UTC Editorial Working Group

The UTC Editorial Working Group is broadly responsible for technical editing of specifications, charts, and data maintained by the Unicode® Technical Committee (UTC). It is a working group, reporting to the Unicode Technical Committee. The Editorial Working Group does not make final decisions regarding the UTC's technical specifications, but rather is responsible for maintaining high quality documentation and presentation of materials for final publication, responsive to the technical direction of the Unicode Technical Committee. This charter is in service of the Unicode Consortium's general goals to make it easy for enterprises and communities worldwide to access and use its freely available specifications and data.

The Unicode officers have also delegated responsibility to the UTC Editorial Working Group for the overall maintenance of that portion of the Unicode technical website relevant to the UTC's scope of work, including technical FAQs, publications and much other technical information on the site.

Participation

Participation in the UTC Editorial Working Group is open to talented technical editors who are interested in assisting in the editing of Unicode Standard and other technical specifications maintained by the Unicode Technical Committee. Participating editors do not need to be members of the Unicode Consortium or employees of companies that are Unicode members, although we always encourage editors to sign up as individual members. People who wish to help out with this ongoing work should contact the chair of the UTC Editorial Working Group for more information on how to get involved.

Over the years, many individuals have contributed to the technical specifications of the Unicode Consortium and to other content of the Unicode website, whether as authors of original proposals archived in the UTC Document Register, by feedback on Public Review Issues, through email, and technical committee discussions, or by other formal feedback. Details about these many contributors can be found at Acknowledgements.

Meetings

The Editorial Working Group meets on a regular basis, usually twice per month, or as needed, depending on current workload. Meetings always include a video conferencing capability, to allow remote participation. There are also occasional, shorter video conferences devoted to specific editorial tasks. Participants may work with the chair to schedule particular topics for discussion.

Editorial Working Group Regular Participants

Regular participants in the Editorial Working Group attend the meetings on an ongoing basis, either in person or via teleconference, and regularly assist in the direct editorial maintenance of various documents and web pages. Current regular participants include:

Editorial Working Group Regular Participants

Deborah Anderson	Jan Kučera
Louka Ménard Blondin, Chair	Liang Hai (梁海), Vice-Chair
Peter Constable	Ken Lunde
Craig Cummings	Rick McGowan
Lorna Evans	Markus Scherer
Asmus Freytag	Michel Suignard
Josh Hadley	Ken Whistler, Vice-Chair
Richard Ishida	Ben Yang

Contributing Editors

In addition to the regular participants in the Editorial Working Group, many individuals contribute to the editorial work of the Unicode Consortium as editors or co-editors of particular technical specifications. These contributing editors are responsible for the ongoing editorial maintenance of these specifications and also occasionally join the Editorial Working Group meetings for final editorial work on their documents. Note that editorial work on UTS #35 is handled specifically by the CLDR-TC.

The list of contributing editors changes from time to time as new specifications are created or editorial responsibility changes hands. The current list of contributing editors for specifications in active development and maintenance is:

Contributing Editors

Editor	Specification(s)
Shane Carr	UTS #35 Part 3
Richard Cook	UAX #38; UTS #37
Mark Davis	UAX #31; UTS #18, UTS #35 Part 1, UTS #39, UTS #46, UTS #51, UTS #55; UTR #36
Peter Edberg	UTS #35 Part 4
Lorna Evans	UTR #53
Asmus Freytag	UTR #17, UTR #23, UTR #33
Manish Goregaokar मनीष गोरेगांवकर	UAX #9
Josh Hadley	UAX #29
Bob Hallissy	UTR #53
Ned Holbrook	UTS #51
Laurențiu Iancu	UAX #42
Richard Ishida	UTR #20
Koji Ishii	UAX #50
Robin Leroy	UAX #9, UAX #14, UAX #31; UTS #55
Steven Loomis	UTS #35 Parts 6 and 7
Ken Lunde	UAX #11, UAX #38, UAX #45, UAX #50; UTS #37
Rick McGowan	UAX #41 (and dormant specifications not in current maintenance)
Eric Muller	UAX #42
Roozbeh Pournader	UTR #53
Murray Sargent III	UTR #25
Markus Scherer	UTS #10, UTS #35 Part 5
Michel Suignard	UTS #39, UTS #46; UTR #36
Yoshito Umaoka	UTS #35 Part 2
Ken Whistler	UAX #15, UAX #24, UAX #34, UAX #41, UAX #44; UTS #10; UTR #17, UTR #23, UTR #33, UTR #54

Core Specification Editors

The core specification has benefited by the participation of many authors, editors, and reviewers over the years. Acknowledgements and editor lists for early versions can be found at the Archive of Unicode Versions. The following individuals are primarily responsible for the ongoing, current maintenance of the core specification.

Current Core Specification Editors

Editor	Role(s)
Debbie Anderson	Contributing Editor
Joe Becker	Index Editor
Lorna Evans	Contributing Editor
Andrew Glass	Contributing Editor
Richard Ishida	Contributing Editor
Jan Kučera	Contributing Editor
Liang Hai (梁海)	Contributing Editor
Norbert Lindenberg	Contributing Editor
Ken Lunde	Contributing Editor
Rick McGowan	Figures Editor
Roozbeh Pournader	Contributing Editor
Ken Whistler	Managing Editor
Ben Yang	Contributing Editor

Code Charts Editors

The code charts for the Unicode Standard constitute a specialized area of editorial expertise. They are maintained in synchrony with the published code charts for ISO/IEC 10646, so require close cooperation with the project editor for that standard. The processing of the Unicode names list and the large collection of fonts necessary for the code charts production is done with custom layout tooling known as Unibook. Many people help in the review of all the content in the code charts, but the following individuals are primarily responsible for the ongoing editing, production, and presentation of the code charts on this website:

Code Charts Editors

Editor	Role(s)
Joe Becker	Editor, Character Index
Mark Davis	Editor, Auxiliary Charts
Asmus Freytag	Author and maintainer of Unibook
Richard Ishida	Editor, Code Charts Index
Liang Hai (梁海)	Project lead, code charts development
Jan Kučera	Contributor, code charts development
Rick McGowan	Editor, code charts
Michel Suignard	ISO/IEC 10646 Project Editor; Editor, code charts
Ken Whistler	Editor, names list annotations

Data File Editors

The maintenance of the versioned data files posted in the Public directory of the Unicode website is another specialized area of editorial expertise. Oversight of the technical content of the data files is the responsibility of the Unicode Technical Committee and its Properties & Algorithms Working Group and the Emoji Standard and Research Working Group. The following individuals are currently responsible for the ongoing maintenance of these data files. Note that this listing does not cover the data files associated with the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), which is maintained with complex processes and tools managed by the CLDR-TC.

Data File Editors

Editor	Data Areas
Mark Davis	UCD, emoji, idna, security
Manish Goregaokar	UCD
Ned Holbrook	emoji
Laurențiu Iancu	UCD in XML, math
Robin Leroy	UCD
Ken Lunde	UCD (Unihan)
Eric Muller	UCD in XML
Roozbeh Pournader	UCD, security
Markus Scherer	UCD, UCA
Michel Suignard	ISO/IEC 10646 data
Ken Whistler	UCD, UCA

Other Editors

There are other specialized editors outside the context of the UTC Editorial Working Group who focus on particular subareas of the Unicode website. Each subsite or registry has a particular owning group. These other editors and their roles are:

Other Editors

Editor	Owning Group	Area of Focus
Ken Lunde	Consortium	IVD Registrar; Editor, IVD Registry subsite
Markus Scherer	Consortium	ISO 15924 (Script Codes) Registrar; Editor, ISO 15924 Registry
V.S. UMAmaheswaran	UTC	Lead Editor, Unicode Roadmap

Major Subsites

Owning Group	Subsite
CLDR-TC	CLDR-TC subsite
Emoji Standard and Research WG	Emoji subsite
ICU-TC	ICU-TC subsite

 

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