Unicode 6.2 Beta Review
The Unicode® Consortium today announced the start of beta review for the forthcoming Unicode 6.2.0. All beta feedback must be submitted by July 23, 2012. Unicode 6.2 is a minor release of the Unicode...
View ArticleNew Public Review Issues: Changes to the Unihan database
The UTC is considering two changes relating to properties for the Unihan database. PRI #225 proposes transforming the data for the kHanyuPinlu field so that it also uses accented pinyin. PRI #226...
View ArticleNew Public Review Issues: Changes to Character Properties
The UTC is considering some property changes for Unicode 6.2. PRI #227 proposes changes to the Script Extensions property values for certain combining marks. PRI #228 proposes changes of General...
View ArticlePRI #229: Linebreaking Changes for Pictographic Symbols
The UTC is proposing changes to the line break property of many pictographic characters. Details of the proposed changes are on the PRI #229 page and its associated background document. Please see:...
View ArticlePRI #231: Bidi Parenthesis Algorithm
The Unicode Technical Committee is seeking feedback on a proposal to enhance the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9) with additional logic--a bidirectional parenthesis algorithm (BPA)--for...
View ArticleCLDR 21.0.2: New T Extensions for language/locale identifiers
New T Extension fields and subfields [RFC 6497] are now available for use in BCP47 and Unicode Locale/Language Identifiers. These T extensions provide for the identification of transforms that can be...
View ArticleTutorials Announced for IUC 36
Tutorials Announced for 36th Internationalization and Unicode ConferenceSanta Clara, Calif., USA; October 22-24, 2012 Mountain View, CA, USA – June 13, 2012 – The Unicode® Consortium today announced...
View ArticleUsing the Unicode Glossary
The Unicode glossary is useful for people doing documents, specifications, and general-purpose articles. Each of the glossary entries now has a link on it, and clicking on that link exposes it in the...
View ArticleProposed updates for Unicode Collation and IDNA
The proposed update of UTS#10 Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) modifies the specification for certain edge cases (overlapping contractions), and tightens the requirements for well-formed collation...
View ArticleDr. Vinton G. Cerf to Keynote IUC 36!
Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google has just been announced as the keynote speaker for the 36th Internationalization & Unicode Conference. Dr. Cerf has served...
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Version 15 of UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions has been released by the Unicode Consortium. Regular expressions are used throughout much of the world's software for matching and manipulating text....
View ArticleUnicode Security Mechanisms, Version 3 Released
Version 3.0 of UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms has been released by the Unicode Consortium, together with a new version of the associated UTR #36, Unicode Security Considerations. Because the...
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CLDR Version 22 Released
Mountain View, CA, Sept. 10, 2012 - The Unicode® Consortium announced today the release of a new version of the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (Unicode CLDR 22.0), providing key building...
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Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 6.2
Version 6.2 of the Unicode Standard is now available. This version adds only a single character, the newly adopted Turkish Lira sign; however, the properties and behaviors for many other characters...
View ArticleTwo New Public Review Issues, UAX #9 and UTR #20
The Unicode Technical Committee has posted two new issues for public review and comment. http://www.unicode.org/review/ Review periods for the new items close on January 21, 2013. Please see the...
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CLDR Version 22.1 Released
Oct 26, 2012 — Unicode CLDR 22.1 has been released, providing an update to the key building blocks for software supporting the world's languages. Unicode CLDR 22.1 contains data for 215 languages and...
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Unicode 6.2 core specification now available
The Unicode 6.2 core specification is now available. The text has been updated to align it with changes to Unicode algorithms and properties that were released in September, including the addition of...
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Unicode Collation Proposed Update
The Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) data is being modified to make all digits with the same numeric value sort the same, whether they are European (ASCII), Arabic, Devanagari, or others. In...
View ArticleFeedback requested for Unicode 6.3
Unicode 6.3 is slated to be released in 2013Q3. Now is your opportunity to comment on the contents of this release. The text of the Unicode Standard Annexes (segmentation, normalization, identifiers,...
View ArticleUnicode Stability Policies Updated
The Unicode Character Encoding Stability Policies ensure that developers know what they can depend on between successive releases of the Unicode Standard. Recent changes to these policies include new...
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