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Gold Sponsor White Unicorn Agency

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that White Unicorn Agency is now a gold sponsor for: White Unicorn Agency's  sponsorship directly funds the work of the Unicode Consortium in enabling...

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Gold Sponsor Oakland Athletics Baseball

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that Oakland Athletics Baseball is now a gold sponsor for: Oakland Athletics Baseball's  sponsorship directly funds the work of the Unicode Consortium in...

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PRI 354: Registration of additional sequences in the Moji_Joho collection

The Unicode Consortium has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Public Review Issue #354: A submission for the "Registration of additional sequences in the Moji_Joho collection" has been...

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Unicode Emoji 6.0 initial drafts / Draft Candidate chart updated

Emoji 6.0 is starting development, and initial drafts of the specification and data files are available. In the specification and data, a new property is added that helps to “future-proof” segmentation...

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Unicode Consortium Announces Cover Design

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce the new design selected for the cover of the forthcoming print-on-demand publication of The Unicode Standard, Version 10.0. The Unicode Consortium issued...

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Keynote Speaker Announced for IUC 41

Can We Escape Alphabetic Order? Chinese I.T. Before and After UnicodeThomas S. MullaneyAssociate Professor of Chinese History, Stanford University Drawing upon more than a decade of research in the...

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Gold Sponsor SMU Guildhall

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that SMU Guildhall is now a gold sponsor for: SMU Guildhall's  sponsorship directly funds the work of the Unicode Consortium in enabling modern software...

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Unicode 10.0 Paperback Available

The Unicode 10.0 core specification is now available in paperback book form with a new, original cover design. This edition consists of a pair of modestly priced print-on-demand volumes containing the...

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New Emoji Subcommittee Vice-Chairs

The Emoji Subcommittee (ESC) is on the front lines of Unicode emoji. It is responsible for accepting requests for new emoji and emoji sequences, helping requesters to fill out missing areas in their...

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Unicode CLDR 32α available for testing

The alpha version of Unicode CLDR 32 is available for testing. The alpha period lasts until the beta release on September 27, which will include updates to the LDML spec. The final release is expected...

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Proposed Draft UTR #53, Unicode Arabic Mark Ordering Algorithm Now Available...

The Unicode Consortium has released Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #53, Unicode Arabic Mark Ordering Algorithm. This UTR describes an algorithm for determining correct rendering of Arabic...

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New Gold Sponsor comprigo

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that comprigo is now a gold sponsor for: comprigo's  sponsorship directly funds the work of the Unicode Consortium in enabling modern software and...

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Graphemics in the 21st Century Conference

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce a conference that may be of interest to our user community. /gʁafematik/ 2018 is the first conference bringing together disciplines concerned with writing...

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ICU 60 Released

Unicode® ICU 60 has just been released! ICU is a software library widely used by products and other libraries to support the world's languages, implementing both the latest version of the Unicode...

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CLDR Version 32 Released

Unicode CLDR 32 provides an update to the key building blocks for software supporting the world’s languages. This data is used by all major software systems for their software internationalization and...

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Unicode Emoji 11.0 Beta

Emoji 11.0 beta is now available for developers, with 130 Draft Candidates, such as:The list is not final: changes can include removals or additions: for example, new ZWJ sequences could be added. The...

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Support Unicode with an Adopt-a-Character Gift this Holiday Season!

This holiday season you can give a unique gift by adopting any emoji, letter, or symbol — and help support the Unicode Consortium’s mission to enable all languages to be used on computers. Three levels...

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Feedback on Draft additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th edition)...

The Unicode Technical Committee is soliciting feedback on pending additions to the draft repertoire of characters, to help discover any errors in character names, incorrect glyphs, or other problems....

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New version of Unicode Ideographic Variation Database released

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce the release of the 2017-12-12 version of the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD), which is the sixth version, and includes five registered...

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Unicode LDML Keyboard Enhancements

The Unicode CLDR Technical Committee is planning to enhance the Unicode LDML keyboard specifications. The goal is to be able to represent all the keyboard features necessary to support keyboard layouts...

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