UTW 2023

Program

Check-in

9:00

Welcome Overview

Toral Cowieson, Joel Sahleen, Shane Carr

Breakout Room

ADLaM, the Power of a Script: Evolution, Community Impact & Challenges Post-Unicode

Abdoulaye Barry, Ibrahima Barry

Encoding and Scripts Digitally Disadvantaged 

10:00

{๏ฟฝ}: MessageFormat v2

Addison Phillips

Localization Internationalization Standards 

Internationalizing the Internet's Domain Name System

Sarmad Hussain

Internationalization Standards 

Coffee Break

11:00

Workshop 1: Introduction to Unicode & Beyond

Michael McKenna, Tex Texin, Craig Cummings

End-to-end Education Internationalization Standards 

Unicode Properties & Algorithms

Markus Scherer

Encoding and Scripts Standards 

Breakout Room

Unicode Source Code Handling

Robin Leroy

Encoding and Scripts Standards 

12:00

Lunch

13:00

The First Steps to Go Global

Rajeev Krishnan

End-to-end Internationalization Localization 

What's new in CLDR & ICU

Markus Scherer, Annemarie Apple

Internationalization Digitally Disadvantaged 

Breakout Room

14:00

Critical Values for I18n Testing

Tex Texin

End-to-end Testing 

Person Names in the Real World

Michael McKenna

Internationalization Standards 

15:00

Lessons Launching Dozens of New Languages in a UI

Conrad Arcturus Nied

End-to-end Localization 

Beyond NFC with Nisaba library

Cibu Johny

Internationalization Digitally Disadvantaged 

Snacks

16:00

Fixing Input Methods for Abugida Scripts

Elango Cheran

Fonts and Input Methods Digitally Disadvantaged 

Character to Glyph: How Unicodeยฎ Text Makes it to Your Screen

Josh Hadley

Fonts and Input Methods Encoding and Scripts 

Breakout Room

Talking Emoji ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿชฆ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿท๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ˜ค

Jennifer Daniel

Encoding and Scripts Standards 

17:00

Mix & Mingle

Caption
Encoding and Scripts
Fonts and Input Methods
Internationalization
Localization
End-to-end
Unconference
Other
Food
Breakout