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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 is intended to cover all characters for all languages that have ever been written down through all of history." — Ken Whistler (more)

News & Announcements

Recent Releases:

Unicode 7.0 Paperback Available (2015.01.16)
CLDR Version 26.0.1 Released (2014.12.05)
Unicode Version 7.0 Core Specification Published (2014.10.08)
Updated Unicode Security Specifications and Guidelines (2014.09.26)
New version of UTR #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout released (2014.09.22)
CLDR Version 26 Released (2014.09.18)

Public Review Issues (Open, About):

Proposed Draft UTR #51, Unicode Emoji (2014.11.04)
Proposed Updates of All Unicode Standard Annexes for Version 8.0 (2014.09.24)
- #9, #14, #24, #29, #31, #38, #41, #44
Proposed Update UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm (2014.09.22)
Proposed Update UTR #23, Unicode Character Property Model (2014.08.26)
Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (2014.08.26)

Other News (Archive):

Closing the Unicode Web Forum (2014.11.19)
New Emoji Candidates for Unicode 8.0 (2014.11.14)