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TheDevilThe '''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 that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with [[multilingualism|multilingual]] environments.

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>}}