Joining the Unicode Consortium

Who should join?

The Unicode Consortium counts among its members: corporations, governments, research and educational institutions, industry groups and associations, and individuals who seek to extend, maintain and promote The Unicode Standard and other standards related to internationalization technologies.

Why join?

For an outline of the overall value of a Unicode membership to an organization, see Why Join.

Membership in the Unicode Consortium is a public demonstration of the importance that your organization attaches to international markets. It offers your organization the opportunity to take a leading role in the Consortium's international standards work, which plays a fundamental role in core modern technology such as XML, Java, and Windows. Membership in the Unicode Consortium is a public demonstration of the importance that your organization attaches to international markets, and offers your organization the opportunity to join in further development of the Unicode Consortium projects, including:

• Developing standards, algorithms, and data to ensure interoperability in content and interchange of text.
• Meeting the needs of industry and users by adding new characters, including symbols, ideographs, remaining scripts, etc.
• Incorporating Unicode into other standardization efforts: international and industry standards, protocols, data formats, software security policies, etc.

The Unicode technical committees carry out the technical work of the Consortium. They are unrivaled sources of expertise on all aspects of multilingual and multi-script systems, and bring together the seasoned key players and new players in software internationalization.

The Consortium welcomes industry vendors, researchers, implementers, government and educational organizations, and end-users.

 

 

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