:27

... Reflectance Transformation Imaging so needs to be applied to the corpus of Khitan large script and Khitan small script inscriptions

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 October 2014 at 17:43

"Grave robbery is endemic across China ... in 2012 as many as 100,000 people across the country were involved" mongolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.nl/2014/10/1300-r…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 October 2014 at 17:46

"We used to say nine out of 10 tombs were empty because of tomb-raiding, but now it has become 9.5 out of 10" mongolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.nl/2014/10/1300-r…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 October 2014 at 19:33

Just noticed that the Tang dynasty inventory of Buddhist texts 開元釋教錄 (Taishō #2154) lists 6 copies of itself cbeta.org/result/T55/T55…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 27 October 2014 at 18:24

Unicode roadmap for the TIP (Plane 3) updated -- Small Seal Script moved to the top and so-called "bronze script" out unicode.org/roadmaps/tip/

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 27 October 2014 at 18:47

Unicode roadmap for the SMP (Plane 1) updated -- 15,888 code points still completely free unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 18:50

"The story of the Chinese [porcelain] seals found in Ireland [during the 19th century]" by Imre Galambos shahon.org/2011/06/chines…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 19:03

Imre Galambos on last month's Tangut workshop at Cambridge University shahon.org/2014/10/tangut… with @sam_vanschaik & me

November

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 6 November 2014 at 19:24

New CJK swastika character to be included in CJK-F babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/when-i… (that's 3 swastika-derived characters scheduled for Unicode 9.0)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 20:04

Coming to Unicode soon? EMOJI MODIFIER BRISTOL STOOL TYPE-1 thru 7 for U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO 💩 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_s… (h/t Karl Williamson)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 22:16

Double-printed pages of a woodblock edition of the Tangut translation of the Flower Garland Sutra (ch.45)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 22:24

Stupa and flower interlinear decoration in a woodblock edition of the Tangut translation of the Flower Garland Sutra

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 22:33

More stupas in a woodblock edition of the Tangut translation of the Buddha Names Sutra

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 23:13

Siddham seed syllable hūṃ 𑖮𑖳𑖼 in a woodblock edition of a Tangut Buddhist text

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 23:15

Siddham seed syllable oṃ 𑖌𑖼 in a woodblock edition of a Tangut Buddhist text

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 23:48

Vajras ࿅ on the loose in a woodblock edition of a Tangut Buddhist text

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 9 November 2014 at 13:44

Some examples of incidental decoration in Tangut woodblock printed texts babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutD…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 10 November 2014 at 20:09

BabelStone Han font now has a Tangut stupa symbol in its PUA -- many thanks to Chris Fynn

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 15:21

Received today, Kychanov's "Catalogue of Tangut Buddhist Monuments at the IOS of RAS" (1999) -- more on this soon!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 17:35

Tangut manuscript with three ducks (?) (and swastika) added in at a later date eap.bl.uk/database/overv… (image #3)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 16 November 2014 at 11:17

Marc Miyake asks whether Tangut comets are beautiful brooms? amritas.com/141115.htm#111…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 18 November 2014 at 20:38

Taco Bell petitions @Unicode to ensure Taco emoji is added to Unicode 8.0 change.org/p/unicode-cons… -- how did character encoding go so wrong?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 18:18

Public feedback on #emoji skin tone modifiers unicode.org/review/pri286/ -- if you have views on the subject why not make your voice heard too?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 18:33

"skin-tone modifier characters are unnecessarily politically correct, possibly racist, and out of scope for plain-text encoding"— @DougEwell

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 18:42

Unicode also soliciting feedback on 36 of the 37 Unicode 8.0 #emoji candidates unicode-inc.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/new-em… (no feedback on taco emoji required)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 22 November 2014 at 11:33

Unicode enforces religious harmony by proposing to encode Mosque and Synagogue symbols on adjacent codepoints (next to Dove of Peace 🕊).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 22 November 2014 at 20:02

Unicode trivia quiz: what are the only two Unicode characters which have palindromic character names?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 18:56

Winged immortal with enormous ears riding a dragon from a W. Han tomb mural in Chang'an babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/lost-g…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 20:19

铜骰…分别错出篆书或隶书“一”至“十六”以及“酒来”和“娇”字。“一、三、七、十、娇、酒来”等六面为嵌金地错银一周，另十二面为嵌银地错金一周。在各面空隙间用金丝错出三角卷云纹，中心镶嵌绿松石或红玛瑙。—《满城汉墓发掘报告》图一八三

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 09:23

Eastern Han mural of Liubo players coloured with "Han Blue" and "Han Purple" pigments babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/lost-g…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 11:21

Just added one more Han dynasty stone picture of Liubo players to my Liubo blog series babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/lost-g…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 15:47

Just added three more recentish discoveries of Liubo boards and game pieces to my Liubo blog series babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2011/01/l…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 15:50

I've just updated my Google map of Liubo sites (red = boards, blue = picture stones) google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 18:28

Decoding the week's news in Unicode emoji bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30253… by @BBCNewsbeat

December

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 12:11

#whiskyemoji submission to Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2014/14298… — but will it end up as WHISKY GLASS or as a generic TUMBLER WITH ICED DRINK?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 12:40

Marc Miyake on Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1922-2013) amritas.com/141206.htm#120…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:54

David Helliwell discusses the great Yongle Dadian 永樂大典 oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/yon… @bodleianlibs

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:56

David Helliwell's catalogue of Yongle Dadian 永樂大典 holdings in Europe bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/djh/seri…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:19

Princeton Conference on Dunhuang manuscripts orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 12:18

What Is This Symbol? by @TranslatorTools — learn how to identify any Unicode symbol that you may encounter translatortools.net/articles/whati…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 21:32

In 1909 Pyotr Kozlov buried 50 or so Tangut sculptures outside walls of Kharakhoto, but when he returned in 1926 he could not find them ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 21:37

... because at least some of them were found by Langdon Warner in 1923, and are now in the Fogg Museum at Harvard University ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 21:39

... this head harvardartmuseums.org/collections/ob… was photographed by Kozlov in 1909 when it was still attached to its body

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 12 December 2014 at 19:32

Contribution préliminaire à l'étude de l'écriture et de la langue si-hia (1904) par M. Morisse gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 12 December 2014 at 20:01

6 vols. of the Tangut Lotus Sutra found in a heap by the White Stupa of Miaoying Temple in 1900 during the chaos of the Boxer Rebellion

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 14:24

Should a Tangut character reflect how it is drawn in Tangut sources or how modern scholars think it should be drawn? unicode.org/L2/L2014/14301…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 17:26

Fragment of a 12th century Tangut - Old Cornish glossary covering birds and beasts.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 18 December 2014 at 18:56

Rubbing of Liangzhou Stele Tangut inscription of 1094 in Devéria's 1898 "L'Écriture du Royaume de Si-Hia ou Tangout"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 13:09

番國寶錢 -- a new type of Western Xia coin or a new type of fake? zeno.ru/showphoto.php?…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 13:54

2 pieces reportedly found in Ningxia bbs.chcoin.com/show-7777853-1… but I have learned to be sceptical about the world of Chinese coin collecting

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 15:08

Decorating the stupa — illustration of Tangut stupa in Tangut edition of "Maitreya's Ascension to the Tuṣita Heaven"

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January

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.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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".

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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> !!!

February

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!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 7 February 2015 at 05:40

Genghis Khan and Tangut by @Jakujin amgalant.com/genghis-khan-a…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

March

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 19:48

Recommendations for emoji glyph changes in Unicode charts unicode.org/review/pri294/… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

April

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 27 April 2015 at 23:23

A Web of Tangut Catalogues babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/web-of…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 00:13

#Tangut manuscript illustration of a plant ... looking particularly #Voynich manuscriptish

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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.…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

May

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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, ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 May 2015 at 22:06

#Tangut "Heaven" idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 May 2015 at 23:01

Namo Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva 南無虛空藏菩薩 idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo… #Tangut

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 00:38

Tangut Manuscript Miscellanea 2: Grains of Gold babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/tangut…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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!

June

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 12:27

Preliminary proposal to encode Old Sogdian script in #Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2015/15089…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

July

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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/

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 13 July 2015 at 11:35

Higher resolution image at dbpm.cn/auction/sdetai…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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_…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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"

August

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

September

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…

October

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

(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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

November

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-… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

December

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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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January

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/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

February

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 !

March

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/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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/

April

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 16 April 2016 at 20:26

Would there any interest? Definitely! twitter.com/zenodotus/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 29 April 2016 at 21:26

A new version of the Unicode Proposal Summary Form is released

May

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 May 2016 at 18:48

I'm sure they mean Tangut! twitter.com/FakeUnicode/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 May 2016 at 21:41

Proposal for Unicode named sequences for Japanese voiced vowels unicode.org/L2/L2016/16133…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 18:48

Small script, big proposal (50MB) ! twitter.com/srl295/status/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 19:35

BBC reports that "Google designs emojis depicting professional women" bbc.co.uk/news/technolog… —even mentions Unicode

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 21:56

I wonder if 💜 (purple heart) is indigo or violet? twitter.com/alolita/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 22:10

Need some work on those names twitter.com/Emojipedia/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

she-moji.com twitter.com/alolita/status…

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 18:37

What Google shows me when I search for Orange Heart Emoji @pauldhunt @alolita

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 21:09

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 13 May 2016 at 10:51

#mammothemoji twitter.com/dominik_schwar…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 13 May 2016 at 21:01

Yay! That takes my #UTC147 count up to six! twitter.com/alolita/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 13 May 2016 at 21:06

Indeed! #🤴 twitter.com/roozbehp/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 16 May 2016 at 11:18

好! twitter.com/andreschappo/s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 16 May 2016 at 19:31

If only the dinosaurs were here to enjoy the moment ... twitter.com/dorkrawk/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 16 May 2016 at 19:39

Case for encoding VULGAR FRACTION ONE ONETH ?? twitter.com/TiroTypeworks/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 18:31

Two Issues Regarding UAX #38 and IRG Sources unicode.org/L2/L2016/16166… #IRG #CJK #Unicode

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 19:24

Failing to get my Unicode 9.0 Marchen font to render correctly anywhere outside VOLT

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 19:52

@CJKType @fasihsignal Other characters with this component: 𠒎𠝷𣁓𤀴𨕙𨖂𪀋𪂧𪆔

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 20 May 2016 at 22:09

Draft minutes for #UTC147 unicode.org/L2/L2016/16121…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 09:22

UTC minutes are frustratingly terse, and give no hint of the discussion involved in the issues ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 20:36

128,019 random things in Unicode 9.0.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 18:09

Oops, not an emoji! @jeremyburge @FakeUnicode twitter.com/botmoji/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

June

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

@Evertype

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

July

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 15 July 2016 at 22:22

Revised Hentaigana proposal unicode.org/L2/L2016/16188… #変体仮名

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

August

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 07:45

Additional Unicode ZWJ sequences for Professions unicode.org/L2/L2016/16221… (I want paleontologist & linguist as well)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 5 August 2016 at 12:11

.@jeremyburge urges Apple to rethink Unicode gun emoji change bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 5 August 2016 at 21:49

Proposal for Tag Extended Regional Indicator Sequences (TERIS) unicode.org/L2/L2016/16234… by @mark_e_davis

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 08:51

The history of 🔫 and 🔪 emoji goes way back before Unicode twitter.com/mwichary/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

September

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 September 2016 at 23:23

Yinchuan Day 2: Ningxia Musuem and Chengtian Temple Pagoda with @cosmicore (cloudy all day)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 September 2016 at 18:10

Yinchuan Day 3: 108 stupas at Qingtongxia (still cloudy, and raining on and off)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 4 September 2016 at 19:08

Clay elephant found at the 108 Stupas in Ningxia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundr…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 22:16

Summary of Meeting on Khitan Scripts, 20 August 2016 (Yinchuan, China) unicode.org/L2/L2016/16243…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 22:19

Summary of Meeting on Khitan Scripts, 22 August 2016 (Yinchuan, China) unicode.org/L2/L2016/16244…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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, ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 20:51

... dont il y a grant plenté, et comment il les enchassent par feu."

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:05

Day 9: Stupas on the northwest corner of the walls of Kharakhoto.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:07

Day 9: Remains of the Western Xia stupa inside the city of Kharakhoto.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:13

Day 9: Islamic tomb ("Gumbaz") outside the walls of Kharakhoto.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:18

Day 9: Pottery shards are scattered everywhere within the city of Kharakhoto.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:22

What the suburgan (stupa) looked like during its process of destruction by Kozlov.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 21:38

Day 9: Datong Fort (大同城), several km west of Kharakhoto.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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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Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 17:32

Plates I, II, III, IV

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Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 17:33

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 21:41

Epitaph for Hudujin Shenmi 胡睹堇審密 dated 1091.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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-…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 22:59

Now all we have to do is work out what it means! twitter.com/cosmicore/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 :

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 30 September 2016 at 19:48

1) 2 half-star symbols and 2 half-filled star symbols accepted for encoding @kenshirriff

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 30 September 2016 at 19:50

2) My proposal for 14 Xiangqi symbols rejected in favour of 30 circled and negative circled Chinese characters unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4766…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

October

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…) ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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: 🐟👩 🐟👨 🐟👧 🐟👦

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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>

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

November

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 19:17

36 emoji faces proposed for Unicode 10.0 unicode.org/L2/L2016/16313…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 10:10

Unicode Emoji Subcommittee Terminology and Process unicode.org/L2/L2016/16337… — the five-stage process to emojidom

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 11:51

Apple & Google belatedly oppose racially segregated emoji wrestlers in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2016/16332…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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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#Tangut #西夏文 #𗼇𘝞 twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

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?!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:39

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:41

#西夏文 #𗼇𘝞 twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 22:42

#西夏文 #𗼇𘝞 twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 11 November 2016 at 21:46

Interesting contrast in emoji scheduled for Unicode 10.0 #sauna #hijab unicode.org/L2/L2016/16355…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 13 November 2016 at 20:23

catb.org/esr/unicode/th… twitter.com/the_gwalla/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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!)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 14 November 2016 at 22:46

Exactly, T. Rex's most distinctive feature is its puny hands. twitter.com/Vanoual/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 18 November 2016 at 12:19

... four new scripts: Zanabazar Square (72), Soyombo (80), Masaram Gondi (75), Nüshu (397); ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 18 November 2016 at 20:07

Provisional list of new Unicode 10.0 characters here babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Unicod…

December

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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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January

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 January 2017 at 11:04

Tangut Yinchuan, a font covering all #Unicode #Tangut ideographs and components, is now available for free download babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Yinchuan…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 January 2017 at 16:01

I just released my font for the #Unicode Marchen script babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Marchen.… (shame that complex shaping does not work under W10)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 January 2017 at 01:16

My Tongyin (babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Tongyin…) and Wenhai (babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/WenhaiL…) lookup tools have been updated to accept & display Unicode Tangut

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 5 January 2017 at 17:46

I have just released a new version of BabelStone Marchen font babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Marchen.… which works correctly with latest version of #HarfBuzz

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 9 January 2017 at 19:58

At SOAS today I find the sources for Clauson's #Tangut Dictionary (evertype.com/books/ctt1-cla…), probably all from Clauson's own collection.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 9 January 2017 at 21:48

Label on top right is 𗂰𗏣𗵒𗵫 "Golden Star of the West" (Chinese 西方金星). Taurus is the "Golden Ox" 𗵒𗅠 in Tangut, so golden in the picture. twitter.com/JeffreyKotyk/s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 9 January 2017 at 21:49

Label on bottom left is the constellation 𗾲𗵫 (Chinese 昴宿) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_Head

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 11 January 2017 at 23:06

It seems that Google Search now supports #Unicode #Tangut (which it didn't a couple of days ago)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 22:07

The Tibetan Book of Proportions—an C18 pattern book for Buddhist figures, in Newari script with Tibetan numerals. publicdomainreview.org/collections/ti…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 at 14:06

Or.8210/S.6208, including Songs of Separation for each of the twelve months. twitter.com/vaniavassis/st…

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Wednesday, 18 January 2017 at 21:25

正月孟春春猶寒，狂夫□□□□□。無端嫁得長征婿，教妾尋常獨自眠。

二月仲春春未熱，自別□□實難掣。貞君一去已三秋，黃鳥窗邊啼新月。也也也也。

三月季春春漸暄，忽憶遼陽愁轉添。嘆妾思君腸欲斷，君□□□□□□。

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 at 21:26

四月孟夏夏漸熱，忽憶貞君無時節。妾今猶在舊日境，君何不憶妾心竭。也也也也。

五月仲夏夏盛熱，忽憶征人愁更切。一步□□一山東，忽見□□□□□。

六月季夏夏共同，妾亦情如對秋風。□□□□□□□，□□□□□□□。

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 at 21:27

七月孟秋秋已涼，寒雁南飛數幾行。賤妾思君腸欲斷，□□□□□□□。

八月仲秋秋已闌，日日愁君行路難。妾願秋胡速相見，□□□□□□□。

九月季秋秋欲末，忽憶貞君無時節。□□錦被冷如冰，與□□□□□□。

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 at 21:30

十月孟冬冬漸寒，今尚紛紛雪滿山。□□別君盡□罷，愁郡作客在□□。

十一月仲冬冬盛寒，憂□獨坐綠窗前。戰袍緣何不領□，愁郡□□□□□。

十二月季冬冬極寒，晝夜愁郡臥不安。□□□子無人見，忽憶貞君□□□。

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 at 21:33

NB Text normalized to standard characters as the original text is written phonetically with many homophonic characters, e.g. "了羊" for "遼陽".

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 January 2017 at 21:36

Proposal to encode one historical Mongolian letter for Buryat Mongolian unicode.org/L2/L2017/17007…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 January 2017 at 23:39

A Mongolian Manual of Astrology and Divination (in Tibetan) publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 20 January 2017 at 19:48

Proposal to encode a Mongolian-specific format character in place of unworkable U+202F NNBSP unicode.org/L2/L2017/17036…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 20 January 2017 at 23:42

Tangut character index for Clauson's "Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary" now available online babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Clauson…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 22:33

Upside-down 福, 春 and 钱 are listed in UTR #45 at UTC-00950 - UTC00952 with status = "Not to encode" unicode.org/Public/9.0.0/u… @mo_nigeria

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 22:41

Long Unicode mailing list discussion of ↕福 in 2011-2012 (started at unicode.org/mail-arch/unic… and continued at unicode.org/mail-arch/unic…)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 24 January 2017 at 22:46

There is no appetite to encode ↕福 as a CJK unified ideograph, but I feel it is ripe for encoding as a Unicode emoji by @jenny8lee

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 25 January 2017 at 09:37

And you mean we can't specify 🍕 toppings in Unicode?! twitter.com/R2D221/status/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 01:13

按，鹿生山林，與家畜馬牛別，安能察其生爲何年爲幾歲？既紀年則自二三嵗後皆當有以名之，何獨二歲曰「𪊍」曰「䴤」曰「𪋇」，三歳曰「䴟」，餘皆無名也！ twitter.com/JUMANJIKYO/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 13:14

2 format characters will account for ~40% of a typical text, and if you misplace any of the invisible critters your text will display badly. twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 January 2017 at 09:36

Why bad programmers get Unicode Anxiety — "my entire program was designed to assume that each character is 1 byte in length" twitter.com/jshxe/status/8…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 January 2017 at 19:33

Received my copy of "A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions" sas.upenn.edu/ealc/publicati… — with 112 BabelStone Han PUA characters.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 January 2017 at 19:49

Copy of Clauson's Skeleton Tangut Dictionary that I donated on display at IOM in St Petersburg (photo by @cosmicore) evertype.com/books/ctt1-cla…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 30 January 2017 at 10:59

"The Making of Buddhist Wood Sculptures in China" by @gszhang

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 13:03

But I was in a hurry, and I forgot the link ! buddhistdoor.net/features/the-m… @gszhang

February

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Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 22:35

This allows for registration of Ideographic Variation Sequences for Tangut characters in the Ideographic Variation Database. twitter.com/unicode/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 5 February 2017 at 18:10

Direct link to Опыт словаря тюркских наречий menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/id/481451 twitter.com/cosmicore/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 15:01

BabelStone Han PUA v. 1.53 with characters for Nh (⿰钅尔 at F363), Ts (⿰石田 at F365) and Og (⿹气奥 at F366) @eisoch @henryfhchan @ken_lunde

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 15:07

Unicode characters for Nh (⿰钅尔), Ts (⿰石田) and Og (⿹气奥) are urgently needed for #zhwp ! @eisoch @henryfhchan @ken_lunde

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 20 February 2017 at 13:27

Is the new Chinese character for Nh {钅尔} read nǐ or niè? Is its traditional form 鉨 or 鑈?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 19:58

Standing Document 2 on History of ISO/IEC JTC 1: SC2 "Coded Character Sets" (1961–present) jtc1historyblog.wordpress.com/sc-2/ (me and @Evertype in pic)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 20:11

School of Oriental Studies (later #SOAS) was opened by King George V #OTD on 23 February 1917 blogs.soas.ac.uk/centenarytimel…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 20:34

All remaining unencoded simplified characters in 2nd ed. of 现代汉语词典 are scheduled for inclusion in CJK Ext. G ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 20:39

... but at least one simplified character in 6th ed. of 现代汉语词典 has not yet been proposed for encoding: ⿱𥫗劳 in 𥯨簩竹 @eisoch @CJKType

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 February 2017 at 15:40

I don't have a good feeling about this copy of Clauson's Tangut Dictionary that I posted to Moscow last week ... now on the way to Malaysia?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 19:59

Hmm, what does Netflix want from Unicode? twitter.com/unicode/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 22:10

𗵣𗖻𘓨𗤋𗄊𗧯 = 頂尊無垢總持 = Dharani of the Immaculate Buddha-Crown twitter.com/MongolsSilkRoa…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 23:18

Latest update: "Your item ... has arrived in KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA and is being processed for delivery" – yay!

March

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Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 13:12

"Confucius and Laozi at the altar" by Imre Galambos academia.edu/31654777/ —How 夫子杏壇記 "Record of the Master at the Apricot Altar" came ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 13:12

... to be translated as 𗾖𗸱𗑤𗒪𘐆 "Record of the Master at the Altar of Conciliation" [夫子和壇記] in #Tangut (see note 36 for my theory)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 20:46

My online digitized version of the catalogue (with Unicode Tangut) is here babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/1999_Ca… twitter.com/cosmicore/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 13:05

My parcel to Moscow is leaving Malaysia now. I wonder where it will go next?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 13:33

"The Uses of Early Tibetan Printing: Evidence from the Turfan Oasis" academia.edu/31675417/ by @sam_vanschaik

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 14:28

"Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change" available online in its entirety as Open Access from Brill brill.com/products/book/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 5 March 2017 at 23:44

BabelStone Han PUA font v. 1.56 has 162 additional unencoded CJK characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 8 March 2017 at 00:01

BabelStone Han PUA v. 1.57 with 15 new characters from 《汉语方言大词典》, and 17 new characters from 《金瓶梅》 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 12 March 2017 at 23:12

BabelStone Han v. 9.0.2 released with 1,338 additional CJK unified ideographs and 417 additional PUA characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 12 March 2017 at 23:19

Now to start preparing for Unicode 10.0 and CJK Extension F (I'm aiming to include at least a 1,000 Ext. F characters in next release)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 14 March 2017 at 13:50

After almost a month my parcel has finally arrived in Russia!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 19 March 2017 at 00:38

Proposal to encode 108 keyboard symbols unicode.org/L2/L2017/17072…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 19 March 2017 at 00:44

Discussion of way forward for gender-neutral human emoji — but "Don't bother with 'parent christmas' yet" unicode.org/L2/L2017/17071…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 19 March 2017 at 00:54

Accumulated feedback on Unicode 10 beta unicode.org/review/pri350/… — you too can have your say!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 19 March 2017 at 01:17

Minor update to Tangut Yinchuan font (some more PUA characters, some glyph changes, support for vertical layout) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Yinchuan…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 22 March 2017 at 13:15

Looks familiar! twitter.com/octahedron80/s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 25 March 2017 at 00:34

Discussion of how unsupported emoji sequences should be depicted visually 🐈‍🚀 unicode.org/L2/L2017/17075…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 26 March 2017 at 21:33

"It speaks Emoji!" — overheard on a trailer for the new series of Doctor Who (but is it fully Unicode compliant?)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 27 March 2017 at 23:48

BabelPad v. 10 will include a separate Japanese-style tooth radical 歯 in the Han Radical Lookup Utility (8 new Ext. F characters under 歯).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 21:49

𐐏𐐭𐑌𐐮𐐿𐐬𐐼 deseretalphabet.info/XKCD/1726.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 30 March 2017 at 11:56

England, Scotland and Wales flag emoji all fallback to the same black flag -- nice! twitter.com/ManishEarth/st…

April

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Sunday, 2 April 2017 at 15:48

First formal release of my BabelStone Flags font babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.ht… supporting Unicode colour flags for 55 countries and territories.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 2 April 2017 at 22:24

Ah, that doesn't look quite right in Firefox babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.ht… -- maybe not a good place to line break!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 00:41

Released BabelStone Flags 2.01 to fix an embarrassing mistake (also adds 22 more flags) babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.ht…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 11:34

Firefox 52 supports correct rendering of Marchen script added to Unicode 9.0 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Marchen_…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 11:38

Marchen also displays correctly on latest version of Chrome!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 11:40

For comparison, here's what it looks like on IE

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 21:58

I have just released a new polychrome version of my BabelStone Irk Bitig font for Unicode Old Turkic babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Irk_Biti…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 7 April 2017 at 23:16

"Preliminary proposal to encode Vexillology Symbols in Unicode" unicode.org/L2/L2017/17089… (personally, I don't see the need for encoding them)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 7 April 2017 at 23:20

"Proposal to add Roman Numerals Alternate Number Fours" (i.e. IIII & iiii) unicode.org/L2/L2017/17092… (maybe should also propose VIIII & viiii)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 7 April 2017 at 23:31

"Proposal to add 6 standardized variation sequences for counting rods" [𝍣𝍤𝍨𝍬𝍭𝍱] unicode.org/L2/L2017/17085…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 00:13

International Maritime Signal Flags should be proposed for encoding in Unicode en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internati…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 00:17

Flag Semaphore Symbols should also be proposed for encoding Unicode en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_sema…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 13:32

"Proposal to add one ideograph used in Teochew Dialects" [⿳⿲⿲日䜌干⿲月⿲長馬長戈心] by @WangXieyang unicode.org/L2/L2017/17083…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 13:35

[⿳⿲⿲日䜌干⿲月⿲長馬長戈心] is now in my BabelStone Han font at U+EAFF babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html @WangXieyang

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 13:36

My BabelStone Han PUA font now includes over 4,000 as yet unencoded CJKVZ ideographs babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 17 April 2017 at 00:17

With my recent acquisition of the Tangut Tripitaka (temporarily missing v.3) my #Tangut books no longer fit on one bookshelf.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 18 April 2017 at 21:56

All couples are strictly segregated by race in Segoe UI Emoji. And MS still does not endorse inter-racial wrestling.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 18 April 2017 at 23:04

Proposal for emoji for persons with red hair, white hair, curly hair, and bald head unicode.org/L2/L2017/17082…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 18:37

Now all we need is a Combining Beard Emoji and everyone should be happy.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 21:38

I've completed 827 Ext. F characters so far, and have 762 Sawndip characters still to do.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 23:38

I read it as "Unicode dragon depictions found in Siberia" twitter.com/NEAarchaeology…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 20 April 2017 at 09:25

I'd be happy if they just accepted my emoji proposals without complaining I give too much evidence but too few ngram charts. twitter.com/mfarah/status/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 21 April 2017 at 19:14

Proposal for ZWJ sequences for Unicode planet emoji (e.g. 🌐 ZWJ ♂ = Mars) unicode.org/L2/L2017/17100…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 21 April 2017 at 19:22

Proposal to encode additional Lao characters for Pali unicode.org/L2/L2017/17106…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 23 April 2017 at 16:45

I have added all these characters to my BabelStone Han PUA font babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html twitter.com/WangXieyang/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 26 April 2017 at 19:33

BabelStone Han PUA now up to version 63 and 4,007 unencoded characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 26 April 2017 at 19:40

A method for encoding Egyptian quadrats in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2017/17112…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 07:38

Proposal for 21 Science Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17113…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 07:40

Fossil fish is good, Ammonite would be better.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 12:44

David Helliwell gives some examples of papermarks on old Chinese books in the #Bodleian library oldchinesebooks.blog/2017/04/26/pap…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 29 April 2017 at 00:01

Discussion of "touching conjuncts" in Nandinagari by @anshumanpandey_ unicode.org/L2/L2017/17119…

May

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Wednesday, 3 May 2017 at 21:17

BabelStone Flags font v. 2.02 now includes 130 flags, including flags for all countries of Europe. babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.ht…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 4 May 2017 at 10:59

"Request for greater transparency in the Emoji Subcommittee" unicode.org/L2/L2017/17147…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 4 May 2017 at 19:05

"Towards an encoding of the Jurchen script and implications for Khitan Small Script" unicode.org/L2/L2017/17107…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 4 May 2017 at 19:20

Proposal to encode the "Hell pause character" unicode.org/L2/L2017/17151… (more detail and examples would be welcome)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 4 May 2017 at 19:23

Proposal to add a new block for "CJK Complex Ideographic Symbols" by Suzuki Toshiya unicode.org/L2/L2017/17150…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 5 May 2017 at 18:42

Proposal to encode a Middle Asterisk by Karl Pentzlin unicode.org/L2/L2017/17152… — seems like a good idea, but I doubt it will be accepted.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 6 May 2017 at 12:35

Proposal to move annual Unicode releases from June to February by @mark_e_davis unicode.org/L2/L2017/17155…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 7 May 2017 at 08:39

China's proposal to encode Unicode characters for three new element names (Nh, Ts, Og) appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg48… (expect in Unicode 11.0)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 19:39

unicode.org/L2/L2016/16103… we need more #dinosauremoji twitter.com/the_gwalla/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 20:57

Leaf from 1476/1477 book printed by Caxton, cunningly displayed at Reading Uni so as to be near impossible to photo. bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 21:02

My best attempt at a photograph of the leaf with no reflection or glare. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caxt…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 22:22

Talking of #dinosauremoji ... twitter.com/Informoji/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 19:11

Proposal for a Unicode Brick Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17172…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 19:12

With enough bricks and zero-width joiners we can build any emoji building we want!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 08:53

Proposal to add new block “CJK Complex Ideographic Symbols” [Suzuki, L2/17-150] — UTC shrugged and went for noodles. unicode.org/L2/L2017/17103…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 08:56

Xiangqi game symbols [L2/17-161] — Rescind acceptance of 30 Xiangqi game symbols at U+1F270..U+1F28D unicode.org/L2/L2017/17103… @henryfhchan

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 09:02

1999: Mongolian script is encoded in the Unicode Standard v. 3.0;

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 09:05

2017: "UTC is investigating the basic Mongolian encoding model and will defer action until it is better understood" unicode.org/L2/L2017/17103…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 09:13

Release schedule of Unicode Standard changing to beginning of March from 2019 (v. 12.0) unicode.org/L2/L2017/17103…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 25 May 2017 at 22:45

Any excuse to try out the new Unicode 🦔 emoji. twitter.com/van_strael/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 26 May 2017 at 09:41

Scroll down to "What's the catch?" ! twitter.com/jeremyburge/st…

June

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Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 07:50

My picture of Odiham Castle is Picture of the Day on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:F…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 15:35

New version of BabelStone Han PUA released, with 183 additional unencoded CJK characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 6 June 2017 at 11:08

Unicode Tangut :

𗢰𘓩𘉏𗲠𗔇𘋢𗥤 = 南無虛空藏菩薩 (Namo Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva)

𗈇𗏣𗮅𗓁𘓺𘟙 = 北方多聞天王 (Vaiśravaṇa the Deva King of the North)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 6 June 2017 at 21:24

Tangut paper spirit tablet: 𗯊𗣩𗣧𗸮 = 犍闥婆主 (Gandharva host) idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 6 June 2017 at 21:53

Another Tangut paper spirit tablet: 𗈇𗏣𘜶𗦁𘈈𗼈 = 北方大害施神 (who does this refer to?) idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 10 June 2017 at 12:13

I'm preparing to release BabelStone Han v. 10.0 tomorrow — last chance to request any Ext. A, B, C, E or F additions to the font.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 10 June 2017 at 15:54

Han dynasty wooden sculpture of a one-horned beast from Gansu and reconstruction of Elasmotherium gansumuseum.com/vm_bwg/wzxx.as… #cryptozoology

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 12 June 2017 at 23:10

BabelStone Han v. 10.0.0 released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html — plus 1,729 additional CJK unified ideographs, including 1,141 Ext. F characters.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 13 June 2017 at 10:11

BabelStone Han font now includes 285 new Hentaigana characters and 22 other characters new to Unicode 10.0 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 13 June 2017 at 21:41

Ah, my photograph of Yuan dynasty magic square on Wikipedia commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yuan… (not a good photo, but a credit would still be nice) twitter.com/DNeilSchmid/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 15 June 2017 at 13:10

Hmph, "and other #EastAsian languages" — other a 1,000 of them are Sawndip characters for Zhuang (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawndip) twitter.com/unicode/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 15 June 2017 at 13:18

*over* a 1,000 of them!

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Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 11:01

Ah, one of my favourite pastimes, talking to Ogham stones. twitter.com/OSaumarezSmith…

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Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 16:34

Proposal for Unicode Emoji hair modifiers unicode.org/L2/L2017/17193… by @Random_Guy_32 — more flexible approach than simple redhead emoji etc.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 21 June 2017 at 18:45

Anyone with additional evidence of printed use (esp. dictionary use) please let me know! twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…

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Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 23:20

BabelMap Online for Unicode 10.0 now live babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…

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Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 23:21

Unicode 10.0 Slide Show — 136,690 characters in 274 blocks covering 139 scripts babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/unicod…

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Thursday, 22 June 2017 at 23:24

What Unicode character is this? now recognises all 136,690 named characters defined in Unicode 10.0 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatis…

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Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 20:06

Proposal for a Mango emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17203… but mango is not very distinctive and does not seem a particularly needed emoji.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 20:12

Durian emoji would be far more useful than a mango emoji unicode.org/mail-arch/unic…

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Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 21:50

Ming Fan's optimistic proposal to encode 21 CJK ideographs from 汉语大词典 that do not have head entries unicode.org/L2/L2017/17204… ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 21:51

... problem is that IRG do not want to encode characters like these on evidence such as this, so it will be an uphill struggle ...

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Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 11:31

What gives ESC the right to decide mango is more worthy of emojification than papaya, lychee, durian, loquat, or any other popular fruits?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 11:32

There is a strawberry emoji, but what about raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, cranberry ... emoji?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 15:38

Not all Tangut. Writing practice piece for Chinese accounting numbers: 陸柒捌玖拾張 @DuffyChristina @vaniavassis @idp_uk blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare…

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Thursday, 29 June 2017 at 22:33

I find it difficult to conceive that there is as yet no Unicode toothbrush emoji @Informoji

July

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Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 11:09

Recently discovered lost Qi version of the Analects from the tomb of Marquis of Haihun have now been digitized collection.sina.com.cn/qtcp/2017-06-2…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 8 July 2017 at 21:59

Lobster emoji proposal unicode.org/L2/L2017/17217… —required to complete the set of crustaceans 🦐🦀. What about completing the set of dinosaurs?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 05:28

BabelPad and BabelMap for Unicode 10.0 are now available babelstone.co.uk/Software/

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Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 10:48

Because Mao was having trouble speaking, she asked him to write in a notepad to ease communication — does this help? bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

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Monday, 17 July 2017 at 16:17

🐪 ZWJ 🐫 = three-humped Pictish camel? twitter.com/Pseudo_Isidore…

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Monday, 17 July 2017 at 23:40

Today's fun Unicode idea: let's indefinitely extend the Unicode code space to allow for extraterrestrial symbols unicode.org/L2/L2017/17225…

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unicode.org/Public/11.0.0/…

Monday, 17 July 2017 at 23:42

The Unicode Character Encoding Stability Policies pretty much make it impossible to extend Unicode beyond 17 planes unicode.org/policies/stabi…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 17 July 2017 at 23:55

Proposal to encode the Elymaean script in Unicode by @anshumanpandey unicode.org/L2/L2017/17226…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 21:34

Heart with Knife emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17228… — what could possibly go wrong with an emoji showing a heart stabbed with a kitchen knife?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 20 July 2017 at 10:54

Character index for Unicode 11.0 includes:

Betty BOOP

Leppard DEAF

the DOOD

Zorro 1D1E9

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 24 July 2017 at 20:34

Proposal to encode Latin Letter Thorn with Diagonal Stroke for Old English unicode.org/L2/L2017/17236…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 24 July 2017 at 23:03

New proposal to add Creative Commons license symbols to Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2017/17242…

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Saturday, 29 July 2017 at 09:02

"Chinese museum offers $15,000 to anyone who can crack this ancient bone riddle" mnn.com/lifestyle/arts… (nice pictures of oracle bones)

August

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Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 20:10

BabelStone Han PUA has 4,300+ unencoded CJK characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html —1,946 Ext. G candidates, 1,130 potential Ext. H candidates.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 2 August 2017 at 13:39

Naxi manuscripts at Harvard oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/… (@Evertype)

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Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 23:36

Four Top of Head emoji for use in ZWJ sequences unicode.org/L2/L2017/17284…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 23:41

BUILD THE WALL (emoji) !

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 23:47

From Lotion Emoji to Squeeze Bottle Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17212… — what's a squeeze bottle? And why do we need it as an emoji?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 23:54

They want to add Lacrosse, Softball, Skateboard and Frisbee Emoji, but they replace Billiards/Snooker Emoji with a fortune-telling gimmick!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 4 August 2017 at 00:00

*Sliced* Bagel Emoji — if you can't easily distinguish a bagel from a doughnut why is it even under consideration? unicode.org/emoji/selectio…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 4 August 2017 at 00:07

I assume they are planning four Bottom of Head emoji showing different types of facial hair to mix and match with Top of the Heads!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 4 August 2017 at 00:14

Oh shit, the start of a whole series of anthropomorphic poop emoji to express your every emotion.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 8 August 2017 at 15:46

Emoji Subcommittee recommendations for ZWJ and TAG sequences to be considered for 2018 unicode.org/L2/L2017/17287…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 13:41

And {女聯} (F218) and {⿰禾斉} (F117) and several others. twitter.com/cosmicore/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 19:29

Comments on candidate emoji names by @Random_Guy_32 unicode.org/L2/L2017/17296…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 18 August 2017 at 16:15

Jurchen inscription (c. 1228) found in 2014 in Northern Shaanxi — incomplete but beautiful calligraphy sohu.com/a/56226426_119… #Jurchen #女真文

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 19:58

𘏨𘛧𗎭 (寶瓶宮) "House of Aquarius" on Tangut fragment recovered by @vaniavassis twitter.com/vaniavassis/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 08:47

3D/VR view of a Western Han tomb mural at Yintun, Luoyang skypixel.com/pilot/photos/3…

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Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 20:20

My map showing locations of the recent Jurchen inscriptions discovered at Shenmu (2014) and Arkhara (2015) google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 12:00

How not to write a proposal for additional Unicode characters unicode.org/L2/L2017/17306…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 13:17

The need for a basic register of emoji submissions unicode.org/mail-arch/unic… by @anshumanpandey_ (sounds familiar!)

September

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Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 21:01

孔子知道之易也，易易云者，三日。子曰：此道之美也，莫之造也。— Comparison of the newly discovered 《齊論・知道》 section from 海昏侯墓 (r) with that from 肩水金關 (l)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 4 September 2017 at 15:32

Well-preserved Liao-Jin tomb has been enclosed in a steel box and transported by cranes to a temporary site twitter.com/EvelyneFerron/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 5 September 2017 at 20:04

Proposal to encode a capital form of U+204A ⁊ and change ⁊ from a punctuation mark to a lowercase letter unicode.org/L2/L2017/17300… @Evertype

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 6 September 2017 at 09:26

UTC submission of 193 unencoded CJK ideographs for IRG Working Set 2017 (future Ext. H?) unicode.org/L2/L2017/17308…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 11 September 2017 at 21:36

Tangut printed with moveable type — the same defective type sort (broken stroke) is used on two consecutive folios unicode.org/L2/L2017/17314…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 11 September 2017 at 23:52

I've been busy recently, and I am even busier now for the next four days unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 12 September 2017 at 10:55

Draft Agenda for WG2 #66 in Hohhot 25-29 Sept. I'll be live-tweeting from the meeting (oh, it's China so maybe not) unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4800…

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Monday, 18 September 2017 at 21:23

Day 1: Beijing: Haotian pagoda 昊天塔 (Liao hollow brick pagoda); closed for renovations but still managed to take a few photos.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 18 September 2017 at 21:35

Day 1: Beijing: Pagoda of the Old Man of 10,000 pines 万松老人塔 (Yuan/Qing), an oasis of tranquillity and books in the heart of Beijing.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 10:19

Day 1: Beijing: "A Panda" 阿潘达 and Sun Wukong at Xisi.

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Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 11:12

Day 2: Beijing: The white stupa of Miaoying Temple (妙應寺白塔), constructed under the supervision of Nepali architect Araniko in 1271.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 11:13

Day 2: Baoding: Tangut dharani pillars dated 1502, and a 1350 stele commemorating the Yuan dynasty Tangut official Laosuo 老索 (1188–1260).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 13:43

Kalaviṅka (妙音鳥) from the Yuan capital of Khanbaliq. Kalaviṅka sculptures like this are a particular feature of Tangut Buddhist art.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 17:23

Day 2: Baoding: Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul.

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Thursday, 21 September 2017 at 06:01

Day 4 (am): Hohhot: Successful meeting to finalize the encoding of a set of 486 #Shuishu 水书 characters, with @evertype and Shuishu experts.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 September 2017 at 11:48

Day 4 (pm): Hohhot: Successful meeting to progress encoding of set of 1,188 #NaxiDongba 纳西东巴 characters, with @evertype and Naxi experts.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 September 2017 at 09:40

Day 5: Hohhot: The famous Liao dynasty White Pagoda (萬部華嚴經塔), with Khitan & Jurchen graffiti written somewhere on the dark corridor walls.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 23 September 2017 at 11:36

I went around the pagoda in the dark blindly taking photos of the walls — here's some Phags-pa (ꡌꡓ ꡉ = 寶塔)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 23 September 2017 at 11:37

And here are a couple of Syriac inscriptions by the Nestorian priest Särgis, with unencoded nišan sign at bottom of each.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 September 2017 at 06:37

Days 6-8: Hohhot: 3 days of intense meetings on fixing Unicode Mongolian encoding model — @lianghai and Prof. Choijinzhab in discussion

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 September 2017 at 06:39

@lianghai Proposal to change Mongolian encoding model from phonetic to graphetic met with opposition from China and Mongolia unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4889…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 September 2017 at 06:40

Day 8: Hohhot: Lunch with a Muya Bönpo lama showing us Ersu astrological books.

October

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:44

Day 7: Hohhot: Khitan small script epitaph for Xiao Dilu (d. 1114) on display at Inner Mongolia University Institute of Mongolian Studies

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:45

Day 8: Hohhot: 3-day conference on fixing Mongolian encoding model ends inconclusively unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4893…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:47

Day 10: Half-day trip to Inner Mongolia Museum, definitely to be recommended.

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:48

Nestorian tomb

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:49

Day 11: Hohhot: Escaping from 5 days of Mongolian banquets to a simple meal at the local coffee shop with @evertype

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:49

Day 12: SC2 & WG2 meetings conclude with some satisfactory results from my perspective (including badger, squirrel, swan, dodo, mammoth)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:51

Chinese iteration and punctuation marks accepted for encoding unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4847…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:52

Tangut character additions and glyph corrections accepted unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4896…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:52

Uppercase forms of early pinyin letters accepted for encoding unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4782…

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:53

Latin letter thorn with diagonal stroke accepted for encoding unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4836…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:55

Days 12-13: 12½ hours on overnight train from Hohhot to Daban (Balin Youqi) with no seat (Friday before National Day holiday).

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:55

Day 13: Balin Youqi: The Liao dynasty White Pagoda (Shakyamuni Relics Pagoda) at the northwest corner of the Liao city of Qingzhou 慶州

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:56

Day 13: Balin Youqi: Jin dynasty earth wall north of Qingzhou marking the boundary of Jin territory (金界壕) [foreground is our road].

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:56

Day 13: Balin Youqi: Liao dynasty dharani pillar with Sanskrit (Lantsa) dharani found at the tomb of Emperor Xingzong.

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:57

Day 13: Balin Youqi: Valley of the Tombs of the Kings (王坟沟) [Qingling 慶陵], a protected area not normally accessible to the general public.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:58

Site of tombs of Emperors Shengzong (遼聖宗永慶陵) and Xingzong (遼興宗永興陵); tomb of Emperor Daozong (辽道宗永福陵) is a little way to the left.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:59

Due to logistical problems (an impassable river for our car and our guide wanting to go home) we were unable to get any closer.

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 11:59

Day 14: Balin Zuoqi: The enigmatic Stone House 石房子 near the mausoleum of Emperor Taizu of Liao (遼太祖陵) [Abaoji, 872-926].

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 October 2017 at 12:00

Due to logistical problems we were unable to walk up to the valley of Emperor Taizu's tomb, which is behind the large stone in the centre.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 11:24

Day 14: Lindong: I revisit the hexagonal Liao dynasty North Pagoda, on top of a hill that overlooks the Liao Upper Capital.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 11:24

What the Lindong North Pagoda looked like in the 1970s — I guess if it had not been thoroughly restored it would have collapsed by now.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 11:26

The current situation of the Lindong North Pagoda, and the planned new park (which will still be surrounded by tall appartment blocks).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 11:27

Demolition of old houses has already started; and a sign encouraging residents to sign an agreement and move out.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 11:27

Construction of new high-rise buildings that will further obscure the view of the pagoda.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 13:40

Day 14: Lindong: I revisit the Liao Upper Capital (遼上京) and see things I missed last year ("development" of the North Wall depicted).

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Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:13

Cross-section of the west wall of the Liao Upper Capital showing mud brick construction.

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Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:14

A turtle stele base on the empty expanse of the Liao Upper Capital — 2 fragments of a Khitan large script stele were found here in 1965.

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Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:15

Replica of Liao statue of Bodhisattva Guanyin that stood here until 2007 when it was removed to museum due to 2003 earthquake damage.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:15

Her head was lost some time last century, and is reconstructed from early 20th-century Japanese photos.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:16

The original statue is not on display at the Liao Shangjing Museum (much of interest is not on display at the museum).

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Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:17

Abandoned film set for 梦萦大辽 "Haunted by the Great Liao" (whatever that is, Baidu is no help).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:17

One of two half stones lying in the middle of the Liao Upper Capital — Liao or modern ?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:18

Day 14: Lindong: I revisit the Liao Upper Capital Museum (supposed Khitan seal script seal depicted — I am far from convinced).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:18

Liao dynasty wooden burial chamber from a robbed aristocratic grave excavated in 2005 in a valley north-east of the Upper Capital.

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Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:19

Only when I get to Hohhot do I read that there is a Khitan large script inscription on the inner back wall (epic photo failure)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 October 2017 at 15:19

That must be the reason the doors were blocked with a No Photography sign that "someone" removed (but failed to realise why it was there!)

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Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 11:20

Day 15: Hohhot: I return early (skipping "Xanadu") so I can take more pictures of Hohhot Pagoda inscriptions (cursive Jurchen depicted)

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Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 06:40

Days 16-17: Hohhot to Ningbo by train, arriving late afternoon after almost 30 hours. Seems I'm missing out on all the fun here...

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Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 13:37

Day 18: Ningbo: Tianfeng Pagoda (天封塔), originally built during the reign of Empress Wu Zetian (695–696). Not really to my taste.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 October 2017 at 13:38

Day 19: Ningbo: Tianning Temple Pagoda (天寧寺塔) at 6:30 am on a dull day. Tang square brick pagoda built in 863. Now this one I do like.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 October 2017 at 13:39

The pagoda was restored in 1995, but unlike so many pagoda restorations the original brickwork was left intact where possible.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 October 2017 at 13:42

The pagoda was restored in 1995, but unlike so many pagoda restorations the original brickwork was left intact where possible.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 October 2017 at 13:42

And the bricks used for the pagoda restoration have some nice touches about them.

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Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 13:36

Day 20: Beijing Airport: Leaving China for the land of Miffy.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 8 October 2017 at 15:50

Not actually Lantsa script as @cosmicore has pointed out to me.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 8 October 2017 at 22:29

⚡️ All the tweets from my recent travels in Inner Mongolia and elsewhere now available in one handy moment twitter.com/i/moments/9171…

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Tuesday, 10 October 2017 at 08:23

Photo of Ruiguang Pagoda (瑞光塔) at Suzhou that I took 33 years ago this month, during travels over the National Day holiday.

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Tuesday, 10 October 2017 at 08:24

What the pagoda looks like now (not my photo) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ausp…

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unicode.org/L2/L2017/17375…

Friday, 13 October 2017 at 21:25

I'm really confused: emoji + ➡ = left-facing; emoji + ⬅ = right-facing

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 08:58

It's fixed now. unicode.org/L2/L2017/17375…

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Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 15:21

I believe that the proposal to encode Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong was written by @Evertype unicode.org/L2/L2017/17002… twitter.com/jenny8lee/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 15:42

@Evertype "Working on characters used in a small province of China, ..., that’s a more important use of their time". Indeed, but it's not Unicode ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 15:42

@Evertype ... Consortium spending their time working on these scripts. It was @Evertype and myself who last month were working face-to-face with ...

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Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 15:42

@Evertype ... Shuishu and Naxi people to help finalize encoding of their scripts twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 16:14

@Evertype Contributions of experts such as @Evertype and myself to development of Unicode Standard seem to be largely airbrushed out.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 16:15

@Evertype I was primarily responsible for Tangut & Marchen in Unicode 9, but can you find any acknowledgement in the standard? unicode.org/versions/Unico…

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Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 16:17

unicode.org/versions/Unico… ... but there are no acknowledgements after Unicode 6.0 unicode.org/acknowledgemen…

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Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 20:41

450 years of Anglo-Saxon typographic tradition meticulously documented by myself and @Evertype in unicode.org/L2/L2017/17236…

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Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 21:02

Proposal for 3 additional Ideographic Description Characters by @eisoch at al. unicode.org/L2/L2017/17386…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 21:05

@eisoch Two of these are already in use by me in my IDS file covering 87,882 CJK unified ideographs in Unicode version 10.0 babelstone.co.uk/CJK/IDS.TXT

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 21:10

Proposal to Add Grave and Incense [Emoji] Characters unicode.org/L2/L2017/17387…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 21:17

Seems reasonable to me, although we need a cinerary urn as well (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brit…), and maybe a Sky Burial emoji.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 21:24

Proposal to encode the MIC DROP emoji by @anshumanpandey_ unicode.org/L2/L2017/17389…

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Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 22:03

@Evertype Note also the lowercase and uppercase forms of the letter And (⁊) in both the 1566 and 1665 Anglo-Saxon typefaces (unicode.org/L2/L2017/17300…)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 22:30

After nearly two years of painful argument, today IRG finally and reluctantly agreed not to unify these two characters — thanks @ken_lunde

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 22:35

@ken_lunde The bottom character should soon appear in CJK Ext. G submission, but the battle for its survival is not over yet.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 22:38

@ken_lunde The character was proposed for encoding in 2015 as UTC-01950 in appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg45…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 20 October 2017 at 14:32

Unicode Technical Note #42: Tangut Character Additions and Glyph Corrections by @cosmicore and myself unicode.org/notes/tn42/

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 23 October 2017 at 13:41

"You must assign copyright in all photographs ... of Museum objects to Reading Borough Council" readingmuseum.org.uk/sites/default/… #copyrightheft

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at 12:57

China applies Social Credit System to foreign news organizations. twitter.com/fccchina/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 01:20

BabelMap v. 10.0.0.3 released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel… — now supports closing to the system tray (File > Close to System Tray)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 01:22

You can also configure X on title bar and "Close" on system menu to close to the system tray instead of exiting (Options > Other Options)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 01:25

use -tray command line parameter to close to system tray at start (e.g. if Windows configured to run BabelMap on start-up)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 01:26

Also has new bookmark manager; and fixes broken CJK/Tangut radical navigation.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 October 2017 at 18:53

Emoji timeline unicode.org/L2/L2017/17405…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 10:45

Post #UTC153 there are 684 provisionally accepted character additions (inc. 66 emoji) for Unicode 11 next year babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Unicod…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 20:56

BabelStone Han v. 10.0.1 released — 450 additional CJK unified ideographs and 394 PUA characters from B/S Han PUA babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 30 October 2017 at 17:09

Jewish tombstone with seven-branched menorah

theguardian.com/artanddesign/2… Why has Unicode only got an explicitly nine-branched menorah 🕎?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 30 October 2017 at 17:12

And why does Samsung alone of all the vendors draw U+1F54E MENORAH WITH NINE BRANCHES 🕎 with seven branches? emojipedia.org/menorah-with-n…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 16:45

FROWNING POO or POO WITH SAD FACE Emoji Submission posted unicode.org/L2/L2017/17407… —we thought it was dead, but it has come back to haunt us.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 21:55

Does anyone really use the Pile of Poo emoji to communicate the state of their bowel movements on social media ?! twitter.com/michielsikma/s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 23:32

"Football ground street signs are wrong" bbc.co.uk/news/uk-418137… — at least emoji soccer ball ⚽ is correct (except for Mozilla)

November

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53

Senator Angus King from Maine writes to the Unicode Consortium to express his support for the Lobster Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17408…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

unicode.org/L2/L2017/17217…

Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 23:07

Here are the Lobster Emoji proposals:

unicode.org/L2/L2017/17267…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 3 November 2017 at 16:55

Who decides what can be an emoji? — interview with @jenny8lee bbc.co.uk/newsround/4186…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 5 November 2017 at 10:00

On Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons a bot went and changed all NNBSP in Mongolian and Manchu text to an ordinary space. @lianghai @Evertype

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 5 November 2017 at 10:02

@lianghai @Evertype It's fixed now, but it's another example of why using a space character as a format character for Mongolian is a big mistake.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 6 November 2017 at 10:40

The Unicode Standard Acknowledgements have now been updated for Unicode versions 7 through 10 unicode.org/acknowledgemen…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 6 November 2017 at 23:55

Unicode Should Take a Hint from Paleontologists When Designing Dinosaur Emojis—@beckyferreira motherboard.vice.com/read/dinosaur-… (not-a-dinosaur shown)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 12:17

Looks like we need a lot more Mesozoic emoji unicode.org/L2/L2016/16103… twitter.com/upulie/status/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 23:47

Draft minutes of #UTC153 unicode.org/L2/L2017/17362…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Mammot…

Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 00:30

Apparently none of my Emoji proposals for Mammoth, Dodo and Ostrich are "well-formed", so Emoji Subcommittee won't post them to the Unicode document register.

babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/DodoEm…

babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/Ostric…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 00:44

This is an example of a well-formed Emoji proposal accepted by ESC and UTC that I should emulate unicode.org/L2/L2016/16300…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/unicod… twitter.com/khalkeus3d/sta…

Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 01:20

Since 2003 I have been the principal author or co-author of successful proposals to encode over 7,000 Unicode characters for Phags-pa, Marchen, Tangut, Runic, Bopomofo, Mongolian, Latin and Han scripts (and ~3,000 CJK ideographs in the pipeline) ... but what do I know?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 01:21

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 12:26

When will #biang be in Unicode? twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 13:57

And then someone else's Red Envelope unicode.org/L2/L2017/17023… and Mooncake unicode.org/L2/L2017/17024… emoji proposals were posted in 2017 twitter.com/eisoch/status/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 14:19

Were there 🐪 or 🐫 in Roman Britain? A brief note on the nature and context of the London camel remains — new post by @caitlinrgreen caitlingreen.org/2017/11/were-t…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 10 November 2017 at 22:14

They're really just a set of icons not emoji. twitter.com/m_strent/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 20:55

I've just released a new version of my BabelStone Flags font with ten additional flags for Southeast Asian countries babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.ht…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 20:04

Looks like Donkeys, Horses and Mules in middle of 4th row ... I think Noah could have safely left one of those pairs behind. twitter.com/jeffreyjcohen/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 13 November 2017 at 19:37

🤦 twitter.com/PublicDomainRe…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 20 November 2017 at 23:30

I've just invoked List of fictional rodents in literature in a Unicode proposal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 21 November 2017 at 16:55

1834 Biscuit at @AshmoleanMuseum commemorating the abolition of slavery, inscribed "Liberty and Plenty or Slavery and Want" commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abol… #EdibleArchives

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 November 2017 at 11:09

Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) Amendment 2.2 unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4922… including 5.007 CJK unified ideographs, 470 Khitan Small Script characters, and 486 Shuishi logograms (most targetted for Unicode 12 in 2019)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 November 2017 at 11:12

Draft repertoire for CJK Ext. G unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4922… — 5,002 characters at U+3000 through U+31389 in the Tertiary Ideographic Plane

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 23 November 2017 at 13:45

Isle of Barra's flag officially recognised ... but not by Unicode bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 November 2017 at 12:06

Today is the 80th anniversary of the murder of the great Tangutologist Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky and his wife Iso Mantani-Nevsky #OTD 24 November 1937 during the Great Purge. #Tangut

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 November 2017 at 12:17

"As he was led away, he said to his wife: "Don't touch the papers on my work desk — I will be back soon."" (academia.edu/24616385/Tangu… note 35)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 November 2017 at 12:20

"Some of his papers were found years later, but some remain missing to this day" (academia.edu/24616385/Tangu… note 39)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 November 2017 at 12:37

"Tangut Studies in the Soviet Union: the Quinta Essentia of Russian Oriental Studies" by Sergey Dmitriev academia.edu/24616385/Tangu… — "Unfortunately, the field of Russian Tangutology today is inactive and there is almost no one to resume the splendid work of the earlier generations"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 November 2017 at 12:45

It's not entirely inactive, with Kirill Solonin working on Tangut Buddhism, and @cosmicore working with me on Tangut character encoding, but certainly the field of Tangut Studies in Russia is very quiet compared with 20 years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_T…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 November 2017 at 13:07

Nevsky's "Tangut Philology" published in 1960 mostly comprises his monumental but incomplete manuscript dictionary of Tangut — he was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_Pri… for it in 1962. twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 24 November 2017 at 21:28

Prof. Kychanov's paper on the mysterious loss and rediscovery of the #Tangut "Precious Rhymes of the Sea of Characters" (𘝞𗗚𘏨𗖵 = 文海寶韻) manuscript orientalstudies.ru/eng/images/pdf…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 11:15

Behind the Curtain: How the Unicode Consortium Works unicode.org/L2/L2017/17413…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 23:26

And here is my entry for 18 September 2017 at Monk Wansong Pagoda babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/wanson… — "an unexpected oasis of greenery and tranquillity in the heart of modern Beijing"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 23:29

My travel diary currently lists "Beijing Pagodas", "Berkshire Tangut Churches", and "Ningxia Ogham" among its topics. babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/p/contents.html

December

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 19:49

Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row bbc.co.uk/news/technolog… — lazy rehash of buzzfeed article by the BBC

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 10:34

My Mammoth emoji submission unicode.org/L2/L2017/17420… has been posted to the Unicode document register after consideration and expected rejection by the Emoji Subcommittee. But the mammoth is not dead yet.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 20:55

It hurts me when otherwise great sites do not use correct Unicode character ⁊ in Irish & OE texts:

Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language uses U+2510 ┐ (dil.ie/27503)

Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 uses U+02E5 ˥ (le.ac.uk/english/em1060…)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 8 December 2017 at 18:35

Proposal by @ken_lunde to give emoji presentation to U+261C ☜, U+261E ☞ and U+261F ☟, to match U+261D ☝ which already has emoji presentation (and also add emoji presentation for U+3020 〠) unicode.org/L2/L2017/17421…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 9 December 2017 at 19:40

Mammoth in search of a #MammothEmoji twitter.com/Jamie_Woodward…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 17:32

According to Wikipedia (but citation needed): "There used to be a pair of them, but in the 1940s the Soviet garrison used cannon fire to destroy one for amusement". twitter.com/csen_nomads/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 18:20

This statement in the 2014 article is bizarre: "They also found remnants of a mural that suggests the Khitan were more advanced than historians realized"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 22:33

David Helliwell writes: "Earlier this year I was dismissed from my post on the grounds of age, a questionable and not entirely lawful practice which in Great Britain is carried out only at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and St Andrews, where it is known as "retirement"...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 22:34

... The occasion was marked by nothing more than a single message from my superior telling me to clear my office of all personal effects by 30 September. Thus charmingly were my forty-one years of service to the Bodleian Library and its collections brought to a close." ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 22:35

What a great shame for @bodleianlibs ! Please read David's great Serica blog at serica.blog/2017/12/12/the…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 14 December 2017 at 23:09

The pagoda at Kherlen Bars in 2014 (© Tetsuo Shoji) and in 2016 (© Ганпүрэв Цэдэнбатаев)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 16 December 2017 at 18:46

BabelStone Han font v. 10.0.2 released with fix for display of hentaigana plus dakuten or handakuten in vertical layout. Font now has over 35,000 encoded CJK unified ideographs and 4,444 unencoded CJK ideographs. babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 18 December 2017 at 20:27

Nice photo by someone called BabelStone commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brit… ᛋᛒᛖ‍ᚱᚫᛞᚻᛏᛇᛒᚳᚪᛁ ᛖ‍ᚱᚻ‍ᚪᛞ‍ᚫᛒᛋ twitter.com/crewsproject/s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 18 December 2017 at 20:43

Runic inscription displayed using my BabelStone Runic Berhtwald font (babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/AngloSax…) showing bind runes encoded as ZWJ sequences

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 12:27

Japan requests the reservation of a code point for the square symbol for the era name of the new Japanese emperor, to be announced shortly before the start of the new era on 1 May 2019 unicode.org/L2/L2017/17429…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 12:28

Awkward timing because if Unicode 12 release is moved to February 2019, as has been mooted, the new era name will miss the boat, and will have to wait until Unicode 13 in 2020.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 20:20

I now hear that Unicode 12 is scheduled for release at the end of March 2019, so the square era name character could still make it into Unicode 12 if the era name is announced before #UTC157 in September 2018.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 23:27

For everyone who's been asking, here's the proposal for a Yawning Face emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17432… — does it make you want to yawn?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 23:29

And here's the proposal for a Razor emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17431…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 10:31

I understand that this will be the last edition of ISO/IEC 10646 with integrated code charts due to issues with ISO/IEC bureaucracy. twitter.com/wtnelson/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 10:39

In future editions the code charts for ISO/IEC 10646 will be hosted on the Unicode website and referenced from the standard to avoid copyright issues (ISO/IEC claiming copyright over charts that are coproduced with Unicode).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 11:13

Tangut Workshop with Kirill Solonin at Yale University 18-19 January 2018 networks.h-net.org/node/22055/dis…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 11:35

Kirill Solonin at Tangut Workshop in Hamburg two years ago (middle back row; I am behind the camera) twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 December 2017 at 19:55

Proposal by @DougEwell @Evertype et al. to encode 207 legacy graphic characters (and 198 new variation sequences) used by computers in the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, and by teletext unicode.org/L2/L2017/17435…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 December 2017 at 19:59

EBNF and Regex expressions for identifying Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2017/17434… by @mark_e_davis

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 December 2017 at 21:15

Massively important discovery of 14 pillar stones with Old Turkic inscriptions in Dongoin shiree in Eastern Mongolia twitter.com/csen_nomads/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 December 2017 at 21:19

More on the future publication plans of ISO/IEC 10646 by the project editor at unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4859…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 December 2017 at 21:20

Prototype of the ISO/IEC 10646 code charts for the 5th edition at unicode.org/wg2/iso10646/e…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 December 2017 at 09:42

WTF, you do know what "et al." means? Of course I read the authorship credits, but @DougEwell and @Evertype are the only two who are friends of mine and I know on twitter. twitter.com/mexamexo8/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 26 December 2017 at 12:12

Life of Tangut Jesus by 大白高国尼卒广播台 media.weibo.cn/article?object…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 26 December 2017 at 23:01

"As per section 6 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act, 1994 showing of the middle finger is also an offence in Ireland" — that's ironic, given that the middle finger emoji was proposed by Ireland via @Evertype twitter.com/NewIndianXpres…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 22:48

Tertiary Ideographic Plane (TIP) updated to include CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G (scheduled for Unicode 12) unicode.org/roadmaps/tip/t…

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BabelStone Twitter Archive : 2018

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January

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 2 January 2018 at 23:43

Dodo emoji submission unicode.org/L2/L2017/17441…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:14

Squirrel emoji submission unicode.org/L2/L2017/17442…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 19:49

Axe emoji submission unicode.org/L2/L2018/18002…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 19:50

Parachute emoji submission unicode.org/L2/L2018/18003…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 19:53

"Proposal to reconsider compatibility symbols and punctuation used in the DPRK" by @mexamexo8 unicode.org/L2/L2018/18004…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 22:04

(rejected by the Emoji Subcommittee)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 22:05

(rejected by the Emoji Subcommittee)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 5 January 2018 at 19:28

Bird or phoenix on the last page of a #Tangut book #NationalBirdDay #NationalBirdDay

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 8 January 2018 at 23:27

I've released a Tangut IDS file babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutI… to complement my CJK IDS file babelstone.co.uk/CJK/IDS.TXT @eisoch @d_s_corbett

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 January 2018 at 19:10

Proposal for a Poison Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18019…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 January 2018 at 19:11

Proposal for a Chess Game Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18018…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 January 2018 at 19:15

If Chess emoji is accepted then we also need a Go/Weiqi emoji, and a Draughts/Checkers emoji, and a Backgammon emoji, ... and a Crossword emoji, and the list goes on and on ....

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 11 January 2018 at 19:40

Proposal to define standardized variation sequences for Horizontal and Vertical forms of Bopomofo Letter I by @eisoch and Selena Wei unicode.org/L2/L2018/18020…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 12 January 2018 at 11:10

In Duolun County where the Yuan summer capital of Shangdu (Xanadu) was located, no coinidence perhaps. twitter.com/JeremiahJenne/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 12 January 2018 at 13:46

People need to use existing emoji creatively rather than trying to get every possible concept accepted as a discrete emoji. twitter.com/KeithBroni/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 12 January 2018 at 16:13

Incontrovertibly false. twitter.com/pauldhunt/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 23:51

Response to feedback from WG2 email discussion list on PDAM 2.2 unicode.org/L2/L2018/18027…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 23:54

"The proponents are welcome to submit a proposal as described on unicode.org/emoji/selectio…" × 5 ... and the ESC will reject any proposal, however well-written, if they don't want it in the first place, so what's the point?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 17 January 2018 at 21:27

Proposal to encode the Palaeohispanic script unicode.org/L2/L2018/18030…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

unicode.org/L2/L2018/18029…

Wednesday, 17 January 2018 at 21:35

New feedback from the WG2 email discussion list on emoji and more unicode.org/L2/L2018/18031…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 15:22

Really, "asperand" is not the "official name" of the @ sign; that is just one of several neologisms that never caught on. twitter.com/BBC/status/953…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 19:49

Two documents urging the UTC not to change the DIYA emoji to a generic oil lamp emoji which vendors could well render as a lantern or Aladdin lamp:

unicode.org/L2/L2018/18033…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 23:34

Emoji Subcommittee recommendations for Emoji 11.0: "the UTC has a target “budget” of 50-70 emoji characters per release" unicode.org/L2/L2018/18023…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 23:36

As expected, Emoji Subcommittee recommends emojifying a single chess piece only (U+265F BLACK CHESS PAWN) to represent a Chess emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18023…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 19 January 2018 at 00:33

Emoji Subcommittee proposes special case mappings for U+24C2 Ⓜ unicode.org/L2/L2018/18037… (this hurts so much):

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 19 January 2018 at 12:16

A Preliminary Proposal for Encoding Mayan Hieroglyphic Text in Unicode by Carlos Pallán Gayol unicode.org/L2/L2018/18038…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 19 January 2018 at 12:24

Unicode Emoji Subcommittee's Gender Emoji Strategy (revised) unicode.org/L2/L2018/18022… : Revert DANCER 💃 to neutral, add DANCER + ♀

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 19 January 2018 at 13:12

Essential reading on Emoji gender issues: Analysis of Emoji Proposals for Gender‐Specific Additions by @Random_Guy_32 unicode.org/L2/L2017/17439…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 19 January 2018 at 20:44

This is a good one. The Committee Draft for ISO 20674-1 Transliteration of scripts in use in Thailand -- Part 1: Transliteration of Akson-Thai-Noi defines transliterations for 20 unencoded Thai characters at provisional code points pending acceptance into ISO/IEC 10646/Unicode...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 19 January 2018 at 20:52

...Unfortunately nobody on the ISO/TC 46 committee remembered to actually make a proposal to SC2 to encode these 20 Thai characters ... and now they have suddenly realized their embarrassing omission unicode.org/L2/L2018/18041…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 20 January 2018 at 10:27

甘肃武威亥母寺遗址出土250余片西夏文献 kaogu.net.cn/cn/xccz/201801…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 20 January 2018 at 11:34

Or they could just let subscribers choose what language they want to receive the alerts in. twitter.com/michellebvd/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 00:20

Fragment of the Tangut "Homophones" 𗙏𘙰 text (folio 49A) found at the Haimusi site kaixian.tv/gd/2018/0120/1…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 22 January 2018 at 16:04

Proposal to encode an Invisible Letter in 2004 ... still needed in 2018. twitter.com/aharoni/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 22 January 2018 at 21:14

Surprisingly, the Standard Telegraph Codebook of 1983 标准电码本（修订本） includes an unencoded Chinese ideograph for IQH unicode.org/L2/L2018/18045…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 22 January 2018 at 21:15

IQH is available in my BabelStone Han PUA font at EFA0 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 22 January 2018 at 21:21

Emoji Script Subcommittee Recommendations for Emoji 12.0 (deadline May 2018 for 2019 publication) unicode.org/L2/L2018/18024…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 22 January 2018 at 21:24

Yes to: Razor, Yawning Face, Axe, Parachute

No to: Mammoth, Dodo, Squirrel, Billiard Games, Troll

(anyone see any sort of pattern here?)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 22 January 2018 at 21:39

Internet-Draft by Slevinski describes an implementation of SignWriting that uses unassigned Unicode Plane 4 characters in range U+40001 to U+4F428 tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sle… h/t @DougEwell

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 22 January 2018 at 21:43

It is quite likely that allocation for archaic Chinese scripts (Oracle Bone script, Small Seal script, etc.) will be moved from Plane 3 (unicode.org/roadmaps/tip/) to Plane 4 in the not too distant future.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 at 00:03

Presentation to Unicode Technical Committee on encoding Mayan Hieroglyphs by Carlos Pallán Gayol unicode.org/L2/L2018/18047…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 13:19

According to ISO/IEC JTC1 N13635 "Proposal for future JTC 1 plans", JTC1 wants to engage in discussions with relevant consortia (Linux Foundation, Open Connectivity Foundation, Apache, W3C, CSCC) regarding open source software development ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 13:20

... the Unicode Consortium is not best pleased that it has been omitted from the list of relevant consortia, and complains in SC2 N4582 that some ISO/IEC subcommittees are ignoring the Unicode Consortium's open source projects such as CLDR.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 23:13

Ad hoc responses on emoji by Mark Davis unicode.org/L2/L2018/18051… #UTC154

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 23:16

"We are doing a single chess piece. Because they are widely supported in current fonts, unlikely to have problems" ... except for people playing twitter chess who will have huge 3D black pawns among the other pieces @Informoji

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 23:19

"1F9A0 MICROBE; add cldr keywords AMOEBA, BACTERIA, VIRUS" — not like anyone would ever want to distinguish between amoeba, bacteria and virus because they're all just tiny organisms non-one can see @Evertype

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 00:12

And in other news, the President of the Unicode Consortium is unable to put an umlaut on the name of Christoph Päper @Cr1ss0v @Informoji

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 13:44

Proposal to add G source references to 3 characters in China’s telegraph codebook by Jaemin Chung appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg50…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 14:08

"the systematic study of Dūnhuáng variant characters" sounds like a good idea twitter.com/GhentCBS/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 26 January 2018 at 18:49

The Unicode Consortium requests reserving the code point U+32FF ㋿ for the new Japanese era name unicode.org/L2/L2018/18056…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 09:58

They've changed BRICKS emoji to BRICK @Evertype @Informoji

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 10:00

But they've changed ROLL OF TOILET PAPER to ROLL OF PAPER

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 10:03

No other emoji changes for Unicode 11.0

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 17:17

Unicode 11.0 scheduled for release on 12 June 2018 unicode.org/versions/Unico…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 01:19

Unicode pipeline updated unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline… but nothing unexpected @Evertype @Informoji

February

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:35

Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 154 unicode.org/L2/L2018/18007… @Evertype @Informoji @FakeUnicode

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:44

"Change the glyph for U+1F3B1 BILLIARDS to show a cue and a ball"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:45

"Add RAZOR, YAWNING FACE, AXE,and PARACHUTE as provisional emoji candidates"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:45

"Do not accept MAMMOTH, DODO, SQUIRREL, BILLIARD GAMES, or TROLL as provisional emoji candidates"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:49

"Create new glyphs for U+13432..U+13435 based on L2/18-036 and discussion in the meeting"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:56

"The UTC will provide one of two outcomes for emoji proposals that are not immediately accepted ... (1) declines to encode; or (2) a "not now" status."

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 01:02

"Add DIYA LAMP to the provisional emoji candidate list" (backed away from changing name to generic OIL LAMP)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 09:19

By having the foresight to put Portable Antiquities Scheme photos under Creative Commons license without a no-commercial-use clause @DEJPett has made an absolutely huge contribution to Wikimedia Commons and the large number of Wikipedia articles that use PAS photos. @wikimediauk twitter.com/captain_primat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 15:29

Today's addition to my library: "Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre" tome 25: Description de la Tartarie orientale et du Tibet (Paris, 1749), including a map of the Xia (Tangut) Empire

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 February 2018 at 22:56

The 1749 map of the Xia Empire is pretty accurate, and correctly positions Etzina (Khara-khoto) and Lake Subo. If Kozlov had this map he may not have found it so hard to find Khara-khoto.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 February 2018 at 23:15

In contrast, the Western Xia Topographic Map from the Ming dynasty is not very accurate or useful for getting anywhere (modern redrawing of 1895 version shown) — Khara-khoto is shown at the top left as 鎮燕軍黑水

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 February 2018 at 23:17

This is a rather poor image of the earliest surviving 1608 version of the Western Xia Topographic Map.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 February 2018 at 23:57

A Fragment of Tangut Geography babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-frag… which includes my Index of Tangut Place Names

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 00:14

That takes the amount of money taken by the Unicode Consortium for emoji sponsorship to over a quarter of a million dollars ($251,200) since the program started just over two years ago. twitter.com/unicode/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

unicode.org/Public/emoji/1…

Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 00:32

How to Apply for an Adopt-a-Character Grant unicode.org/consortium/app…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 10:30

Rejected emoji proposals twitter.com/Informoji/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 22:28

I have just released the first version of my BabelStone Zanabazar font for the Zanabazar Square script introduced in Unicode 10.0 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Zanabaza…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 19:35

"The man and woman emoji can now have various hair styles (red-haired, curly-haired, white-haired, and bald)" — but no brown hair or grey hair or straight hair or balding hair. Why? twitter.com/unicode/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 19:44

Why define inconsistent order of ZWJ and VS characters in Unicode ZWJ flag sequences?

Rainbow flag 🏳️‍🌈 = 🏳 VS16 ZWJ 🌈

Pirate flag 🏴‍☠️ = 🏴 ZWJ ☠ VS16

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 9 February 2018 at 17:00

The History of Unicode according to XKCD (Randall nailed it)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 9 February 2018 at 17:07

... except that the bearded guy looks suspiciously like @mark_e_davis

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 10 February 2018 at 23:03

1911 photo by Maurice-Louis Branger of the Yuan dynasty "Cloud Platform" (1342-1345) at the Juyong Pass of the Great Wall near Beijing china-underground.com/2017/09/28/rar…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 10 February 2018 at 23:09

2011 photo by Andrew West of the Yuan dynasty "Cloud Platform" from the same spot babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/cloud-…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 19:47

I've just released BabelStone Maritime, a colour font for International Maritime Signal flags babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Maritime…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 19 February 2018 at 23:13

The search for emoji perfection ... in my opinion if you want a photo-perfect skateboard emoji then you're better off posting a photo of your skateboard rather than using an emoji. twitter.com/tonyhawk/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 19 February 2018 at 23:37

42 Unicode 11 characters in the next version of my BabelStone Han font (releasing next month).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 22 February 2018 at 14:49

"陈[受鸟](音shou)教授逝世讣告" news.nankai.edu.cn/zhxw/system/20… — awkward when you cannot write the name of a professor in an obituary notice (⿰受鸟 and ⿰受鳥 both not encoded) h/t @eisoch

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 26 February 2018 at 01:01

Proposal for Interracial Couple Emoji Sequences unicode.org/L2/L2018/18067… by @jenny8lee et al. — where race is defined by skin color alone, so no East Asian men or women are depicted; and even black people are just white people with skin and hair that are colored dark. #racistemoji

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 26 February 2018 at 09:53

Did I mention that I proposed 25 of these characters for encoding? (although 2 were fast-tracked to Unicode 11 on the basis of subsequent proposals by others)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 26 February 2018 at 16:00

Now revised as "Proposal for Inter-Skintone Couple Emoji Sequences" unicode.org/L2/L2018/18067…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 01:32

The next release of BabelStone Han will include some polychromatic glyphs for the first time, including Xiangqi game symbols (will fall back to black and white glyphs where colour fonts are not supported).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 12:19

I take @Unicode's commitment to helping digitally disadvantaged languages with a large pinch of salt. Last year @Evertype and myself were invited to help finalize the encoding of the Shuishu script (twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 12:21

The agreed Shuishu repertoire was accepted for encoding by the SC2 meeting at Hohhot in September 2018, and this is the response of the Unicode Consortium via their surrogate the "US National Body":

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 12:26

@Evertype and myself do not receive any Emoji money (over $250,000 to date) for our work in encoding various ancient and modern scripts. Maybe it's just my cynicism, but I suspect that Unicode would be more supportive of encoding Shuishu if it was sponsoring it from Emoji money.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 12:40

WTF do the Unicode Consortium think we were all doing in that room in Hohhot, and in email exchanges over the months preceding the meeting? We and Shuishu experts have been working on Shuishu encoding since at least 2014, ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 12:42

... and have had previous face-to-face meetings at SC2/WG2 meetings in Sri Lanka (2014) and Japan (2015). Unicode Consortium/USNB have done nothing to help, and everything to hinder.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 12:49

In other news, yesterday I joined the Unicode Consortium as a lifetime individual member unicode.org/consortium/mem… ... mutters something incoherent about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 22:47

I believe that the Emoji Subcommittee operates on the same principal -- they shout various emoji suggestions at each other and occasionally the Shadowy Emoji Overlord shouts out Emojiwang. twitter.com/jpwarren/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 22:54

(Oh, fuck, I can't spell principle)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

unicode.org/L2/L2018/18070…

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 23:06

Feedback now posted:

unicode.org/L2/L2018/18068…

tl;dr ... not Thai letters and need to make a proper proposal for them.

March

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 March 2018 at 01:22

BabelStone Han PUA now includes 4,500 unencoded characters. babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 March 2018 at 11:14

Read the whole thread! twitter.com/Random_Guy_32/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 March 2018 at 23:45

Today I took a lunchtime walk around Reading in the light snow. First stop, the Maiwand Lion (1884) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiwand_L…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 March 2018 at 23:55

Oscar Wilde (1895-1897), with the walls of Reading Gaol on the left and the River Kennet on the right.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 2 March 2018 at 23:57

Another view of Oscar Wilde.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 00:04

St James Church (1840) — unmistakably Pugin (with the remains of the north transept of Reading Abbey Church)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 00:07

Reading Abbey, founded by Henry I in 1121 (he is buried in the car park)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 00:20

Christchurch Bridge (2015) spanning the River Thames.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 00:29

Angels on either side of the west entrance to St Laurence's Church, one with a freshly-broken wing.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 00:40

Reading Station. I arrived at the station at 17:15 to catch the train home; but due to 2 cm of snow it took until 21:35 to reach Guildford, 10 miles from where I really wanted to go, and it was an hour later that I eventually got home by alternative means.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 00:50

The old Reading Station building. Interesting factoid, my great great granduncle Henry West (after whom my great grandfather is named) fell to his doom from the top of Reading Station during construction in the Great Whirlwind on 24th March 1840.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:12

Reading Gaol in the background.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 09:50

Read by John Hines as þ[-]æflæd ᚦ[-]ᚫᚠᛚᚫᛞ, an uncertain female name. twitter.com/TRegistrars/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 5 March 2018 at 14:34

"... And there be many men and women the whiche cannot speake one worde of Englyshe but all Cornyshe." (c. 1542) twitter.com/CBarnacles/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 5 March 2018 at 16:24

Retweeting for #StPirans day twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 5 March 2018 at 23:49

Towards a comprehensive proposal for Thai Noi / Lao Buhan script by @OhBendy unicode.org/L2/L2018/18072…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 22:29

Gets my vote. If it wins then it will be the first Unicode Standard cover to feature anything relating to Unicode since v. 5.0 in 2006. The last two covers were abominations. twitter.com/OxC0FFEE/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 22:10

BabelStone Han v. 11.0.0 available now: it covers 48,296 characters, including 35,716 CJK unified ideographs; and has 44 new Unicode 11 characters babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 17 March 2018 at 00:36

᚛ᚌᚑᚑᚌᚂᚓ

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 18 March 2018 at 12:30

Waverley Abbey this morning.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 18 March 2018 at 12:35

Cows and calves at Waveley Abbey.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 18 March 2018 at 18:09

This weekend I have been working on a prototype font for Khitan Small Script with automatic cluster formation babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/KSS_Test… (works on Windows 10)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 22 March 2018 at 16:57

Proposal to add decomposition mappings for three Unicode Tibetan characters unicode.org/L2/L2018/18078… — unfortunately the author forgot to read the Unicode Stability Policy unicode.org/policies/stabi… which make the proposed changes impossible.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 22 March 2018 at 23:00

The document has now been rewritten and retitled, taking into account the stability policy, and so now proposes deprecating the three characters. (It seems unnecessary to me.)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 23 March 2018 at 01:06

Top animal emoji requests on @Emojipedia for March 2018 are Flamingo, Sloth and Triceratops blog.emojipedia.org/top-emoji-requ… ... I will not be surprised to see them all in Unicode 12 next year.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 23 March 2018 at 19:06

Apple makes a proposal to encode 13 new accessibility emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18080…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 11:43

Rejang numbers are rather interesting — proposal to encode them from @anshumanpandey_ unicode.org/L2/L2018/18081…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 23:16

I really hope that S. I. Rudenko’s unpublished manuscript monograph on the "Dead City of the Ancient Tangut Empire" can finally be published! scfh.ru/en/papers/in-s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 13:01

Documents for Mongolian Working Group Meeting 2, 3-5 April 2018 unicode.org/~lisa/mongolia…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 13:30

Hmm, I wonder what is wrong with "改进的蒙古⽂编码字形模型" ?!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 31 March 2018 at 19:31

After a hiatus of more than 2 years I return to my blog with a post about a Jurchen inscription on the River Arkhara in Russia babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/jurche…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 31 March 2018 at 22:08

Rabban Sawma was supposedly entertained by Tangut Christians in Shazhou (Dunhuang) on his way to Europe, but by 1280 the Tangut regime had long since been annihilated, and it is doubtful there were many Tanguts left in what had been the far western corner of the Tangut empire. twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/…

April

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 1 April 2018 at 11:56

Mirrored at babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2018/03/j… for anyone in China. Another Jurchen post planned for later this month.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 April 2018 at 18:50

Beta version of BabelPad supporting Unicode 11.0 (scheduled for release on 5 June 2018) is now available for download from babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 April 2018 at 18:50

Beta version of BabelMap supporting Unicode 11.0 (scheduled for release on 5 June 2018) is now available for download from babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 April 2018 at 21:51

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 April 2018 at 23:29

Tangut Yinchuan font updated for five additional Tangut ideographs added in Unicode v. 11.0 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Yinchuan…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 3 April 2018 at 09:45

Today I learned from @Umihotarus that U+2CF01 𬼁 and U+2CF04 𬼄 in CJK Ext. F are kanji versions of U+0292 ʒ "dram" and U+2125 ℥ "ounce" respectively.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 3 April 2018 at 09:47

And that ⿰氵𬼁 "fluid dram" and ⿰氵𬼄 "fluid ounce" are not yet encoded. (Picture from dnp.co.jp/shueitai/konet…)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 5 April 2018 at 08:11

9 unencoded CJK ideographs in the New Standard Telegraph Codebook (Hong Kong, 1972) unicode.org/L2/L2018/18097…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 7 April 2018 at 17:10

I've just released BabelStone Han v. 11.0.1 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html, now with more than 36,000 CJK unified ideographs and 67 Unicode 11.0 characters.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 7 April 2018 at 18:22

Currently my main task is to complete coverage of CJK Ext. E characters submitted by China, but most of the 1,410 characters sourced to 《殷周金文集成引得》 are complex and time-consuming to create glyphs for — 656 left to do.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 7 April 2018 at 18:45

In the background I am preparing for CJK Ext. G likely to be in Unicode 13 (2020). I have completed 1,890 glyphs already, but still have 2,017 China-submitted characters left to do!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 7 April 2018 at 18:49

(I might just do 18 Ext. G characters right now, just so that my to do list is under 2,000.)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 9 April 2018 at 22:11

Mongolian Working Group Meeting 2 Report unicode.org/L2/L2018/18108… — it does not feel like there was much real progress, other then the abandonment of the brave attempt to radically reform the broken Mongolian encoding model.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 12 April 2018 at 09:15

A few months ago I mentioned that I did not know what had become of three of the six Tangut volumes found discarded at Miaoying Temple in 1900 by Morisse and Berteaux babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/beijin… — now I know! twitter.com/MongolsSilkRoa…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 12 April 2018 at 22:25

Recent emoji proposals (1/2):

Auto Rickshaw unicode.org/L2/L2018/18086…

Stitting & Standing unicode.org/L2/L2018/18091…

Ballet unicode.org/L2/L2018/18113…

Iceberg unicode.org/L2/L2018/18111…

Blood Drop unicode.org/L2/L2018/18092…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 12 April 2018 at 22:25

Recent emoji proposals (2/2):

Otter unicode.org/L2/L2018/18093…

Flamingo unicode.org/L2/L2018/18098…

Waffle unicode.org/L2/L2018/18087…

Butter unicode.org/L2/L2018/18112…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 13 April 2018 at 11:55

Looks like a squirrel emoji to me ... twitter.com/_xxyy/status/9…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 15 April 2018 at 20:54

Today I explore the discovery, loss and rediscovery of a golden Tangut manuscript babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/redisc…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 15 April 2018 at 20:56

And for my friends in China the post is mirrored at babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2018/04/r…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 16 April 2018 at 22:55

Discussion of Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script unicode.org/L2/L2018/18121…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 April 2018 at 19:36

Recent emoji proposals (3/2):

Banjo unicode.org/L2/L2018/18124…

Oyster unicode.org/L2/L2018/18123…

Falafel unicode.org/L2/L2018/18125…

Juice unicode.org/L2/L2018/18130…

Yo-yo unicode.org/L2/L2018/18129…

Ringed planet unicode.org/L2/L2018/18127…

Skunk unicode.org/L2/L2018/18128…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 09:56

Unicode Technical Committee docs with "emoji" in file name:

2006: 0/407

2007: 1/423

2008: 5/431

2009: 9/425

2010: 5/476

2011: 5/451

2012: 3/391

2013: 1/243

2014: 15/304

2015: 30/343

2016: 55/385

2017: 72/442

2018: 32/131

Somebody please extrapolate the emoji singularity for me.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 12:25

Nie Hongyin and Sun Bojun's review of Gerard Clauson's Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary (Evertype, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78201-167-5) in Tangut Research 2018.01 en.cnki.com.cn/Journal_en/F-F…

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Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 13:49

Today's quote from the Shadowy Emoji Overlord (aka President of the Unicode Consortium): "Emoji are a relatively small part of the work of the consortium, and should remain that way". unicode.org/mail-arch/unic…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 14:07

The agenda for the last Unicode Technical Committee meeting (#UTC154) unicode.org/L2/L2018/18006… throws doubt on the assertion that "Emoji are a relatively small part of the work of the consortium".

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 15:10

Revised draft for extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire now has 6,324 additional Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1,820 more than previous draft) unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4944… @Evertype @FakeUnicode

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 23:03

All vulgar fractions from 1/32 to 31/32, nice! twitter.com/FakeUnicode/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 20:28

Recent emoji proposals (4/2):

Kite unicode.org/L2/L2018/18135…

Pinch unicode.org/L2/L2018/18139…

Orangutan unicode.org/L2/L2018/18137…

Stethoscope unicode.org/L2/L2018/18140…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 20:48

Lot's of feedback on the proposed accessibility emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18138…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 21:17

+ Sari emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18144…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 22:50

Paper by Wang Rongfei on a newly-identified woodblock printed edition of the Tangut 1,000-character "Grains of Gold" 《𗵒𗭭𘃎𘐏𘝞》 (《碎金置掌文》) academia.edu/36507920 (important as the only known printed edition, all other versions being manuscript copies)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 22:55

My blog post on the many Tangut "Grains of Gold" fragments held at the British Library babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2015/05/t…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 April 2018 at 15:31

+ adhesive bandage emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18146…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 April 2018 at 21:35

Now it's just getting ridiculous:

+ one-piece swimsuit emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18166…

+ briefs and shorts emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18167…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 April 2018 at 21:44

Really shit proposal from Emoji Subcommittee to specify color of emoji by putting a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, or brown circle immediately after an emoji (i.e. no zwj between), e.g. 🐻○ = polar bear unicode.org/L2/L2018/18141…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 07:56

Latest Emoji Subcommittee recommendations unicode.org/L2/L2018/18143…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 07:57

Encode a skunk emoji, but because it may be confused with badger emoji, recommend that badger is depicted with brown fur.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 07:59

Yes to ballet shoes, but no to male and female ballet dancers because it's too much trouble to have any more emoji depicting human skin.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 08:05

Juice emoji accepted, but renamed as "beverage box" (emoji shown is not easy to identify at emoji size) — presumably there will be a need for a "freshly-squeezed juice" emoji as well.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 08:08

Iceberg accepted, but changed to ice cube for use in drinks. Totally unrelated to the original proposal (unicode.org/L2/L2018/18111…) so ESC are just using it as a hook to hang their own preferred emoji on.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 08:13

Sitting emoji accepted but as an empty chair, so that it can be used in ZWJ sequences such as "moderately-dark-skinned female firefighter with red hair sitting down while waiting for a call out" emoji.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 08:16

One-piece bathing suit recommended — we already have swimmer 🏊 to represent swimming and bikini 👙 to represent sunbathing, so what is the use case for one-piece bathing suit?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 08:19

Shorts emoji and briefs emoji both recommended, but why on earth are either needed? The ESC is neutral on the stethoscope emoji which seems far more useful to me.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 08:23

Finally, Yellow, Orange, Green, Purple and Brown circles for use in their bonkers scheme for specifying emoji colour twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 10:16

Overheard somewhere this morning from someone influential in the Unicode Technical Committee: "UTC meetings ... completely consumed ... nowadays ... by emoji".

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 29 April 2018 at 08:17

Agenda for #UTC155 starting tomorrow posted unicode.org/L2/L2018/18114… — you see, "Emoji are a relatively small part of the work of the [Unicode] consortium"

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 29 April 2018 at 18:14

BabelStone Han PUA is now available in WOFF2 format, almost half the size of the WOFF file babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 30 April 2018 at 19:46

(Of course I should have said that the paper is by Prof. Jing Yongshi and Wang Rongfei.)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 30 April 2018 at 19:59

Proposal by @mexamexo8 to encode a set of Shogi game pieces unicode.org/L2/L2018/18170… — the main problem is that there is very little evidence they are required as most Shogi books use plain kanji in game diagrams.

May

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 10:56

Emoji colors proposal updated to exclude the cunning mechanism for showing any RGB color by zwj-ing sequences of primary color circles unicode.org/L2/L2018/18141…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 13:12

Preliminary proposal to encode Old Uyghur in Unicode by @anshumanpandey_ unicode.org/L2/L2018/18126… — I am very much looking forward to Old Uyghur being encoded, and welcome this proposal!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 20:57

Emoji colors proposal revised yet again, this time to propose 14 new colored squares, circles and hearts to make emoji squares, circles and hearts each available in nine colors. No explanation why Squares, Circles and Hearts needed in nine colors. unicode.org/L2/L2018/18141…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 23:39

New url: unicode.org/L2/L2018/18126…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 09:18

So it seems that the proposed colored circles, squares and hearts are intended for use as visible emoji "adjectives", and not as swatches which will change the color of an emoji. But they leave open the possibility of using the color squares as colorizing swatches in the future.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 21:45

Just stumbled upon this fine "Illustration of sportsmans knife containing 80 blades from the Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851" at @ExploreWellcome wellcomecollection.org/works/yhvvcx55

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 21:47

In Manchu imprinted with imperial seal engraved ᡥᡝᠰᡝ ᠸᠠᠰᡳᠮᠪᡠᡵᡝ ᠪᠣᠣᠪᠠᡳ (hese wasimbure boobai) and 制誥之寶 ("precious imperial decree").

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 21:53

Compare Seal #14 in the 1932 postcard set of 100 Precious Seals of the Qing Dynasty babelstone.co.uk/Manchu/Qingdai… which has the same text but the Manchu is written in seal script (postcards kindly given to me by @thg250)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 22:00

If anyone (@ken_lunde) is interested in the real "sportsman's knife containing eighty blades and other instruments" here it is iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0050382…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 11:31

Buddhist Kanjur in Manchu at @ExploreWellcome wellcomecollection.org/works/qcarhzrt

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 13:21

Illustrations of plants and animals for a Tibetan materia medica at @ExploreWellcome wellcomecollection.org/works/a59n273r

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 13:23

Three leaves from a Tibetan musical score used in Buddhist monastic ritual with the notation for voice, drums, trumpets, horns and cymbals at @ExploreWellcome wellcomecollection.org/works/kt847fcq

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 13:32

All leaves are available at wellcomecollection.org/works?query=%2…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 13:37

I'm not entirely sure that this style of Tibetan musical notation can be represented in Unicode.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 14:33

Glazed tile pagoda (琉璃塔) at Beijing's Fragrant Hills (香山) photographed by John Thomson in 1871 (91 years after it was built), in collection of @ExploreWellcome wellcomecollection.org/works/zd22j6y6

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 18:13

Photograph of two pagodas in China, circa 1860, in collection of @ExploreWellcome wellcomecollection.org/works/p4ymu8s6 — 7 and 13 storey stone octagonal pagodas, probably Jin or Liao, possibly two of the pagodas at Silver Mountain (銀山塔林) north of Beijing?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 18:26

Illustrated description of the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing after its restoration in 1808, in collection of @ExploreWellcome wellcomecollection.org/works/t3eejdy6

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 18:33

The tower was destroyed in 1856 during the Taiping Rebellion. Here is an 1871 photograph by John Thomson of its bronze top wellcomecollection.org/works/hetfphut

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:58

Tibetan stupa drawing on back of a thangka painting in collection of @ExploreWellcome wellcomecollection.org/works/vraxpypm (image is mirrored for some reason) : om̐ āh hūṃ ཨོཾ ཨཱཿ ཧཱུཾ repeated in Rañjanā and Tibetan scripts.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 4 May 2018 at 21:12

Charles Bawden was head of department when I started at SOAS in 1983, but unfortunately I only met with him once, and he left in 1984 before I had a chance to study Mongolian with him. twitter.com/BuuralG/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 17:03

"Confidentiality of meeting discussions" was inserted in the Technical Committee Procedures for the Unicode Consortium (unicode.org/consortium/tc-…) in January 2017; before then some people were known to live-tweet UTC meeting decisions. Now information is strictly controlled ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 17:07

... the procedures do allow for the application of the "Chatham House Rule" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_H…), but has it ever been invoked at UTC? I think UTC meetings should be held under the Chatham House Rule as a matter of course. UTC secrecy only harms the reputation of the UTC.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 6 May 2018 at 08:24

Here are the other sides of the three sheets, including the title page wellcomecollection.org/works/t6ug7ndr

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 6 May 2018 at 23:02

Four footprints, two languages, one tile by @Katherine_McDon katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/fou…

Two languages, two scripts, two writing directions:

𐌇𐌍 𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌕𐌉𐌉𐌄𐌝𐌔 𐌃𐌄𐌕𐌚𐌓𐌉 𐌔𐌄𐌂𐌀𐌍𐌀𐌕𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌅𐌕𐌀𐌃

HERENNEIS AMICA SIGNAVIT QANDO APONEBAMVS TEGILA

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 21:55

Recent emoji proposals (5/2):

Saw unicode.org/L2/L2018/18178…

Screwdriver unicode.org/L2/L2018/18179…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 9 May 2018 at 11:58

Justification for encoding new emoji is largely based on popularity of the corresponding English word, which I think is ridiculous. Because #screwdriver is a popular hashtag, does this mean if screwdriver emoji is encoded everyone will change to use #{screwdriver emoji} instead? twitter.com/jgerity/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

unicode.org/L2/L2018/18125…

Friday, 11 May 2018 at 13:37

Falafel proposal: Give us an unambiguously vegetarian food emoji that is not just fruit and vegetables!

Emoji Subcommittee: Right, meatballs it is.

unicode.org/emoji/future/e…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 11 May 2018 at 13:41

Don't even ask me what they are thinking about waffle.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 13 May 2018 at 08:58

Fantasy proposal by Norbert Lindenberg to replace the Japanese writing system with a new Hangul-based script called Niji norbertlindenberg.com/2018/03/niji-s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 14 May 2018 at 21:18

Proposal to encode the Assamese script by the Bureau of Indian Standards unicode.org/L2/L2018/18181… i.e. disunify the Assamese alphabet from the Bengali alphabet — this could be interesting.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 13:56

Japan has just submitted a "Proposal to start the development of CJK Regional Supplementary Ideographs and terminate the development of CJK Unified Ideographs" appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~irg/irg/irg50… (it's a really bad idea btw)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 15:01

"the Japan NB has been very concerned about the proliferation of variant characters" ... ironic when Japan is the worst offender, with most of the 1,646 Japanese characters in CJK Ext. F being trivial variants.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 15:12

"the Japan NB has been very concerned about the proliferation of ... rarely used ancient/academic characters in CJK Unified Ideographs extensions" — the characters complained about are actually of great importance to scholars studying ancient (bronze, silk, bamboo) texts.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 15:13

Japan equally dislikes (and tries to obstruct) the encoding of new simplified Chinese characters. Japan basically has an "I don't like it" attitude to all non-Japanese characters, but at the same time gets very angry at anyone who questions any of their submissions.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 17 May 2018 at 19:44

The authors of the proposal obviously failed to notice that the BMP only has two free contiguous ranges (48 at 0870..089F and 16 at 2FE0..2FEF), and 0870..089F are pre-assigned for RTL characters, so the demand for BMP allocation of 104 contiguous characters is impossible.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 20:00

Revised discussion of our proposed Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script with @cosmicore and @Evertype unicode.org/L2/L2018/18121…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 25 May 2018 at 13:42

It is interesting that the Unicode Consortium recognizes "Taiwan (ROC)" as having equal status with "China (PRC)" — bravely bucking the current trend!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 25 May 2018 at 18:15

Actually the Google Maps view showing just the north fence and watchtowers looking over an otherwise invisible detention facility is more interesting to me. google.com/maps/place/43%… twitter.com/shawnwzhang/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 25 May 2018 at 18:16

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 27 May 2018 at 15:44

The Unicode Consortium is worried about people representing the "pistol" emoji facing the wrong direction (but apparently not whether it is a gun or a water pistol) unicode.org/reports/tr51/ h/t Ivan Panchenko on Unicode public mailing list

June

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 1 June 2018 at 12:47

Comments on Emoji 12.0 Candidates by @Random_Guy_32 unicode.org/L2/L2018/18191… — I strongly agree with their comments on Coloured Squares and Circles, Stethoscope, Ice Cube, and Service Animal Vest.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 13:29

Just received my signed copy of Словари кяхтинского пиджина [Dictionaries of Kyakhta Pidgin] by Profs. Irina F. Popova and Takata Tokio orientalstudies.ru/rus/index.php?… for which I provided the Chinese font covering some rare and as yet unencoded Han ideographs.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 13:30

Abstract, Contents and Introduction available as PDF at orientalstudies.ru/rus/images/pdf…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 13:37

Here is an example of one of the unencoded characters on p. 71 and p. 446: 猞{⿰犭立}猻 (@eisoch)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 4 June 2018 at 15:30

"Analysis of Shuishu character repertoire" unicode.org/L2/L2018/18193… with @eisoch

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Shuishu.…

Monday, 4 June 2018 at 21:54

Four of the Shuishu scan fonts used in this document are now freely available for download from babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Shuishu.…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 4 June 2018 at 22:00

PUA scan fonts for Shuishu 水书 and Naxi Dongba 纳西东巴文 scripts that are not yet encoded in Unicode:

babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Naxi.html

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 6 June 2018 at 00:25

BabelMap Online updated for Unicode 11.0 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 6 June 2018 at 00:33

BabelMap Online en français mis à jour pour Unicode 10.0 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 6 June 2018 at 11:27

Translation by Ma Xiaofang 麻晓芳 of a paper based on my blog post Preliminary Analysis of a Newly-Discovered Tangut Wordbook babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2015/08/p… has just been published as 新见西夏字书初探 in 《西夏研究》2018年02期 cnki.com.cn/Journal/F-F4-X…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 8 June 2018 at 08:21

Recent emoji proposals (6/2):

Ninja Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18197…

Feather Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18200…

Camouflage Helmet Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18199…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 9 June 2018 at 14:29

BabelStone Shapes is a new font covering geometric shapes, arrows and stuff, including the half stars recently encoded in #Unicode11 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Shapes.h…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 9 June 2018 at 14:34

BabelStone Xiangqi is a new font covering the Xiangqi 象棋 (Chinese chess) game symbols recently encoded in #Unicode11 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Xiangqi.… — it comes in black & white and colour versions

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 9 June 2018 at 14:37

BabelStone Mayan Numerals is a new font covering the twenty Mayan numerals recently encoded in #Unicode11 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Mayan.ht…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 11:08

Comments by UTC experts on Khitan Small Script clustering model unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4977…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 11:09

This is in response to the proposed Khitan Small Script clustering model documented in unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4943… by myself and @Evertype and @cosmicore

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 11:13

Test page for my prototype Khitan Small Script font which works just fine using existing OpenType features is here: babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/KSS_Test…

Three prototype KSS fonts can be downloaded for testing from babelstone.co.uk/Khitan/Prototy…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

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Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 11:15

"Use of space to separate clusters would be a new model ..."

I simply cannot understand this statement at all. Spaces separate words in most scripts, and spaces are required in KSS whatever clustering model. There is no added complexity or burden on implementers.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 11:16

"Editing is not ideal ..."

Editing behaviour is defined at the application level, and should not depend upon the encoding model.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 11:16

"Model requires OpenType features that are not yet supported."

My prototype font works fine with existing OT features, and @d_s_corbett has demonstrated that new OT features are not required for dynamic clustering. twitter.com/d_s_corbett/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 11:57

And anyway, space characters do not have any special function in our model. KSS clusters are typically separated by whitespace, but could be punctuation marks or 💩 ... what is on either side of a KSS cluster should be irrelevant to the font and the rendering engine.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 12:12

A Letter from Shui Community (Shuishu Users) in China: 关于水书国际编码提案研究情况的说明 unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4981…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 12:13

I originally supported the Chinese proposal, but after spending considerable time on an analysis of the Shuishu repertoire unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4956… with @eisoch I believe that the current repertoire does need to be improved before Shuishu can be encoded.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 11:24

Michel Suignard presenting the current state of the project to encode extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode at UCL London

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 14:58

Classification of Hieratic signs presented by Svenja Gülden of the Altägyptische Kursivschriften project

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 15:27

A new Hieroglyphic font created in collaboration with Montpellier 3 University presented by Pierre Fournier

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 15 June 2018 at 12:42

Day 2 of the Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs meeting at UCL — contemplating making an auto-icon of myself.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 15 June 2018 at 21:03

Shabti on display at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at UCL, where most of the participants at the Meeting on Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode went after the two-meeting finished early this afternoon.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 15 June 2018 at 23:09

I'll be there, along with @Evertype -- it should be an interesting meeting! twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 18 June 2018 at 11:51

At #WG2_67 at SOAS London discussing #emoji with @Evertype 🦕 and @jeremyburge 🦘

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 18 June 2018 at 11:55

Why no submarine emoji? @jeremyburge #WG2_67

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 09:57

Lively exchange of opinions during discussion of the proposal to disunify Assamese from Bengali (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4947…) on Day 2 of #WG2_67 at SOAS London — Mahendra Kumar Yadava speaking.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 15:14

At #WG2_67 today I presented proposals for additional characters for Gongche Notation (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4967…), Zanabazar Square (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4945…), and Tangut Components (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4957…). @eisoch @JerryYou517

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 10:56

At #WG2_67 this morning I presented for an hour on the Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4943…) ... interesting exchange of opinions @cosmicore

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 14:30

Most of #WG2_67 today spent discussing various CJK matters, including the Japanese "Proposal to start the development of CJK Regional Supplementary Ideographs and terminate the development of CJK Unified Ideographs" (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4948…) 🦃🦃🦃

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 09:22

We discussed Khitan Small Script from 17:00 to 18:00 yesterday at #WG2_67 (after spending an hour discussing it first thing that morning) — here is me trying to explain something.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 10:05

At #WG2_67 this morning we discussed contributions on Sui script (Shuishu) by Suzuki Toshiya (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4942… and unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4946…) as well as the big document by myself and @eisoch (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4956…).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 10:07

The letter from Chinese Shuishu experts (unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4981…) was noted, but it did not provide a way of progressing the encoding of Sui script. A completely new proposal is required.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 14:00

#WG2_67 at SOAS University of London finished early this afternoon, but SC2 will convene tomorrow morning for resolutions. Here is a group photo taken on Wednesday morning.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 June 2018 at 08:56

Final day of #WG2_67 at the Ministry of Truth #󠇯1984

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 June 2018 at 12:50

Proposal for an emoji sequence of "light bulb" 💡 emoji and "house" 🏠 emoji to form "lighthouse" emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18204… — this is a very bad idea as light + house is a rebus that works only in English, and makes no sense to speakers of most other languages.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 June 2018 at 12:52

Lighthouse would be a good emoji (compared with most of the current candidates for Unicode 12.0), but it should be encoded as an atomic character.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 June 2018 at 13:03

Dodo emoji anyone? twitter.com/NLNatArchief/s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 22 June 2018 at 19:36

After #WG2_67 finished for the week at 15:00 today, @Evertype and myself went to the nearby British Library to look at medieval Cornish manuscripts.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 00:06

Mary's writing practice on the back of a page in a 1571 book of sample writing hands, including "abcdefghiklmnopqrstuwxyz" in Thomas Shelton's 1650 Zeiglographia shorthand system (a few small errors: i is inverted, w is mirrored, and x & y are swapped). @Evertype

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 00:15

The four and twenty zeiglographic letters in a 1659 edition of Thomas Shelton's "Zeiglographia, or A New art of Short-writing never before published".

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 23 June 2018 at 11:39

Sample of lettre frizée calligraphy in a 1571 manual of handwriting.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 20:23

I spent all day at Cambridge today — beautiful sunny day, but I spent most of the time coding a new feature for BabelPad (which was incidental to me being at Cambridge)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 21:00

Recommendations from last week's #WG2_67 (which I attended as "expert from UK") unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4954…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 21:12

Repertoire for the final draft of ISO/IEC 10646 (5th ed.) Amendment 1 (FDAM1): 911 characters corresponding to content already added to Unicode 11.0 unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5005…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 21:13

Repertoire for the draft of ISO/IEC 10646 (5th ed.) Amendment 2 (DAM2): 609 characters corresponding to some content already added to Unicode 11.0 as well as some new content for Unicode 12.0 unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5000…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 21:14

Repertoire for the committee draft (CD) of ISO/IEC 10646 (6th ed.): 5,738 characters including CJK Ext. G, mostly corresponding to content targeted for Unicode 13.0 (but some will be fast-tracked to Unicode 12.0) unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5006…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 21:46

CJK Unified Ideographs Supplement (32 code points) is squeezed between CJK Exts. B and C — the Platform 9¾ of CJK encoding. The seven characters in this block proposed by @eisoch and @JerryYou517 are in BabelStone Han PUA at F1D3..F1D9.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 21:54

Some of the emoji accepted for encoding at last week's #WG2_67 meeting, including Dodo, Mammoth and Troll ... @Informoji @FakeUnicode

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 21:57

... oddly the expert from UK abstained on encoding these emoji, whereas the experts from the Unicode Consortium and US voted for them. twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 25 June 2018 at 20:54

How not to write a Unicode proposal unicode.org/L2/L2018/18206… — this demand for 1120 more superscripts, subscripts and small capitals is not a well-formed proposal and will simply be thrown out without consideration.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at 14:37

Could an emoji save your life? by @maryhalton bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… "Unicode are currently considering Emerji's flood and earthquake designs" — I can find no evidence that that is the case ... probably lost in Emoji Subcommittee limbo.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 28 June 2018 at 18:49

Resolutions of the 23rd ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Plenary Meeting, London, UK, 2018-06-18/22 isotc.iso.org/livelink/livel…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 29 June 2018 at 20:10

Need to complete Unicode encoding of Egyptian hieroglyphs used on the Rosetta Stone was mentioned at the Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode meeting at UCL 2 weeks ago. I think it should be a priority. @Evertype twitter.com/Eleanor_Robson…

July

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 2 July 2018 at 11:36

Unravelling an archaeological silk bundle blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare… — revealing a date in Chinese characters: 嘉定七年 = 7th year of the Jiading era (of Emperor Ningzong of Southern Song) = 1214

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 3 July 2018 at 12:04

Early 15th century Russian written in Uighur script! "Thus the note seems to be the earliest text in Russian transcribed in characters other than Cyrillic, preceding those in Greek and Latin characters for centuries." elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25… twitter.com/dmatsui1217/st…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 July 2018 at 21:53

Boy discovers mammoth bone pendant with Old Turkic (Orkhon) inscription in Yakutia siberiantimes.com/science/others…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 July 2018 at 21:56

The inscription is relatively clear but frustratingly difficult to make sense out of. The top word is probably :𐰇𐰲 üč "three", and the bottom word is :𐰉𐰆𐰞 bol "to be, to become", but the middle two words are not obvious to me.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 6 July 2018 at 21:58

In particular the second word has a back vowel o/u 𐰆 between two front consonants ök 𐰜 and äb 𐰋 which should not occur.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 7 July 2018 at 19:07

Ditto for Tangut! twitter.com/tkasasagi/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 9 July 2018 at 12:41

Love the hype: "The most important Chinese manuscript ever to have appeared at auction" — a late copy of an often-copied Buddhist manuscript has little intrinsic importance, whether written in ink, gold or blood. twitter.com/incunabula/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 9 July 2018 at 12:50

The gold-inked Yuan dynasty Tangut Buddhist manuscript recently rediscovered in Poland babelstone.blogspot.com/2018/04/redisc… is much more interesting (and even important, dare I say) ... I just hope it never goes under the hammer.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 9 July 2018 at 22:17

My apologies for the late release of BabelMap for Unicode 11.0 babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 10 July 2018 at 19:06

Recent emoji proposals (7/2):

Inhaler emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18215…

Magic Wand emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18218…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 13 July 2018 at 14:35

I think that this article clearly demonstrates that emoji are fundamentally not ordinary Unicode characters. twitter.com/mark_e_davis/s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 13 July 2018 at 14:43

List of all digitized Anglo-Saxon charters at the British Library blogs.bl.uk/files/list-of-…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 13 July 2018 at 19:41

To be brutally honest, I really like the cover of this one. twitter.com/unicode/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 15 July 2018 at 13:12

The index character 來 after the title is the 18th character of the Thousand Character Classic and indicates that this volume belongs in the 18th of 479 cases that the Chinese Buddhist canon was traditionally divided into. babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/Kaiyuan… twitter.com/incunabula/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 00:19

At the very least it is misleading to state that emoji adoption money supports "digitally disadvantaged languages". What it actually supports is encoding long extinct scripts used mostly by a small number of scholars. twitter.com/unicode/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 00:25

I'm all for encoding obscure historic scripts, but it is disingenuous to pretend that the money raised from emoji adoption is used for "digitally disadvantaged languages", which most people would assume refers to minority or endangered languages actually spoken by living people.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 18:15

Proposal for Deaf Woman and Deaf Man emoji sequences unicode.org/L2/L2018/18229… — what about deaf girl and boy? and deaf gender-neutral adult/child? or even deaf red-haired persons?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 18:33

Defining a complex sequence containing three different body parts that may each take a different skin tone modifier seems to me to be a recipe for disaster.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 18:52

More emoji documents coming soon in readiness for next week's UTC meeting. Obviously nothing here to suggest that the UTC will be dominated by emoji issues. unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 10:21

'brog mi phyag rgya འབྲོག་མི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ = "seal of the nomad". Is "Nomad" here the name of the Tibetan scholar-traveller 'Brog-mi (992-1072)? twitter.com/idp_uk/status/…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 11:38

Revised proposal for Inter-Skintone Couple Emoji Sequences unicode.org/L2/L2018/18228…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 11:45

Frisian flag Emoji Submission unicode.org/L2/L2018/18233… — already representable as NL-FR flag tag sequence 1F3F4 E006E E006C E0066 E0072 E007F {🏴󠁮󠁬󠁦󠁲󠁿} but not currently recommended for general interchange (RGI) so not supported by vendors.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 11:53

Draft proposal to add 330 new gender neutral emojis (55 gender neutral glyphs × 6 skintones) unicode.org/L2/L2018/18225…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 11:55

In order to ensure cross-platform alignment of glyph forms I think -- the proposal is not very clear, and does not give any examples of the proposed gender neutral glyphs.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 20:18

Just a reminder that the Unicode Square Japanese Era Name characters ㍾㍽㍼㍻ were encoded for compatibility only, and are not used in most calendar software, where the corresponding ordinary kanji are ordinarily used (W10 Japanese calendar shown using 平成 rather than ㍻) ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 20:23

... so there really should be no need for the mad rush to encode a new Unicode Square Era Name compatibility character for the new Japanese Emperor's era in Unicode 12.1 as very few applications use them (and those that do may not be updated in a timely manner anyway).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 20:28

Sure, applications need to update to use the kanji for the new era name when it is announced (?? in the W10 Japanese calandar shown), but they mostly don't need any new Unicode character to be encoded. The whole Unicode frenzy over the new era name is rather unnecessary I think.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 20:47

Three emoji-related documents from Mark Davis:

UTS #51: add skin-tone/gender info for groups unicode.org/L2/L2018/18223…

Emoji Skin-Tone Combinatorics unicode.org/L2/L2018/18226…

Unspecified-Gender Census unicode.org/L2/L2018/18227…

(tbh, I don't really understand any of them)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 22:19

Brief Report from London meeting of [Unicode] Egyptologists, 14-15 June 2018 at UCL unicode.org/L2/L2018/18237… (I was there with @Evertype and @r12a)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 at 22:21

Emoji Subcommittee recommendations for Emoji/Unicode 12.0 and Emoji/Unicode 13.0 unicode.org/L2/L2018/18222…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 19 July 2018 at 18:34

Proposal to encode the recently revived Yezidi script unicode.org/L2/L2018/18238…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 11:00

Difficult to be excited about this one ... twitter.com/unicode/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 22:27

Proposal for animal service vest emoji replaced by proposal for human safety vest -- more useful, recognizable and flexible; and can be zwj-ed with dog to make a service dog emoji. unicode.org/L2/L2018/18256…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 23:27

Where did it all go so wrong? unicode.org/L2/L2018/18223…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 23:41

And just a reminder, U+1F46F 👯 is actually named WOMAN WITH BUNNY EARS, and when originally encoded in 2010 it was depicted as a single woman with bunny ears in the official Unicode code charts. unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/c…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 July 2018 at 10:10

L2/17-067R2 Wancho @Evertype

L2/17-342 Cornish @Evertype

L2/18-164R2 Chorasmian @anshumanpandey_

L2/18-184 Symbol @mexamexo8

L2/18-194 Tangut @BabelStone

L2/18-221 Small Khitan @BabelStone @cosmicore @Evertype

L2/18-245 Gongche @eisoch @JerryYou517

L2/18-255 Bopomofo twitter.com/ken_lunde/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 July 2018 at 11:08

If the Unicode Consortium enforced the singularity of the character, and Apple did not willfully disregard the consortium it is a member of, then it would all be a whole lot simpler.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 27 July 2018 at 17:50

᚛ᚆᚉᚐᚂᚂᚓᚉᚓᚂᚂᚐᚉᚆ twitter.com/eDIL_Dictionar…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 29 July 2018 at 11:47

"An inscribed travertine bowl has just flashed briefly on the internet, the image now gone, the find spot unknown." decipherment.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/if-…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 30 July 2018 at 09:11

That is some panther in an image from a 15th century ms in @BLMedieval's post on medieval pilgrimages (human and animal). blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus… Are panthers commonly depicted thus in medieval manuscripts?

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 30 July 2018 at 09:17

Got to love the MVSEVM BRITANNICVM stamp. You have to be a brave librarian to do that. (A Guide to British Library Bookstamps blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare…) twitter.com/BLMedieval/sta…

August

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 August 2018 at 12:26

Japanese postcard to Mrs Phelps, i.e. Rose Janet née Hutchinson, wife of John Jay Phelps (1861–1848) of Red Towers Hackensack NJ, found in a second-hand book purchased from the #Yale Co-op in 1995.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 August 2018 at 12:27

With a limerick to Mrs Phelps on the back:

This lady resides at Red Towers

Such is named after one of the flowers,

And that is the rose,

As everyone knows,

So she is the Rose of Red Towers.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 August 2018 at 18:59

Recent emoji proposals (8/2):

Pickup truck emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18260…

Potted plant emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18261…

Tissue box emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18262…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 2 August 2018 at 22:13

John Jay Phelps (1861–1948)

And is named after one of the flowers

I hate twitter

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 7 August 2018 at 19:16

Feather emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18265…

Grave emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18266…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 10 August 2018 at 17:42

Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī riding a lion on a Tangut silk painting from Khara-Khoto hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/her… #WorldLionDay

As is the case with so much Tangut vocabulary, the Tangut word for 'lion' 𘆅𗹛 ₂ka¹₂che³ is of unknown etymology (the 2nd element 𗹛 is a homophone of 𗗯 'dog').

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Saturday, 11 August 2018 at 15:37

Contrary to China's anti-terrorism laws, three Uyghurs were found living in privately-rented accommodation in Henan and seditiously cooking Uyghur flat bread. Their landlord was fined and detained for 15 days; the Uyghurs were forcibly sent back to Xinjiang for "education". twitter.com/liuhu2017/stat…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 12 August 2018 at 13:32

Tangut clay elephant from inside one of the 108 stupas in Ningxia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:108_… — possibly the base for a statue of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra #WorldElephantDay

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 12 August 2018 at 13:38

There are five possible Tangut words for 'elephant' : 𗦵𘇇 ¹py₁ ²bu₄, 𘁔𗵚 ²rer₁ ¹bu₃, 𘁆𘁉 ²khan₄ ²ngwo₁, 𘁊𘁉 ²lhiq₄ ²ngwo₁, 𘑞𘁉 ²zon₁ ²ngwo₁, but like much of Tangut vocabulary we do not know what each of these words exactly mean.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 13 August 2018 at 21:04

First eleven letters of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet (ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳᚷᚹᚻᚾᛁ). twitter.com/liddyprosser/s…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 13 August 2018 at 21:06

The PAS record (finds.org.uk/database/artef…) reads the mostly missing letters at the 7th and 8th positions as the letter 'e' ᛖ (which is normally the 19th letter), but the three surviving strokes look like the remains of the expected letters 'g' ᚷ and 'w' ᚹ to me.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 13 August 2018 at 21:11

The PAS record gives the penultimate letter as 'g' ᚷ, but I think it is clearly the expected letter 'n' ᚾ. Thus the inscription reads f-u-þ-o-r-c-g-w-h-n-i ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳᚷᚹᚻᚾᛁ, the normal first eleven letters of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet or fuþorc.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 13 August 2018 at 21:19

Compare with the Malton runic pin held at the British Museum which is also engraved with eleven letters of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, f-u-þ-o-r-c-g-l-a-æ-e ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳᚷᛚᚪᚫᛖ, but mistakenly with 'l' ᛚ for 'w' ᚹ, and three vowels after the first eight runic letters.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 09:36

ON BM Add. MS 47967 f. 1 are neatly written the Anglo-Saxon runes y-r-þ-e-r-o-ng-t-ng-æ-o-n-ḡ-o-n-ḡ ᚣᚱᚦᛖᚱᚩᛝᛏᛝᚫᚩᚾᚸᚩᚾᚸ incongruously annotated as a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-l-m-n-o-p-r-s. bl.uk/catalogues/ill…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 09:38

It is difficult to make any sense of them. They could be the key to a runic cipher except that several runes are used several times. Page 1973 honestly admits "I have no idea what their significance is".

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 20:25

Another Anglo-Saxon disc-headed pin with a runic inscription, found at Bardney in Lincolnshire, this time engraved with the 15th through 25th letters of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet: ᛉᛋᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛝᛞᛟᚪ x-s-t-b-e-m-l-ng-d-oe-a finds.org.uk/database/artef…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 20:32

The inscription comprises 11 runes, as is the case with the other two Anglo-Saxon runic-inscribed disc-headed pins. The order of runes on this pin exactly matches the order given in the Vienna Codex (Codex Vindobonensis 795).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 09:20

If the standard Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet has 28 letters; and A/S Pin A has runes #1-11; and A/S Pin B has runes #15-25; then I surmise that runic pins like this were part of a set of four matching items, ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 09:27

... two disc-headed pins with 11 runes engraved on each (#1-11 and #15-25), together with two other items of jewellery with three runes engraved on each (#12-14 j-eo-p ᛄᛇᛈ and #26-28 æ-y-ea ᚫᚣᛠ).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 21:52

How many couple emojis would there be if you allow for 3 genders and 6 skin tones and 5 hair types (neutral, red, white, curly, bald) for each person in the pair? And what about beards and tattoos and wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs and ... and still none of them look like me!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 17:47

Whenever I go to the British Museum, as I did today, I get to this Ogham stone from Devon, and just stop and gaze at it for ten minutes. For me it is one of the most perfect objects in the museum.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 17:49

FANONI MAQVI RINI on the front

SAGRANVI on the back

ᚄᚃᚐᚊᚊᚒᚉᚔ and ᚋᚐᚊᚔᚊᚔᚉᚔ around the edge

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 18:02

Ogham-inscribed jewellery is very rare. This amber bead from Co. Clare is inscribed with a magical word in Ogham script that Macalister, with no great conviction, reads as ATUCMLU ᚐᚈᚒᚉᚋᚂᚒ (-CMLU visible in the image, the V-shaped mark below the stemline is U apparently).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 18:27

This set of three linked Anglo-Saxon disc-headed pins shows how the runic-inscribed disc-headed pins might have been linked (the Malton pin has a hole for linking on the right side), with runes #12-14 and #26-28 engraved on the linking pieces.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 19:03

The Anglo-Saxon runic-inscribed Seax of Beagnoth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seax_of_B…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 19:10

Detail of the wire-inlaid runic inscription, comprising the 28 letters of the standard Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet (ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳᚷᚹᚻᚾᛁᛄᛇᛈᛉᛋᛏᛒᛖᛝᛞᛚᛗᛟᚪᚫᚣᛠ) and the name Beagnoþ ᛒᛠᚷᚾᚩᚦ.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 20:00

Anglo-Saxon gold runic ring, found in June 1817 at Kingmoor near Carlisle, and inscribed with an uninterpretable inscription comprising 30 Anglo-Saxon runes (last 3 on inside):

+ÆRKRIUFLTKRIURIÞONGLÆSTÆPON / TOL

᛭ᚫᚱᛣᚱᛁᚢᚠᛚᛏᛣᚱᛁᚢᚱᛁᚦᚩᚾᚷᛚᚫᛋᛏᚫᛈᚩᚾ / ᛏᚩᛚ

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 20:32

Anglo-Saxon stone cross-head from St Mary's Church, Lancaster, inscribed with runes reading: ᚷᛁᛒᛁᛞᚫᚦᚠᚩ | ᚱᚫᚳᚣᚾᛁᛒᚪᛚ | ᚦᚳᚢᚦᛒᛖᚱᛖ[ᚻᛏ] ''gibidæþ foræ cynibalþ cuþbere[ht]'' ("Pray for Cynibalth, Cuthbert").

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 20:36

Detail of the runic inscription.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Friday, 17 August 2018 at 23:42

"I believe the true line of research lies in the careful noting and comparison of the smallest details" — Flinders Petrie, 1931. On the entrance staircase to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 21:51

I saw this as I left the museum, but it kept gnawing away at me as I walked through the streets of London, and so I had to turn back and take a photo. Petrie's words have haunted me every since, as I patiently but belatedly try to untangle the Tangut script. Eight years too late.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 20 August 2018 at 09:01

Beautiful and unusual example of the use of the X-shaped supplementary ogham letter k ᚕ. Three of the stones in this cluster commemorate members of the Toicacas tribe, twice spelt normally as TOICACI ᚈᚑᚔᚉᚐᚉᚔ, but once spelt TOICAKI ᚈᚑᚔᚉᚐᚕᚔ (as shown on the photo). twitter.com/Vkkokko/status…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 21 August 2018 at 16:37

A brick, a couple of bricks, or a brick wall? Looks like the vendors are waiting for Apple to tell them all how to the draw the *Brick* emoji. Proposal was for a single brick (unicode.org/L2/L2017/17172…), but I predict brick wall will win in the end ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 21 August 2018 at 16:41

... in the meantime don't be surprised if your emoji-tweet about a wall crumbles into a single brick on someone else's device.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 27 August 2018 at 18:08

"A bit of Tangut printing" from T. F. Carter's "The invention of printing in China and its spread westward" (1931) twitter.com/shugeorg/statu…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Monday, 27 August 2018 at 18:24

T. M. 188 (T. M. = Manuscripte aus Turkistan) means collected from Turfan by Albert Von Le Coq, and held at the Museum für Völkerkunde (now the Ethnological Museum of Berlin) — Berlin Turfan collection not digitized under IDP? @idp_uk

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 00:24

Here's my transcription of the Tangut text with the corresponding Chinese version:

𗧓𘌽𘛽𗍊𘉏𗲠 = ...如我此身空處

𗈐𗌮𗒘𗍊𘗫𗾫 = ...如如無妄想

？𗫌𘐩𘋢𗥤𗗙 = ...出家菩薩住

𘗀𘍞𘏋𘟂𗥗𗁆 = 是名...修滿...。長者！

𗳒𗤁𘏞𗓽𗕥𘍞 = ...滿六波羅蜜。

𗨄𗌭𗠝𘍑𘎑𗯩 = ...知阿練兒處。

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 00:25

It seems to be a translation of part of ch. 82 of the Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra 大寶積經 (Sutra of the Heap of Jewels) tripitaka.cbeta.org/T11n0310_082#0…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 30 August 2018 at 19:35

Recent emoji proposals (9/2):

Capsicum emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18277…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 30 August 2018 at 19:38

The proposed capsicum emoji is red and has the proposed keyword "red", but capsicum are also commonly green, and often yellow. At emoji size it looks like a red apple (or a green apple if it were green). Still, only another 500 varieties of fruit and vegetable emoji needed.

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Friday, 31 August 2018 at 10:15

ᚴᚢᚱᛁᛚᛋᛅᚱᚦᚢᛅᚱᛅᚠᛅᚱᚦᚢᚾᚢᚠᚢᚾᛏᛁᚾᛁᛋᛏᚢᚦᚢᚱᚢᛁᚵᛁᚦᛁᚴ

ᚦᚨᚱᛋᛅᛏᚱᚢᛏᛁᚾᛁᚢᚱᛁᛚᛋᛅᚱᚦᚢᛅᚱᛅᚢᛁᚦᚱᛅᚦᚱᛅᚢᛅᚱᛁ

kurilsarþuarafarþunufuntinistuþuruigiþik

þorsatrutiniurilsarþuarauiþraþrauari twitter.com/wyrdwritere/st…

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Friday, 31 August 2018 at 10:28

Transcription into Old Norse:

Gyril sárþvara, far þú nú, fundinn ertu. Þórr vígi þik,

þursa dróttin, [G]yril sárþvara. Við æðrafari.

John McKinnell and Rudolf Simek with Klaus Düwel, "Runes, Magic and Religion : A Sourcebook" (Vienna: Fassbaender, 2004) dro.dur.ac.uk/1053/1/

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Friday, 31 August 2018 at 10:30

And translation into English from the same source:

Gyril wound-stirrer, go now! You are found! May Þórr ‘hallow’ you, lord of ogres (= demons), (G)yril wound-stirrer. Against rushing (infection?) in the veins.

September

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Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 13:16

I just mapped the location of all 200+ tombs at the Western Xia imperial cemetery at Yinchuan google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

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Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 14:59

Account of my visits to the Western Xia tombs at Yinchuan in 2016:

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Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 10:10

On Tuesday I visited St Peter's, parish church of Farnborough, to look at the exquisite medieval (early 13th century) wall paintings of three female saints. babeldiary.blogspot.com/2018/09/farnbo…

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Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 10:13

Saint Eugenia, holding her breast with her right hand to show she is a woman, and thus prove her innocence to a charge of adultery while secretly living as an abbot. This may be the only surviving medieval depiction of Eugenia in England.

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Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 10:16

Saint Agnes, who was martyred for refusing to marry the son of the Prefect of Rome.

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Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 10:21

Saint Maria, identified as Mary Magdalene by the pot of ointment for anointing the feet of Jesus that she holds. Painted in semi-profile this picture is particularly stunning in its lifelikeness.

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Friday, 14 September 2018 at 11:48

Continuing to catch up on the backlog for my photo diary for 2016, I have just published the account of my visit to the Western Xia twin pagodas at Baisikou in Ningxia babelstone.co.uk/BabelDiary/201…

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Friday, 14 September 2018 at 11:53

Western Xia Imperial Tombs seek world heritage status xinhuanet.com/english/2018-0… — "We will move the museum, tourist center, and offices to a new museum complex one km away from the site. The modern buildings in the site will be demolished."

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Friday, 14 September 2018 at 23:18

I finish off my stay in Yinchuan with a visit to Hongfo Pagoda babelstone.co.uk/BabelDiary/201…

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Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 11:32

Shang, Zhou and Han depictions of rhinoceroses in bronze are extremely accurate and lifelike. Ancient Chinese rhinos had two horns, and are thought to have been a subspecies of the Sumatran Rhinoceros. This Han rhino in the National Museum of China has a saddle. #WorldRhinoDay

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Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 19:08

Recent emoji proposals (⑩/⧜):

Disguised Face emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18311…

Coin Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18310…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 19:14

It is interesting to me that both proposals talk about adding the proposed emoji to the "Unicode emoji character library" or "emoji library" rather than adding it to a character encoding standard. Makes it seem that the Unicode Standard is something different than it actually is.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 19:16

I'm also looking forward to see a proposal for a Round Coin with Square Hole emoji. @eisoch

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Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 19:29

The Wikipedia article on "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick…) is frequently edited by people who sincerely believe that it is missing one or more letters of the basic English alphabet ...

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Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 19:30

Today: "Where are the letters W annd V?" en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…

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Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 19:33

Yesterday: "The phrase 'A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' is missing the letters 't' and 'h'" en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…

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Sunday, 30 September 2018 at 17:38

Special Tangut issue of the Journal of Chinese Writing Systems (September 2018) journals.sagepub.com/toc/cwsa/2/3 — with papers by Nie Hongyin, Sun Bojun, Tai Chung-pui, Ma Xiaofang and myself.

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Sunday, 30 September 2018 at 17:48

I am pleased to say that the contributions by myself and Tai Chung-pui use Unicode Tangut. Unfortunately the contributions by all the mainland PRC scholars still use a GB hack encoding, even though Nie and Sun were instrumental in getting Tangut into Unicode.

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Sunday, 30 September 2018 at 19:22

Sunset at Hope Cove last night.

October

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Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at 16:40

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Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at 16:41

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Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at 17:41

Warring States period bronze rhinoceros belt hook inlaid with gold and silver decoration, unearthed in Sichuan in 1954, and photographed by me in 2011 at the National Museum of China in Beijing.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 10:12

Prof. Nie's article discusses three recently-identified Tangut characters used to transcribe Sanskrit "vajra", one of which (𘟰) was added in Unicode 11.0, and the other two are scheduled for inclusion in Unicode 12.0 ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 10:14

... of course if he used the Tangut Yinchuan font he would not need to use images for these three characters!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 12:06

@cosmicore and myself discuss these three characters in detail in Unicode Technical Note #42 "Tangut Character Additions and Glyph Corrections" unicode.org/notes/tn42/

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Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 09:27

The 1350 Stele of Laosuo 老索 (1188–1260), a Tangut official under the Yuan dynasty, found in 1985 at Baoding, Hebei babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2015/01/t…

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Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 09:28

The 1278 Stele of Xiaoli Qianbu 小李鈐部 (1191–1259), a Tangut official under the Yuan dynasty, found in 2013 at Daming, Hebei babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2015/01/t…

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Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 09:41

Qianbu 鈐部 *kem pu is an alternative transcription of the Tangut title "Army Commander" 𘒏𗩈 *ga mbu (normally transcribed in as Ganbu 甘卜 or 敢不 *gam bu) and is strong evidence that the prenasalized stop reconstructed for 𗩈 by Sofronov (but not by others) is correct.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 16:13

There is a long Chinese inscription dated 1278 on one side, and a short Tangut inscription on the other side:

𘄱𘞽𗥑𗄋𗥼𗴺

𗼽𘝾𘒏𗩈𗿒

"Mother, Madam Tian Fu'er" (Chinese 田氏福兒阿媽)

"The official, Xiaoli Qianbu" (Chinese 小李鈐部大人)

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Friday, 19 October 2018 at 19:05

Detail of the front face showing part of the start of the inscription, including 老索，唐兀氏，世為寧夏人 "Laosuo was a Tangut, and his family had lived in Ningxia for generations". (This is the best-preserved part of the inscription, much of the rest is not so clear).

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Saturday, 20 October 2018 at 19:56

Early 20th-century Japanese copy of a Qin score and lyrics for 'High Peaks' (Gaoshan 高山), on display at the newly reopened Japanese Gallery at the British Museum.

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Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 17:33

The Decree of Pixodaros in the Lycian script (Xanthos, c. 340-334 BC), photographed at the British Museum yesterday.

(Twitter discriminates against Unicode Lycian characters, so the Lycian text is in the next tweet.)

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Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 17:34

𐊁𐊑𐊏𐊚𐊓𐊆𐊜𐊁[𐊅]𐊀𐊕(𐊀)𐊁𐊋𐊀𐊗

𐊀𐊕𐊑𐊏𐊀𐊖𐊁𐊗𐊍𐊀𐊇𐊀𐊖𐊁𐊓

𐊖𐊁𐊜𐊀𐊅𐊀𐊇𐊙𐊗𐊆𐊎𐊁𐊑𐊏𐊀

..𐊗𐊕𐊒𐊇𐊁𐊛𐊁𐊑𐊏𐊁𐊖𐊁𐊗𐊆

......𐊒𐊗𐊆𐊋𐊂𐊆𐊊𐊁𐊛𐊁𐊅𐊆

..........𐊗𐊆𐊖𐊗𐊇𐊁𐊑𐊗𐊁𐊋

..................𐊆𐊍𐊍𐊆𐊁𐊂

..........................𐊏𐊁

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Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 17:40

Romanization:

eñnẽ pixe[d]ar(a) ekat

arñna se tlawa se p[ñ]

se xadawãti meñna

..truweheñneseti

......uti kbijehedi

..........tistwe ñte k

..................illieb

..........................ne

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Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 17:42

The inscription records grants made by Pixedara (Pixodaros) to the Lycian cities of Arñna (Xanthos), Pñ (Pinara), Tlawa (Tlos) and Xadawãti (Kadyanda).

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 09:25

Here's something I've never seen before. A Chinese style carved wooden table with an inscribed slab of rock (10" × 6") embedded in the middle (transcription in next tweet). Found in a junk shop in Cirencester. Anyone got any ideas about when or why the table was made?

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 09:35

The stone is engraved with the well-known Sanskrit Buddhist mantra "oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ, oṃ a hūṃ" in Lantsa script on two lines (oṃ ma ṇi pa dme | hūṃ oṃ a hūṃ).

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 09:38

For comparison, here is a woodblock print of "oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ" in Lantsa script.

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 09:59

Lantsa Sanskrit Buddhist inscriptions are found in China during the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), for example on the Cloud Platform at Juyong Pass (居庸關雲臺) in Beijing.

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 10:07

You can learn more about the 14th-century Buddhist inscriptions in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Phags-pa (Mongolian), Old Uyghur, Tangut and Chinese that are engraved on the inside arch of the Cloud Platform in my account of my visits there in 2011 and 2013 babelstone.co.uk/BabelDiary/201…

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 11:43

"Added the word “gray”, which is correct. Without the “g” you have no pangram." en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 20:44

Recent emoji proposals (⑪/⧜):

Fly emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18317…

Ladder Emoji unicode.org/L2/L2018/18320…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 20:53

Flies and ladders, but not a single emoji for playground equipment: no swing, no see-saw, no slide, no merry-go-round, no helter skelter, no climbing frame ... do children not count?

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Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 21:02

A much better picture of the Sanskrit inscription, with transcription by Ananda Maharjan facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 00:49

The earliest Western printed description of Xiangqi (Chinese chess) in Thomas Hyde's 1694 De Ludis Orientalibus.

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 01:08

And Hyde's depiction of a Weiqi (Go) board, with an explanation of eyes and how stones are captured.

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 01:09

Maybe Hoy kî 囬碁 here is a mistake for the Japanese simplified characters for igo 囲碁 (weiqi 圍碁).

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 01:20

Some of the game-related Chinese vocabulary that Hyde records. But I don't know what 小麥 (wheat), 大麥 (barley) and 馬料麥 (oats?) have to do with anything.

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 01:22

Hyde also described some other Chinese games that I know nothing about.

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 01:33

Hyde's pièce de résistance is the large drawing of the Shengguantu 陞官圖 diagram — or Snakes and Ladders for Mandarins. babelstone.co.uk/Ludus/DeLudisO…

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 10:20

Holding an early 11th-century lead spindle whorl with Norse runic inscription mentioning the gods Óðinn and Heimdallr, found at Saltfleetby St Clement, Lincolnshire in 2010 finds.org.uk/database/artef… twitter.com/findsorguk/sta…

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 23:01

This evening I attended the preview of my friend Adrian Bradshaw's exhibition of photographs from 1980s China at Oxford Brookes University brookes.ac.uk/public-art/gla…

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 23:06

This the photographer, Adrian Bradshaw, who went to China in 1984 as a 2nd year SOAS student, and stayed there for thirty years ...

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 23:25

... and here is a rather badly-aged photograph by me of the artist as a young man (we were roomies at the Beijing Language Institute 北京语言学院 1984-1985).

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 23:57

Adrian mostly documented everyday Chinese life in a changing China, but also got to photograph celebrities such as Deng Xiaoping (see top of thread) and Muhammad Ali.

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Friday, 26 October 2018 at 16:20

A hundred years later a more detailed account of Xiangqi is given by Eyles Irwin, based on information received from "Tinqua, a Soldier Mandarin of the Province of Fokien" (Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy vol. V 1793-1794). babelstone.co.uk/Ludus/Irwin179…

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Friday, 26 October 2018 at 16:29

Irwin seems ignorant of Hyde's work, and the only antecedent English source he refers to is Chamber's Cyclopædia which "mentions it to be the favourite pastime of the ladies, but quotes no authority for the assertion" (entry for Chess from 1728 ed. v. 1 p. 359 shown).

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Friday, 26 October 2018 at 18:11

It's only fair that I post Then and Now photos of myself, so here's an original Adrian Bradshaw photo of me at Chengde in 1985 wearing a hat decorated with a plastic lobster ...

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Friday, 26 October 2018 at 18:19

... and here I am yesterday evening at Adrian's photo exhibition at the @glass_tank with Steve, another of the SOAS 1984/1985 contingent of 落后分子 (Steve, as some of you probably already know, was the most backward of all backward elements).

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Friday, 26 October 2018 at 18:23

I only wear my Taijiquan Panda T-shirt for the most important occasions, such as when I visited the dead city of Kharakhoto in 2016 twitter.com/i/moments/7978…

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 00:16

The Lianhui Tang edition of Sanguo Yanyi is an old friend of mine from my PhD days babelstone.co.uk/Publications/B… twitter.com/shugeorg/statu…

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 16:59

Beautifully produced new edition of Jackson's 1937 translation of the Outlaws of the Marsh 水滸傳 foliosociety.com/uk/outlaws-of-…, one of my favourite of the four great Ming novels ... twitter.com/xuetingni/stat…

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 17:13

Like many of my generation I was introduced to the novel as a teenager through the wonderful Japanese television series of the Water Margin, first broadcast on BBC in 1976-1978 ...

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 17:25

But I really got to know the novel through Sidney Shapiro's English translation of Outlaws of the Marsh, published in 1980 by Foreign Languages Press, which I read shortly after it was published during my lost years ...

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 17:32

Like the other translations of classical Chinese novels published by the Foreign Language Press, which I eagerly devoured in the years before I applied to study Chinese at SOAS, Outlaws of the Marsh was issued in fine cardboard cases ...

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 17:50

When I got to Beijing in 1984 one of the first things I did was buy Chinese editions of these novels. Here is my well-worn copy of the Shanghai Guji Chubanshe 1984 edition of Shuihu Quanzhuan 水浒全传 that accompanied me on many long train journeys across China ...

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 18:01

And here is my copy of the Collected Commentary Edition 水浒传会评本 published by Beijing University Press in 1987 ...

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 18:24

The earliest English translation of the Outlaws of the Marsh (水滸傳), under the title All Men Are Brothers, was made by Pearl S. Buck in 1933. 70 years ago an edition with vibrant colour illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) was published by the Heritage Press ... 0/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 18:32

Frontispiece. Liang Shan P'o, The Robbers' Lair (梁山泊) 1/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 18:36

Prologue. The Commander Hung, in heedlessness, frees the spirits (洪太尉誤走妖魔) 2/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 18:53

Chapter 2. Captain Lu kills the bully of Kuangsi with his fists (魯提轄拳打鎮關西) 3/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 18:58

Chapter 3. Lu the Priest makes a mighty turmoil [on The Five Crested Mountain] (魯智深大鬧五臺山) 4/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:05

Chapter 5. The Nine Dragoned Shih Chin turns robber [in The Forest of Red Pines] (九紋龍翦徑赤松林) 5/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:09

Chapter 6. The Tattooed Priest pulls up the weeping willow (花和尚倒拔垂楊柳) 6/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:14

Chapter 7. Ling Ch'ung is branded and sent into exile (林教頭刺配滄州道) 7/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:17

Chapter 11. Yang Chi goes to the capital [city to sell his knife] (汴京城楊志賣刀) 8/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:38

Chapter 12. The Eager Vanguard struggles for glory [in The Northern Capital] (急先鋒東郭爭功) 9/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:44

Chapter 13. The Redheaded Devil sleeps drunken in the temple (赤髮鬼醉臥靈官殿) 10/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:49

Chapter 14. Wu Yung exhorts the brothers (吳學究說三阮撞籌) 11/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:50

Chapter 14. The Three Juan Brothers join the robber band (吳學究說三阮撞籌) 12/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:51

Chapter 14. Kung Sung Sheng fulfills The Prophesy Of The Seven Stars (公孫胜應七星聚義) 13/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:54

Chapter 17. The Beautiful Bearded [traps The Winged Tiger by guile] (美髯公智穩插翅虎) 14/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:57

Chapter 18. Ling Ch'ung kills a comrade in The Robbers' Lair (林沖水寨大並火) 15/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 19:57

Chapter 20. Sung Chiang in his wrath kills P'o Hsi (宋江怒殺閻婆惜) 16/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 20:16

Chapter 21. Chu T'ung allows Sung Chiang to go free (朱仝義釋宋公明) 17/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 20:21

Chapter 22. Wu Sung kills The Great Tiger of Ching Yang Ridge (景陽岡武松打虎) 18/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 20:21

Chapter 26. Wu Sung meets Chang Ch'ing [at The Cross Roads Ridge] (武都頭十字坡遇張青) 19/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 20:22

Chapter 30. Wu Sung walks by night [on Centipede Hill] (武行者夜走蜈蚣嶺) 20/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 20:32

Chapter 33. The Fire In The Thunder Clap (霹靂火夜走瓦礫場) 21/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 20:43

Chapter 34. Hua Yung shoots a wild goose [with his arrow] (小李廣梁山射雁) 22/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 20:48

Chapter 37. The Black Whirlwind fights with White Stripe [In The Waves] (黑旋風展浪里白條) 23/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 20:49

Chapter 40. Li K'uei [swings his broadaxes] (宋江智取無為軍) 24/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:06

Chapter 41. Sung Chiang sees The Goddess Of The Ninth Heaven (宋公明遇九天玄女) 25/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:12

Chapter 43. Yang Hsiung [meets Shih Hsiu upon a market street] (病關索長街遇石秀) 26/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:13

Chapter 47. The Ten Foot Green Snake captures Wang The Dwarf Tiger (一丈青單捉王矮虎) 27/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:13

Chapter 47. The Ten Foot Green Snake and Wang (一丈青單捉王矮虎) 28/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:19

Chapter 60. Wu Yung beguiles The Jade [Ch'i Lin] (吳用智賺玉麒麟) 29/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:20

Chapter 62. Sung Chiang and his fighting men attack Ta Ming Fu (宋江兵打大名城) 30/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:22

Chapter 62. Kuan Sheng seeks a way [to seize The Robbers' Lair] (關勝議取梁山泊) 31/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:24

Chapter 68. Sung Chiang sets free The Warrior Of The Two Spears (宋公明義釋雙槍將) 32/32

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Saturday, 27 October 2018 at 21:30

Finally, here are all the illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) for a 1948 Heritage Press edition of Pearl Buck's 1933 translation of All Men Are Brothers twitter.com/BabelStone/sta…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 28 October 2018 at 00:51

And as a postscript, I should not forget these two signed copies of Shuihu studies by Prof. Yau-Woon Ma 馬幼垣, which sit on the other end of my Water Margin shelf. They contain images of many different editions of Shuihuzhuan, including ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Sunday, 28 October 2018 at 00:56

... a fragmentary page (held at the Shanghai Library) from an edition of Shuihuzhuan titled 京本忠義傳 that is thought to date to the Jiajing era (1522-1567), and may be the earliest surviving exemplar of the novel.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 09:53

Bodhisattva Benzaiten 弁財天 playing the biwa 琵琶 (Chinese pipa, a type of four-stringed lute) on a silk scroll of c. 1300-1400 hanging in the newly-reopened Japanese Gallery at the British Museum.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 11:42

Benzaiten's biwa is virtually identical to this example preserved in the Shōsō-in (正倉院) treasure house at Nara, which dates to the Tempyō period (729-749) and may have been imported from Tang China.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 11:45

Here is another example from the Shōsō-in. Note the four frets on the neck, which are indicative of the traditional medieval biwa/pipa (the modern pipa is quite a different instrument, with up to 26 frets running all the way down the body).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 14:02

The Shōsō-in treasure house in Nara also houses a fragmentary sheet of lute music (天平琵琶譜), dated to circa 738, for a tune entitled Fanjia Chong 番假崇 in the "huangzhong diao" 黃鐘調 mode.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 14:19

The system of tablature used in the Tempyō Lute Score derives from China, where it is attested in three Dunhuang manuscripts held in Paris. The back of Pelliot chinois 3719 (idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…) shows a fragment of a single tune, Huànxīshā 浣溪沙 "Washing in the Stream".

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 14:26

Pelliot chinois 3539 (idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…) lists the twenty tablature signs used for the four-stringed lute (open string and four frets for four strings equals twenty possible finger positions).

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Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 14:35

And Pelliot chinois 3808 (idp.bl.uk/database/oo_lo…) is a long scroll comprising 25 tunes written in two hands (Tunes 20-23 shown).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 14:45

No other examples of this system of pipa lute notation are known from China, although it is attested in some later Japanese manuscripts (9th through 14th centuries). For more information see my blog post One to Twenty in Jurchen, Khitan and Lute (babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2012/12/o…) ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 14:48

... and my 2017 preliminary proposal to encode this system of musical notation in Unicode unicode.org/L2/L2017/17311…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 15:17

There are many Chinese depictions of musicians playing the pipa, either solo or more commonly as part of an orchestral ensemble, on Dunhuang and Yulin murals, in Tang paintings, and as tomb figurines (Dunhuang mural shown).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 15:20

Sometimes the virtuoso feat of playing the pipa behind the back is depicted, as in this scene from a Dunhuang mural.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 15:26

Another example from Dunhuang, showing a group of male musicians (playing on either side of a female dancer who is not shown here).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 15:27

And this example from the Tang dynasty caves at Yulin.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 15:31

"Palace Concert" by an unknown Tang dynasty artist shows palace ladies at a

banquet playing various musical instruments (pipa at top of the table).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 15:36

And the most famous Chinese painting depicting a lutenist is this scene from Night Revels of Han Xizai by Gu Hongzhong 顧閎中 (937–975).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 16:15

Tang dynasty silk painting from Dunhuang dated 897 showing the Tejaprabhā Buddha and the Five Planets (熾盛光佛並五星圖), with Venus playing the pipa. britishmuseum.org/research/colle…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 17:31

Liao dynasty (907-1125) tomb mural in Inner Mongolia showing a Flutist and Lutenist.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 19:21

The pipa is not a native Chinese musical instrument but came to China from Central Asia, probably during the Northern Wei (386–535). By the Tang it was firmly established as a favourite, as evidenced by tomb figurines of orchestral ensembles such as this (metmuseum.org/art/collection…)

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 19:27

This set of Tang tomb figurines of musicians and dancers at the Miho Museum (miho.or.jp/booth/html/art…) includes a 4-stringed lute (bent neck) on the left and a 5-stringed lute (straight neck) on the right.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 19:34

This very similar set of eight musicians from a tomb in Anyang dates to the Sui dynasty (581-618), and also includes both a 4-stringed pipa (left) and and 5-stringed pipa (right) ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 19:36

... and here is a photograph of the player of the 4-stringed pipa that I picked up from the internet somewhere.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 19:44

And a Tang figurine of a standing pipa-player (but I can't remember where it was found or where it is now).

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 19:55

And finally, a group of Tang dynasty tomb figurines of four musicians and a dancer that I saw at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford last Thursday ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 at 20:02

... I originally thought it was a five-stringed pipa because of the straight neck, but it clearly shows only four strings, so perhaps the bent pegboard has broken off.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 10:08

Tangut glossary of stringed musical instruments.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 15:10

The Tangut character meaning "four" (𗝝 ngwə̣) in the name of the pipa is not the ordinary Tangut (Tibeto-Burman) word for "four" (𗥃 ldi̯ẹ), but belongs to a mysterious alternative set of numbers which some scholars believe represent a linguistic substratum ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 15:25

... for an unknown language that is mixed in with the Tibeto-Burman language that accounts for the majority of Tangut vocabulary in surviving texts. Unfortunately, no cognates for the substratum vocabulary have been found in any other language ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 15:26

... and the words for "four" (𗝝 ngwə̣) and "seven" (𗸨 ngwə̣) in this mysterious sub-Tangut language are exact homophones. What language pronounces "four" and "seven" identically?!

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

amritas.com/110903.htm#083…

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 15:48

For further reading see Marc Miyake's 13-part series "Revisiting the Tangut ritual language" from 2011:

amritas.com/110910.htm#091…

amritas.com/110917.htm#091…

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 16:26

Five-stringed pipa are not as frequently represented in art as the four-stringed variety, but here is an apsara (飛天) on a Dunhuang mural playing one.

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 16:42

Here's a drawing of a five-stringed pipa (I've forgotten the source). It has a straight neck, and compared with the four-stringed pipa it has an extra string, an extra peg, and an extra fret (not obvious here) ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 16:51

... the extra fret is called the "lonely fret" and is only used with the fifth string, so the five-stringed lute has 26 finger positions, and its musical notation requires 26 tablature signs ...

Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone