[Unicode Announcement] Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.8.1

The Unicode CLDR 1.8.1 maintenance release is now available. See
http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-1-8-1 for details.

The next major release is CLDR 1.9, scheduled for the end of October.
Two milestone releases are planned for 1.9 as well. The 1.9 release is
focused on tooling and structural changes, while the CLDR 2.0 release
will involve general data submission. For the tentative schedule, see
http://cldr.unicode.org.

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[Unicode Announcement] Call for Participation: IUC 34, Oct 18-20, 2010

Mountain View, CA, USA – April 26, 2010 – The Unicode® Consortium today
announced a call for participation in The Thirty-fourth
Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC 34), taking place in
Santa Clara, Calif., USA; October 18-20, 2010. The conference is
produced by OMG™.

The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the premier annual
technical conference for topics on the design and global deployment of
multilingual applications and web sites. Internationalization and
Unicode experts, implementers, clients, teachers, students, 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, and get information about Unicode-enabled products.

To be considered as a presenter for the conference, please submit a
brief abstract before Wednesday, May 26. Topics should be related to
internationalization and localization; presentations structured as
tutorials are also welcome. Suitable topics include, but are not limited
to:

Best Practices and New Approaches

• New technologies, algorithms and methodologies
• Using internationalization libraries and programming environments
• Handling bidirectional or other complex scripts
• Data formats and evolving standards, e.g. XML, JSON, HTML5, DITA,
• Project management for global development teams
• Localization technologies, Crowd Sourcing, Machine Translation, et al
• Development, test, and deployment techniques and experiences
• Improving globalization capabilities within organizations
• Migrating legacy applications to global markets
• Unicode, Emoji, and character encodings

Application Areas

• Social networks
• Search engines, SEO, discovery and navigation best practices
• Websites, Cloud Computing, SAAS, and Web services
• Libraries and education
• Mobile applications, including iPhone, Android, iPad, Kindle, etc.
• Publishing and broadcasting for a global audience
• Internationalized Domain Names and other identifiers
• Security concerns and practices

Language and Locale Support

• African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and support for other languages
• Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
• Font development

Details of the call for participation are available at:
http://www.unicodeconference.org/iuc34call

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief
(up to 600 word) abstract of their proposed conference presentation by
Wednesday, May 26 using this web form:
http://www.unicodeconference.org/abstracts

The Program Committee will notify authors by Wednesday, June 9. Final
presentation materials will be required from selected presenters by
Tuesday August 31. The conference agenda will be available by Tuesday,
June 15 at: http://www.unicodeconference.org/

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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About the Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop,
extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization
standards.

The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of
corporations and organizations in the computer and information
processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, Apple, DENIC eG,
Google, Government of India, Government of Tamil Nadu, IBM, Microsoft,
Monotype Imaging, Oracle, The Society for Natural Language Technology
Research, SAP, Sybase, The University of California (Berkeley), The
University of California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred
Associate, Liaison, and Individual members.

For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
http://www.unicode.org/contacts.html. For more information, please
contact the Unicode Consortium http://www.unicode.org.

About the Event Producer

OMG™ is the Event Producer for the Internationalization & Unicode
Conferences. OMG is an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that
produces and maintains computer industry specifications for
interoperable enterprise applications. Our specifications include MDA®,
UML®, CORBA®, MOF™, XMI® and CWM™. OMG's specifications are all
available for download by everyone without charge.

For more information about OMG, visit us online at http://www.omg.org.

Note to editors: Unicode Standard, Unicode and the Unicode Logo are
trademarks of Unicode, Inc. Unicode Consortium is a registered trademark
of Unicode, Inc. OMG and Object Management Group are trademarks of
Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

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[Unicode Announcement] New Public Review Issue: Two New Provisional Properties for Characters in Indic Scripts

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 periods for the new items close on May 3, 2010.

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

Issue #168: Two New Provisional Properties for Characters in Indic Scripts
http://www.unicode.org/review/#pri168

The UTC is considering the addition of two new, enumerated provisional
character properties for Indic scripts: Indic_Syllabic_Category and
Matra_Placement. These are to assist in the analysis and processing of
syllables for various Brahmi-derived scripts, providing classificatory
information that is not easy to extract or derive for all of the Indic
scripts in the standard. Feedback is welcome on the construction of the
proposed properties, the details of the proposed assignment of values
for characters, and on the question of the usefulness of defining such
properties.

If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by
submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:

http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

If you wish to discuss issues on the Unicode mail list, then please
use the following link to subscribe (if necessary). Please be aware
that discussion comments on the Unicode mail list are not automatically
recorded as input to the UTC. You must use the reporting link above
to generate comments for UTC consideration.

http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html

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[Unicode Announcement] Tracking proposed updates to Unicode technical publications

To make it easier to find and track proposed updates to Unicode
technical publications, the editorial committee has made several
improvements:

* Proposed updates can be found by a predictable, stable URL
* This URL is always accessible from the latest approved version of
the document via a header field titled "Latest Proposed Update".

For example, if you look at the approved 5.2.0 version of UAX
#15, Unicode Normalization Forms
(http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/), you'll find at the top
of the document under "Latest Proposed Update" a link to
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/proposed.html. That URL
points to the latest proposed update for UAX #15.

* If there is currently no proposed update for a document, the URL
will point to a stub document indicating that there is no current
proposed update.

In addition, a predictable, stable URL is used for the modifications
section within each proposed update. That section summarizes the changes
that have been made from the previous version. These URLs follow the
format http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/proposed.html#Modifications .

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[Unicode Announcement] W3C India Conference

Here is an announcement for a conference in India which should be of interest to Unicode members.

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The W3C India Office is organizing an International Conference "World Wide Web: Technology, Standards and Internationalization - 2010" in New Delhi on May 6-7, 2010.

The focus of the conference is to promote and proliferate W3C Standards in India to enable seamless Web access in Indian languages. One of the major aspects to be covered in the conference is Internationalization, especially in light of the complexity of implementing Indian Languages.

Core Technology Tracks in the Conference include:

1. W3C and Web Technologies
2. Internationalization Aspects in W3C
3. Web Access through mobile and hand-held devices
4. CSS and Styling issues
5. Web Architecture and Semantic web
6. Human Machine Interface for the Web
7. Web Content Accessibility in Indian Languages
8. W3C and E-Governance

Kindly visit the W3C India Website http://www.w3cindia.in and the Conference Website http://www.w3cindia.in/conf-site/conference-index.htm for more details. The Conference will also attempt to evolve a Roadmap for proliferation and specific requirements for Indian Languages in W3C and associated standards. We look forward to your active cooperation and participation in the Conference.

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