About 梁海liáng hǎi / Liang Hai

I go by my surname, Liang [ljɑŋ], unless you speak to me in 中文 (普通话) – then you should know how to address me.

Reach out to me:

• liang***@gmail.com
• 微信: @liang***
• Instagram: @lianghai
• Bluesky: @lianghai.dev
• Mastodon/ActivityPub: @[email protected]

Based in The Hague, I work at Typotheque with an impressive title of “multilingual font technologist”, making sure our fonts actually support various languages properly. Most of my time in evenings and weekends is spent on various Unicode projects, notably:

• Unicode Technical Committee (UTC)
  • Editorial WG
    • Previously known as the “Editorial Committee”.
    • Check out the latest core specification, web-based as of Unicode 16.0!
  • Charts WG
    • Maintenance and production of the code charts.
  • Release Management WG
    • Coordination and deployment.
  • Script Encoding WG
    • Previously known as the “Script Ad Hoc Group”.
    • My focus is on solving technical difficulties of implementing the complex scripts, especially the Indic ones and Mongolian.
• Infrastructure Team
• Adopt-a-Character (AAC)

See also my forever work-in-progress personal projects:

• Pinyin How? – a great idea, but development has been inactive
• U+DGFD “U plus dog food” – not yet even online