Unicode Globalization Conference in
Conference attendees will learn about the latest features
of version 3.1 of the Unicode Standard, released earlier this year. The
highlight of the new release is the addition of 44,946 new encoded characters,
including over 40,000 new ideographs for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This
makes a grand total of 94,140 encoded characters in Unicode 3.1.
Sessions are devoted to the development of a standard for
international domain names for the internet, an area of current controversy.
There is great demand for these domain names -- over a million names have been
sold in Japanese, Chinese and other languages -- but there is, as yet, no
internet standard for these names. Without such a standard, the world-wide
domain name system will not function across national boundaries.
The Unicode conference also will provide tutorials,
sessions and panels addressing the latest on HTML, XML, CSS,
.NET, Java, C++ and C#. An e-Business track will explore how Unicode is
transforming global e-Commerce, and will offer case studies in B2B integration.
The Unicode Standard has become the foundation for all
modern text processing. It is used on
mainframes, PCs, portable devices, and for distributed processing across the
Internet. The standard brings dramatic cost reductions to applications and
enables the exchange of text in languages all over the world.
The conference is held every year in
The following companies and organisations
are sponsoring the conference: Agfa Monotype
Corporation, Basis Technology Corporation, Lionbridge
Technologies, Microsoft Corporation, Netscape Communications, Oracle
Corporation, PeopleSoft, Inc., Progress Software Corp., Reuters Ltd., Sun
Microsystems, Inc., Trigeminal Software, Inc., World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
Wrox Press.
THE UNICODE CONSORTIUM
The Unicode Consortium was founded as a non-profit
organization in 1991. It is dedicated to the development, maintenance and
promotion of The Unicode Standard, a worldwide character encoding. The Unicode Standard encodes the characters
of the world's principal scripts and languages, and is code-for-code identical
to the international standard ISO/IEC 10646.
In addition to cooperating with ISO on the future development of ISO/IEC
10646, the Consortium is responsible for providing character properties and
algorithms for use in implementations.
The membership base of the Unicode Consortium includes
major computer corporations, governments, software producers, database vendors,
research institutions, international agencies and various user groups:
Corporate Members
Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer, Inc.; Basis Technology
Corporation; Compaq Computer Corporation; Government of India Ministry of
Information Technology; Government of Pakistan, National Language Authority;
Hewlett-Packard Company; IBM Corporation; Justsystem
Corporation; Microsoft Corporation NCR
Corporation; Oracle Corporation; PeopleSoft, Inc.; Progress Software
Corporation; The Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG); Reuters, Ltd.; RWS
Group, LLC; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Sybase, Inc.; Trigeminal Software,
Inc.; Unisys Corporation.
Associate Members
Agfa Monotype Corporation; Beijing Zhong Yi Electronics Co.; BMC Software, Inc.; Booz, Allen, & Hamilton, Inc.; Cable & Wireless HKT
Limited; CDAC-Centre for Development of Advanced Computing; China Electronic
Information Technology Ltd.; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints;
Columbia University; Data Research Associates; DecoType,
Inc.; Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.; eNIC
Corporation; epixtech, Inc.; Ericsson Mobile
Communications; eTranslate, Inc.; Ex Libris, Inc.; GlobalMentor, Inc.;
GlobalSight Corporation; The Government of Tamil Nadu, India; iDNS; i-EMAIL.net Pte Ltd; Innovative Interfaces, Inc.; Internet Mail
Consortium; Langoo.com; Language Analysis Systems, Inc. Language Technology
Research Center; Netscape Communications; Nokia; Nortel Networks; Novell; OCLC,
Inc.; Openwave Systems, Inc.; Optio
Software; Palm, Inc.; Production First Software; The Royal Library, Sweden; Sagent Technology, Inc.; SAS Institute, Inc.; SHARE; Siebel
Systems; SIL International; SIRSI Corporation; SLANGSOFT; Software AG; StarTV - Satellite Television Asia Region Ltd.; Symbian, Ltd.; Uniscape, Inc.; Verisign Global Registry Services; VTLS, Inc.; WALID, Inc.;
WordWalla, Inc.; Yet Another Society
For further information on the Unicode Standard, visit the
Unicode Web site at http://www.unicode.org
or e-mail <info@unicode.org>
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