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The Unicode Consortium cooperates with many [[Standards organization|standards development organizations]], including [[ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2]] and [[W3C]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=UNICODE - The Unicode Consortium|url=https://www.iso.org/organization/342878.html|access-date=2020-07-11|website=[[International Standards Organization]]}}</ref> While Unicode is often considered equivalent to [[Universal Coded Character Set|ISO/IEC 10646]], and the character sets are essentially identical, the Unicode standard imposes additional restrictions on implementations that ISO/IEC 10646 does not.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Korpela|first=Jukka K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxndiWaFMvMC&q=unicode+ISO+cooperation&pg=PA165|title=Unicode Explained|date=2006-06-21|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media, Inc.]]|isbn=978-0-596-10121-3|language=en}}</ref> Apart from ''The Unicode Standard'' (TUS) and its [[addendum|annexes]] (UAX), the Unicode Consortium also maintains the [[Common Locale Data Repository|CLDR]], collaborated with the IETF on [[Internationalized ___domain name|IDNA]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sikos|first=Leslie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32UnCgAAQBAJ&q=unicode+consortium+IETF+cooperation&pg=PA8|title=Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML|date=2014-12-29|publisher=Apress|isbn=978-1-4842-0883-0|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kühne|first=Mirjam|date=2007-05-07|title=Plenary Report|url=https://www.ietfjournal.org/plenary-report-7/|access-date=2020-07-11|website=IETF Journal|publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force]]|language=en-US}}</ref> and publishes related standards (UTS), reports (UTR), and utilities.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/reports/index.html#standards |title=Unicode Technical Reports |publisher=Unicode, Inc.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/idna.jsp |title=Unicode Utilities: Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) |publisher=Unicode, Inc.}}</ref>

The group selects the [[emoji]] icons used by the world's smartphones, based on submissions from individuals and organizations who present their case with evidence for why each one is essentialneeded.<ref name="Who Decides">{{cite web | title=Who Decides Which Emojis Get The Thumbs Up? | date=October 25, 2015 | publisher=NPR | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/25/451642332/who-decides-which-emojis-get-the-thumbs-up | author=NPR Staff | access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref>

=== Unicode Technical Committee ===