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The '''Unicode Consortium''' (legally '''Unicode, Inc.''') is a [[501(c)(3)]] non-profit organization incorporated and based in [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]], [[California]], U.S.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/02/12/qa-mark-davis-president-of-the-unicode-consortium-on-the-rise-of-emojis/|title=Q&A: Mark Davis, president of the Unicode Consortium, on the rise of emojis|last=Wong|first=Queenie|date=February 12, 2016|work=The Mercury News|access-date=April 5, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the [[Unicode Standard]] which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes
The consortium describes its overall purpose as: {{quote|...enabl[ing] people around the world to use computers in any language, by providing freely-available specifications and data to form the foundation for software internationalization in all major operating systems, search engines, applications, and the World Wide Web. An essential part of this purpose is to standardize, maintain, educate and engage academic and scientific communities, and the general public about, make publicly available, promote, and disseminate to the public a standard character encoding that provides for an allocation for more than a million characters.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.unicode.org/consortium/Unicode-Bylaws.pdf | title=The Unicode Consortium Bylaws | date= November 6, 2015 | access-date=6 December 2019}}</ref>}}
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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 was the president of the Unicode Consortium from when the Consortium was incorporated in 1991 until 2023, when he changed roles to CTO.<ref>{{Cite web | title=New Unicode Consortium CEO | url=https://blog.unicode.org/2023/01/new-unicode-consortium-ceo.html | publisher=Unicode Consortium | access-date=February 2, 2023 }}</ref>
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