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His central area of expertise is with ]s of the world, specifically in the representation of these systems in formats for ] and digital media. In 2003 Rick McGowan said he was "probably the world's leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts"<ref name=expert>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EED9143DF936A1575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=For the World's ABC's, He Makes 1's and 0's|date=September 25, 2003|work=]|access-date=May 23, 2008|last=Erard|first=Michael}}</ref> for his work to add a wide variety of ] and ] to the ]. Since 1993, he has written over two hundred proposals<ref>{{cite web|first=Michael|last=Everson|publisher=Evertype|url=http://www.evertype.com/formal.html|title= Papers formally submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2|date=January 27, 2007}}</ref> which have added thousands of characters to ] and the ] standard; as of 2003, he was credited as the leading contributor of Unicode proposals.<ref name=expert/>
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'''Michael Everson''' (born ], ]) is an expert in the ] of the world. He is a ], ], and ], and is one of the co-authors of the ] Standard.


==Life== ==Life==
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Everson was born in ], and moved to ], at the age of 12. His interest in the works of ] led him to study ] and then other ]. He read German, Spanish, and French for his ] at the ] (1985), and the History of Religions and ] for his ] at the ] (1988){{citation needed|date=July 2020}}.


Everson was born in ], ], and moved to ], ] at the age of 12. His interest in the works of ] led him first to ] and then to other ]. He studied ], ], and ] for his B.A. at the ] (1985), and the History of Religions and ] for his M.A. at the ] (1988). He moved to ] in 1989, and was a ] in the Faculty of Celtic Studies, ] (1991). He was ] as an Irish citizen in 2000. In September 2004, he moved to ], ]. He is a ]. In 1989, a former professor, Dr. ], asked him to read a paper<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.evertype.com/misc/basque-jies/basque-jies.html|title=Tenacity in religion, myth, and folklore|publisher=Evertype.com|access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref> on ] at an ] Conference held in Ireland; shortly thereafter he moved to ], where he studied as a ] in the Faculty of ], ] (1991).<ref name="urlEvertype: About Michael Everson">{{cite web|url=http://www.evertype.com/misc/bio.html|title=About Michael Everson|work=Evertype.com|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref> He became a ] Irish citizen in 2000, although he retains American citizenship.<ref name="expert" />


==Work== ==Work==
⚫ Everson is active in supporting minority-language communities, especially in the fields of ] ] and ]. In addition to being one of the primary contributing editors of the Unicode Standard, he is also a contributing editor to ], registrar for ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/iso15924/|title=ISO 15924 Registration Authority|publisher=ISO, Unicode, Inc., & Evertype|year=2004|access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref> and subtag reviewer for ]. He has contributed to the encoding of many scripts and ] in those standards, receiving the Unicode ] in 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/conference/bulldog.html|title=The Bulldog Award|publisher=Unicode, Inc.|access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref> for his technical contributions to the development and promotion of the Unicode Standard. In 2004, Everson was appointed convenor of ] TC46/WG3 (Conversion of Written Languages), which is responsible for ] standards.

Everson is one of the co-editors (along with Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler, and V.S. Umamaheswaran) of the Unicode roadmaps that detail actual and proposed allocations for current and future Unicode scripts and blocks.<ref name="UnicodeRoadmap">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/|title=Roadmaps to Unicode|website=unicode.org}}</ref>

On July 1, 2012, Everson was appointed to the ] by the ], ], for his work in ] publishing.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123110829/http://xn--volapk-7ya.com/kadam/Dalebud_Cifala_de_2012-07-01%2C_Num-_1.html |date=January 23, 2013 }}</ref>

===Encoding of scripts===
⚫ Everson has been actively involved in the encoding of many scripts<ref>{{cite web|first=Michael|last=Everson|publisher=Evertype|url=http://www.evertype.com/formal.html|title=Papers formally submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 (Universal Character Set)|date=March 19, 2009|access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref> in the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ], as well as many characters belonging to the ], ], ], and ] scripts.

===Encoding of symbols===
Everson authored or co-authored proposals for many symbol characters for encoding into Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. Among those proposals submitted to ]/WG 2 that have been accepted and encoded: N2586R ({{unichar|267E|PERMANENT PAPER SIGN}} and four other miscellaneous symbols<ref name="n2586r">{{cite web|url=http://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2586r.pdf|title=Proposal to encode five miscellaneous symbols in the UCS|date=September 4, 2003|website=unicode.org}}</ref> admitted into Unicode 4.1), N3727 (the 26 ]s used in pairs to generate ]s in ] contexts;<ref name="n3727">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09379-n3727-regionalindicators.pdf|title=Proposal to encode Regional Indicator Symbols in the UCS|date=September 18, 2009|website=unicode.org}}</ref> adopted into Unicode 6.0), and N4783R2 (] symbols<ref name="n4783r2">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17033r2-n4783r2-chess-notation.pdf|title=Proposal to encode symbols for chess notation|date=January 26, 2017|website=unicode.org}}</ref> encoded into Unicode 11.0).

Among proposals that have not yet been approved for encoding: N1866 (an early proposal for encoding ] into the ] of Unicode;<ref name="n1866">{{cite web|url=http://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n1866.pdf|title=Encoding Blissymbolics in Plane 1 of the UCS|date=September 10, 1998|website=unicode.org}}</ref> still listed in the SMP roadmap as of Unicode 15.0<ref name="RoadmapSMP-11-0-2">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/smp-15-0-2.html|title=Roadmap to the SMP|date=April 9, 2023|website=unicode.org}}</ref> although no further action had been taken on it for years).

Everson, along with ], ], Ricardo Bánffy, Eduardo Marín Silva, Elias Mårtenson, Mark Shoulson, Shawn Steele, and Rebecca Turner, is a contributor to the Terminals Working Group researching obscure characters found in legacy ]s used by ]s (or "microcomputers"), terminals, and other legacy devices made from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s; thanks to their proposal L2/19-025, 212 graphic characters for compatibility with ], ], and other microcomputers of the era, as well as ], were encoded in the ] block,<ref name="L2-19-025">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf|title=Proposal to add characters from legacy computers and teletext to the UCS|date=January 4, 2019|website=unicode.org}}</ref> while 731 additional characters from L2/21-235 have been accepted for a future version of the standard.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22016.htm#170-C15|title=Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 170|date=January 25, 2022|website=unicode.org}}</ref>

===Font development===
In 1995 he designed a ], ], a ] ] with more than 4,800 characters. This font was the third Unicode-encoded font to contain a large number of characters from many character blocks, after ] and ] (both 1993). In 2007 he was commissioned by the International Association of Coptic Studies to create a standard free Unicode 5.1 font for Coptic, ''Antinoou'', using the Sahidic style.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.evertype.com/fonts/coptic/ |title=Antinoou - A standard font for Coptic |publisher=Evertype |access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref>

===Conscript Unicode Registry===
⚫ Together with ], he is also responsible for the ], a project to coordinate the mapping of ]s into the Unicode ]. Among the scripts "encoded" in the CSUR, ] and ] were eventually formally adopted into Unicode; two other conscripts under consideration are ]'s scripts of ] and ].

===Language and locale information===
Everson has also created locale and language information for many languages, from support for the ] and the other ] to the ] ].<ref>{{cite web|first=Michael|last=Everson|publisher=Evertype|url=http://www.evertype.com/standards/se/loc.html|date=March 14, 1997|title=Sami locales|access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref> In 2000, together with Trond Trosterud, he co-authored Software localization into Nynorsk Norwegian, a report commissioned by the ]. In 2003 he was commissioned by the ] to prepare a report<ref>{{cite web|first=Michael|last=Everson|first2=Roozbeh|last2=Pournader|url=http://www.evertype.com/standards/af/af-locales.pdf|title=Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan|date=July 29, 2003|publisher=Evertype}}</ref> on the computer locale requirements for the major languages of ] (], ], and ]), co-authored by Roozbeh Pournader, which was endorsed by the Ministry of Communications of the ].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.unescap.org/rural/doc/pai/paivol13no2.pdf|title=Afghans beat language obstacle to entering digital age|journal=Poverty Alleviation Initiatives|date=April–June 2003|volume=13|issue=2|publisher=United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific|author=Lepage, Marc|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061012190755/http://www.unescap.org/rural/doc/pai/paivol13no2.pdf|archive-date=October 12, 2006}}</ref> More recently, ]'s Initiative B@bel<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16541&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050313172859/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D16541%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 13, 2005 |title=UNESCO B@bel Initiative |publisher=Portal.unesco.org |access-date=November 21, 2011 }}</ref> funded Everson's work to encode the ] and ] scripts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/admin/ev.php?URL_ID=17490&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=110024633|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107040404/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/admin/ev.php?URL_ID=17490&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=110024633|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 7, 2016|title=Development of a Unicode standard for the West African Language N'ko|work=Multilingualism in Cyberspace|publisher=]|date=November 12, 2004|access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref>

===Work on a standard for Cornish===
In 2007 he co-authored a proposal for a new standard written form of ], called ].<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927214309/http://www.kernowak.com/kernowak-revision-15.pdf |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> Following the publication of the ] in 2008, Everson and a group of other users examined the specification and implemented a set of modifications to it, publishing a formal specification in 2012.<ref>Williams, Nicholas. 2012. ''Desky Kernowek: A Complete Guide to Cornish''. Cathair na Mart: Evertype. {{ISBN|978-1-904808-99-2}}</ref>


===Publishing at Evertype===
⚫ Everson is active in supporting minority-language communities, especially in the fields of ] ] and ]. In addition to being one of the co-authors of the Unicode Standard, he is a contributing editor to ], ], and RFC 3066. He has contributed to the encoding of many scripts and ] in those standards, receiving the Unicode "Bulldog" Award in 2000 for his technical contributions to the development and promotion of the Unicode Standard. In 2004, Everson was appointed convenor of ] TC46/WG3 (Conversion of Written Languages), which is responsible for ] standards.
{{As of|March 2014}} Everson operates a publishing company, Evertype, through which he has published a total of 295 books.<ref name="Evertype_cat">{{cite web|title=Evertype complete catalogue|url=http://www.evertype.com/catalogue.html|publisher=Evertype.com|access-date=December 26, 2019}}</ref> These include a wide range of titles by various authors and editors, with Everson himself as co-author of one, editor of several, and having adapted or revised several more. He also designed fonts for several.<ref name="Evertype_cat"/>


Everson has a particular interest in ]face design, and does a considerable amount of work ] books in Irish for publication by Evertype.<ref name="Evertype_tset">{{cite web|first=Michael|last=Everson|publisher=Evertype|url=http://www.evertype.com/books.html|title=Books typeset by Michael Everson|date=October 5, 2006|access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref>
⚫ Everson has been actively involved in the encoding of many scripts in the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ], as well as many characters belonging to the ], ], ], and ] scripts.


Another project consists of his publications of translations of '']'' in many languages, amongst which are ]s and ]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.evertype.com/carrolliana.html|title=Evertype Publications - Wonderland and Carrolliana|publisher=Evertype.com|access-date=March 11, 2015}}</ref> Translations are available in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], Borain ], ], ], ] transliteration, ], ] and ], with several other translations being prepared.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
⚫ Together with John Cowan, he is also responsible for the ], a project to coordinate the mapping of ]s into the Unicode ]. Among the scripts "encoded" in the CSUR, ] and ] were eventually formally adopted into Unicode; two other conscripts under consideration are ] and ].


==References==
Everson has also created locale and language information for many languages, from support for the ] and the other ] to the ] of ]. In 2003 he was commissioned by the ] to prepare a report on the computer locale requirements for the major languages of ] (], ], and ]), co-authored by ], which was endorsed by the Ministry of Communications of the ]. More recently, ]'s Initiative B@bel funded Everson's work to encode the ] and ] scripts.
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⚫ ==External links==
He also has an interest in ] design, and in Gaelic ] in particular, and does a considerable amount of work ] books in Irish. In 1995 he designed the ] ], is a ] ] which includes more than 4,800 characters.
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⚫ * , Michael Everson's website
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⚫ * by Dick Gordon on '']'', a ] public affairs call-in program
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⚫ == External links ==
⚫ *, Michael Everson's web site
* written by ] about Everson, published in the ], September, 2003
⚫ * with Everson by Dick Gordon on '']'', a ] public affairs call-in program


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Michael Everson (born January 1963) is an American and Irish linguist, script encoder, typesetter, type designer and publisher. He runs a publishing company called Evertype, through which he has published over one hundred books since 2006.

His central area of expertise is with writing systems of the world, specifically in the representation of these systems in formats for computer and digital media. In 2003 Rick McGowan said he was "probably the world's leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts" for his work to add a wide variety of scripts and characters to the Universal Character Set. Since 1993, he has written over two hundred proposals which have added thousands of characters to ISO/IEC 10646 and the Unicode standard; as of 2003, he was credited as the leading contributor of Unicode proposals.

Life

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Everson was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and moved to Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 12. His interest in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien led him to study Old English and then other Germanic languages. He read German, Spanish, and French for his B.A. at the University of Arizona (1985), and the History of Religions and Indo-European linguistics for his M.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles (1988).

In 1989, a former professor, Dr. Marija Gimbutas, asked him to read a paper on Basque mythology at an Indo-Europeanist Conference held in Ireland; shortly thereafter he moved to Dublin, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar in the Faculty of Celtic Studies, University College Dublin (1991). He became a naturalized Irish citizen in 2000, although he retains American citizenship.

Work

Everson is active in supporting minority-language communities, especially in the fields of character encoding standardization and internationalization. In addition to being one of the primary contributing editors of the Unicode Standard, he is also a contributing editor to ISO/IEC 10646, registrar for ISO 15924, and subtag reviewer for BCP 47. He has contributed to the encoding of many scripts and characters in those standards, receiving the Unicode Bulldog Award in 2000 for his technical contributions to the development and promotion of the Unicode Standard. In 2004, Everson was appointed convenor of ISO TC46/WG3 (Conversion of Written Languages), which is responsible for transliteration standards.

Everson is one of the co-editors (along with Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler, and V.S. Umamaheswaran) of the Unicode roadmaps that detail actual and proposed allocations for current and future Unicode scripts and blocks.

On July 1, 2012, Everson was appointed to the Volapük Academy by the Cifal, Brian R. Bishop, for his work in Volapük publishing.

Encoding of scripts

Everson has been actively involved in the encoding of many scripts in the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards, including Avestan, Balinese, Bamum, Bassa Vah, Batak, Braille, Brāhmī, Buginese, Buhid, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Carian, Cham, Cherokee, Coptic, Cuneiform, Cypriot, Deseret, Duployan, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Elbasan, Ethiopic, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gothic, Hanunóo, Imperial Aramaic, Inscriptional Pahlavi, Inscriptional Parthian, Javanese, Kayah Li, Khmer, Lepcha, Limbu, Linear A, Linear B, Lycian, Lydian, Mandaic, Manichaean, Meitei Mayek, Mongolian, Myanmar, Nabataean, New Tai Lue, N'Ko, Ogham, Ol Chiki, Old Hungarian, Old Italic, Old North Arabian, Old Persian, Old South Arabian, Old Turkic, Osmanya, Palmyrene, Phaistos Disc, Phoenician, Rejang, Runic, Samaritan, Saurashtra, Shavian, Sinhala, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Le, Tai Tham, Thaana, Tibetan, Ugaritic, Vai, and Yi, as well as many characters belonging to the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts.

Encoding of symbols

Everson authored or co-authored proposals for many symbol characters for encoding into Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. Among those proposals submitted to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 that have been accepted and encoded: N2586R (U+267E ♾ PERMANENT PAPER SIGN and four other miscellaneous symbols admitted into Unicode 4.1), N3727 (the 26 Regional Indicator Symbols used in pairs to generate national flags in emoji contexts; adopted into Unicode 6.0), and N4783R2 (chess notation symbols encoded into Unicode 11.0).

Among proposals that have not yet been approved for encoding: N1866 (an early proposal for encoding Blissymbols into the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode; still listed in the SMP roadmap as of Unicode 15.0 although no further action had been taken on it for years).

Everson, along with Doug Ewell, Rebecca Bettencourt, Ricardo Bánffy, Eduardo Marín Silva, Elias Mårtenson, Mark Shoulson, Shawn Steele, and Rebecca Turner, is a contributor to the Terminals Working Group researching obscure characters found in legacy character sets used by home computers (or "microcomputers"), terminals, and other legacy devices made from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s; thanks to their proposal L2/19-025, 212 graphic characters for compatibility with MSX, Commodore 64, and other microcomputers of the era, as well as Teletext, were encoded in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block, while 731 additional characters from L2/21-235 have been accepted for a future version of the standard.

Font development

In 1995 he designed a Unicode font, Everson Mono, a monospaced typeface with more than 4,800 characters. This font was the third Unicode-encoded font to contain a large number of characters from many character blocks, after Lucida Sans Unicode and Unihan font (both 1993). In 2007 he was commissioned by the International Association of Coptic Studies to create a standard free Unicode 5.1 font for Coptic, Antinoou, using the Sahidic style.

Conscript Unicode Registry

Together with John Cowan, he is also responsible for the ConScript Unicode Registry, a project to coordinate the mapping of artificial scripts into the Unicode Private Use Area. Among the scripts "encoded" in the CSUR, Shavian and Deseret were eventually formally adopted into Unicode; two other conscripts under consideration are Tolkien's scripts of Tengwar and Cirth.

Language and locale information

Everson has also created locale and language information for many languages, from support for the Irish language and the other Celtic languages to the minority Languages of Finland. In 2000, together with Trond Trosterud, he co-authored Software localization into Nynorsk Norwegian, a report commissioned by the Norwegian Language Council. In 2003 he was commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme to prepare a report on the computer locale requirements for the major languages of Afghanistan (Pashto, Dari, and Uzbek), co-authored by Roozbeh Pournader, which was endorsed by the Ministry of Communications of the Afghan Transitional Islamic Administration. More recently, UNESCO's Initiative B@bel funded Everson's work to encode the N'Ko and Balinese scripts.

Work on a standard for Cornish

In 2007 he co-authored a proposal for a new standard written form of Cornish, called Kernowek Standard. Following the publication of the Standard Written Form in 2008, Everson and a group of other users examined the specification and implemented a set of modifications to it, publishing a formal specification in 2012.

Publishing at Evertype

As of March 2014 Everson operates a publishing company, Evertype, through which he has published a total of 295 books. These include a wide range of titles by various authors and editors, with Everson himself as co-author of one, editor of several, and having adapted or revised several more. He also designed fonts for several.

Everson has a particular interest in Gaelic typeface design, and does a considerable amount of work typesetting books in Irish for publication by Evertype.

Another project consists of his publications of translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in many languages, amongst which are minority languages and constructed languages. Translations are available in Cornish, Esperanto, French, German, Hawaiian, Irish, Italian, Jèrriais, Ladino, Latin, Lingua Franca Nova, Lingwa de planeta, Low German, Manx, Mennonite Low German, Borain Picard, Sambahsa, Scots, Shavian transliteration, Swedish, Ulster Scots and Welsh, with several other translations being prepared.

References

  1. ^ Erard, Michael (September 25, 2003). "For the World's ABC's, He Makes 1's and 0's". The New York Times. Retrieved May 23, 2008.
  2. Everson, Michael (January 27, 2007). "Papers formally submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2". Evertype.
  3. "Tenacity in religion, myth, and folklore". Evertype.com. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  4. "About Michael Everson". Evertype.com. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
  5. "ISO 15924 Registration Authority". ISO, Unicode, Inc., & Evertype. 2004. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  6. "The Bulldog Award". Unicode, Inc. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  7. "Roadmaps to Unicode". unicode.org.
  8. Archived January 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  9. Everson, Michael (March 19, 2009). "Papers formally submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 (Universal Character Set)". Evertype. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  10. "Proposal to encode five miscellaneous symbols in the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. September 4, 2003.
  11. "Proposal to encode Regional Indicator Symbols in the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. September 18, 2009.
  12. "Proposal to encode symbols for chess notation" (PDF). unicode.org. January 26, 2017.
  13. "Encoding Blissymbolics in Plane 1 of the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. September 10, 1998.
  14. "Roadmap to the SMP". unicode.org. April 9, 2023.
  15. "Proposal to add characters from legacy computers and teletext to the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. January 4, 2019.
  16. "Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 170". unicode.org. January 25, 2022.
  17. "Antinoou - A standard font for Coptic". Evertype. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  18. Everson, Michael (March 14, 1997). "Sami locales". Evertype. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  19. Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (July 29, 2003). "Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan" (PDF). Evertype.
  20. Lepage, Marc (April–June 2003). "Afghans beat language obstacle to entering digital age" (PDF). Poverty Alleviation Initiatives. 13 (2). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 12, 2006.
  21. "UNESCO B@bel Initiative". Portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on March 13, 2005. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  22. "Development of a Unicode standard for the West African Language N'ko". Multilingualism in Cyberspace. UNESCO. November 12, 2004. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
  23. Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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