Orthography notes: new features. 1. the IPA-to-character summary tables at the start of the Vowels and the Consonants sections are synced with IPA-to-character mapping lists at the end of those sections. Click on the IPA in the former to jump to the latter for more detailed descriptions.

UNIVIEW has been updated from 17beta to support the changes for Unicode 17.0 in the final release. r12a.github.io/uniview/

UNICODE 17 IS RELEASED ! Announcement: blog.unicode.org/2025/09/unic... Latest core spec online: www.unicode.org/versions/lat... New scripts: Beria Erfe, Tolong Siki, Tai Yo, Sidetic

UNIKEMET DATA in the EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH PICKER When you bring up detailed notes about a character it now shows Unikemet data. The Unikemet data is also available in UniView. Try it at r12a.github.io/pickers/egyp/

EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH PICKER r12a.github.io/pickers/egyp/ Rewritten to fix bugs, update, & add new features: - new term list with 3033 entries (though most still need to have hieroglyphs, etc, added) - MdC to WikiHiero converter displays results in a popup

UNIVIEW NOW SUPPORTS UNICODE17 beta r12a.github.io/uniview/

Chakma orthography notes updated. r12a.github.io/scripts/cakm... There is still much more to understand about how the Chakma script works, but the notes have been updated to talk about simplified vs traditional orthographies, and some clarifications around onsets, finals, and consonant clusters.

INDIC orthography notes sections on vowels, consonants, encoding choices, and shaping have been largely rewritten for Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Kashmiri (deva), Tamil, Bengali, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu, and Sinhala. r12a.github.io/scripts/inde...

NEW PICKER FEATURE: In-page notes Highlight some text, click on List Characters, then click on a character name in the popup. This will display any available notes about that character in the right half of the screen. Try it: r12a.github.io/pickers/mlym...

NEW PICKER FEATURE: Copy list items to clipboard When you select List Characters, each line in the list has 2 icons to the right. The first copies just the character; the second copies just the Unicode name.

NEW PICKER FEATURE: New font size slider An extra font size slider has been added just below the bottom right of the text area. The autofocus control that used to be here can now be found as an icon to the right.

BENGALI VOWEL LIGATURES The Bengali orthography notes section r12a.github.io/scripts/beng... now shows which Noto/System fonts support ligation for ru, rū, etc. And which browsers support associated ZWJ and ZWNJ behaviours. (It's very complicated!)

NEW PICKER FEATURE: Collapse spaces but keep lines Pickers make it easy to rearrange/add/delete/change combining marks by clicking on an icon to the right of the text area which adds space(s) between each character. Clicking another icon removes the spaces once the edits are complete.

NEW PICKER FEATURE: Render HTML Pickers will now do basic rendering of simple HTML snippets. (Esp. useful for testing RTL behaviours.) Hint: Set the direction to LTR override to manage bidi with HTML. Type the HTML. Select Render HTML from pulldown menu. Try it: r12a.github.io/pickers/arab...

The input field that allows you to add characters to the text area in a picker by typing code points or escapes has been moved just below the text area, for convenience. Just type one or more code points or escapes and hit return to add the character to the text area. r12a.github.io/pickers/

NEW SCRIPT INFO: Sharada (Sanskrit/Kashmiri) Orthography: r12a.github.io/scripts/shrd... Picker: r12a.github.io/pickers/shrd... Term list: r12a.github.io/scripts/shrd... (72 items) Char notes: r12a.github.io/scripts/shrd...

Character pickers can now show the grapheme clusters in a highlighted string. The Grapheme segmenter app has also been updated to incorporate the Unicode 15.1 segmentation rules for indic conjuncts. Try it: r12a.github.io/pickers/beng...

NEW PICKER FEATURE It's now possible to create a URL pointing to a picker that not only adds text to the text area, but that also applies a given font to it (as long as the receiver has the font installed.) Use underscores for spaces in the font name.

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “:dir lacks wide support” When designing/adapting style sheets for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Dhivehi, Fula (Adlam)... the :dir() pseudo-class allows content authors to style RTL text in the same style sheet as other languages, significantly improving convenience.

This is now supported by Gecko, WebKit, and Blink engines. For more details, see the gap report at www.w3.org/TR/alreq-gap...

NEW SCRIPT INFO: Beria Erfe (Zaghawa) Orthography: r12a.github.io/scripts/beri... Picker: r12a.github.io/pickers/beri... Term list: r12a.github.io/scripts/beri... (61 items) Char notes: r12a.github.io/scripts/beri...

NEW SCRIPT INFO: Meroitic Cursive Orthography: r12a.github.io/scripts/merc... Picker (announced before): r12a.github.io/pickers/mero... Term list: r12a.github.io/scripts/merc... (228 items) Char notes: r12a.github.io/scripts/merc...

NEW: Script Comparison Table r12a.github.io/scripts/scri... Currently describes key features of 78 scripts. More will be added over time. Helps you find scripts with a particular feature. Order the list by clicking on column headers. Click the buttons for more columns.

NEW ORTHOGRAPHY NOTES: Tai Ahom (Ahom) Orthography: r12a.github.io/scripts/ahom... Picker: r12a.github.io/pickers/ahom... Term list: r12a.github.io/scripts/ahom... (228 items) Char notes: r12a.github.io/scripts/ahom...

Ahom is a South Asian abugida, used to write the Tai Ahom language in northeast India. The language was one of the main Tai languages of Assam for 500 years until it was replaced by Assamese. At the beginning of the 20th century it was largely extinct, but is currently undergoing a revival.

It's now much easier to move around while reading the orthography notes. Move the mouse towards the brown bar on the left of the window. When the cursor changes click the mouse button to open/close the TOC. Try it at r12a.github.io/scripts/krai...

NEW ORTHOGRAPHY NOTES: Bantawa (Kirat Rai) Orthography: r12a.github.io/scripts/krai... Picker: r12a.github.io/pickers/krai... Term list: r12a.github.io/scripts/krai... (28 items) Char notes: r12a.github.io/scripts/krai...

Kirat Rai is a South Asian abugida used in the Indian state of Sikkim & Nepal to write the Bantawa language. It was created by Late Kripasalyan Rai in 1981-1982 from the Devanagari script. Status: Limited usage (small community) but growing.

NEW ORTHOGRAPHY NOTES: Tai Yo Tai Yo (or Lai Tay) is a Southeast Asian abugida used in Vietnam for the Tai Yo language. Orthography: r12a.github.io/scripts/tayo... Picker: r12a.github.io/pickers/tayo... Term list: r12a.github.io/scripts/tayo... (117 items) Char notes: r12a.github.io/scripts/tayo...

NEW ORTHOGRAPHY NOTES: Tolong Siki, Kurukh Orthography: r12a.github.io/scripts/tols... Picker: r12a.github.io/pickers/tols... Term list: r12a.github.io/scripts/tols... (116 items) Chars: r12a.github.io/app-charuse/... Char notes: r12a.github.io/scripts/tols...

Kurukh is a North Dravidian language spoken by around 2M people in India. The Tolong Siki script was created for the language in 1999.

Script Summaries ! Short descriptions of all Unicode-supported scripts been added to: - Script Links pages, eg. r12a.github.io/scripts/link... - Font Lister pages, eg. r12a.github.io/scripts/font... - Samples pages, eg. r12a.github.io/scripts/samp... Also info about script origins and chronology.

New picker & termlist: Meroitic (Cursive & Hieroglyphic) - picker r12a.github.io/pickers/mero... - termlist (45 items) r12a.github.io/scripts/mero...

Meroitic was used in Africa by the Kush (Meroë) people for the Meroitic language BCE 3rdC – 4thC CE. Descended from Egyptian Hieroglyphs, via hieratic, and demotic. Two abugidas cover the same sounds but are not used together. Hieroglyphs are used for inscriptions, but 90% of samples are cursive.