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MessageFormat 2 Technical Preview Available
The MessageFormat Working Group is pleased to announce that it has released a Technical Preview implementation of the current state of the MessageFormat 2 specification in ICU4J in the recent ICU 72...
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Available Now! New YouTube Playlist and Technical Quick Start Guide
By Elango Cheran On September 28th, Unicode held a webinar on the “Overview of Internationalization and Unicode Projects” for Unicode enthusiasts. More than 180 people across 30 countries joined us for...
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The Unicode® Standard – 2023 Release Planning
By Peter Constable, Chair of the Unicode Technical CommitteeAt the Q4 Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meeting held from November 1-3, our member representatives unanimously agreed to a release plan...
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Unicode in 2022
Hello Everyone! As we go into the New Year, the Unicode team thought we’d share some highlights from this past year. From source-code spoofing to preserving indigenous languages, the Unicode team has...
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What’s New in Emoji 15.1?
Doing more, with lessBy: Jennifer Daniel, Chair of the Emoji Subcommittee This past Fall, the Unicode Technical Committee announced the delay of Unicode 16.0. This wasn’t without precedent — COVID...
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New Unicode Consortium CEO
— Mark Davis, President & Unicode Cofounder In January 1991 I became the first president of the Unicode Consortium, and in that position have presided over the board of directors since then. I’ve...
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Announcing New Unicode Adopt-a-Character Site
The Adopt-a-Character program was launched in 2015. Since that time, AAC funds have supported Unicode's mission to ensure everyone can communicate in their own language. This includes preserving...
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Unicode 15.1 Alpha Review Opens for Feedback
The repertoire for Unicode 15.1 is now open for early review and comment. As a reminder, during alpha review the repertoire is reasonably mature and stable, but is not yet completely locked down....
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The Unicode CLDR v43 Alpha is now available for integration testing
CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages (dates, times, numbers, sort-order, etc.). For example, all major browsers and all modern mobile phones use CLDR for...
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Remembering John H. Jenkins (井作恆)
The Unicode community is greatly saddened and affected by the recent and sudden loss of John H. Jenkins, a long-time colleague and friend. John was most recently the Vice-Chair of the Unicode CJK &...
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The Unicode CLDR v43 Beta is now available for integration testing
CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages (dates, times, numbers, sort-order, etc.). For example, all major browsers and all modern mobile phones use CLDR for...
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Unicode CLDR v43 released
CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages (dates, times, numbers, sort-order, etc.). For example, all major browsers and all modern mobile phones use CLDR for...
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ICU 73 Released
Unicode® ICU 73 has just been released. ICU is the premier library for software internationalization, used by a wide array of companies and organizations to support the world's languages, implementing...
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ICU4X 1.2: Now With Text Segmentation and More on Low-Resource Devices
By Shane Carr, Chair of the ICUX Subcommittee Across the globe, people are coming online with smaller and more varied devices including smartphones, smart watches, and gadgets. An offshoot of the...
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UTC #175 Highlights
by Peter Constable, UTC Chair We had another productive Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meeting last week,hosted at Adobe headquarters in downtown San Jose, California. Here are some highlights from...
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LDML (UTS#35) Part 7: Keyboards
CLDR-TC has authorized a new Public Review Issue, #476, for a major revision of LDML (UTS#35) Part 7: Keyboards. CLDR-TC and CLDR Keyboard-SC would appreciate feedback on whether there are specific...
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Unicode 15.1 Beta Review Open
The beta review period for Unicode 15.1 has started, and is open until July 4, 2023. The beta is intended primarily for review of character property data and changes to algorithm specifications...
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Unlocking the Power of CLDR Person Name Formatting: A Solution for Formatting...
By Mike McKenna, Chair of CLDR Person Names Subcommittee CLDR Person Names has moved from “tech preview” to “draft” status and is available for initial testing by implementors through ICU4J. How a...
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ICU 73.2 & CLDR 43.1 released: GB18030 compliance updates & compatibility fixes
ICU 73.2 & CLDR 43.1 released: GB18030 compliance updates & compatibility fixesUnicode® ICU 73.2 and CLDR 43.1 have just been released. ICU is the premier library for software...
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622 New CJK Ideographs to be Available in Unicode Version 15.1
The Unicode Standard will include 622 new CJK characters in Version 15.1, which will be released on September 12, 2023. The characters are in a new block, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I, with code...
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