Welcome
Welcome to Unicode. Founded in 1991 following several years
of informal cooperation, the Unicode
Consortium continues to develop and promote
The Unicode Standard,
aid in its implementation, and works to maintain quality control
over future revisions to the Standard. The Unicode Consortium
brings together software industry corporations and researchers
at the leading edge of standardizing international character
encoding. The outcome of this cooperation is the Unicode
Standard, which provides the foundation for internationalization
and localization of software. The Unicode Consortium maintains
full synchronization of its standard with the International
Standard ISO/IEC 10646.
How to use this site
The pages listed in the sidebar of each page provide
some useful links, both internal to the current page as well as
to other parts of the site.
Many of the pages on this site contain characters used in
languages other than English or scripts other than the Latin
script. If you experience problems viewing such content, see the
Display Problems page for pointers.
Some sections of the Unicode website are now available in
French.
To find out about all other topics please visit the
Site Map or return to the home page
and select one of the major topics accessible from there.
Finally, the Search
feature supports several kinds of searches for most of the pages
on this site. Not all pages can be searched: only the most
current version of a Technical Report can be searched, for
example.
Online Data and Programs
Useful data for implementers and users of the Unicode
Standard can be found in our
Online
Data pages. There, users can download data files and any
sample code that is available for test purposes. Detailed
information about the Unicode Standard is also available in the
electronic edition of
the Unicode Standard in PDF format.
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