Editing Unicode (section)

=== Unicode Consortium ===
{{Main|Unicode Consortium}}

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization that coordinates Unicode's development. Full members include most of the main computer software and hardware companies (and few others) with any interest in text-processing standards, including [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], [[Google]], [[IBM]], [[Meta Platforms|Meta]] (previously as Facebook), [[Microsoft]], [[Netflix]], and [[SAP]].<ref name="members">{{Cite web |title=The Unicode Consortium Members |url=https://unicode.org/consortium/members.html |access-date=12 February 2024}}</ref>

Over the years several countries or government agencies have been members of the Unicode Consortium.<ref name="members" />

The Consortium has the ambitious goal of eventually replacing existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) schemes, as many of the existing schemes are limited in size and scope and are incompatible with [[multilingualism|multilingual]] environments.