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r12a @r12a.bsky.social · 16d

2. A new top-level section, Vowel Absence, has been added to nearly all pages, to describe how codas and consonant clusters work.

Eg.
- r12a.github.io/scripts/bali...
- r12a.github.io/scripts/bali...

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · 16d

Orthography notes: new features.

1. the IPA-to-character summary tables at the start of the Vowels and the Consonants sections are synced with IPA-to-character mapping lists at the end of those sections. Click on the IPA in the former to jump to the latter for more detailed descriptions.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · 16d

UNIVIEW has been updated from 17beta to support the changes for Unicode 17.0 in the final release.

r12a.github.io/uniview/

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Sep 10

UNICODE 17 IS RELEASED !

Announcement: blog.unicode.org/2025/09/unic...

Latest core spec online: www.unicode.org/versions/lat...

New scripts: Beria Erfe, Tolong Siki, Tai Yo, Sidetic

Unicode 17.0 Release Announcement

Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 17.0 The Unicode Standard is the foundation for all global digital communications, providing the e...

blog.unicode.org

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Jun 17

UNIKEMET DATA in the EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH PICKER

When you bring up detailed notes about a character it now shows Unikemet data.

The Unikemet data is also available in UniView.

Try it at r12a.github.io/pickers/egyp/

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Jun 16

- all Unicode format controls can be found under MORE CONTROLS
- mousing over a character reveals its description as well as the code point, and its MdC notation

Extended-A is not yet supported.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Jun 16

EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH PICKER
r12a.github.io/pickers/egyp/

Rewritten to fix bugs, update, & add new features:

- new term list with 3033 entries (though most still need to have hieroglyphs, etc, added)
- MdC to WikiHiero converter displays results in a popup

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · May 20

For the Unicode announcement, see blog.unicode.org/2025/05/unic...

Unicode 17.0 Beta Review Open

The beta review period for Unicode ® 17.0 has started and is open until July 1, 2025. The beta is intended primarily for review of characte...

blog.unicode.org

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · May 20

Orthography notes, plus term lists, & pickers, are also available for 3 of the new scripts:

- Beria Erfe r12a.github.io/scripts/berf...
- Tolong Siki r12a.github.io/scripts/tols...
- Tai Yo r12a.github.io/scripts/tayo...

Zaghawa orthography notes

Summary of the Beria Erfe script.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · May 20

UNIVIEW NOW SUPPORTS UNICODE17 beta

r12a.github.io/uniview/

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · May 20

There may also be a need for a new character.

Changes also incorporate general revisions that are slowly being rolled out across all pages.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · May 20

Chakma orthography notes updated.
r12a.github.io/scripts/cakm...

There is still much more to understand about how the Chakma script works, but the notes have been updated to talk about simplified vs traditional orthographies, and some clarifications around onsets, finals, and consonant clusters.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Apr 26

Most term lists for these orthographies have also seen a significant increase in the number of terms and transcriptions.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Apr 26

INDIC orthography notes sections on vowels, consonants, encoding choices, and shaping have been largely rewritten for Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Kashmiri (deva), Tamil, Bengali, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu, and Sinhala.

r12a.github.io/scripts/inde...

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Apr 16

The notes can also be accessed via the Analyse Text control. When the data appears, click on the Notes to see the notes.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Apr 16

NEW PICKER FEATURE: In-page notes

Highlight some text, click on List Characters, then click on a character name in the popup. This will display any available notes about that character in the right half of the screen.

Try it: r12a.github.io/pickers/mlym...

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Apr 16

NEW PICKER FEATURE: Copy list items to clipboard

When you select List Characters, each line in the list has 2 icons to the right. The first copies just the character; the second copies just the Unicode name.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Apr 8

Tip: In Blink/Gecko browsers this is just 1 tab key press away from the text area. Two tabs takes you to the control to input characters as escapes/code points.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Apr 8

NEW PICKER FEATURE: New font size slider

An extra font size slider has been added just below the bottom right of the text area. The autofocus control that used to be here can now be found as an icon to the right.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Mar 31

BENGALI VOWEL LIGATURES

The Bengali orthography notes section r12a.github.io/scripts/beng... now shows which Noto/System fonts support ligation for ru, rū, etc. And which browsers support associated ZWJ and ZWNJ behaviours. (It's very complicated!)

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Mar 16

However, if the text area includes several lines of text, that icon removes the line breaks, too.

The new icon collapses spaces while retaining the line breaks.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Mar 16

NEW PICKER FEATURE: Collapse spaces but keep lines

Pickers make it easy to rearrange/add/delete/change combining marks by clicking on an icon to the right of the text area which adds space(s) between each character. Clicking another icon removes the spaces once the edits are complete.

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Mar 14

NEW PICKER FEATURE: Render HTML

Pickers will now do basic rendering of simple HTML snippets. (Esp. useful for testing RTL behaviours.)

Hint: Set the direction to LTR override to manage bidi with HTML. Type the HTML. Select Render HTML from pulldown menu.

Try it: r12a.github.io/pickers/arab...

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thanks to Vinodh Rajan, the webfont used for these pages now uses a font that supports the Kashmiri vowel signs (and a lot more conjunct forms).

r12a @r12a.bsky.social · Mar 5

The input field that allows you to add characters to the text area in a picker by typing code points or escapes has been moved just below the text area, for convenience.

Just type one or more code points or escapes and hit return to add the character to the text area.

r12a.github.io/pickers/