[Unicode Announcement] New lower individual member rates

Individual and student members are important contributors to the work of
the Unicode Consortium. From the encoding of rare and minority scripts
to collecting and vetting locale data, individuals help develop the next
generation of Unicode standards and data. To promote participation, the
Unicode Consortium has lowered the price for individual memberships to
$75 per year and student memberships to $35 per year. The new rates are
effective January 1, 2010 and existing memberships will be extended in
accordance with the new lower prices.

The Unicode Consortium has also moved to online publication of the
standard as of Version 5.2, and the entire text of the standard is
freely available for online reading and printing. Copies of the book are
no longer printed and are therefore no longer included as a membership
benefit.

For more information on the benefits of individual membership and how to
join, see: http://www.unicode.org/consortium/join.html

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[Unicode Announcement] Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.7.2

Mountain View, CA, December, 10, 2009 - The Unicode® Consortium
announced today the release of version 1.7.2 of the Unicode Common
Locale Data Repository (CLDR). Unicode CLDR 1.7.2 is an update release,
with no new translations. The main changes are modifications to Unicode
language and locale identifiers to correspond to the recent version of
BCP47.

*About Unicode CLDR*
Unicode CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the
world's languages. Unicode CLDR is by far the largest and most extensive
standard repository of locale data. This data is used by a wide spectrum
of companies for their software internationalization and localization:
adapting software to the conventions of different languages for such
common software tasks as formatting of dates, times, time zones,
numbers, and currency values; sorting text; choosing languages or
countries by name; transliterating different alphabets; and many others.
For more information about the Unicode CLDR project (including charts)
see http://cldr.unicode.org.

*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: Adobe Systems, Apple, DENIC eG, Google, Government
of India, Government of Tamil Nadu, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging,
Oracle, SAP, Society for Natural Language Technology Research, Sun
Microsystems, Sybase, The University of California at Berkeley, Yahoo!,
plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual members. For
more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
(http://www.unicode.org/).

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[Unicode Announcement] New draft Unicode specifications for IDNA and Security

There are new drafts of Unicode specifications connected with IDNA and
Security:

* UTS #46: Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing
* UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms
* UTR #36: Unicode Security Considerations

The major changes include the following:

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/tr46-2.html

* Major rework based on the UTC and editorial committee decisions.
The text and specification are simplified considerably.
* The FAQ section was separated from the document and rewritten as
an independent FAQ page
* Draft data files were restructured
* Added a comparison table of IDNA2003, UTS46, and IDNA2008

/NOTE: IDNA2008 is not final, and the draft UTS46 may undergo changes
depending on the final form of IDNA2008/

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-3.html

* The confusable data was revised to add data extracted from a
comparison of font data from Windows and Mac
* Additional mappings were also added, such as "rn" ~ "m"
* The characters recommended for identifiers were updated based on
UAX 31

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/tr36-8.html

* Added new sections
o 3.6 Secure Encoding Conversion
o 3.7 Enabling Lossless Conversion to Unicode

The public review period for these specifications ends on January 26, 2010.

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

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[Unicode Announcement] Two New Public Review Issues (UAX #15, UAX #44 Proposed Updates)

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

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

Review period for the new items closes on January 26, 2010.

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

Issue #151 Proposed Update UAX #44: Unicode Character Database
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/tr44-5.html
This revision indicates the changed status of several properties as
Deprecated, adds tables listing Deprecated and Stabilized properties,
and extends the discussion of the significance of the
Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph property.

Issue #152 Proposed Update UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/tr15-32.html
This revision corrects the definitions of classes of characters in the
Composition Exclusion Table.

If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by
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http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

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[Unicode Announcement] Unicode Collation Algorithm Version 5.2 Released

Version 5.2 of the Unicode Collation Algorithm has been released.
See http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/.
This version resynchronizes the Unicode Collation Algorithm with all
of the updates for the Unicode Standard, Version 5.2. Please note
the following changes and issues for implementations:

* The text of UTS #10 has been updated. Among other changes, the
revised text for UTS #10 makes it clear that the BASE for
implicit generation of weights for Han characters does not
include unassigned code points.
* There are small changes in Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam
(including weighting for chillus), Tamil, and Sinhala. While
these changes move in the direction of expected behavior, good
results will only come from tailoring for particular languages,
such as with CLDR.
* There have been significant changes to the ordering of many
combining marks. Many combining marks that are not in customary
use in modern languages now have the same secondary weight, and
will only be distinguished on a fourth level, by code point
ordering. This can be seen by looking at the Unicode Collation
Charts (http://unicode.org/charts/collation/). In 5.2, many
characters now have a white background, indicating that they
sort exactly the same as the previous character, unless a 4th
(codepoint) level is used.
* Implementations of UCA should take note that the increased
number of characters may cause overflows if the implementing
code makes certain assumptions or optimizations. This can result
either from the new character additions (which increase the
number of distinct weights in the table) or because of changes
in the way the weights, particularly for secondary weight
values, are assigned in the table. The latter change may result
in unexpected numbers of characters having the same weight.

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[Unicode Announcement] Public Review Issue #150: Draft UTS #46 Updated

The draft UTS#46 Unicode IDNA Compatible Preprocessing has been updated.
There are a number of new review notes pointing out issues and asking
for feedback. There are also new tables: one comparing behavior of
compatibility and escaped versions of FULL STOP in delimiting labels
between different browsers, and one comparing the allowed and disallowed
repertoires when processing IDNs according to the IDNA2003, IDNA2008,
and UTS #46 specifications. There are also many improvements and
clarifications of the text.

See: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/

Review period closes October 26, 2009.

If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by
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[Unicode Announcement] Unicode 5.2.0 Released

Unicode 5.2 has been released! The data files, code charts, and Unicode
Standard Annexes for this version are final and are posted on the
Unicode site.

For Unicode 5.2, the core specification is no longer just a delta
document applied to the book; instead, the entire core specification,
with all textual changes integrated, will be available on the Unicode
site. As of this announcement, the first five chapters are available;
the other chapters will follow soon.

For full details about what is new or changed in this release, see the
version documentation for Unicode 5.2 at:

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

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[Unicode Announcement] Unicode Haiku Contest

Unicode Haiku Contest
Here's your chance to show what you think of Unicode - with poetry!
Enter the Unicode Haiku contest, and meet the bar set by the immortal Haiku:

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
(aka Blue Screen)

The tricorder broke
Communicator is dead
And my shirt is red

The winners are to be announced at the upcoming Unicode Conference, Oct 14-16 (but you don't have to attend the conference to win). The first prize is a myTouch 3G phone, sponsored by Google. (If your company is interested in sponsoring an additional prize, contact Magda Danish, http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html). All submissions must arrive by October 12, 2009.

Please submit your entry at http://unicode.org/conference/haiku.html.
Each entry should be 3 lines, with 5 syllables on the first, 7 on the second, and 5 on the third. You can enter as many different submissions as you want. Submissions are judged based on their relation to Unicode and/or SW Globalization, and most importantly, cleverness and whimsy.

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