What began in 1988 as a standard for character encoding has grown into a powerful portfolio of open source standards, code, tools, libraries, and products that ensure global language support, interoperability, and resiliency across billions of devices.

Behind what most take for granted on screens today is the Unicode Consortium, the non- profit open source, open standards body for the internationalization of software and services. Unicode is embedded in every major operating system and used on more than 20 billion devices worldwide. It may be the most widely deployed technology ever.