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Coordinates: 37°24′42″N 122°04′15″W / 37.411759°N 122.070958°W / 37.411759; -122.070958

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Organization maintaining the Unicode Standard

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Lee Collins

Mark Davis

Founded atCalifornia, USTypeNon-profit consortiumTax ID no. 77-0269756[1]Legal status501(c)(3)[1] California nonprofit benefit corporationPurpose"To develop, extend and promote use of various standards, data, and open source software libraries which specify the representation of text in modern software[,] ... allowing data to be shared across multiple platforms, languages and countries without corruption"[2]Coordinates37°24′42″N 122°04′15″W / 37.411759°N 122.070958°W / 37.411759; -122.070958[[Geographic coordinate system|Coordinates]]: {{#parsoid\u0000fragment:15}}[https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Unicode_Consortium&params=37.411759_N_122.070958_W_ 37°24′42″N 122°04′15″W&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;37.411759°N 122.070958°W&#xfeff; / 37.411759; -122.070958][[Category:Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas]]"}}'/>Key people

Toral Cowieson (CEO)

Mark Davis (CTO & Cofounder; CLDR-TC Chair)

Anne Gundelfinger (Vice President and General Counsel)

Greg Welch (Vice President of Marketing)

Iris Orriss (Treasurer)

Ayman Aldahleh (Secretary)[3]

Revenue$467,576[2] (2018)Expenses$470,257[2] (2018)Employees3[2] (2018)Volunteers10[2] (2018)Websitehome.unicode.org

The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc. ) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S.[4] 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 multilingual environments.

Unicode's success at unifying character sets has led to its...