🕔 UNICODE 17
Unicode 17, in alpha state
(I reconstructed emoji base, but while I was preparing, a real one came 😉)
Gagged all emoji
Supported medium blocks: Beria, Chisoi, Tolong Siki, Tai Yo
Supported/gagged tiny blocks: Bengali, Chess, CJK C, Latin (+Library), Odia, Legacy computing
Partly supported blocks: Geomancy
🗑️ UnicodiaFunky FONT
Borrowed Empty Set from Noto Math (was too high)
Chisoi (added missing functionality), Tolong Siki (craggy)
Various U17 chars
🔡 DECAPITALIZATION
combining Is below…
🎞️ BLOCK ICONS
Vai: changed icon to Easter egg, syllable VA
💾 OTHER DATA
Returned ellipsis before Old Sogdian in Japanese, and removed everywhere else
Modified Bettencourt’s mappings to new legacy characters
📚 TEXT
Shortened “Direction of vertical scripts” because of Tai Yo
Chess as if U17 was adopted
[en] Grammar
[uk] Minor typos
📆 VERSION INFO
#446 Finer emoji statistics: ZWJ sequences are appearance, colour, activity, couples/families…
“New emoji from this Unicode” is implied and written if there is previous Unicode
Write just “Single-char” if no VS16 emoji
Non-ZWJ are written first: they fall into few categories, almost always important, char+skin is somewhere close to single-char
🐞 PROGRAM
#447 “Copy+VS15” is now visible for all emoji
“Copy” in local menu is bold now, as a clue that double click works
🌐 INTERNATIONALIZATION
Indents with ellipsis are no longer part of L10n strings
⚙ TECHNICAL
Prepared Block Elements icon to skinning (that’s straightforward)
Now “wiki article” can start with bulleted list
Invented another way of biracial recolouring: requires LOTS of programming, but very little field work in Inkscape, and works with biracial emoji of any complexity
Added a simple check whether a specific font is used