📣 Marc Weber to deliver the UTW 2025 keynote! The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that Marc Weber, Director and Curator of the Internet History Program at the Computer History Museum, will deliver the keynote on Wednesday, November 12th! Join us for this special session, “From Clay to Code: The Story of Encoding”, where Marc will trace the evolution of encoding and explore how AI may open new possibilities for digitally disadvantaged languages. ⬇️ Learn more and save your seat today! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eGEUZM3Q
Unicode Consortium
IT Services and IT Consulting
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Everyone in the world should be able to use their own language on phones and computers. Unicode makes it possible.
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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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🚨 New Session Confirmed for UTW 2025 Guidelines for handling unstandardized and undeciphered scripts in Unicode This talk, hosted by Anushman Pandey, will use two scripts as case studies. This talk will not only present guidelines for encoding other unstandardized and undeciphered scripts, such as Proto-Elamite, Linear-Elamite, and Indus, but also open the door for further discussion on such encodings. ⬇️ Secure your seat at UTW ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eGEUZM3Q
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🎊 New Tutorial Confirmed for UTW 2025 👉 Putting ICU to Work This tutorial, hosted by Elango Cheran & Markus Scherer, provides attendees with all the necessary information to begin working with Unicode text in computer systems using the International Components for Unicode library (ICU). The tutorial will walk through code snippets and examples to illustrate common usage models, followed by demonstration applications and discussion of core features and conventions, advanced techniques, and how to obtain further information. It is helpful if participants are familiar with Java, C, or C++ programming. 💡 📍 Secure your seat at UTW https://lnkd.in/eGEUZM3Q #Tutorial #Internationalization #ICU #CLDR #Unicode
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🎤 New Tutorial Confirmed for UTW 2025 ✨ Making Fonts for Unicode: Tools, Workflows, and Quality Assurance This session, hosted by Maria Glenda Bellarosa, introduces the fundamentals of font design and development, with a focus on tools, workflows, and Unicode compatibility. Attendees will leave with a clear starting point and an understanding of where to find support and guidance within the broader type design community. The session includes insights from the speaker’s workflow for building fonts based on script proposals submitted to Unicode. 🎫 ⬇️ Secure your seat at UTW https://lnkd.in/eGEUZM3Q #unicode #fonts #tutorial #script
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Call for proposals now open for the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) Annual Conference! Don't miss it! Where: Berlin When: 2026 April 12-14 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/edYSSk5e #worldready #localization #l10n #globalization
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The foundation of multilingual AI is multilingual data! Whether it's data normalization, language tagging or appropriate linguistic input, #standards play a role in providing good multilingual data. Looking forward to discussing the role of internationalization and Unicode standards in multilingual AI at #TAUSSLC25 in October. Hope to see you there. TAUS Unicode Consortium #i18n #unicode #AI #language
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📣 New Session Confirmed for UTW 2025 Breaking Text Barriers: Adobe's Unified Tokenization Engine for Web i18n This session, presented by Shashank Oberoi, shares insights from Adobe's development of a unified tokenization engine that addresses complex internationalization challenges for diverse text types in web applications, such as Adobe Express, including mixed language content, URLs, email addresses, and emojis. 📅 We are 6 weeks out from UTW 2025! Secure your seat NOW! 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/e7dzdzGs #unicode #Internationalization #CLDR
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🎉 New Session Confirmed for UTW 2025 The Shape of Feeling: Designing Emoji for Everyone 🥰 In this talk, Jennifer Daniel explores how emojis are designed, standardized, and evolve over time, and why they remain essential in an era of memes, GIFs, and AI-generated images. Through stories of recent additions and cultural shifts, she highlights how these tiny symbols shape the way we communicate, feel, and connect. 🎟️ Secure your seat at UTW https://lnkd.in/eGEUZM3Q
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👏 New Session Confirmed for UTW 2025 👏 Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode code points to positioned glyphs In this tutorial, Peter Constable from Microsoft provides a practical overview of how Unicode text is rendered into what we see on screen. Aimed at i18n engineers and localizers, the talk will unravel the complex steps involved in displaying a single line of text, including font selection and fallback, bidi, shaping, glyph substitution, and more. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of Unicode and the text display behaviors that impact user experiences across languages. 🪑 🎟️ Secure your seat at UTW! https://lnkd.in/eGEUZM3Q
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📣 New Session Confirmed for UTW 2025 Automated i18n Quality for Enterprise Platforms Michael McKenna & Yaniv Zimet will share their journey to date implementing custom AI-driven i18n anti-pattern scanners in our localization infrastructure. They will demonstrate examples of detected issues and highlight the cases where this approach excelled compared to alternatives. Attendees will leave with practical insights into defining requirements, training specialized models, and embedding AI-enhanced i18n quality checks into workflows for complex, legacy codebases. 📍 Register for UTW 2025! Nov 11-13 https://lnkd.in/eGEUZM3Q