Re: Original Aim of Unicode

On 6/16/2011 9:08 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
> On Thursday 16 June 2011, Doug Ewell<doug_at_ewellic.org> wrote:
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>>> Could not find any link with answers.
>> Unicode home page> "The Consortium"> "Who we are"
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>> http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html
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> That page has several mentions of Unicode Consortium and then has a copyright notice mentioning Unicode, Inc., without in any way defining the relationship between the two names, as to whether they are two different entities or two names for the same entity.
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> What is the situation please?

Unicode, Inc. and The Unicode Consortium are two names for the same
thing. There's no difference.

Some localities have requirements for the legal name used in registering
an entity. If that legal name does not reflect the nature of the
organization, it's common to have a "DBA" name ("doing business as").

For Unicode, the name "The Unicode Consortium" clearly identifies the
type of organization, that's why Unicode, Inc. does its business under
that name.

Some localities have special registrations for membership organizations
like associations or societies, where the status is reflected in the
legal name. Seems that option was not available where Unicode, Inc. was
registered.

Now back to regular scheduled programming.

A./

PS: for those who do not know how to search the internet for <"Unicode
Inc" "The Unicode Consortium">
here are two search results that they may find of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Consortium or
http://unicode.org/policies/logo_policy.html
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Received on Thu Jun 16 2011 - 11:55:26 CDT