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The Unicode Consortium Announces Venue for 29th Conference
March 6-8, 2006; San Francisco, Calif.

Mountain View, CA, USA – September 13, 2005 – The Unicode® Consortium today announced that The Twenty-ninth Internationalization & Unicode Conference will be held in San Francisco, California on March 6-8, 2006. The conference is being sponsored by media sponsor MultiLingual Computing Inc. (www.multilingual.com) and organizational sponsor Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) (www.lisa.org). 

The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the only industry event focused on the Unicode™ Standard. Each Unicode conference features a variety of tutorials and conference sessions that cover current topics related to Unicode, the web, software and internationalization. Unicode experts, implementers, clients and vendors are invited to attend this unique conference. The interactive format makes the Internationalization & Unicode Conference a great place to meet and exchange ideas with leading experts, find out about the needs of potential clients, or get information about new and existing Unicode-enabled products.

“Every major organization around the globe needs globalized software,” said Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, “and the Unicode Standard is the cornerstone of all software globalization. The 29th conference is an ideal venue for the exchange of information about all globalization technologies.”

Exhibit space is available; for more information on exhibiting or other questions visit http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc29-pr or contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404.

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About The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization standards.

The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, L'Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, Apple Computer, Basis Technology, Denic e.G., Government of India - Ministry of Information Technology, Government of Pakistan - National Language Authority, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle, RLG, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, The University of California at Berkeley, VeriSign, Yahoo! and about one hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual members.

For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/). 

Note to editors: Unicode Standard, Unicode and the Unicode Logo are trademarks of Unicode, Inc. Unicode Consortium is a registered trademark of Unicode, Inc.

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