Version 6.0 Technical Contributors

Version 6.0 Technical Contributors Acknowledgements

Script and Character Proposals

Since the publication of Unicode Version 5.0, a number of important scripts and characters have been added to the Standard. We express deep appreciation to the following experts who shared their specialized knowledge in order to improve the repertoire of Unicode and allow us to better serve our worldwide user community.

For Arabic additions: Muzaffar Aazim, Deborah Anderson, Attash Durrani, Michael Everson, Azzeddine Lazrek, Kamal Mansour, Roozbeh Pournader, Elnaz Sarbar, and the Pakistan National Language Authority

For Avestan: Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader

For Bamum additions: Michael Everson, Jason Glavy, Charles Riley, Konrad Tuchscherer, and the Bamum Scripts and the Archives Project in the Palace of Bamum Kings

For Batak: Michael Everson and Uli Kozok

For Bengali additions: Anshuman Pandey

For Bopomofo additions: Michael Everson, H. W. Ho, and Andrew West

For Brahmi: Stefan Baums, Michael Everson, and Andrew Glass

For Carian: Ignacio-Javier Adiego, Michael Everson, and Craig Melchert

For Cham: Dave Blood, Jim Brase, Michael Everson, and Bùi Khánh Thê´

For CJK Unified Ideographs and other CJK additions: Ideographic Rapporteur Group

For combining diacritical mark additions: Tero Aalto, Peter Baker, Barbara Beeton, David Carlisle, António Emiliano, Stephen Emmel, Michael Everson, Asmus Freytag, Florian Grammel, Odd Einar Haugen, Patrick Ion, Diana Luft, Susana Pedro, Roozbeh Pournader, Lorna Priest, Klaas Ruppel, Murray Sargent, Gerd Schumacher, Andreas Stötzner, Vladas Tumasonis, and the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language

For Coptic additions: Stephen Emmel and Michael Everson

For Cyrillic additions: Alexander Ankwab, David Birnbaum, Akhara Bzhanija, Ralph Cleminson, Ivan Derzhanski, Vladislav Dorosh, Michael Everson, Alexej Kryukov, Sorin Paliga, Lorna Priest, Klaas Ruppel

For Devanagari additions: Michel Angot, Peri Bhaskararao, R. Chandrashekar, Michael Everson, Malcolm Hyman, R. K. Joshi, Swaran Lata, Susan Moore, B. V. Venkatakrishna Sastry, Pravin Satpute, Peter Scharf, Michael Witzel, and the Government of India

For Egyptian Hieroglyphs: John Baines, Hans van den Berg, Lee Collins, Richard Cook, Michael Everson, Jochen Hallof, Jaromír Málek, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Bob Richmond, Serge Rosmorduc, Wolfgang Schenkel, and Nigel Strudwick

For Ethiopic additions: Lorna Priest, Hans Schaumberger, and Daniel Yacob

For Greek and Coptic additions: Michael Everson and Nick Nicholas

For Hangul Jamo additions: Kim Kyongsok and Dae Hyuk Ahn

For Imperial Aramaic: Michael Everson

For Inscriptional Pahlavi: Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader

For Inscriptional Parthian: Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader

For Javanese: Bagiono Djokosumbogo, Michael Everson, Hadiwaratama, Donny Harimurti, Sutadi Purnadipura, and Ki Demang Sokowaten

For Kaithi: Anshuman Pandey

For Kana additions: Nozomu Kato

For Kayah Li: J. Fraser Bennett, Michael Everson, and David Solnit

For Latin additions: Tero Aalto, Peter Baker, Peter Constable, António Emiliano, Michael Everson, Florian Grammel, Odd Einar Haugen, Erkki Kolehmainen, Therese Leinonen, Diana Luft, Susana Pedro, David J. Perry, Lorna Priest, Karl Pentzlin, Jack Rueter, Klaas Ruppel, Caroline Sandström, Gerd Schumacher, Andreas Stötzner, Ilya Yevlampief, and the German National Body

For Lisu: David Bradley, Adrian Cheuk, David Morse, the National Body of China, and the Yunnan Minority Language Commission

For Lydian: Michael Everson and Craig Melchert

For Lycian: Michael Everson and Craig Melchert

For Malayalam additions: Michael Everson, Cibu Jony, and Eric Muller

For Mandaic: Michael Everson and Brian Mubaraki

For Meetei Mayek: Shobhana Chelliah, Pravabati Chingangbam, Michael Everson, T. M. Khumancha, Swaran Lata, Tabish Qureshi, Sohini Ray, Surmangol Sharma, S. Imoba Sing, Chungkham Yashaawanta Singh, Leihaorambam Sarbajit Singh, and the Government of Manipur

For modifier tone letter addtions: Charles Bigelow, Lyle Campbell, Peter Constable, Michael Dürr, Thomas Larsen, Judith Maxwell, Lorna Priest, John Robertson, and Sergio Romero

For Myanmar additions: Martin Hosken

For New Tai Lue: Chen Zhuang, Michael Everson, Martin Hosken, Wei Lin Mei, and Yu Kanglong

For Old South Arabian: Michael Everson, Sultan Maktari, Kamal Mansour, and Peter Stein

For Old Turkic: Marcel Erdal, Michael Everson, Mehmet Olmez, and Wushour Silamu

For Oriya additions: Anshuman Pandey

For Phaistos Disc: Michael Everson and John Jenkins

For Phoenician additions: Michael Everson

For punctuation additions: Peter Baker, Barbara Beeton, David Birnbaum, David Carlisle, Ralph Cleminson, Ivan Derzhanski, Marcus Dohnicht, Vladislav Dorosh, António Emiliano, Michael Everson, Asmus Freytag, Odd Einar Haugen, Patrick Ion, Alexej Kryukov, Sorin Paliga, Susana Pedro, David J. Perry, Roozbeh Pournader, Klaas Ruppel, and Murray Sargent

For Rejang: Michael Everson and Richard McGinn

For Samaritan: Alan Crown, Michael Everson, Mark Shoulson, and Benny Tsedaka

For Saurashtra: Michael Everson and Jeyakumar Chinnakkonda Krishnamoorty

For superscripts and subscript additions: Tero Aalto, Michael Everson, and Klaas Ruppel

For Tai Tham: Phra Arnont, Phramaha Boontip, Roger Casas, Peter Constable, Michael Everson, Martin Hosken, Phramaha Jirasak, U Hong Kham, Yi Khan Long, Chapana Pinngoen, Victor Roetman, Udom Rungruengsri, Pichai Saengboon

For Tai Viet: Jim Brase, James Đỗ, Ngô Trung Việt

For Tibetan additions: Michael Everson, Chris Fynn, Peter Scharf, and Andrew West

For Tifinagh additions: Jon Coblentz, Lorna Priest, and Andrew Savage

For Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic additions: Michael Everson and Chris Harvey

For Vai: Jumah Jennifer Gray Brumskine, S. Jabaru Carlon, Michael Everson, Svend Holsoe, Jim Laesch, Saki Mafundikwa, Peter Martin, Miata Jessica Metzger, Mohamed B. Nyei, Lorna Priest, Charles Riley, José Rivera, William Seigman, Tombekai Sherman, and John V. Singler

For Vedic: Michel Angot, R. Chandrashekar, Michael Everson, Malcolm Hyman, R. K. Joshi, Susan Moore, B. V. Venkatakrishna Sastry, Peter Scharf, Michael Witzel, and the Government of India

Symbol Proposals

Many important new symbols and major symbols sets have been added to the Standard since the publication of Version 5.0. We are deeply indebted to the following individuals and organizations whose expertise and, in many cases, multi-year efforts have allowed us to greatly extend the symbol coverage of Unicode to better meet the needs of telecommunications, commerce, mathematics and other user communities.

For alchemical symbols: William R. Newman, John A. Walsh, Stacy Kowalczyk, Wallace E. Hooper, Tamara Lopez

For ancient symbols: David Perry

For currency symbols: Michael Everson, Manoj Jain, Swaran Lata, David Sewell, and the Government of India, Ministry of Information Technology

For Dingbats: Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Michael Everson, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Peter Lofting, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Karl Pentzlin, Markus Scherer, Andreas Stötzner, Michel Suignard, Ken Whistler

For domino tiles: Chen Zhuang, Michael Everson, Lu Qin, Masuhiro Sekiguchi, Tseng Shih-Shyeng, Wei Lin-Mei, and Andrew West

For emoticons: Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Michael Everson, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Peter Lofting, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Karl Pentzlin, Markus Scherer, Andreas Stötzner, Michel Suignard, and Ken Whistler

For enclosed alphanumeric supplement: Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Michael Everson, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Peter Lofting, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Karl Pentzlin, Markus Scherer, Andreas Stötzner, Michel Suignard, and Ken Whistler

For enclosed CJK letters and months: Michel Suignard

For enclosed ideographic supplement: Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Peter Lofting, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Markus Scherer, Michel Suignard, and Ken Whistler

For letterlike symbols: The Society of Biblical Literature, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

For mahjong tiles: Chen Zhuang, Michael Everson, Lu Qin, Masuhiro Sekiguchi, Tseng Shih-Shyeng, Wei Lin-Mei, and Andrew West

For miscellaneous mathematical symbols: Barbara Beeton, David Carlisle, Asmus Freytag, Laurențiu Iancu, Patrick Ion, Roozbeh Pournader, and Murray Sargent

For miscellaneous symbols: Deborah Anderson, Barbara Beeton, Chen Zhuang, Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Michael Everson, David Faulks, Laurențiu Iancu, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Azzeddine Lazrek, Peter Lofting, Lu Qin, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Karl Pentzlin, Murray Sargent, Markus Scherer, Masuhiro Sekiguchi, Karen Stollznow, Andreas Stötzner, Michel Suignard, Tseng Shih-Shyeng, Wei Lin-Mei, Andrew West, and Ken Whistler

For miscellaneous symbols and arrows: Barbara Beeton, David Carlisle, Asmus Freytag, Patrick Ion, Azzeddine Lazrek, Roozbeh Pournader, Murray Sargent, and Michel Suignard

For miscellaneous symbols and pictographs: Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Michael Everson, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Peter Lofting, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Karl Pentzlin, Markus Scherer, Andreas Stötzner, Michel Suignard, and Ken Whistler

For musical symbols: Patrick Andries

For miscellaneous technical symbols: Leonid Broukhis, Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Michael Everson, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Peter Lofting, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Karl Pentzlin, Markus Scherer, Andreas Stötzner, Michel Suignard, and Ken Whistler

For number forms: Anshuman Pandey, David Perry, and Michel Suignard

For playing cards: Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Michael Everson, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Peter Lofting, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Karl Pentzlin, Markus Scherer, Andreas Stötzner, Michel Suignard, and Ken Whistler

For transport and map symbols: Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Michael Everson, Koichi Kamichi, Taichi Kawabata, Yasuo Kida, Peter Lofting, Katsuhiko Momoi, Shigeki Moro, Yasushi Nao, Katsuhiro Ogata, Karl Pentzlin, Markus Scherer, Andreas Stötzner, Michel Suignard, and Ken Whistler

Property Contributions

The work to develop and verify the consistency of many of the character properties and algorithms was a significant contribution to Version 6.0. An important role in this effort was played by the International Components for Unicode (ICU) team and a number of other contributors including: Deborah Anderson, Dragan Besevic, Ernest van den Boogaard, Richard Cook, John Cowan, Mark Davis, Martin Dürst, Peter Edberg, John Emmons, Behdad Esfahbod, Laurențiu Iancu, John Kenkins, Kent Karlsson, Steven R. Loomis, Hendrik Maryns, Kamal Mansoor, Eric Muller, Michael Ow, Karl Pentzlin, Ake Persson, Roozbeh Pournader, Markus Scherer, Shriramana Sharma, Michel Suignard, Yoshito Umaoka, Emmanuel Vallois, Philippe Verdy, Ken Whistler, C.E. Whitehead, Karl Williamson.

Figure Contributions

We are indebted for the continued use of sources for certain figures in Version 6.0. In particular, Grenfel (1921), Austin (1973), and Allen (1931) were used as sources to draw the large figure for Greek editorial marks. Parisian Schola Cantorum and Hymns of Faith were the sources used for Arabic musical passages. The Kharoshthi map in Figure 10-5 was adapted from Glass (2000).