Unicode BFont status update

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There are 30334 glyphs in 308 ranges

😳 <flushed face emoji>

I still have a lot of BMP scripts to add, but the emoji are all in there… that’s how we all talk these days isn’t it? 😬 <grimacing face>

Here’s my new favourite Unicode character, 🎠 1F3A0, can you see what it is?

can you see what it is?

Should that not be:

<didgeridoo>can you see what it is yet?</didgeridoo>?

It’s a headless person juggling three balls.

Signifying the futility of existence?

So how does one do literals in Textile without resorting to code?

1F3A0, can you see what it is?

A merry-go-round horse, signifying the normal conversations about relative abilities of the variants of RO? Although the ‘merry’ element may be an exaggeration.

I’ve just been trying to do justice to the difference between an ox and a cow, a tiger and a leopard, and a rooster and a hen… in 8×8 pixels.

Pleased with the pig/boar distinction though.

Another 200 glyphs in the last five hours. At this rate… <calculates>… oh.

A horse on a stick, definitely not an albatross on a stick…

Surely the only emoji one needs in 2019 is…

A horse on a stick

But why do you need an emoji for a kebab?

Rick mused

Surely

Been there, done that…

But why do you need an emoji for a kebab?

Ah, you mean 1F959.

There are 31628 glyphs in 346 ranges

There’s Klingon and Tengwar in there now, and I’ve started Korean… so that’ll be another eleven thousand glyphs to add soon. And the animals look good in colour:

All the better to write Vogon poetry with!

Sadly, the interior of that is blank – just lines on the pages.

Blank verse?

I’d have thought that’s infinitely superior to the alternative (by which I mean actual Vogon poetry, rather than Paul Neil Milne Johnstone’s alleged “The crippled swan slowly easing his stiffened wings, feebly trying/To discourage death’s stalking shadows with whispered hiss”).