Version 16.000 Release

This version of the Last Resort fonts corresponds to Unicode Version 16.0.0. The following changes were made in this release:

• 10 new glyphs that correspond to the following new blocks were added:

  Range	Block Name	Glyph Name
  105C0..105FF	Todhri	lastresorttodhri
  10D40..10D8F	Garay	lastresortgaray
  11380..113FF	Tulu-Tigalari	lastresorttulutigalari
  116D0..116FF	Myanmar Extended-C	lastresortmyanmarextc
  11BC0..11BFF	Sunuwar	lastresortsunuwar
  13460..143FF	Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A	lastresortegyptianhieroglyphsexta
  16100..1613F	Gurung Khema	lastresortgurungkhema
  16D40..16D7F	Kirat Rai	lastresortkiratrai
  1CC00..1CEBF	Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement	lastresortlegacycomputingsymbsupp
  1E5D0..1E5FF	Ol Onal	lastresortolonal

• 5,185 mappings that correspond to the 5,185 new characters in Unicode Version 16.0 were changed.

• The sources and build scripts were added.

That is all.

Version 15.100 Release

This version of the Last Resort fonts corresponds to Unicode Version 15.1.0. The following changes were made in this release:

• One new glyph that corresponds to the following new block was added:

  Range	Block Name	Glyph Name
  2EBF0..2EE5F	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I	lastresortcjkexti

• 627 mappings that correspond to the 627 new characters in Unicode Version 15.1 were changed.

That is all.

Version 15.000 Release

This version of the Last Resort fonts corresponds to Unicode Version 15.0.0. The following changes were made in this release:

• The mappings for the following block were modified to reflect a new final code point, and its glyph was also modified to reflect the new end code point of the range that is specified on its right side:

  Original Range	New Range	Block Name	Glyph Name
  13430..1343F	13430..1345F	Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls	lastresortegypthiercontrols

• The name of the following glyph was changed for consistency:

  Original Glyph Name	New Glyph Name
  lastresortvariationselectorsa	lastresortvariationselectorssupplement

• The following five glyphs were modified (see Issue #6 for details about the first one, and see Issue #11 for details about the second, fourth, and fifth ones):

  Glyph Name
  lastresortnumberforms
  lastresortmathoperatorssup
  lastresortvariationselectors
  lastresortcjkextf
  lastresortvariationselectorssupplement

• Seven new glyphs that correspond to the following seven new blocks were added:

  Range	Block Name	Glyph Name
  10EC0..10EFF	Arabic Extended-C	lastresortarabicextc
  11B00..11B5F	Devanagari Extended-A	lastresortdevanagariexta
  11F00..11F5F	Kawi	lastresortkawi
  1D2C0..1D2DF	Kaktovik Numerals	lastresortkaktoviknumerals
  1E030..1E08F	Cyrillic Extended-D	lastresortcyrillicextd
  1E4D0..1E4FF	Nag Mundari	lastresortnagmundari
  31350..323AF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H	lastresortcjkexth

• 4,489 mappings that correspond to the 4,489 new characters in Unicode Version 15.0 were changed.

• The 'meta' table was removed (see Issue #10).

• The Platform ID and Encoding ID of the Format 13 'cmap' subtable of the Last Resort High-Efficiency font were changed from 3 (Windows) and 10 (Unicode full repertoire), respectively, to 0 (Unicode) and 6 (Unicode full repertoire), respectively, per the OpenType Specification (see Issue #8).

• The Last Resort font’s Format 4 'cmap' subtable now includes 65,535 mappings for the range 0000..FFFE (see Issue #9).

That is all.

Version 14.000 Release

This version of the Last Resort fonts corresponds to Unicode Version 14.0.0. The following changes were made in this release:

• Existing glyphs for the following two blocks were modified to reflect a new final code point (see the 2020-03-11 entry in Errata Fixed in Unicode 14.0.0):

  Original Range	New Range	Block Name	Glyph Name
  11700..1173F	11700..1174F	Ahom	lastresortahom
  18D00..18D8F	18D00..18D7F	Tangut Supplement	lastresorttangutsupplement

• 12 new glyphs that correspond to the following 12 new blocks were added:

  Range	Block Name	Glyph Name
  0870..089F	Arabic Extended-B	lastresortarabicextb
  10570..105BF	Vithkuqi	lastresortvithkuqi
  10780..107BF	Latin Extended-F	lastresortlatinf
  10F70..10FAF	Old Uyghur	lastresortolduyghur
  11AB0..11ABF	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A	lastresortucasexta
  12F90..12FFF	Cypro-Minoan	lastresortcyprominoan
  16A70..16ACF	Tangsa	lastresorttangsa
  1AFF0..1AFFF	Kana Extended-B	lastresortkanaextb
  1CF00..1CFCF	Znamenny Musical Notation	lastresortznamennymusic
  1DF00..1DFFF	Latin Extended-G	lastresortlating
  1E290..1E2BF	Toto	lastresorttoto
  1E7E0..1E7FF	Ethiopic Extended-B	lastresortethiopicextb

• 838 mappings that correspond to the 838 new characters in Unicode Version 14.0 were changed.

• The names of the following 13 glyphs were changed for consistency:

  Original Glyph Name	New Glyph Name
  lastresortcyrillicextendedc	lastresortcyrillicextc
  lastresortgeorgianextended	lastresortgeorgianext
  lastresortlatinextended	lastresortlatinext
  lastresortgreekextended	lastresortgreekext
  lastresortethiopicextended	lastresortethiopicext
  lastresortcyrillicextendeda	lastresortcyrillicexta
  lastresortbopomofoextended	lastresortbopomofoext
  lastresortkatakanaextended	lastresortkatakanaext
  lastresortcjkideographexta	lastresortcjkexta
  lastresortcyrillicextendedb	lastresortcyrillicextb
  lastresortmyanmarextendedb	lastresortmyanmarextb
  lastresortlatinextendede	lastresortlatine
  lastresortcjkideographextendb	lastresortcjkextb

That is all.

Version 13.001 Release

This version of the Last Resort font corresponds to Unicode Version 13.0.0.

This release includes two versions of the Last Resort font. Although both fonts can be installed at the same time, because they have different names, you are encouraged to download and install only the one that is expected to work in the environments that you use:

• The file LastResort-Regular.ttf is a font named Last Resort, and its 'cmap' table includes a Format 12 (Segmented coverage) subtable that is supported in virtually all modern environments. This font is 8MB and includes 5,063 glyphs. Download and install this font if you are unsure which one to use.

• The file LastResortHE-Regular.ttf is a font named Last Resort High-Efficiency, and its 'cmap' table includes the more efficient—for this type of font—Format 13 (Many-to-one range mappings) subtable that may not be supported in some environments, such as most Windows and Adobe apps. Therefore, this font, which is considerably smaller (500K) and with fewer glyphs (342), requires greater care when downloaded and installed.

Both fonts’ 'cmap' table include a stub (aka empty) Format 4 (Segment mapping to delta values) subtable, which is a Windows OS requirement.

Version 13.000 Release

This version of the Last Resort font corresponds to Unicode Version 13.0.0.

NOTE: The Last Resort font’s 'cmap' table includes only a Format 13 (Many-to-one range mappings) subtable, which may not be supported in some environments.