Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Nov 15, 2009, 5:50 pm
It is not often that a new Ogham stone is discovered, so when last week someone asked me to take a look at a piece of slate with a possible Ogham inscription on it that they had just found, I was exci...
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Nov 11, 2009, 7:51 pm
(I suppose that this post should come at the end of what may turn into a series of posts surveying the Ogham stones of Britain and Ireland, but I feel like doing it now, so here it is.) Ogham stones ...
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Nov 8, 2009, 5:51 pm
In anticipation of next week's blog post, I thought it would be useful to present a brief survey of the known Ogham stone inscriptions in Cornwall and Devon. Although the large majority of Ogham s...
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Nov 1, 2009, 4:33 pm
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 ...
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Oct 10, 2009, 4:43 pm
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Oct 1, 2009, 5:04 pm
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 1...
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Aug 27, 2009, 6:33 pm
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 cur...
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Aug 15, 2009, 7:04 pm
The Holy Grail for historians of character encoding is to discover why the háček (ˇ)—a diacritical mark which looks like an inverted circumflex—is called a caron in character encoding standards...
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Aug 8, 2009, 8:46 am
Part 1 : Funerary Statuettes of Liubo Players Part 2 : Pictures of People playing Liubo Part 3 : Pictures of Immortals playing Liubo Part 4 : Liubo Boards and Game Equipment Part 5 : Liubo Divination ...
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Andrew West posted an article on BabelStone - Jul 12, 2009, 3:53 am

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