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The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. [4] Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.
Each working set undergoes several years of review by IRG experts before official submission of the working set to WG2 as a new block. Once accepted by WG2, the proposed block is processed according to the individual procedures followed by ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2 and the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC).
ICU was released as an open-source project in 1999 under the name IBM Classes for Unicode. It was later renamed to International Components For Unicode. [15] In May 2016, the ICU project joined the Unicode consortium as technical committee ICU-TC, and the library sources are now distributed under the Unicode license. [16]
A Unicode Technical Standard (UTS) is a specification which has been approved for publication by the Unicode Consortium. It is independent from and does not extend the unicode standard , so conformance to the Unicode Standard does not require conformance with any UTS.
In September 2018, Lunde was awarded the Bulldog Award at Internationalization & Unicode Conference 42. [9] Since 2018 Lunde has been a technical director of the Unicode Consortium and a vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. [10] [11] He is also chair of the CJK & Unihan Working Group under the Unicode Technical Committee. [12]
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, [note 1] is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 of the standard [A] defines 154 998 characters and 168 scripts [3] used in various ordinary, literary, academic, and ...
Lee is a vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, [5] which is responsible for making recommendations relating to emoji to the Unicode Technical Committee. Inspired by the universality of the dumpling across cultures and cuisines (e.g., jiaozi in China, ravioli in Italy, pierogi in Poland, empanadas in various Latin American countries ...
Lee purchased a non-voting membership to the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit consortium whose members select emojis to be added to universal character set, and sat in on a meeting of the group committee in charge of regulating emojis, the Unicode Technical Committee. [4]