2.8.6
🖋 FONTS
Upd BabelStone: Han
🕓 UNICODE 16
#332: 3026…29 Hangzhou numerals, new U16 shape
🔡 DECAPITALIZATION
CJK radical Small one…
CJK radical C-simplified See…
Kangxi radical Dotted tent…
🖼 GRAPHIC EMOJI
Fixed Antigua, Armenia, Aruba, Belarus, Belize and ≈20 more to deficiencies of SVG renderers
For flags with large white fields: outline is thinner (0.3 → 0.2 out of 36) yet darker; fixed mistakes by 0.1
Big review of other flags: simplified, reduced/removed outline, optimized from scratch etc
Took Martinique from Twemoji’s pull request
23F2 timer ⏲️: greater contrast
1FA77 pink heart: took from original
1F9B7 tooth 🦷: outlined somehow
🤡 MISRENDERS
Misc Tech (but not Misc Symbols) now stick to general rule of base plane: VS16 → text+emoji
📚 TEXT
One small passage about Tulu
[ru,uk] Forgot one little passage in Chess Symbols
[en,uk] Minor typos
💾 OTHER DATA
Kangxi radicals and CJK radicals supplement are now next to each other in alphabetical list
Made a special category for Osage: made for revival of dead language
⚙ TECHNICAL
Seven flags of external territories (e.g. Clipperton ← France) are no longer duplicated
Experiments with dark skin, currently disabled
🧱 BUILD PROCESS
No longer call SVG optimizer by hand at least for emoji, implemented that in TapeMaker
For several emoji found out why it was remade and if it’s actual now