Previously discussed : What's new in Unicode 5.0 ? What's new in Unicode 5.1 ? What's new in Unicode 5.2 ? Now that Unicode 5.2 has been out for a month, I think that it would be a good idea to look forward to Unicode 6.0, which is scheduled for...

<img src="http://www.babelstone.co.uk/CJK/Images/RenminRibao_collage.jpg" title="An Anarchic Collage of Second Stage Table 1 Simplifications from a 1978 Edition of the "People's Daily" (from the Chinese Wikipedia)"/> A lot of people hate simplified...

Coinciding with the release of Unicode 5.2 today (code charts), I am releasing a new version of BabelMap that supports Unicode 5.2 (download BabelMap now). Unicode 5.2 adds 6,648 new characters and 15 new scripts (Table of Unicode scripts), including...

Last year my friend Nathan Hill kindly invited me to give a talk on Tangut at my Alma Mater. I accepted with some trepidation because I am still very much at the start of a long and steep learning curve with regards to Tangut, but I hoped that by the...