Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Recent Unicode Happenings: June 2026

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Do you call it soccer or football? Is ⚽ “bola,” “ボール,” or “ كرة?” The biggest sporting event in the world is underway — keep reading to find...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Unicode 18.0 Beta Review Opens for Feedback

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 By: Peter Constable, Chair of the Unicode Technical Committee The Unicode® Standard provides the character encoding that underlies text in ...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Unicode CLDR 49: Submission open through June 2026

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The Unicode® CLDR Survey Tool is open for submission for version 49 through June (see detailed schedule below). CLDR provides key building ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Unicode Technology Workshop 2026: Call for Sessions Now Open!

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For those interested in participating in and contributing to Unicode Technology Workshop 2026: Unicode in the World , the call for submissio...
Monday, April 13, 2026

ICU4X 2.2 released!

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 The ICU4X Technical Committee is happy to announce ICU4X 2.2, an update to our modular, portable, and secure i18n library. ICU4X is Unicod...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Unicode ICU 78.3 and CLDR 48.2 released

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Unicode® CLDR is the most widely used provider of locale data. It provides the essential building blocks that allow software to display ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

UTS #18: More Unicode Properties in Regular Expressions

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Regular Expressions, or “Regex”, are the invisible workhorses of the digital world. Regex allows apps and computer systems to find, validate...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

From Central Bank to Code Point: A Roadmap for Currency Symbol Implementation

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I n the past year, several new currency symbols have been proposed for encoding in the Unicode Standard: February 2025: The Saudi Central Ba...