The Unicode Consortium announces the election of director Tim Brandall for a one year term beginning January 2019. Michele Coady has decided to retire.Tim has over 19 years of experience in the globalization industry, working in an internationalization capacity for companies like Apple, Vivendi Universal, and most recently Netflix. He has built and lead the internationalization team at Netflix for over 6 years, taking the Netflix product from a US only service to a truly global product available in 190 countries and 27 languages. Much of his work at Netflix has revolved around innovation to support globalization at scale. Tim has a software engineering background, holding a degree in Computer Science.
For the listing of current directors and officers of the Consortium please see Unicode Directors, Officers and Staff.
Adopt-a-Character
Over 130,000 characters are available for adoption, to
help the Unicode Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages.
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This holiday season you can give a unique gift by adopting any emoji, letter,
or symbol — and help support the Unicode Consortium’s mission to enable all
languages to be used on computers. Three levels of sponsorship are
available, starting at $100. With over 130,000 characters to choose from, you
are certain to find an appropriate character, for even the most demanding
recipient. All sponsors will receive a custom digital badge featuring the
adopted character for use on the web and elsewhere. Sponsors at the two highest
levels will receive a special thank-you gift engraved with the name you supply
and the adopted character.
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