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New stable release of the Unicode Character Inspector, and NuGet package for the library

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@hexawyz hexawyz released this 24 Nov 22:43
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The Unicode Character Inspector has been upgraded with all the new information included in the project.

The changes for the application includes:

  • A new icon for the application.
  • Small UI tweaks (placeholder text, etc.)
  • Displays the name aliases for corresponding code points.
  • Displays the code points cross-references when they are available.
  • Displays the CJK radical and stroke count for supported characters.

To use the application, download the it by using the links at the bottom, then extract the archive to a directory of your choice.

The changes for the library includes:

  • Improvements to the lookup algorithm for main character data.
  • Support of Hangul syllable names, as per the Unicode spec.
  • Support of Name_Alias property.
  • Import of code point cross-references from NamesList.txt.
  • Support of kRSUnicode (aka. Unicode_Radical_Stroke), the combined Radical Index / Extra stroke count property.
  • Support of CJKRadicals, which can be used to display the radicals referenced by kRSUnicode.
  • Slight refactoring of some of the API.
    • Renamed UnicodeCharacterRange to UnicodeCodePointRange.
  • Enforced the reliability by adding more tests.

The NuGet package for the library can be found at https://www.nuget.org/packages/UnicodeInformation/.