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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.

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Submissions open for 2020 Emoji (2018.04.17)
Last Call on Unicode 11.0 Review (2018.04.13)
Last call on UTS #51 Unicode Emoji (2018.04.09)
Call for Unicode 11.0 and 12.0 Cover Design Art (2018.03.07)
Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption! (2018.02.27)
Adopt-A-Character Grant to Support Three Historic Scripts (2018.02.26)
Shopify Joins as Full Member of the Unicode Consortium (2018.02.02)
Graphemics in the 21st Century Conference (2017.10.31)

Recent Releases:

ICU 61 Released (2018.03.30)
Unicode CLDR 33 Released (2018.03.28)
Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now final for 2018 (2018.02.07)
New version of Unicode Ideographic Variation Database released (2017.12.12)
Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 10.0 (2017.06.20)

For Public Review (Open, About):

PRI 375: Proposed Update UTS #46 Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing (2018.03.29)
PRI 374: Proposed Update UTS #39 Unicode Security Mechanisms (2018.03.29)
Unicode 11.0 Beta (2018.03.09)
PRI 359: Proposed Draft UTR #53, Unicode Arabic Mark Rendering (2017.09.25)
PRI 358: Proposed Update UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm (2017.08.21)
PRI 356: Proposed Update UTS #51, Unicode Emoji (2017.08.16)
Proposed Updates of Unicode Standard Annexes for Version 11.0 (2017.08.07)
- #9, #11, #14, #15, #29, #31, #38, #41, #42, #44, #45, #50

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