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| type = Non-profit [[consortium]]

| key_people = {{plain list|

* Toral Cowieson (CEO)

* [[Mark Davis (Unicode)|Mark Davis]] (presidentCTO & Cofounder; CLDR-TC Chair)

* Markus Scherer ({{abbr|VP|vice president}} and acting treasurer)

* Anne Gundelfinger (VPVice President and generalGeneral counselCounsel)

* Greg Welch (secretary)

* Greg Welch (Vice President of Marketing)

* Anne Gundelfinger (VP and general counsel)

* Iris Orriss (Treasurer)

* Rick McGowan (VP, information technology)

* Ayman Aldahleh (Secretary)<ref>{{Cite web | title=Unicode Executive Officers | url=https://unicode.org/consortium/execofficers.html | publisher=Unicode Consortium | access-date=February 2, 2023 }}</ref>

}}

| name = Unicode, Inc.

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== Founding ==

{{For|the history leading up to the Unicode Consortium's foundation|Unicode#History}}

The project to develop a universal character encoding scheme called Unicode was initiated in 1987 by [[Joe Becker (Unicode)|Joe Becker]], [[Lee Collins (Unicode)|Lee Collins]], and [[Mark Davis (Unicode)|Mark Davis]].<ref>{{Cite web | title=History of Unicode : Summary Narrative | url=https://www.unicode.org/history/summary.html | publisher=Unicode Consortium | access-date=April 25, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://hyperallergic.com/311488/better-days/|title=Better Days|last=Yau|first=John|date=July 17, 2016|work=Hyperallergic|access-date=November 29, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> The Unicode Consortium was incorporated in [[California]] on January 3, 1991,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-pistol-squirt-gun-emoji-apple-20160802-snap-story.html|title=Apple is replacing the pistol emoji with a squirt gun|last=Roy|first=Jessica|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 3, 2016|access-date=November 29, 2018}}</ref> with the stated aim to develop, extend, and promote the use of the [[Unicode Standard]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/history/|title=Unicode History Corner|publisher=Unicode, Inc.|access-date=August 25, 2017}}</ref> Mark Davis haswas beenthe president of the Unicode Consortium sincefrom when the Consortium was incorporated in 1991 until 2023 when he changed roles to CTO.<ref>{{Cite web | title=New Unicode Directors, Officers andConsortium StaffCEO | url=https://wwwblog.unicode.org/consortium2023/directors01/new-unicode-consortium-ceo.html | publisher=Unicode Consortium | access-date=AprilFebruary 252, 20182023 }}</ref>

== Work ==

{{quote | text=Our goal is to make sure that all of the text on computers for every language in the world is represented but we get a lot more attention for emojis than for the fact that you can type Chinese on your phone and have it work with another phone. | author=Unicode Consortium co-founder and presidentCTO & Cofounder Mark Davis<ref name="Who Decides"/>}}

[[File:Choijinzhab presentation.jpg|thumb|Lisa Moore, vice president of the Unicode Consortium, presenting [[Choijinzhab]] and Nashunwuritu with copies of the [[Unicode Standard]] at a meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, in 2017|alt=]]