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/keyman…

NEW ORTHOGRAPHY NOTES: Wancho Wancho is spoken by around 50,000 speakers in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Myanmar, and Bhutan. See typo.social/@ri/1118432522…

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

The #alpha review period for #Unicode16, slated for release later this year, has begun. blog.unicode.org/2024/02/unicod…

NEW ORTHOGRAPHY NOTES: A-Hmao (Miao Pollard script) A-Hmao is spoken by around 300,000 speakers in southeast China. The Pollard script dates from 1905. For details see typo.social/@ri/1118965859…

NEW ORTHOGRAPHY DATA: Rejang See typo.social/@ri/1119310927…

ORTHOGRAPHY NOTES UPDATED: Mandaic See typo.social/@ri/1119624299…

Updated orthography notes, & new Lhasa Tibetan picker. For details see typo.social/@ri/1120317516…

#UnicodeICU 75 released with #CLDR 45, and MessageFormat 2 tech preview in Java & C++, etc. → icu.unicode.org/download/75

** 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/keyman…

New orthography notes & picker: Sora Sompeng For details and links see typo.social/@ri/1124459297…

🚨 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 The Unicode Consortium /1 SPREAD WORD! ATypI: Association Typographique Internationale The Cooper Union KABK Type & Media

New Event on June 25 - Webinar on Bidirectional Text (Part 1): The Basics of Bidi blog.unicode.org/2024/05/new-ev…

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

UniView now supports Unicode Version 16, beta. r12a.github.io/uniview/ (For information about the Unicode beta, see unicode.org/versions/beta-…)

New article: How can I use direction metadata in native APIs? w3.org/International/… 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.

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/FDZyEYTtBmUS3n…. Deadline Aug 12 by 5PM PT (CA time).

New orthography notes, etc: SARAIKI For details see typo.social/@ri/1129325737…

✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 16.0 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 154,998! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here → unicode.org/versions/Unico… #Unicode16

Implementers should take careful note of important changes that were made to #UAX9, #UAX11, #UAX14, #UAX15, #UAX24, #UAX29, #UAX31, #UAX38, #UAX50, #UAX53, and #UAX57 for Unicode Version 16.0 (cont’d) → unicode.org/versions/Unico… #Unicode16