Developing ICT and web solutions for lesser used and minority languages.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined October 2009
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✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 16.0 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 154,998! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here → unicode.org/versions/Unicode… #Unicode16
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Unicode Technology Workshop 2 - Call for Submissions! Join us Oct 22-23 in the San Francisco Bay Area to build on last year’s success. If you are interested in contributing to the event, call for submissions is open: forms.gle/FDZyEYTtBmUS3nwm8. Deadline Aug 12 by 5PM PT (CA time).
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New article: How can I use direction metadata in native APIs?
w3.org/International/questio…
Links to docs in operating systems, programming environments, and user experience frameworks. These APIs can then be used to consume string direction metadata received on the Web.
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Calling all developers and designers! Join our webinar, Bidirectional Text (Part 1): The Basics of Bidi on June 25. Gain insights in handling text that flows from right to left and left to right. Reserve your spot now: bit.ly/4anOs0y! #Bidi #TextDirection #Unicode
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New Event on June 25 - Webinar on Bidirectional Text (Part 1): The Basics of Bidi blog.unicode.org/2024/05/new…
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🚨 Fellowship Alert: Up to $7K to Support Projects on Digitally Disadvantaged Languages
Out of the ~7,000 living human languages, all but 100–or roughly 98%–are categorized as “Digitally Disadvantaged Languages” (DDLs) by @unicode /1
SPREAD WORD! @ATypI @cooperunion @typemedia
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** Keyman 17.0 is here! **🎉
The latest Keyman introduces:
- New Touch Gestures
- Support the latest keyboard standard (LDML)
- Word suggestion functionalities
- Improves stability and compatibility
- Many Bug fixes.
Upgrade now! keyman.com/downloads/
blog.keyman.com/2024/05/keym…
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#UnicodeICU 75 released with #CLDR 45, and MessageFormat 2 tech preview in Java & C++, etc. → icu.unicode.org/download/75
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The #alpha review period for #Unicode16, slated for release later this year, has begun. blog.unicode.org/2024/02/uni…
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NEW VIRTUAL EVENT! MessageFormat Open House on Feb 20th! Are you passionate about crafting globally-accessible applications? Join us to explore the power of MessageFormat in internationalization and localization. Register now: bit.ly/48Sf8qo #MessageFormat #Localization
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Blog: Latest updates on gesture support for touch keyboards, language translation, Keyman Developer and Keyman Core enhancements, and several Keyman keyboard implementations.
blog.keyman.com/2024/01/keym…
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Blog: Latest updates on Keyman 16 stable and significant changes on Keyman Developer 17 including many updates on keyboards over the last few weeks:
blog.keyman.com/2023/12/keym…
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Noto font updates on Mac+Firefox
Font display issues fixed in Nightly. For details see w3c.social/@webi18n/11148908…
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It is now possible to read character details more easily when reading about an orthography.
See typo.social/@ri/111441464805… for details.
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Blog: Latest update on Keyman with new keyboards and updates over the last two weeks: blog.keyman.com/2023/11/keym…
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While it may never be complete, fonts.geez.org is ready to browse and includes a link to download an archive of some 169 free-to-use-and-share Geʾez fonts (131 of which are OpenSource).
My thanks to the typeface designers who contributed to the archive! #ethiopic
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Interoperable emphasis marks
Chinese and Japanese natively indicate emphasis for inline text using a small mark above or below the characters in horizontal text and to the right/left in vertical text.
Now supported, using CSS, in all 3 major browser engines.
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Gap report: w3.org/TR/deva-gap/#issue93_…
See Ready-made Counter Styles to use or adapt almost 200 patterns from around the world.
w3.org/TR/predefined-counter…
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED:
All 3 major browser engines now support the ability to create custom counter styles—a major step forward in enabling fully interoperable list numbering & other counters that enable local approaches, especially for languages with smaller speaker populations.
