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That's interesting - what's the process there? Do you have to provide proof that they are used? Let's say they are accepted, do you then have to convince someone to create the glyphs? Do you have to add them to a current font or do you create an entirely new one?

Is this an area you work in or is it a hobby project?

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My first draft was based on the Unicode Power Symbol project. It turns out that was overkill - they just need a Word document with a table of glyph/source/radical/stroke count.

http://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-hac...

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17204-uax45-additions.pdf

They also need a font. I tried to find the original, but in the end just asked Andrew West from BabelStone Han to redraw the characters for me.

It's a hobby project. Finding characters was a side effect of trying to scrape data for Pingtype https://pingtype.github.io (my Chinese learning program). When I tried to scrape characters from the Taiwanese Bible, I found inline JPGs and thought "that can't be right..." which led me down a rabbit hole ending here, exchanging emails with Richard Cook, Ken Lunde and John Jenkins (the world experts).

http://www.lingshyang.com/bible/taiwan_Bible/2ch/2ch14.htm

If you have access to a Chinese-language paper library, please try to help take photos of some characters. Search "please contact" on the BabelStone list for some urgent ones. For example, "U+F2DD Alternative character for Db (Dubnium)" and "U+F2E2 Alternative character for Rf (Rutherfordium)" could be easily found on a periodic table, I guess.

http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html

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