BabelMap 13.x.x.x Release Notes

BabelMap version 13.0.0.1 (2020-03-10)

• Updated Unicode data for Unicode 13.0.0 data.
• Updated Emoji data for Emoji 13.0.
• Added support for the Tertiary Ideographic Plane throughout the application and user interface.
• Redesigned BabelMap window to have tabs for each Unicode plane; with options to display reserved Unicode ranges and unassigned Unicode planes under the View menu.
• Added support for drag-and-drop into and out of the BabelMap edit buffer and edit buffers of the Han radical, Yi radical, Mandarin reading, and Cantonese reading lookup tools.
• Added Mandarin and Cantonese readings for many CJK Ext. G ideographs.
• Revised, corrected and expanded Mandarin readings for many existing CJK ideographs.
• Revised, corrected and expanded mappings between traditional and simplified Chinese ideographs, including CJK Ext. G.
• Updated Tangut data for Unicode 13.0 disunifications.
• Added descriptions for Egyptian hieroglyphs on the character information panel.
• Added readings from Wu Yingzhe and Juha Janhunen 2010 for Khitan Small Script characters on the character information panel.
• Added a "Copy Results" button to the Han radical, Yi radical, Mandarin reading, and Cantonese reading lookup tools.
• Added right-click copy for the sample text in the Font Information dialog box.
• Added a Font Configuration Options dialog that allows you to list fonts to exclude from font configuration, and to specify preferences for Noto fonts.
• Added ability to search for algorithmic character names.
• Fixed bug in NCR-to-Unicode conversion which converted "&#x;" and "&#;" to U+0000.
• Fixed bug in RTF copy which discarded braces ('{' and '}') in the text to be copied.
• Fixed omission of "oblique" from enumerated font styles in the Fonts Overview dialog.
• Corrected some Nishida Tangut reconstructions.
• Added Japanese simplified dragon and turtle radicals to the Han Radical Lookup tool.

BabelMap version 13.0.0.2 (2020-03-11)

• Fixed script counts in "Unicode Scripts" tool.
• Fixed Options menu error for US English.
• Added pinyin readings for biáng.

BabelMap version 13.0.0.3 (2020-03-20)

• Changed the application description to "BabelMap - Unicode Character Map" so it will show up under BabelMap in Task Manager.
• Added a -debug command line parameter which causes BabelMap to write diagnostic messages to a file called "BabelMap.log" in the same folder as BabelMap.exe (must not be in Program Files or else the log file will not be created). If you encounter a reproduceable crash with BabelMap then run BabelMap from the command line with -debug (or create a shortcut with -debug after the target), and send me the resulting log file.
• Fixed crash when opening the Overview of All Fonts with no defined font for the current Unicode block.
• Fixed hanging on start up on some systems (mainly Windows XP and Windows 7).

BabelMap version 13.0.0.4 (2020-03-30)

• Fixed issue with some supra-BMP characters in some fonts (e.g. ELEPHANT with Noto Emoji) being displayed as two not-defined glyphs (a similar but different problem still persists for some combinations of characters and fonts in both BabelMap and BabelPad, e.g 1F260..1F265 with Symbola).

BabelMap version 13.0.0.5 (2020-09-16)

• Modified he algorithm for centring glyphs in the character map grid, so that now the glyph cell is centred rather than the glyph (except for characters with no advance width which continue to be centred on their glyph).
• Improved the display of the glyph popup window for the character map grid.
• Improved character spacing when in Simple Rendering mode.

BabelMap version 13.0.0.6 (2020-09-19)

• Added support for Emoji 13.1..

BabelMap version 13.0.0.7 (2020-09-23)

• Improved the Emoji Lookup tool (previously called "Emoji Data"), and added the ability to filter emoji based on their name or description.

BabelMap version 13.0.0.8 (2020-09-28)

• Added option in the View menu to always show BabelMap on top of other windows.

BabelMap version 13.0.0.9 (2020-10-13)

• Corrected accidental change to start-up position of the window introduced in previous version.

BabelMap version 13.0.0.10 (2020-11-07)

• Added support for Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) version 2020-11-06.

BabelMap version 13.0.0.11 (2020-12-18)

• Fixed bug with Han Radical Lookup tool which was not listing characters added to the ends of the Ext. and Ext. B blocks.
• Tweaks for some pinyin readings of CJK characters.

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