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My first draft was based on the Unicode Power Symbol project. It turns out that was overkill - they just need a Word document with a table of glyph/source/radic
by peterburkimsher 8y ago
My first draft was based on the Unicode Power Symbol project. It turns out that was overkill - they just need a Word document with a table of glyph/source/radical/stroke count.
http://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-hackernews-lead-to-4-%C2%BD-new-unicode-characters/ http://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-hac...
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17204-uax45-additions.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17204-uax45-additions.pdf
They also need a font. I tried to find the original, but in the end just asked Andrew West from BabelStone Han to redraw the characters for me.
It's a hobby project. Finding characters was a side effect of trying to scrape data for Pingtype https://pingtype.github.io https://pingtype.github.io (my Chinese learning program). When I tried to scrape characters from the Taiwanese Bible, I found inline JPGs and thought "that can't be right..." which led me down a rabbit hole ending here, exchanging emails with Richard Cook, Ken Lunde and John Jenkins (the world experts).
http://www.lingshyang.com/bible/taiwan_Bible/2ch/2ch14.htm http://www.lingshyang.com/bible/taiwan_Bible/2ch/2ch14.htm
If you have access to a Chinese-language paper library, please try to help take photos of some characters. Search "please contact" on the BabelStone list for some urgent ones. For example, "U+F2DD Alternative character for Db (Dubnium)" and "U+F2E2 Alternative character for Rf (Rutherfordium)" could be easily found on a periodic table, I guess.
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html