Unicode® Editorial Committee
The Unicode Editorial Committee is broadly responsible for
the editorial tasks of the Unicode Consortium. The goal of the Editorial Committee is to assist all of the Unicode Consortium
members, officers, and staff in providing uniformly high quality documentation,
and to make it easy for enterprises and communities worldwide to
access and use the Consortium's freely available specifications and data.
The Editorial Committee works closely with the technical committees
of the Unicode Consortium, which are responsible for the
content of the various technical specifications
of the Consortium.
The Editorial Committee assists the members of those technical committees
and the individual authors and editors of technical specifications in
the final editing and publication of those specifications.
The Unicode officers have also delegated responsibility to the Editorial
Committee for the overall maintenance of the content of the
Unicode technical website,
including policies,
FAQs, and all other general
information on the site.
Over the years, many individuals have contributed to the technical specifications
of the Unicode Consortium and to other content of the Unicode website, whether as authors
of original proposals archived in
the UTC Document Register, by
feedback on Public Review Issues,
through email, forums, and technical committee discussions, or by other formal feedback.
Details about these many contributors
can be found at Acknowledgements.
The Editorial Committee meets face-to-face on a regular basis, usually
one day a month, or as needed,
depending on current workload. It also holds periodic, shorter teleconferences
devoted to specific editorial tasks.
Note: During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis, until further notice, all
Editorial Committee meetings are held via teleconference or video conference.
Regular participants in the Editorial Committee attend the meetings on an ongoing
basis, either in person or via teleconference, and regularly assist in the direct
editorial maintenance of various documents and web pages. Current regular participants
include:
Editorial Committee Regular Participants
| Julie D. Allen (Chair) |
Ken Lunde |
| Deborah Anderson |
Rick McGowan |
| Fred Brennan |
Lisa Moore |
| Christopher Chapman |
Markus Scherer |
| Richard Cook |
Michel Suignard |
| Richard Ishida |
Ken Whistler (Vice-Chair) |
| Liang Hai (梁海) |
Ben Yang |
In addition to the regular participants in the Editorial Committee, many individuals
contribute to the editorial work of the Unicode Consortium as editors or co-editors
of particular technical specifications. These contributing editors are responsible for
the ongoing editorial maintenance of these specifications and also occasionally
join the Editorial Committee meetings for final editorial work on their documents.
Note that editorial work on UTS #35 is handled specifically by the CLDR-TC.
The list of contributing editors changes from time to time as new specifications
are created or editorial responsibility changes hands. The current list of contributing
editors for specifications in active development and maintenance is:
Contributing Editors
| Editor |
Specification(s) |
| Christopher Chapman |
UAX #14; UAX #29 |
| Richard Cook |
UAX #38; UTS #37 |
| Mark Davis |
UAX #9, UAX #29, UAX #31; UTS #18, UTS #22, UTS #35 Part 1, UTS #39, UTS #46, UTS #51; UTR #36 |
| Peter Edberg |
UTS #35 Part 4, UTS #51 |
| John Emmons |
UTS #35 Part 3 |
| Lorna Evans |
UTR #53 |
| Asmus Freytag |
UTR #23 |
| Andrew Glass |
UAX #9 |
| Bob Hallissy |
UTR #53 |
| Laurențiu Iancu |
UAX #41, UAX #44 |
| Richard Ishida |
UTR #20 |
| Koji Ishii |
UAX #50 |
| John Jenkins |
UAX #38, UAX #45; UTS #37 |
| Aharon Lanin |
UAX #9 |
| Steven Loomis |
UTS #35 Parts 6 and 7 |
| Ken Lunde |
UAX #11, UAX #38, UAX #50; UTS #37 |
| Rick McGowan |
UAX #41 (and dormant specifications not in current maintenance) |
| Eric Muller |
UAX #42 |
| Roozbeh Pournader |
UTR #53 |
| Murray Sargent III |
UTR #25 |
| Markus Scherer |
UTS #10, UTS #22, UTS #35 Part 5, UTS #46 |
| Michel Suignard |
UTS #39, UTS #46; UTR #36 |
| Yoshito Umaoka |
UTS #35 Part 2 |
| Ken Whistler |
UAX #15, UAX #24, UAX #34, UAX #44; UTS #10; UTR #23, UTR #54 |
The core specification has benefited by the participation of many
authors, editors, and reviewers over the years. Acknowledgements
and editor lists for early versions can be found at the
Archive of Unicode Versions. The
following individuals are primarily responsible for the ongoing, current
maintenance of the core specification.
Current Core Specification Editors
| Editor |
Role(s) |
| Julie Allen |
Senior Editor |
| Debbie Anderson |
Contributing Editor |
| Joe Becker |
Index Editor |
| Mark Davis |
Contributing Editor |
| Peter Edberg |
Contributing Editor |
| Laurențiu Iancu |
Contributing Editor |
| Liang Hai (梁海) |
Contributing Editor |
| Ken Lunde |
Contributing Editor |
| Rick McGowan |
Figures Editor, Font Wrangler |
| Lisa Moore |
Contributing Editor |
| Roozbeh Pournader |
Contributing Editor |
| Ken Whistler |
Managing Editor |
The code charts for the Unicode Standard constitute a specialized
area of editorial expertise. They are maintained in synchrony with
the published code charts for ISO/IEC 10646, so require close cooperation
with the project editor for that standard. The processing of the Unicode names
list and the large collection of fonts necessary for the code charts production is
done with custom layout tooling known as Unibook.
Many people help in the review of all the content in the code charts, but the
following individuals are primarily responsible for the ongoing editing, production,
and presentation of the code charts on this website:
Code Charts Editors
| Editor |
Role(s) |
| Joe Becker |
Editor, Character Index |
| Mark Davis |
Co-editor, Auxiliary Charts |
| Asmus Freytag |
Author and maintainer of Unibook |
| Laurențiu Iancu |
Co-editor, Auxiliary Charts |
| Richard Ishida |
Editor, Code Charts Index |
| Rick McGowan |
Project lead, code charts; manager, chart fonts repository |
| Michel Suignard |
ISO/IEC 10646 Project Editor; Editor, code charts |
| Ken Whistler |
Editor, names list annotations; QA control |
The maintenance of the versioned data files posted in the
Public directory of the Unicode website is another specialized area
of editorial expertise. The following individuals are currently responsible
for the ongoing maintenance of these data files. Note that this
listing does not cover the data files associated with the
Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), which is maintained with
complex processes and tools managed by the CLDR-TC.
Data File Editors
| Editor |
Data Areas |
| Mark Davis |
UCD, emoji, idna, security |
| Peter Edberg |
emoji |
| Laurențiu Iancu |
UCD, math |
| John Jenkins |
UCD (Unihan) |
| Eric Muller |
UCD in XML |
| Roozbeh Pournader |
UCD, security |
| Markus Scherer |
UCA, UCD |
| Michel Suignard |
ISO/IEC 10646 data |
| Ken Whistler |
UCD, UCA |
There are other specialized
editors who focus on particular subareas of the Unicode website. These
other editors and their roles are:
Other Editors
| Editor |
Area of Focus |
| Mark Davis |
CLDR-TC Chair; Co-editor, CLDR-TC subsite
Co-editor, Emoji subsite |
| Jennifer Daniel |
Emoji SC Chair; Co-editor, Emoji subsite |
| Ned Holbrook |
Emoji SC Vice Chair; Co-editor, Emoji subsite |
| Kristi Lee |
CLDR-TC Vice Chair; Co-editor, CLDR-TC subsite |
| Ken Lunde |
IVD Registrar; Editor, IVD Registry
Emoji SC Vice Chair; Co-editor, Emoji subsite |
| Eric Muller |
Editor, UDHR in Unicode |
| Markus Scherer |
ICU-TC Chair; Co-editor, ICU-TC subsite
ISO 15924 (Script Codes) Registrar; Editor, ISO 15924 Registry |
| V.S. UMAmaheswaran |
Lead Editor, Unicode Roadmap |
| Yoshito Umaoka |
ICU-TC Vice Chair; Co-editor, ICU-TC subsite |
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