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Unicode Technology Workshop — Call for Submissions
Save the Date! November 7-8, 2023. Bay Area (Hosted at Google)About the WorkshopJoin us in person for two days of community building around the Unicode technology that makes software work for billions...
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Unicode Consortium Board Votes to Elevate ICU4X to Technical Committee
Across the globe, people are using alternative ways to get online, such as smartphones, smart watches, and other compact devices. Formed as a Subcommittee of the ICU Technical Committee in 2020, ICU4X...
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Volunteer Spotlight!
Lorna Evans, SIL InternationalLorna first became involved with Unicode in 2000 as a conference participant. Her enthusiasm led her to volunteer as a lecturer at a Unicode conference, and for the past...
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NEW Virtual Event - Open House on Script and Character Encoding
Registration is Now Open!The Unicode Standard aims to make the scripts used to write the languages of the world accessible on computers and devices. However, the process of getting characters and...
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Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 15.1
Version 15.1 of the Unicode Standard is now available. This minor version update includes updated code charts, data files and annexes. The core specification is unchanged from Unicode Version 15.0....
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Source Code Handling: Preventing Spoofing at the Source
By: Mark Davis, Cofounder and CTO The Unicode Consortium is providing a new resource to help programming tooling developers, programming language developers, and programming language users to deal with...
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Unicode CLDR v44 Alpha available for testing
The Unicode CLDR v44 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...
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Unicode Version 15.1 – Tips for Implementers
The Unicode Version 15.1 release includes the UCD (Unicode Character Database), Code Charts, and Annexes, but the Core Specification is unchanged from Unicode Version 15.0. In addition to new...
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Unicode CLDR v44 Beta available for specification review
The Unicode CLDR v44 Beta is now available for specification review and integration testing. The release is planned for November 1st, but any feedback on the specification needs to be submitted well in...
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ICU4X 1.3: Now With Built-In Data, Case Mapping, Additional Calendar Systems,...
By Robert Bastian, ICUX Technical CommitteeAcross 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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Unicode Technology Workshop on November 7-8 – Update on Sessions!
By the Unicode Technology Workshop Steering Committee The Unicode Technology Workshop (UTW) is the internationalization event you want to attend this year. Hear from internationalization experts from...
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Update from Unicode’s Community Engagement Team
By Elango Cheran, Vice Chair of the Community Engagement Team If you have been receiving the Unicode Newsletter or following us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and the Friends of Unicode on Facebook, you have...
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Unicode CLDR v44 available
Unicode CLDR version 44 is now available and has been integrated into version 74 of ICU. In CLDR 44, the focus is on:Formatting Person Names. Added further enhancements (data and structure) for...
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ICU 74 Released
Unicode® ICU 74 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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What do a leafless tree, a fingerprint, and a harp have in common?
This is not a set up to a riddle. This is Emoji 16.0.By Jennifer Daniel, Chair of the ESC This week, the Unicode Technical Committee gathered for our last meeting of 2023 to discuss the encoding, data...
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UTC #177 Highlights
by Peter Constable, UTC Chair Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meeting #177 was held November 1 to 3 in Cupertino, California, hosted by Apple. Here are some highlights from the meeting.Starting the...
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Looking to give back differently for this #GivingTuesday?
Adopt a Character or Emoji to give it the attention it deserves! Now you can adopt a character and show off your hobby or business, favorite sport, or love. For that special someone who seems to have...
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Unicode Welcomes New Board Members!
The Unicode Consortium is pleased to welcome Salvatore “Salvo” Giammarresi of Airbnb and Kulpreet Chilana of Apple to its Board of Directors effective this month. At its annual member meeting last...
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NEW Event on February 20 – Virtual Open House on MessageFormat
Registration is Now Open!MessageFormat is a critical API for anyone interested in building fluent, accessible, and well-localized applications. Any part of the user interface that displays data or...
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Highlights from UTC Meeting #178
Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meeting #178 was held January 23 to 25 in Sunnyvale, California. Many thanks for Google for hosting. Here are some highlights from the meeting. Preparing Unicode 16.0...
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