The UTC extends its deepest condolences to Andrew’s family, friends, and his many colleagues around the world.

We have very smart researchers and very stupid submitters (and their incompetent leaders), so I always prefer to attend the researchers' meetings and skip the submitters'. Andrew, on the other hand, is indeed a smart submitter, and I'll always benefit from his detailed and intelligent research.

Utilizing the two roots mentioned above, it is the CJKV encoding theory that we have constructed that can be regarded historically responsible and can inform the work of the next century, rather than barely hanging on until the end of the IRG meeting on a Friday.

What’s more, the Qiu Xigui system is very applicable, while the Wang Ning system needs to be adapted. On the one hand the concepts of both graphetic variant 異寫字 and graphematic variant 異構字 need to be relaxed, and on the other hand the analysis needs to be extended to cover non-Chinese ideographs.

The Python package `mongfontbuilder` (v0.4.0) has been released with the GitHub repo being public.