Apps and information related to language, writing systems, and Unicode. Made for myself in my spare time, but free for all to use if it helps.
NEW FEATURE: Workbench apps now have a top-level icon that displays descriptions of characters.
This information was previously accessed by selecting Analyse Text, or List Characters first.
Try it out: https://r12a.github.io/pickers/cyrl-mn/index.html?showSample
(If you have more than one highlighted character it will provide information on the first character only.)
VERSION 32 was just applied to all orthography notes, term lists, pickers, etc. Key changes include:
- all pickers/character apps are now called Character Workbenches (highlighting that i use these far more for checking/manipulating text than for input)
- workbench apps have a top-level icon that shows detailed information for characters
- right-pointing arrows in term list Find tabs now open both a Wiktionary page and a workbench, pre-filled with information available from the Wikimedia API
- all xx-vocab files renamed to xx-terms
- ipa separators in xx-examples files changed from § to ,
I'll provide additional posts for some of these new features. More improvements to follow.
Do you want a simple way to view a piece of text in multiple fonts, and see the effect on them of CSS properties?
Try the new Font Previewer.
For example, text-underline-position:from-font for system, Noto, and SIL fonts (+Amiri and a few others) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/apps/showfonts/index.html?text=%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%BA%20%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%20%D9%81%D9%8A%20%D9%83%D9%84%20%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%8A%20%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86&fonts=Al%20Bayan%2CAl%20Nile%2CAl%20Tarikh%2CArial%2CBaghdad%2CDamascus%2CDecotype%20Naskh%2CGeeza%20Pro%2CMishafi%2CMishafi%20Gold%2CMuna%2CNadeem%2CArial%20Unicode%20MS%2CMyriad%20Arabic%2CTahoma%2CDiwan%20Thuluth%2CWaseem%2CDiwan%20Kufi%2CKufiStandardGK%2CSana%2CBeirut%2CFarah%2CArabic%20Typesetting%2CArial%2CCalibri%2CSakkal%20Majalla%2CSimplified%20Arabic%2CTraditional%20Arabic%2CSegoe%20UI%2CTahoma%2CAndalus%2CAldhabi%2CCourier%20New%2CSimplified%20Arabic%20Fixed%2CMicrosoft%20Uighur%2CNoto%20Naskh%20Arabic%2CScheherazade%20New%2CNoto%20Sans%20Arabic%2CNoto%20Kufi%20Arabic%2CAmiri%2CAref%20Ruqaa%2CBeirut%2CLateef%2CTahoma%2CWaseem&css=text-decoration%3A%20underline%202px%20tan%3Btext-underline-position%3Afrom-font%3B&lang=ar
You can take a snap of the settings to share with others by URL.
You can now apply CSS to text in a picker.
Open the dialog box by clicking on the CSS icon, on the right. The style is applied as you type.
The illustration shows the font window open at the same time (optional), allowing you to mouse over font names to change the font.
PICKER CHARACTER APPS change
The control that used to split text into characters separated with ␣ by default now separates them with commas by default.
It's still possible to use any separator you want by adding it to the field pointed to in the image. It's just the default that has changed.
NEW SCRIPT INFO: Masaram Gondi
Masaram Gondi is a South Asian abugida used in India for the Gondi language. It is unrelated to the historic Gunjala Gondi. It was created in 1918, and is actively used today in handwritten and printed materials. It has several interesting features.
Orthography: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/gonm/gon
Picker: https://r12a.github.io/pickers/gonm/
Term list (96 items) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/gonm/gon_vocab
Characters used: https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/?language=gon
Masaram Gondi links: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links.html?iso=Gonm
NEW SCRIPT INFO: Gunjala Gondi
Gunjala Gondi is a South Asian abugida used for the Gondi language in India’s northern Telangana, eastern Maharashtra, southeastern Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh regions.
Orthography: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/gong/wsg
Picker: https://r12a.github.io/pickers/gong/
Term list (33 items) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/gong/wsg_vocab
Characters used: https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/?language=wsg
Gunjala Gondi links: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links.html?iso=Gong
NEW SCRIPT INFO: Tangsa
Tangsa is a Southeast Asian monocameral alphabet used on the border between India and Myanmar to write Muishvung and other dialects of the Tangsa language.
Orthography: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tnsa/nst
Picker: https://r12a.github.io/pickers/tnsa/
Term list (43 items) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tnsa/nst_vocab
Characters used: https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/?language=nst
Makasar links: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links.html?iso=Tnsa
NEW SCRIPT INFO: Makasar
Makasar is an abugida used between 18th-20C to write the Makassarese language in south Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Orthography: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/maka/mak
Picker: https://r12a.github.io/pickers/maka/
Term list (835 items, but most in Latin script) https://r12a.github.io/scripts/maka/mak_vocab
Characters used: https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/?language=mak
Makasar links: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links.html?iso=Maka
NEW SCRIPT INFO: Syloti Nagri (Sylheti)
Syloti Nagri is an abugida used to write the Sylheti language in Eastern Bangladesh & nearby regions.
Orthography: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/sylo/syl
Picker: https://r12a.github.io/pickers/sylo-syl/
Term list: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/sylo/syl_vocab
Characters used: https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/?language=syl
Syloti Nagri links: https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links.html?iso=Sylo
UNIVIEW has been updated from 17beta to support the changes for Unicode 17.0 in the final release.