UTW 2024

Localization
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Why Does Unicode Do That?

Mark Davis

on  Wed, 11:40in  Atomic Clockfor  40min

People are curious about (and sometimes angry at) Unicode for its design choices. Sometimes they were necessary; we wouldn’t have gain traction without them; and sometimes they were simply unfortunate choices. This presentation will walk you through why some of these were made, ranging from the Unicode (Character) Standard, to the LDML (CLDR) Standard, to ICU APIs.

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