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Keynote Speaker Announced for IUC 39
Babel Rousers: The 900 Year Quest to Build a Better LanguageArika OkrentLinguist and Author After a Monday full of tutorials for new attendees and those requiring a refresher, join us Tuesday morning...
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Unicode Version 8.0 - Complete Text of the Core Specification Published
The core specification for Version 8.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, containing significant updates and improvements:A rewritten description of casing to account for the addition of a set...
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Henry Luce Foundation Grant to the Unicode Consortium
The Henry Luce Foundation has made a grant to the Unicode Consortium in support of three meetings between Unicode specialists, experts, and user communities in Mongolia and China. The meetings, which...
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Emoji One Joins the Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that Emoji One has joined as a supporting member. Emoji One is a small, independent group of emoji developers providing an open source emoji set for...
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Facebook Joins as Full Member of the Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that Facebook has joined as a full member. Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and...
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CLDR Version 28 Released
Unicode CLDR 28 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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UAX #29, Unicode Text Segmentation, update to improve Mongolian word...
Unicode Standard Annex #29, Unicode Text Segmentation, will be updated for Unicode 9.0. A draft of the proposed update is available for general public review and comment. The Word_Break classification...
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EmojiXpress Joins the Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that EmojiXpress has joined as a Supporting member. EmojiXpress is one of the most popular iOS Emoji keyboards worldwide, focused on providing the best...
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Proposed Update UAX #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax
Unicode Standard Annex #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax, will be updated for Unicode 9.0. The proposed update is now available for general public review and comment. A major change in the...
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New Unicode Pages on Emoji
New information about emoji is available on The Unicode Consortium website, including the following: Emoji Candidates— The comprehensive list of all 67 emoji candidate emoji characters that have been...
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Proposed Update UTR #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout
A Proposed Update of this UTR is now available for public review and comment. The UTR is being reissued with a set of data updated to the character repertoire of Unicode Version 8.0. In this revision,...
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Unicode 9.0 Candidate Characters
The Unicode Consortium has accepted 7 new emoji characters as candidates for Unicode 9.0, scheduled for release in mid-2016. This makes a total of 74 emoji candidates. These join thousands of non-emoji...
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Unicode Board of Directors Election Results
The Unicode Consortium announces the election of four Directors for a three-year term beginning January 2016:Bob Jung of GoogleAlolita Sharma of TwitterGreg Welch of IntelDachuan Zhang of Microsoft...
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Unicode 8.0 Paperback Available
The Unicode 8.0 core specification is now available in paperback book form. Responding to continued interest, the editorial committee has created a pair of modestly priced print-on-demand volumes that...
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New version of UTR #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout released
A new revision of UTR #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout, has been released. The data tables have been updated to the character repertoire of Unicode Version 8.0.
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New Character Property for Prepended Concatenation Marks
The Unicode Technical Committee is seeking feedback on a proposal to define a new character property for the class of prepended concatenation marks, also referred to as prefixed format control...
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Unicode Cherokee Chart Font Updated
The Unicode Consortium has recently updated the current code charts for the Cherokee script specifically to provide improved reference glyphs for the lowercase letters introduced in Version 8.0. The...
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Unicode Launches Adopt-a-Character Campaign to Support the World’s “Digitally...
Non-profit consortium invites public to adopt any emoji, letter or symbol as fun, meaningful gifts that fund research and coding needed to support minority languagesMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS...
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Unicode Updates Emoji Charts and Expands List of Candidates
The Unicode Consortium announced today it is updating the Unicode emoji charts with the following major changes: The Full Emoji Data chart adds the latest updates for Google, Twitter, Windows, and...
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Feedback on Draft additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2016 (5th edition) CD2
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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