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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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Unicode Tutorial Workshop in Oman (Feb 14-16, 2016)

This tutorial workshop, sponsored by the Unicode Consortium and organized by the German University of Technology in Oman, is a three-day event designed to familiarize the audience with the Unicode...

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Proposed Update UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms

A new proposed update of UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms is now available for public review and comment. The proposed update of this Unicode Technical Standard includes new material for email...

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Proposed Update UAX #45, U-Source Ideographs

A new proposed update of UAX #45, U-Source Ideographs for the Unicode 9.0 release is now available for public review and comment. Many updates and additions have been made to the USourceData.txt and...

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Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

A new proposed update of UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm for the Unicode 9.0 release is now available for public review and comment. The table in Section 2.7, Markup and Formatting, has been...

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Proposal to Remove Some Hira/Kata From Script_Extensions

The Script_Extensions property values for some characters contain Hiragana, Katakana, or Bopomofo, when they should only contain Han. The Unicode Technical Committee is considering removing the...

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Unicode Candidate Emoji

The Unicode Consortium has accepted 5 new emoji characters as candidates for Unicode 10.0, scheduled for release in mid-2017. These 5 new emoji candidates are listed on the Emoji Candidates page,...

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Draft Unicode Emoji Enhancements

Unicode emoji characters are specified by UTR #51, Unicode Emoji and its related data files. Now available for public review and comment are a proposed update of UTR #51, plus a draft of a related new...

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Unicode 9.0 Beta Review

Mountain View, CA, USA – The Unicode® Consortium today announced the start of the beta review for the forthcoming Unicode 9.0.0, which is scheduled for release in June, 2016. All beta feedback must be...

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Be a Part of Our 40th Conference!

Call for Participation Now Open For twenty-five years the Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC) has been the preeminent event highlighting the latest innovations and best practices of...

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CLDR Version 29 Released

Unicode CLDR 29 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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Call for Unicode 9.0 Cover Design Art

The Unicode Consortium is inviting artists and designers to submit cover design proposals for Version 9.0 of The Unicode Standard. This is the first time Unicode is extending this invitation. The cover...

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Not Just Emoji

Every programmer knows about Unicode. Most other people have no idea what it is, even though they use Unicode every day. Every character you type on your smartphone or laptop — and every character you...

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