Chapter grammar — every dossier follows the same skeleton
- The Proposal
- The Committee
- The Objections
- The Allocation
- The Fonts
Each case tracks a script from its encoding proposal, through the technical committee and the objections raised, to code-point allocation and the fonts that finally made it renderable.
01 U+ The PipelineHow Unicode works — proposal, script ad-hoc, the UTC and ISO/IEC 10646, and why admission takes years. Forthcoming
02 字 Han UnificationThe most contested decision in Unicode — merging Chinese, Japanese and Korean character forms into one set, and the ‘Han unification’ backlash. Room → 03 က The Zawgyi DecadeMyanmar — a non-standard font that squatted on Unicode's code points, split a country's text in two, and took years to unwind. Room → 04 𞤀 The Fast TrackAdlam — a script invented in 1989, in Unicode by 2016 and on phones soon after: admission at modern speed. Room → 05 ▢ Still OutsideMaya, the Indus signs, and dozens more — the scripts not yet (or never) admitted, and what that costs their communities. Forthcoming
06 ☺ The Emoji ExceptionHow pictographs jumped the queue — the other admissions story, and what it revealed about who Unicode serves. Forthcoming
07 ▢ The ThresholdClosing dossier — encoded is not renderable is not typable: the three doors a script must pass, and who is left between them. Forthcoming
Toward the book
This series is declared complete at seven dossiers. On completion it moves to Naisu Press as a volume in the institute's imprint — same chapter grammar, same specimens, print-first typesetting via the Paged.js pipeline. Dossiers published here remain open access; the book is the collected, revised edition.