2.7.0

🕓 UNICODE 16
Loaded new data: renamed some Kikakui, cuneiform and new CJK stroke; nabla is direction-neutral rather that LTR; and a little bit more unused by Unicodia like updated algorithms of rendering complex Arabic text
Filled at least two tofu (Egyptian arrows), 5051 remain

🔡 DECAPITALIZATION
old Cyrillic i…
Gurung Khema vowel length mark

📚 TEXT
🤥 Unicode 2.1 added FFFC rather than FFFD
🤥 Unicode 3.0 also resized Tibetan, not just Ahom in U14! And found out that U14 shrunk one block!
🤥 Zapf dingbats: revamped text, actually it was full of holes before 6.0
UTF-16: wrote about “Bush hid the facts”
Canadian syllabic: wrote a few sentences more
Kirat: wrote that Kirat is even broader ethnic group
Latin1: link to Graphic
Wrote about Unicode versions 2.0 (peculiarities with statistics) and 6.3 (very small)
Arrows C: updated to U16
Legacy computers: more text
By nation → by language
Major typo in Ukrainian: Mongol
Ukrainian: more correct spelling of Njoya
Minor typos in English and Ukrainian

🗃️ LIBRARY
Added seven-segment digits
Added Latin normal s to small-cap as a fallback
🐛 “To Library” was sometimes in Library, but as it’s a good thing, left and extended to everything except main emoji folder

💾 OTHER DATA
Counted # of new format character w/o script in every version
Counted # of scripts in every version
Clarified status of purely Coptic characters before 4.1
Now show block extension history, for Unicode’s life 3 blocks were extended and one shrunk
Legacy computer info: added three new systems; added data on arrows C (even though they are tofu) and control pictures

🐞 PROGRAM
Computers now link to Legacy Computing unless we are actually in that block
Version info: split blocks into two columns a bit earlier

📽 CHARACTER DISPLAY
Enclosed alphanumeric: now use my “margin-less” workaround, metro Ⓜ️ is drawn small next to character
Did the same workaround to Glagolitic, alchemical symbols, Rumi numbers, control pictures, OCR, legacy computing, cards/dominoes etc
Drawing character+emoji can shift character up-down, first of all for 265F pawn
CJK enclosed letters and months: shrunk one font just a bit to prevent height from jumping
Dingbats: now all VS16’s are drawn as text+emoji rather than per-case
More symbols are drawn as text+emoji in Misc symbols and Misc technical: is it symbol or nice dingbat? is it displayed nicely in such a mode?
Geometric shapes: four VS16 emoji, all drawn as text+emoji
Drew overlay emoji a bit larger

🔍 SEARCH
#344 First query: which characters appeared in Unicode X? Open any version and find 🔍 icon

⚗️ SYNTHESIZED ICONS FOR SEARCH
Support vertical orientation (e.g. Mongol, Sogdian)
Fixed a few more (Phaistos Disc → down, Africa → darker, international tofu → red…)
Draw red icons using SVG instead of tofu, mainly for speed
Psalter Pahlavi uses the same SVG due to colour
Do the same with all scripts with modern font + historical icon
Want to do the same to Combining half-marks, but wait for dark skin
Playing card is SVG now

⚙ TECHNICAL
#349 Telugu/Kannada archaic Šrī is officially deleted, removed that patch
#352 Added to AutoBuilder so-called “idioms” (e.g. VOWEL LENGTH MARK), turned some exceptions to rules