❗❗❗ UTW 2024 is only 2 weeks away! ⏰ 👉Secure your spot today at this in-person-only event hosted at Google in Sunnyvale, CA. https://ow.ly/zQIG50TI0Tz 🌟The full program, including session details and bios, is available here: https://ow.ly/5PwM50TI0TC #internationalization #UTW #UnicodeStandard #localization #i18n #l10n #scripts #languages #emoji #tech #TechForGood
Unicode Consortium
IT Services and IT Consulting
South San Francisco, California 1,790 followers
Everyone in the world should be able to use their own language on phones and computers. Unicode makes it possible.
About us
The Unicode Consortium is the premier standards body for the internationalization of all software and services. Today, most people take for granted that their phones and computers can display text in any of hundreds of languages, handle dates, times, numbers, currencies in familiar local formats, and faithfully send emoji-laden messages to friends using any device. That wasn’t always the case, and it didn’t happen by accident. For 30 years, the Unicode Consortium has coordinated the efforts of a worldwide team of volunteer programmers and linguists to standardize, evolve, and maintain a global software foundation that allows virtually every computer system and service to help people connect using their native language. This has real world consequences. Today’s global economy runs on networks that reach billions of users around the globe. Databases, commerce engines, websites and shipping systems handle local names, addresses, and text in hundreds of languages from Latin to Cyrillic to Hindi to Japanese – all thanks to Unicode standards and code. The most compelling rationale was interoperability across the world. Unicode Consortium Quick Facts - Founded in 1988, incorporated in 1991 - Public benefit, 501(c)3 non-profit organization - Open source standards, data, and software development - Orchestrates the contributions of 100s of professionals, expert volunteers, and language experts - 30+ organizational members across corporate, academic, and governmental institutions - Funded by membership dues and donations Unicode was founded on the basis that: - Local solutions require global collaboration - Interoperability across platforms serves you – and the greater good - Transparency and open source ensure: Reliability — Security — Stability - Localization respects and empowers users Latest news and information: https://www.unicode.org/consortium/general-contact-signup.html
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http://home.unicode.org
External link for Unicode Consortium
- Industry
- IT Services and IT Consulting
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- South San Francisco, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1991
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Primary
611 Gateway Blvd
Suite 120
South San Francisco, California 94080, US
Employees at Unicode Consortium
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Meet your session host: Cathy Wissink!👋 👉Register now for this in-person-only event hosted at Google in Sunnyvale, CA. https://ow.ly/BavS50TEmFE Cathy Wissink is a 30-year veteran of the global tech industry. Most of her career was spent at Microsoft, with her early tenure devoted to internationalization support for Windows. She then spent 15 years working focused on global government and regulatory affairs. In her most recent role at Microsoft, Cathy managed a part of Microsoft’s standards portfolio supporting regulatory needs in forums like ISO/IEC JTC1, CEN/CENELEC, NIST, and also led Microsoft’s product certification process for China. Cathy led Microsoft’s participation in the Unicode Technical Committee from 2000-2005, and served as UTC vice-chair and INCITS/L2 chair from 2002-2005. 🌟The full program, including session details and bios, is available here: https://ow.ly/HXZL50TEmFy #internationalization #UTW #UnicodeStandard #localization #i18n #l10n #scripts #languages #emoji #tech #TechForGood #CLDR
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Meet your session hosts Shawn Xu and Chester Fung!👋 👉Register now for this in-person-only event hosted at Google in Sunnyvale, CA. https://ow.ly/ETbH50TEmsw About the session: “Date, Time and Timezone for Netflix Live Events”👉 They will present how they solved the localization challenges for date, time, and timezone formats for Netflix live events in confined UI spaces. They hope their learnings in finding the best local and concise formats could be useful for you as well. Have you experienced similar challenges? Let them know. 🌟The full program, including session details and bios, is available here: https://ow.ly/nsF850TEmso #internationalization #UTW #UnicodeStandard #localization #i18n #l10n #scripts #languages #emoji #tech #TechForGood
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❗UTW 2024 is 2 only weeks away! ⏰ 👉Secure your spot today at this in-person-only event hosted at Google in Sunnyvale, CA. https://lnkd.in/e9WjkSmj 🌟The full program, including session details and bios, is available here: https://lnkd.in/eUT4hbT7 #internationalization #UTW #UnicodeStandard #localization #i18n #l10n #scripts #languages #emoji #tech #TechForGood
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Meet your session host: Addison Phillips!👋 👉Register now for this in-person-only event hosted at Google in Sunnyvale, CA. https://lnkd.in/e9WjkSmj About the session: “MessageFormat 2 Technical Preview: Where Are We Now?”👉 LDML45 included a Technical Preview of a new MessageFormat standard. Since then, implementers have been hard at work making “MF2” available in a variety of platforms. This presentation reviews the progress by the working group as we near the first stable release for this key new standard. About the session: “Language and Direction Metadata on the Web”👉 Are you scared to support right-to-left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew? Are you frustrated by breakdowns in assistive technology or the availability of localized versions of your favorite software? What if there were simple effective best practices you could use to help? The W3C I18N Working Group has been championing the standardized encoding of language and base direction metadata on the Web for many years now. Developers, designers, and standardizers don’t always understand the importance of having both in the display and processing of data. This presentation contains a tutorial, showing the positive impact of having language and direction available and the problems that arise when they are absent, along with a deeper discussion about adoption and opportunities in Unicode and other standards. 🌟The full program, including session details and bios, is available here: https://lnkd.in/eUT4hbT7 #internationalization #UTW #UnicodeStandard #localization #i18n #l10n #scripts #languages #emoji #tech #TechForGood
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👉Register now for this in-person-only event: https://lnkd.in/eyUTXCqR full program, including session details and bios, is available here: https://ow.ly/Vw1C50Tzhur #internationalization #UTW #UnicodeStandard #localization #i18n #l10n #scripts #languages #emoji #tech #CLDR
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Meet your session host: Conrad Nied!👋 👉Register now for this in-person-only event hosted at Google in Sunnyvale, CA. https://ow.ly/zkcv50Tzhup About the session: “Common Locale Data Repository - Using the Survey Tool to Expand Language Coverage”👉 The CLDR DDL (Digitally Disadvantaged Language) group is interesting in getting more language and more data into CLDR so we can support more languages and continue the process to get languages on digital services. This workshop will serve as an introduction for new people to CLDR, the Survey Tool, and end with a discussion on how we can use it to serve DDLs and downstream users of the data. 🌟The full program, including session details and bios, is available here: https://ow.ly/Vw1C50Tzhur #internationalization #UTW #UnicodeStandard #localization #i18n #l10n #scripts #languages #emoji #tech #TechForGood #CLDR
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Meet your session host: Kamilé Demir!👋 👉Register now for this in-person-only event hosted at Google in Sunnyvale, CA. https://ow.ly/iK6q50Tzlz4 About the session: “How To Not Run Towards The Bear: Directionality & Emoji”👉 The basic direction of reading order differs for users of Left-to-Right scripts and Right-to-Left scripts, and implementations of Unicode bidirectionality must take this into account. This even applies to what might seem like “textless” all-emoji sequences, down to the directionality of individual emoji. We will demonstrate: *An overview of base-level directionality in text. *How directionality affects the reading of emoji sequences. *The development & interpretation of individual-emoji directionality introduced in Unicode 15.1. 🌟The full program, including session details and bios, is available here: https://ow.ly/XMgU50Tzlz5 #internationalization #UTW #UnicodeStandard #localization #i18n #l10n #scripts #languages #emoji #tech #TechForGood
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Unicode thanks カイロス, our newest Bronze Sponsor! #UnicodeAAC https://lnkd.in/eSWx6PAT