1.8.1
🖋️ FONTS
Upd Noto: Balinese
Replaced Khitan Babelstone → Noto: better fits ancient script
Replaced Parthian Segoe → Noto: ligatures
📚 TEXT
Duployan: did not suck new Noto for clarity, but mentioned it, and “cats” glyph is actually made using that font
🤥 Imperial Aramaic: further noted that it was not the only language of Persia
Palmyrene: wrote a bit about decipherment
South Arabian: wrote origin
Phoenician: wrote origin and decipherment
Manichaean, Sogdian: wrote that letters are joined
Parthian: wrote some ligatures
Hungarian runes: both words are 3 runes long
Newa: # of speakers is in its field (#220)
🤥 Dives Akuru: ancient forms contained both variants of vowels
Makasar: palm-tree is emoji now for better compatibility
🇬🇧 ENGLISH
Dives Akuru: dropped # of speakers, it’s ancient script!
Makasar: forgot 1 paragraph
Renamed several blocks: Supplemental arrows A → Arrows supplemental A
🇺🇦 UKRAINIAN
Added new L10n, right now “beta than nothing”. All small strings are here, but ≈85 tales are still Russian — you won’t kill me, right?
🎞️ BLOCK ICONS
251 out of 321 are HD now 🔬. Ocean, America and emoji are done in advance
All Europe: replaced blue with #2f5e9d, ¼ dark and ¾ medium (non-HD Unicodia used medium, then spontaneously switched to dark)
Implemented a semi-auto-hinter that makes a specific line pixel-perfect regardless of PPI 🔬: 0000 ASCII, 0400 Cyrillic, 0900 Devanagari, 0980 Bengali and many more
0080 Latin-1, 1380 EthiSupp (#219): simplified, hand-hinted to 16×16
0530 Armenian: simplified, hand-hinted, made bolder
0700 Syriac, 10E80 Yezidi, 1D2C0 Kaktovik: bolder
1C90 Georgian Mtavruli: now the lines are never 2px thick, at least at Windows’ PPIs
31C0, 3400, 4E00 some CJK: hand-hinted to 16×16 (#218)
4DC0 Yijing: resized pixel image to 11×11, so at 🔬 1.5× the image will be 1×→2×
10530 Aghwank: Noto → auto-trace from Unicode chart
10F30 Sogdian, 10F70 Old Uyghur: now vertical like normal Sogd/Ougr text
1F000 mahjongg: PNG → programmatic (just together with cards). Also tweaked colours a bit
1F0A0 playing cards: PNG → programmatic
1FB00 legacy computing: now at 🔬 1.5× pixel image is 1×→2×, and part of leg goes beyond right boundary
🗃️ LIBRARY
New sets: currency symbols, intellectual property
Moved strange ideographs to the very end
💾 OTHER DATA
Edited logo and app icon: blue colour, size and optimization of small yus, glares on glasses
Playing cards: do not try Segoe UI Emoji (we use SVG emoji now)
🐞 PROGRAM
Now can redraw SVG→PNG in any order, not just 00→FF
🐛 “Sample” window: when we drew emoji after something high, the window stayed high
🐛 Limited “OS Style” window to 300×300, for the case if something glitches (U+FDFD in Amiri font is 7.5em wide and renders badly; emoji of interracial kiss ligates four pictures)
Minor performance optimization of Blocks combobox