v1.12.1

• Now can choose other encodings when forcing encoding instead of just forcing UTF-8.

v1.12

• Added a way to enable or disable tiāo (㇀) nà (㇏) stroke (乀) when conversion, by the -t flag or tiao_na argument on the function convert().
• Removed a few redundant IVS pairs due to oversights.
• Added chardet support, for detecting input file encoding.
  • Not a mandatory module, if not installed, encoding defaults to UTF-8.
  • Can be suppressed by the -u flag, which forces UTF-8 encoding.

v1.11.5

• For the convert() function, changed the name of argument academic_correct to etymological.

v1.11.4

• Added 荆 - 荊, 㬺 - 幐, and variants from the UCV list rules 482, 483, 485.
• 𡔣 - 𡔢 is now an academic variant.
• 朗 - 朗 (CNS 11643 compatibility variant) will not be used if IVS is used.
• The input file now always uses the UTF-8 encoding format. Previously, it depended on the system locale.
  • The output file is still encoded in UTF-8 format.

v1.11.3

• Added 塩 - 𥂁.
• Updated UCV pairs.
  • Rules 5b, 70b, 298q, 442a, 472, 474, 475, 481
• 朗 - 朗 will not be used if IVS is used with the J-compatibility option. Instead, the IVS will be used. (See the difference in the 月 component between the IVS 朗󠄃 and J-compatibility variant 朗)

v1.11.2

• Fixed issue with 響 - 響 and IVS variants:
  • The 音 component has differences between the compatibility form and IVS inherited form (a vertical dot vs a horizontal stroke). If the IVS flag is set, the IVS form will be used appropriately.
• Remove redundant 八 IVS by oversight and added 穴 as an academic variant.
• Added unifiable variants 𣫠 - 鷇, 𣫠 - 鷇 and 𣪬 - 𤚲.

v1.11.1

• Internal code changes.
• Removed 𥈺 - 𥉰 and 𨵻- 𨶒 that is left by oversight, as they are extended shinjitai.

v1.11

• Added alternate and academic variants IVS conversion. (Possibly some may not be added to the list yet.)
• Added 㡬 - 幾 that is missed by oversight, per UCV 232a.
• Now only remove the IVS character when the preceding character is CJK character or punctation that can be centered, to avoid affecting emoji IVS etc.

v1.10.2

• Corrected the mappings of 郎 (U+F92C), 隸 (U+F9B8) and 蘒.
  • The Unicode compatibility mapping wrongly maps 郎 (U+F92C) to 郎, 隸 (U+F9B8) to 隸, and 蘒 to 蘒 which is actually not unifiable.
• 益 will now not to use IVS U+E0101 when academic variant flag is set.

v1.10.1

• Added 4 new unifiable variants and 1 academic variants.
  • 2 of the unifiable variants are disunified on earlier Unicode versions, and the other 2 are Ext. I "disunifications".
  • I am disappointed about the Unicode's final decision to disunify 𪣷-𮰥 and 𡟧-𮱍. They are just xin jixing variants and should be unified. In fact, originally, 𮰥 and 𮱍 are unified and so not included on the Ext. I draft, but China thought that they are not unifiable and finally they are disunified and therefore included on the final Unicode 15.1 release. A horizontal extension is fine.