🕓 UNICODE 16 / LIBRARY
Seafood emoji group is disbanded to marine fauna: division edible/inedible is flimsy
🖋 FONTS
Upd Noto: Mongol
Kannada fixup: dehinted dotted circle
Upd BabelStone: Han
🗑️ UnicodiaFunky FONT
Lots of improvements to usability irrelevant for Unicodia itself, e.g. anchors and umlauts
Minor tweaks with Gurung, Nag, Cypro-Minoan and umlauts’ outlines
Removed “gukh” trigger from Gurung rules that will be useless/harmful when Universal Shaping Engine at last grabs U16
Added special hyphen-minus for capital-only scripts: Nag and Ol Onal for now
Dehinted big ideographic dotted circle
Widened Gurung digits
Improved Ol Onal digits 1 and 7
🤡 MISRENDERS
Removed SimSun from CJK chain, now it’s BabelStone→SimSunB
#333 Ideograph 2B92C is handled by BabelStone
Nicer dotted circle on some ideographic umlauts (3099 and 9A), even on 1×
🔬 HiDPI
Lots of ugly hinted dotted circles are gone: Latin/Greek/Cyrillic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Tifinagh
0347 combining low= now looks better on 1.5×
📚 TEXT
Sorted out word “Old”: moved it back (Arabian old north) but attempted to buzz its name (Old North Arabian) in description
Major typo in English Tai Tham
Wrote # of people speaking Greek
Wrote more about Limbu, Tulu
Minor changes in Greek music
Minor typos in English and Ukrainian
💾 OTHER DATA
Removed three unused fonts from CJK chain (many versions ago used by Hangul/Kana)
Hooked Small Forms and Full/Halfwidth to another chain containing SimSun (so they render identically to 2.7.8)
🌐 INTERNATIONALIZATION
Added so-called “snippets” for repeating paragraphs of text. All hardcoded, but translator doesn’t need to use snippet, they can write slightly other text. Right now unification of Greek/Coptic, and Arabic presentation forms
Removed stub text from Greek/Coptic block; now it shows Greek or Coptic. They are interlinked, should be enough
Reverted tweak with Ol Chiki and Ol Onal in data only. Left in code and still documented
🐞 PROGRAM
Rewrote checking whether non-system font supports character X, faster and less glitchy
Now Unicodia can automatically dehint TTF dotted circle
⚙ TECHNICAL
Number of emoji in Diversity term is taken from version info (previously from special constant, synchronized in 2.7.8 at the last moment, now closed once and forever)