Press Information

Press Releases

For a list of press releases from the Unicode Consortium see Unicode Press Releases

If you wish to issue a press release mentioning Unicode, contact the Unicode office. A boilerplate description of the Unicode Consortium is available for press releases, as well as a list of quotations from industry leaders. For general information about the Unicode Standard and other activities and announcements of the Unicode Consortium, see the list of links in the navigation bar on the left side of this page.

There are also hundreds of articles available on the web discussing Unicode. Some of them are listed in Articles on Unicode.

Reviews of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0

• John Wells' phonetic blog - by John Wells, January 2007
• Worldly Windows: Extend the Global Reach Of Your Applications With Unicode 5.0 - by Julie D. Allen, Michael S. Kaplan, and Cathy Wissink, MSDN Magazine, January 2007
• The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 Review - by Richard Gillam, Multilingual Computing, December 2006
• Unicode 5.0 continues toppling of Tower of Babel - by Bruce Byfield, November 2006
• Unicode 5, The Book, is here - by Richard Ishida, October 2006
• The Unicode Standard 5.0: An Appreciation - by Andy Updegrove, The ConsortiumInfo.org, October 2006
• Sumero-Akkadian Recognized Here - by P. J. Connolly, SD Times, October, 2006
• Unicode turns 5.0 today - by John Yunker, July 2006

Sample Web Pages Using Unicode

(You will need an up-to-date browser and the appropriate fonts.)

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• What is Unicode?
• Joel on Software Translations
• http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
• http://www.ayna.com/index.utf8.html

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