#Unicode

Ubuntu LTS users will shortly be able to see and use the 8 new emoji included in Unicode 16.0.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/ubuntu-update-support-for-emoji-16-0

#ubuntu #unicode #opensource

In the open-source application `Unicopedia Sinica`, both data files used for the `CJK Components` and the `CJK Related` utilities are now in a consistent JSON format with MIT license: `cjk-ids.json` and `cjk-related.json` respectively.

🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica

These data files are still a work in progress, independently available in their own (frequently updated) repository:
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/cjk-ids-data
🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/cjk-related-data

#unicopedia #cjk #unihan #unicode #json

HUH, #Unicode UAX#31 offers official guidance on hashtag identifiers, and I have somehow managed to miss that completely for several years (introduced along with Unicode 11.0 in 2018).

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/#hashtag_identifiers

It's not like I re-read the whole document regularly or anything but yea huh

iOS 18.2 did not add any new #Unicode coverage, at least at the code point level. Nevertheless, I have updated #IsItTofu

https://tofu.quest/?q=%F0%9F%A5%A8

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, and @hollo, an ActivityPub-enabled microblogging software for single users.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文, #漢文)!

#introduction

Btw here's a little #gamedev unicode protip: unicode defines several character ranges as private use areas. You can map code points in these ranges to whatever glyph you want. This can be very handy for custom characters in your game that won't conflict with established unicode characters

In our games we use the PUA for keyboard and controller button glyphs

#unicode

My study "Unicode Spaces" will be published in Slanted Magazine - Experimental Type 3!

#typography #unicode #whitespace

@zirias @stefano #hashtag​s are #unicode defined: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/#D2

read 'em like this https://codeberg.org/seppo/seppo/src/commit/87bf300/lib/tag.ml#L31

iOS 14 gets support for the Unicode Power Symbol!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/ios-14-gets-support-for-the-power-symbol/

#emoji #ios #power #unicode

A cool change is that the Core Specification of the Unicode Standard is now released as a static HTML subsite, backed up by an archiveable #PDF of 1,140 pages.

https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/

You can now link to specific sections and paragraphs, e.g.

"Unicode is about plain text, see: https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-2/#G642" .

I helped out in a small way with the project to produce the core spec as HTML + PDF. I think it is a marvellous improvement.

#18n #fonts #PDF #unicode

Yay! #Unicode version 16.0 is released!

Announcement: https://blog.unicode.org/2024/09/announcing-unicode-standard-version-160.html

#18n #fonts #PDF #unicode

Народ, айда форсить наш, славянский, кириллический #fediverseSymbol!
«Три снежинки» — ⁂ — потенциальный повод для многочисленных подъёбок

Польские ребята (@brie) нашли лучшего кандидата — ꙮ, «серафим многꙮкий». Символ, найденный в 1928 году только в одной (!) рукописи, и только из-за этого (!) добавленный в #Unicode несколько веков ждал своего часа
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мультиокулярная_О

(English version https://im-in.space/@liilliil/113028392518272881 )

I am a #linguist (non-tenure track, uni) interested in every single thing about #languages, esp #Indigenous ones, #academics & #teaching Side gig in #ComunityBased #LanguageTech (#webdev #React #postgres #hasura #graphQL #nodeJS #nginx #linux #podman #kubernetes #docker #unicode lol). I love #animals and will ask you too many questions about your #dogs #cats #horses #sheep #goats #chickens #bunnies #piggies #cows etc . Proud #UglyDogs fan. Love #nature #birds #photography #art 👋

こんにちは、私はソウルに住んでいる30代後半のオープンソースソフトウェアエンジニアで、自由・オープンソースソフトウェアとフェディバースの熱烈な支持者です。名前は洪 民憙（ホン・ミンヒ）です。

私はTypeScript用のActivityPubサーバーフレームワークである「@fedify」と、1人用フェディバースのマイクロブログである 「@hollo」の作成者でもあります。

私は東アジア言語（いわゆるCJK）とUnicodeにも興味が多いです。日本語、英語、韓国語で話しかけてください。（または、漢文でも！）

#自己紹介 #CJK #Unicode #日本語 #英語 #韓国語

Hello, I'm an open source software engineer in my late 30s living in #Seoul, #Korea, and an avid advocate of #FLOSS and the #fediverse.

I'm the creator of @fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript, and @hollo, a fediverse microblog for single users.

I'm also very interested in East Asian languages (so-called #CJK) and #Unicode. Feel free to talk to me in #English, #Korean (#한국어), or #Japanese (#日本語), or even in Literary Chinese (#文言文/#漢文)!

#introduction

#Introduction post for my own Mastodon instance!

• I’m a 43-year-old jack-of-all-trades.
• I grew up in #HongKong, lived in the #US. My partner of 14 years and I moved to #Taiwan in 2020.
• We are “parents” to two elderly dogs.
• I have worked in journalism, finance, L&D, and now EdTech.
• I speak 6 #languages, and have dabbled in many others.
• Things I will nerd out about: #Unicode, #typography, #typhoons.
• I am a person of faith, but not a fan of organized religions.
• I type in #Dvorak.

If you believe that Chinese characters in #Chinese, #Korean, and #Japanese should all be divided into language-specific codes, then it is logical that the Latin characters in English, French, Italian, and German should all be divided into language-specific codes as well. Caveat: I don't believe so.

#Unicode

Well, I vote for Han unification of #Unicode, and I rather think that more Chinese characters should have been unified (e.g., 高 & 髙, 產 & 産, 內 & 内). 🤷

#漢字 #hanzi #hanja #kanji

Nebaví vás googlit unicode znaky pro subscript a superscript? Mě už taky ne :-)

Akordy pro psaní horního a dolního indexu (ve smyslu Unicode) na klávesnici Windows se dají snadno vygooglit. Pod Linuxem je to ovšem trochu věda:

1) nejdřív Pravý alt + pravý shift + backspace + 2 (ano, čtyřhmat)
2) potom znak, který má být dolní index, třeba číslovka (což ovšem na české klávesnici, na kterou jste přepnutí, taky s shiftem, takže dvouhmat).

H₂O

Pro horní index ve stejném čtyřhmatu akorát nahradíte tu dvojku trojkou:

a² + b² = c²

Slušné akordy, ne? problém je, že pokud čtyřhmat nedomáčknete přesně (?) tak ten Backspace má tendenci fungovat jako backspace, takže umaže jeden znak... no zkrátka, dělám to pokaždé na několikátý pokus, zatím :-)

Vůbec jsem nepochopil návod
https://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/kenyho_stesky/2020/8/psani-hornich-a-dolnich-indexu-pres-compose-key
... asi proto, že nevím, která PC klávesa je "compose key", ale v komentářích čtenářů jsem si všiml návodu pro slovenskou klávesnici a funguje mi i pro český layout a tak to předávám dál.

#tipy #x11 #linux #czech #unicode

the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

Re-#introduction: recurring topics here.

#Wikimedia #Wikidata #Wikipedia #MediaWiki #OpenStreetMap #Wikimania #Wikisource #WikiCite #OpenRefine #wiki #Wiktionary #WikiLovesMonuments #Wikibase #Wikiquote

#i18n #L10n #translatewiki.net #Unicode #CLDR #languages

#Copyright #PublicDomain #PubblicoDominio #Copyleft #CreativeCommons #OpenData #UploadFilters #LicenzaLibera #DatiAperti

#InternetArchive #books #biblioteche #library #Koha #KohaILS #GLAM

#WikiTeam #digipres #ArchiveTeam #XSLT

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Unicopedia Ægypta is a developer-oriented set of #Unicode utilities related to Egyptian hieroglyphs, wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.

Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-aegypta

#characters #codecharts #codepoints #desktopapplication #egyptian #electronjs #glyphs #hieroglyph #hieroglyphs #javascript #localfonts #unicode #unicopedia #unikemet

Unicopedia Plus is a developer-oriented set of Unicode, Unihan, Unikemet & emoji utilities wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.

Repository: 🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-plus

#characters #chinese #cjk #codepoints #desktopapplication #electronjs #emoji #ivd #japanese #javascript #kangxi #kangxiradicals #korean #normalization #opensource #regex #segmentation #strokecount #unicode #unicopedia #unihan #unikemet

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

Newly covered #Unicode code points in #iOS 17.0:

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My tooling also indicated that these are covered, but they don't actually show up on my iPhone:

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Formatting people’s names correctly in a given context, for a given purpose, is hard. International linguists recently helped update the #Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (#CLDR). It will help programmers display person names correctly in many settings.
Mike McKenna wrote about it in “A Story Teller’s Case Study: Unlocking the Power of CLDR Person Name Formatting – A Solution for Formatting Names in a Globalized World” https://www.unicode.org/media/CLDR_Person_Name_White_Paper_June%202023.pdf