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The latest version of the open-source application "Unicopedia Sinica" is now available, adding a new "CJK Numerals" utility, displaying by category all CJK characters representing the same numeric value.
🔗 https://https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica
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The "CJK Variations" utility of the latest version of the open-source application "Unicopedia Sinica" adds support for the *unregistered* BabelStone Collection, based on the latest stable release of the BabelStone Han font (v17.0.2) by Andrew C. West (@babelstone), maintained by Huáng Jùnliàng (@jlhwung).
[In memory of Andrew C. West, who passed away on July 10th, 2025.]
🔗 https://github.com/babelstone/babelstonehan-ufo/releases/tag/v17.0.2
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica
#Unicopedia #Sinica #BabelStone #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #IVD #IVS #RIP
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The latest version v18.1.0 of the open-source application "Unicopedia Sinica" is now available, embedding all data files required to display CJK ideographs as SVG glyphs in the "CJK Sources" and "CJK Variations" utilities...
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Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (魏安), is alive and well!
The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:
🔗 https://github.com/babelstone/babelstonehan-ufo/releases/latest
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The icon of the new #Unicopedia #Sigilla application shows the provisional #Seal character U+3FBB5 whose equivalent #CJK #ideograph is U+5B57 字, meaning "letter, character, word".
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All documents published by the Ideographic Research Group (IRG) are now available on the Unicode web site, and can be easily and efficiently found through the new search bar provided on the IRG homepage.
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/irg/
This long-awaited search feature is very convenient, and so useful to find what you're interested in, and even more (ah, the wonderful power of serendipity!)...
#Unicode #IRG #IdeographicResearchGroup #CJK #Ideographs #Unihan
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/115583941639906512
Generally, new CJK Ideographs proposed by members of the IRG (Ideographic Research Group) go through several rounds of exchanges/discussions until they get approved or possibly postponed or rejected.
For instance, here is the page dedicated to UK-20538 ⿰㐅也 (with images as "pieces of evidence"), which eventually made its way to Unicode 17.0, encoded as U+323BF :
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The Ideographic Research Group (IRG) is responsible for preparing and reviewing sets of CJK unified ideographs to be included in the Unicode Standard.
It has recently made available a useful list of so-called disunified CJK ideographs, coming with images of glyphs and IRG source references, which also provides links to documents giving the rationale behind each disunification:
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The latest version of the open-source application "Unicopedia Sinica" is now available, adding support for all the new CJK/Unihan characters defined in Unicode 17.0.
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New in the CJK Variations utility of Unicopedia Sinica:
- Support for the latest Ideographic Variation Database (IVD 2025), adding the new CAAPH Collection.
- Support for the updated BabelStone Collection (unregistered), based on the latest BabelStone Han font (v17.0.0 BETA), by Andrew C. West (魏安), 1960-2025 RIP (安息吧).
🔗 https://https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica
#Unicopedia #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #IdeographicVariationDatabase #IVD #CAAPH #BabelStone
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The Ideographic Research Group (IRG) is responsible for preparing and reviewing sets of CJK unified ideographs to be included in the Unicode Standard.
Current and future IRG source prefixes used to be listed in the main IRG homepage, but are now available in a separate dedicated page:
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The Ideographic Research Group (IRG) is responsible for preparing and reviewing sets of CJK unified ideographs to be included in the Unicode Standard.
The IRG homepage is now including comprehensive lists of current and future IRG source prefixes...
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The latest version of the free BabelStone Han font (v.16.0.2), by Andrew West (魏安), has just been released. It includes more than 60,000 CJK unified ideographs, and supports a provisional set of 2,452 ideographic variation sequences (IVS) for 1,196 characters.
🔗 https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
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Beautifully crafted BabelStone Han font, by Andrew West 魏安
#BabelStone Han v. 15.1.3 is a free #Unicode #CJK #font with over 57,000 Han characters (#hanzi, #kanji, #hanja), and 62,061 Unicode characters in total. It is a Song/Ming style (宋体/明體) font, with glyphs modelled on the official character forms used in the People's Republic of China, and is primarily intended for writing Modern Standard #Chinese, Classical Chinese, and various Sinitic languages and dialects.
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Unicopedia Sinica is a developer-oriented set of #Unicode utilities related to ideographs, wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.
Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica
#characters #chinese #cjk #cjkrelated #cjkv #codecharts #codepoints #components #confusables #desktopapplication #electronjs #glyphs #ideographs #ideographicdescriptionsequences #ids #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #localfonts #opensource #strokes #tangut #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #vietnamese