[Unicode Announcement] Unicode 5.2 Beta - Chapters 1-5 Available

The ongoing beta review for Unicode 5.2 has been supplemented
today with the availability of drafts for the first part of the
consolidated text of the Unicode Standard, Version 5.2.

The landing page for Unicode 5.2 summarizes the major
new additions and changes for Version 5.2:

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/

Links to pdf versions of Chapters 1 through 5 of the standard
are available on that page.

We would like to remind folks that the period for beta review
of the Version 5.2 data files and the Unicode Standard Annexes
is rapidly drawing to a close. The meeting of the Unicode
Technical Committee in August will be making the final decisions
on any reported problems in the data or the annexes, so now
is the time to check the posted data files and documents.
See the beta review page for details:

http://www.unicode.org/versions/beta.html

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[Unicode Announcement] 33rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference - Program Online

33rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference
Features Sessions on Security, Open Source, Social Networking and Cloud Computing

The Unicode(r) Consortium announces the program for the 33rd Internationalization & Unicode(r) Conference (IUC). The conference, sponsored by Gold Sponsor Adobe, Inc., will take place in San Jose, Calif., USA; October 14-16, 2009. The conference program is available online here.

The program committee has created an exciting program full of new and cutting-edge topics that is relevant and engaging for the internationalization community. The three-day conference will feature a full day of tutorials followed by two days of presentations, panels and discussions. There will also be technology exhibits and demonstrations.

Highlights of the Conference:
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Tutorials in Three Tracks:
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An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode
Internationalization: An Introduction
Building a Custom Keyboard Layout for the Mac with Ukulele and XML
Arabic Script: Structure, Geographic and Regional Classification
Unicode - a Grand Tour
Web Internationalization - Standards and Best Practices
Building Multilingual Websites in Joomla [Drupal]
Creating XHTML/HTML Pages with Right-to-Left Scripts
Free Software stack for Unicode Text Rendering
Presenters come from such organizations as DecoType, Amazon, Penn State, Red Hat/GNOME, W3C, XenCraft, and Yahoo! Inc.

Sessions in Three Tracks:
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* Session tracks are categorized by Programming Languages, Fonts and Typography, Unicode News, and I18n Standards News on Thursday morning; with Open Source Libraries, Assuring Quality, and Scripts tracks in the afternoon. On Friday, track topics include Development Platforms, Mobile Programming, Internationalization in Practice, and Leveraging CLDR in the morning; and Translation Services API, Bidirectional Text, and Case Studies in the afternoon.

* The following is just a small sample of some of the cutting-edge presentations that will be given at IUC 33. For the full program, visit the IUC 33 Web site.

- Internationalization for JavaScript applications
- Emoji in Unicode: Cell Phones Meet the Internet
- Banking in the Cloud: Challenges of Internationalizing Banking Software
- Twanguages of the World: a Language Census of Twitter
- HarfBuzz, the Free and Open OpenType Shaping Engine

* Session Presenters come from such organizations as Adobe, Inc.; Amazon; Apple, Inc.; Casaba Security; DataDirect Technologies; DecoType; UC Berkeley; Google Inc.; HighTech Passport; IBM; Intel Corporation; Microsoft; Monotype Imaging; University of Michigan; XenCraft; Yahoo! Inc.; and Yale University
The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the premier technical conference for both software and Web internationalization. Unicode and internationalization 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 and internationalization-enabled products.

Gold sponsor: ADOBE - Media Sponsor: Multilingual

The early-bird registration deadline is September 4, 2009; the hotel registration deadline is September 23, 2009. For full conference details and to register, please click here. Sponsorships and exhibit space are available; for more information on sponsoring contact Ken Berk at kenberk@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404. For exhibiting questions email event_marketing@omg.org. For all other questions email info@unicodeconference.org.

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[Unicode Announcement] New Public Review #149: UTS #22; and other PRI updates

The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review
and comment. Details are on the following web page:

http://www.unicode.org/review/

Review period for the new item closes on August 3, 2009.

Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
Briefly, the new issue is:

PRI #149
Proposed Update UTS #22: Unicode Character Mapping Markup Language

This proposed update includes editorial fixes and clarifications based
on community feedback. There is a small change in the DTD from version
three to this proposed version five (a new default attribute value). See
the Modification History and the highlighted changes for details.

There are also two updates to open Public Review Issues:

PRI #136
Proposed Update UAX #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm

The text of UAX #14 has been revised throughout, with both substantive
and editorial changes. A new Line_Break class CP has been added, and the
rule LB30 has been reintroduced, to address an edge case involving
breaks around parenthesized letters. More new Southeast Asian scripts
and characters have been added to the Line_Break class SA. The lists of
characters representing each Line_Break class are now exemplary, rather
than exhaustive in the text. Please review the new text carefully.

PRI #134
Proposed Update UAX #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

The latest revision also includes a new conformance test file, which
implementers should carefully review. See BidiTest.txt in the data files
directory: http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.2.0/ucd/

The closing dates remain the same.

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[Unicode Announcement] Draft code charts for Unicode 5.2 beta review

Draft code charts are now available for the Unicode 5.2 beta review.
Please check the code charts carefully to verify correctness of the new
characters added to Unicode 5.2 and to ensure that there are no
regressions for previously encoded characters. The draft code charts
are located in:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.2.0/charts/ or
ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/5.2.0/charts/

The Unicode Consortium appreciates the help provided by its many volunteers
who help in ensuring the best possible quality for the published code charts
for the Unicode Standard.

For further information about the beta, please see the beta page
http://www.unicode.org/versions/beta.html and the associated
Public Review Issues page: http://www.unicode.org/review/#148

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