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Welcome! The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language. Our freely-available specifications and data form the foundation for software internationalization in all major operating systems, search engines, applications, and the World Wide Web. An essential part of our mission is to educate and engage academic and scientific communities, and the general public.

"Unicode enabled us to give the local sense to ... our users..." — Shai Agassi (more)

News & Announcements

For questions, news, and information, see the Unicode Forum.

Recent Releases:

UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms, Version 3 Released together with UTS #36, Unicode Security Considerations (2012.07.23)
UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions, Version 15 Released (2012.07.19)
Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Repository, Version 21.0.2 (2012.06.07)
Unicode 6.1: Core Specification now available as a paperback book (2012.05.25)

Public Review Issues (Open, About):

Bidi Parenthesis Algorithm (2012.06.06)
Linebreaking Changes for Pictographic Symbols (2012.06.06)
Changing some common characters from Punctuation to Symbol (2012.06.04)
Changes to Script Extensions Property Values (2012.06.04)
Deprecation of kCompatibilityVariant in the Unihan database (2012.06.04)
Use of Accented Pinyin for kHanyuPinlu in the Unihan database (2012.06.04)
Unicode 6.2 Beta Review (2012.06.01)
Proposed Update UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing (2012.06.26)
Proposed Update UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm (2012.06.01)
Proposed Updates of All Unicode Standard Annexes for Version 6.2 (2012.06.01)
- #9, #11, #14, #15, #24, #29, #31, #34, #38, #41, #42, #44, #45.
Proposed Draft UTR #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text Layout (2012.03.06)

Other News (Archive):

Dr. Vinton G. Cerf to Keynote IUC 36 (2012.07.02)
Unicode 6.2 to support new Turkish Lira Sign (2012.05.15)
Join us at IUC 36, October 22-24, 2012 (2012.03.01)