Closing the Unicode Web Forum
Over the last several years, the Unicode Forum hosted on the Unicode website has not seen sufficient activity to justify its continuing maintenance. Accordingly, the Unicode Consortium is planning to...
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Updated Unicode Emoji document
The “Unicode Emoji” draft document has been updated. Changes include the addition of a draft description of emoji selection factors and draft chart images for the Unicode 8.0 candidate emoji. Feedback...
View ArticleCLDR 26.0.1 Maintenance Release
An update to CLDR 26 has been released, only for the JSON format of the data. Some of the JSON data from CLDR 26 had corrupt identity information, which has been fixed in this update. The XML for CLDR...
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1,250 Recommended Current Emoji
The new draft of Unicode Emoji identifies a set of about 1,250 current emoji as recommended for Unicode 7.0 implementations. The Consortium would appreciate feedback on this set of characters. To make...
View ArticleUnicode Text Segmentation Proposed Update for 8.0
UAX #29, Unicode Text Segmentation, will be updated for Unicode 8.0. The proposed update is now available for general public review and comment. There are several minor modifications to the...
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Unicode 7.0 Paperback Available
The Unicode 7.0 core specification is now available in paperback book form. Responding to requests, the editorial committee has created a pair of modestly-priced print-on-demand volumes that contain...
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Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing Proposed Update
Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing technical standard (UTS #46) has a proposed update available, with modifications for alignment with the future Unicode 8.0. Most notable are the new Unicode 8.0...
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Unicode Security Mechanisms (UTS #39) Proposed Update Available
UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms has a proposed update available, with modifications for alignment with the future Unicode 8.0, and some revisions to data and format. Most notable are the new...
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Unicode Emoji (UTR #51) Draft Available
The draft of the UTR #51, Unicode Emoji technical report has been advanced to Draft status, and updated as follows:refined the selection factors used to weigh new emoji proposalsreduced the set of...
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Feedback on repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (4th Edition, Amendment 2)
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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Unicode 8.0 Beta Review
Mountain View, CA, USA – The Unicode® Consortium today announced the start of the beta review for the forthcoming Unicode 8.0.0, which is scheduled for release in June, 2015. All beta feedback must be...
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CLDR Version 27 Released
Unicode CLDR 27 has been released, providing 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...
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Emoji Glyph and Annotation Recommendations
The Unicode Technical Committee has released a list of recommendations for changes in Unicode chart glyphs and/or annotations for many emoji characters, to promote better interchange across platforms....
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Huawei Upgrades to Full Member of the Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that Huawei has upgraded from associate member to a full corporate member. We look forward to their contributions to the Unicode Standard and the Common...
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Unicode 9.0 Candidate Emoji
The Unicode Consortium has accepted 38 emoji characters as candidates for Unicode 9.0, scheduled for release in mid-2016. At this point, these emoji are candidates—not yet finalized—so some may be...
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Join us in Santa Clara for IUC 39 (October 26-28)
The conference program has just been announced for this year's Internationalization and Unicode® Conference (IUC), October 26-28 in Santa Clara, California. This is the premier annual event covering...
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Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 8.0
Version 8.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available. It includes 41 new emoji characters (including five modifiers for diversity), 5,771 new ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the new...
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Representing Additional Types of Flags
The UTC is considering a proposal to extend the types of flags which can be reliably represented by certain sequences of Unicode characters. In addition to the current mechanism using pairs of regional...
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SwiftKey joins the Unicode Consortium
The Unicode® Consortium is pleased to announce that SwiftKey is joining the Unicode Consortium as an associate member. We look forward to their contributions to the Unicode Standard and other...
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Feedback on repertoire additions for ISO/IEC 10646 4th and 5th editions
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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