Sessions

General

• Ask Organizers Anything

• Keynote: Digital Inclusion for All Languages: UNESCO’s Commitment to Multilingual Futures

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

• Encoding as an artistic practice: The ABCC of CACB

  Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé

  Plenary Fonts Scripts & Encoding 

• Reception at Place Stanislas: Honouring the International Decade of Indigenous Languages

• Unicode in the World: Telling the Story, Today and Ahead

  Toral Cowieson, Anushah Hossain, Cathy Wissink

  Plenary 

Plenary

• Developing Typefaces for the Internationalization of Brand Discourse

  Bianca Berning, Chorong Kim, Mint Tantisuwana, Liang Hai, Jérémie Hornus, Mark Jamra, Neil Patel

  Fonts Localization 

• Encoding as an artistic practice: The ABCC of CACB

  Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé

  General Fonts Scripts & Encoding 

• Unicode in the World: Telling the Story, Today and Ahead

  Toral Cowieson, Anushah Hossain, Cathy Wissink

  General 

AI/ML

• The Tokenizer Comedy: A Catalog of Joyful Failures in LLM Unicode Processing

  Tiffa Foster

  Testing & Quality Internationalization 

Digitally Disadvantaged Languages

• Accessibility Encoded: A Survey of Scripts for Disability Inclusion in the Unicode Standard

  Kyra Ann Dawkins, Helena Kansa

  Scripts & Encoding Digital Humanities 

• After the Encoding: the Digital Development of Garay

  Tutorial Fonts Keyboards Scripts & Encoding 

• Keynote: Digital Inclusion for All Languages: UNESCO’s Commitment to Multilingual Futures

  General 

• Intro to Type Design: Latin, Dives Akuru, Sumatran scripts

  Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Fernando Caro, Ariq Syauqi

  Tutorial Fonts 

• Making the old new: converting hacked encodings to Unicode

  Craig Cornelius

  Tutorial Internationalization Scripts & Encoding 

• Paths to Proliferation

  Neil Patel, Mark Jamra, Morgane Pierson

  Tutorial Fonts Scripts & Encoding 

• The Web’s Missing Language Enablement Data: From Script Requirements to Browser Behavior

  Fuqiao Xue

  Internationalization Fonts 

Digital Humanities

• Accessibility Encoded: A Survey of Scripts for Disability Inclusion in the Unicode Standard

  Kyra Ann Dawkins, Helena Kansa

  Scripts & Encoding Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

• What’s not boring about the Boring Expansion of OpenType

  Dave Crossland

  Fonts 

Emoji

Fonts

• After the Encoding: the Digital Development of Garay

  Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Keyboards Scripts & Encoding 

• Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode Code Points to Positioned Glyphs

  Peter Constable, Ned Holbrook

  Tutorial 

• Developing Typefaces for the Internationalization of Brand Discourse

  Bianca Berning, Chorong Kim, Mint Tantisuwana, Liang Hai, Jérémie Hornus, Mark Jamra, Neil Patel

  Plenary Localization 

• Encoding as an artistic practice: The ABCC of CACB

  Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé

  Plenary General Scripts & Encoding 

• Intro to Type Design: Glyphs font editor

  Georg Seifet

  Tutorial 

• Intro to Type Design: Latin, Dives Akuru, Sumatran scripts

  Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Fernando Caro, Ariq Syauqi

  Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

• Intro to Type Design: Latin extended, Arabic, Bengali

  Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Sina Fakour, Arnab Chakraborti

  Tutorial 

• Modern Variable Fonts: Maximum Unicodes, Minimum Font File Sizes

  Dave Crossland

  Tutorial 

• Paths to Proliferation

  Neil Patel, Mark Jamra, Morgane Pierson

  Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Scripts & Encoding 

• The Parametric Power of Roboto Delta

  Dave Crossland

  Tutorial 

• The Web’s Missing Language Enablement Data: From Script Requirements to Browser Behavior

  Fuqiao Xue

  Internationalization Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

• What’s not boring about the Boring Expansion of OpenType

  Dave Crossland

  Digital Humanities 

ICU/CLDR

• How to build a LDML-format keyboard

  Marc Durdin, Andrew Glass

  Tutorial Keyboards 

• ICU4X in Practice: Lightweight and Portable i18n

  Shane Carr

  Tutorial Internationalization 

• Macrolanguages, what is a language and not a language

  Conrad Nied

  Tutorial Internationalization 

• Putting ICU to Work

  Markus Scherer

  Tutorial Internationalization 

• Times are changing: how CLDR handles time zone updates

  Robert Bastian

  Tutorial Internationalization 

Internationalization

• Breaking Borders, Not UI: Auditing Global UX with Pangæa

  Amine Elmouradi

  Localization Testing & Quality 

• ICU4X in Practice: Lightweight and Portable i18n

  Shane Carr

  Tutorial ICU/CLDR 

• Introduction to I18n

  Joel Sahleen

  Tutorial 

• Macrolanguages, what is a language and not a language

  Conrad Nied

  Tutorial ICU/CLDR 

• Making the old new: converting hacked encodings to Unicode

  Craig Cornelius

  Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Scripts & Encoding 

• Preparing Next Gen Developers to Enable a Multilingual Internet: The Journey to Integrate the Universal Acceptance Curriculum

  Geraldo Ferreira

  Tutorial Localization 

• Putting ICU to Work

  Markus Scherer

  Tutorial ICU/CLDR 

• The Tokenizer Comedy: A Catalog of Joyful Failures in LLM Unicode Processing

  Tiffa Foster

  AI/ML Testing & Quality 

• The Web’s Missing Language Enablement Data: From Script Requirements to Browser Behavior

  Fuqiao Xue

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts 

• Thirty years of line breaking

  Robin Leroy

• Times are changing: how CLDR handles time zone updates

  Robert Bastian

  Tutorial ICU/CLDR 

• YouTube International Handles

  Michael Fleming

  Localization Testing & Quality 

Keyboards

• After the Encoding: the Digital Development of Garay

  Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts Scripts & Encoding 

• From Qalam to keyboard: Mapping Arabic unicode and proposing a new input method for Arabic script

  Sina Fakour

  Scripts & Encoding 

• How to build a LDML-format keyboard

  Marc Durdin, Andrew Glass

  Tutorial ICU/CLDR 

Lightning Talks

• Lightning Talks

Localization

• Breaking Borders, Not UI: Auditing Global UX with Pangæa

  Amine Elmouradi

  Internationalization Testing & Quality 

• Developing Typefaces for the Internationalization of Brand Discourse

  Bianca Berning, Chorong Kim, Mint Tantisuwana, Liang Hai, Jérémie Hornus, Mark Jamra, Neil Patel

  Plenary Fonts 

• Preparing Next Gen Developers to Enable a Multilingual Internet: The Journey to Integrate the Universal Acceptance Curriculum

  Geraldo Ferreira

  Tutorial Internationalization 

• YouTube International Handles

  Michael Fleming

  Internationalization Testing & Quality 

Networking

• Speed Networking

Scripts & Encoding

• Accessibility Encoded: A Survey of Scripts for Disability Inclusion in the Unicode Standard

  Kyra Ann Dawkins, Helena Kansa

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Digital Humanities 

• After the Encoding: the Digital Development of Garay

  Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts Keyboards 

• Encoding as an artistic practice: The ABCC of CACB

  Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé

  Plenary General Fonts 

• From Qalam to keyboard: Mapping Arabic unicode and proposing a new input method for Arabic script

  Sina Fakour

  Keyboards 

• Making the old new: converting hacked encodings to Unicode

  Craig Cornelius

  Tutorial Internationalization Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

• Paths to Proliferation

  Neil Patel, Mark Jamra, Morgane Pierson

  Tutorial Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts 

Testing & Quality

• Breaking Borders, Not UI: Auditing Global UX with Pangæa

  Amine Elmouradi

  Localization Internationalization 

• The Tokenizer Comedy: A Catalog of Joyful Failures in LLM Unicode Processing

  Tiffa Foster

  AI/ML Internationalization 

• YouTube International Handles

  Michael Fleming

  Internationalization Localization 

Tutorial

• After the Encoding: the Digital Development of Garay

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts Keyboards Scripts & Encoding 

• Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode Code Points to Positioned Glyphs

  Peter Constable, Ned Holbrook

  Fonts 

• How to build a LDML-format keyboard

  Marc Durdin, Andrew Glass

  Keyboards ICU/CLDR 

• ICU4X in Practice: Lightweight and Portable i18n

  Shane Carr

  ICU/CLDR Internationalization 

• Intro to Type Design: Glyphs font editor

  Georg Seifet

  Fonts 

• Intro to Type Design: Latin, Dives Akuru, Sumatran scripts

  Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Fernando Caro, Ariq Syauqi

  Fonts Digitally Disadvantaged Languages 

• Intro to Type Design: Latin extended, Arabic, Bengali

  Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Sina Fakour, Arnab Chakraborti

  Fonts 

• Introduction to I18n

  Joel Sahleen

  Internationalization 

• Macrolanguages, what is a language and not a language

  Conrad Nied

  Internationalization ICU/CLDR 

• Making the old new: converting hacked encodings to Unicode

  Craig Cornelius

  Internationalization Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Scripts & Encoding 

• Modern Variable Fonts: Maximum Unicodes, Minimum Font File Sizes

  Dave Crossland

  Fonts 

• Paths to Proliferation

  Neil Patel, Mark Jamra, Morgane Pierson

  Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fonts Scripts & Encoding 

• Preparing Next Gen Developers to Enable a Multilingual Internet: The Journey to Integrate the Universal Acceptance Curriculum

  Geraldo Ferreira

  Internationalization Localization 

• Putting ICU to Work

  Markus Scherer

  ICU/CLDR Internationalization 

• The Parametric Power of Roboto Delta

  Dave Crossland

  Fonts 

• Times are changing: how CLDR handles time zone updates

  Robert Bastian

  ICU/CLDR Internationalization 

Unconference

• Unconference

• Unconference Voting

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Break

Food

• Afternoon Break

• Light Breakfast

• Lunch

• Morning Break