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{{Short description|Nonprofit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode Standard}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox organization
| logo = New Unicode logo.svg
| type = Non-profit [[consortium]]
| key_people = {{plain list|
* Toral Cowieson (CEO)
* [[Mark Davis (Unicode)|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)<ref>{{Cite web | title=Unicode Executive Officers | url=https://unicode.org/consortium/execofficers.html | publisher=Unicode Consortium | access-date=February 2, 2023 }}</ref>
}}
| name = Unicode Consortium
| native_name = Unicode, Inc.
| founders = {{flatlist|
* [[Joe Becker (Unicode)|Joe Becker]]
* [[Lee Collins (Unicode)|Lee Collins]]
* [[Mark Davis (Unicode)|Mark Davis]]
}}
| formation={{start date and age|1991|01|03}}
| founding_location = [[California]], US
| logo_size = 200px
| location_city = [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]], [[California]], US
| coordinates = {{coords|37.411759|-122.070958|display=inline, title}}
| status = [[501(c)(3) organization|501(c)(3)]]<ref name= irseos>{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=824279&ein=770269756&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchAll&isDescending=false&city=&ein1=&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=&sortColumn=orgName&totalResults=2&names=Unicode&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&state=All+States |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809131147/https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=824279&ein=770269756&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchAll&isDescending=false&city=&ein1=&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=&sortColumn=orgName&totalResults=2&names=Unicode&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&state=All+States |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |title=Tax Exempt Organization Search |website=[[Internal Revenue Service]] |access-date=February 5, 2020 |date=Sep 6, 2019 }}</ref> California [[nonprofit organization|nonprofit]] [[benefit corporation]]
| tax_id = 77-0269756<ref name= irseos/>
| employees = 3<ref name= 990-2018>"[https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/770269756_201812_990_2019080516545314.pdf Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Tax] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205213711/https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/770269756_201812_990_2019080516545314.pdf |date=February 5, 2020 }}". ''Unicode, Inc.'' [[Internal Revenue Service]]. December 31, 2018.</ref> 
| employees_year = 2018
| volunteers = 10<ref name= 990-2018/>
| volunteers_year = 2018
| revenue = $467,576<ref name= 990-2018/>
| revenue_year = 2018
| expenses = $470,257<ref name= 990-2018/>
| expenses_year = 2018
| purpose = "To develop, extend and promote use of various standards, data, and open source software libraries which specify the representation of text in modern software[,]&nbsp;... allowing data to be shared across multiple platforms, languages and countries without corruption"<ref name= 990-2018/> 
| website = {{official URL}}
| sec_gen = 
}}

The '''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. 

Unicode's success at unifying character sets has led to its widespread adoption in the [[internationalization and localization]] of [[software]].<ref>{{cite news|title=How will you type the new Rupee symbol?|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/how-will-you-type-the-new-rupee-symbol/126739-11.html|newspaper=IBNLive|date=July 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718220112/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/how-will-you-type-the-new-rupee-symbol/126739-11.html|archive-date=July 18, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The standard has been implemented in many technologies, including [[XML]], the [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]], [[Swift (programming language)|Swift]], and modern [[operating system]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Strings and Characters|url=https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/StringsAndCharacters.html|website=The Swift Programming Language (Swift 4.1)|publisher=Apple|access-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref>

Members are usually but not limited to computer software and hardware companies with an interest in text-processing standards,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/2018/10/5/17938428/bagel-emoji-apple-controversy|title=Tacos, dumplings, bagels: the complicated politics of food emoji|last=Sugar|first=Rachel|work=Vox|access-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref> including [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], the [[Bangladesh Computer Council]], [[Emojipedia]], [[Meta Platforms|Facebook]], [[Google]], [[IBM]], [[Microsoft]], the [[Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs (Oman)|Omani Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs]], [[Monotype Imaging]], [[Netflix]], [[Salesforce]], [[SAP|SAP SE]], [[Tamil Virtual Academy]], and the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref>{{cite web
| title = The Unicode Consortium Members
| url = https://www.unicode.org/consortium/members.html
| access-date =2021-10-23|publisher=Unicode, Inc.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.unicode.org/2015/09/facebook-joins-as-full-member-of.html|title=Facebook Joins as Full Member of the Unicode Consortium|date=September 15, 2015|author=Unicode, Inc.|website=The Unicode Blog|access-date=August 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/emoji-contenders-2019-include-mixed-race-couples-sloth/story?id=58741335|title=Emoji contenders for 2019 include mixed-race couples, a sloth and wheelchairs|last=Pelletiere|first=Nicole|date=October 25, 2018|website=ABC News|language=en|access-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref> Technical decisions relating to the [[Unicode Standard]] are made by the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC).<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3718|title=A Summary of Unicode Consortium Procedures, Policies, Stability, and Public Access|last=McGowan|first=R.|website=tools.ietf.org|date=February 2004|doi=10.17487/RFC3718 |language=en|access-date=April 5, 2018|url-access=subscription}}</ref>