Unicode Consortium
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The Unicode® Consortium (Unicode Inc.) is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode™ Standard. It has the ambitious goal of eventually replacing existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) schemes,claiming that many of the existing schemes are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments. Unicode's success at unifying character sets has led to its widespread and predominant use in the internationalization and localization of computer software. The standard has been implemented in many recent technologies, including XML, the Java programming language, and modern operating systems.
The organization was founded to develop, extend, and promote the use of the Unicode Standard. The membership of the Consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing industry. It actively cooperates with many of the leading standards development organizations, including ISO/IEC JTC1, W3C, IETF, and ECMA.
[edit] Books by The Unicode Consortium
- The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 (5th edition ed.), Addison-Wesley. October 2006. ISBN 978-0-321-48091-0.
- The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0, Addison-Wesley. August 2003. ISBN 978-0-321-18578-5.
[edit] See also
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- Comparison of Unicode encodings
- Free software Unicode fonts
- Mapping of Unicode characters
- Universal Character Set
