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Call for Participation Reminder! - 44th Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - October 14-16, 2020
by Jim DeLaHunt March 9, 2021

March 9, 2021

Hello, UA Colleagues: I want to be sure this group sees the call for participation for the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference, which takes place this October 14-16, 2020, in Santa Clara, California, USA. Do you want to propose a talk? If so, the deadline is this Friday, March 6, in the UTC-8 timezone. Many of you know the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference. For those who don't, it is a gathering of those who define The Unicode Standard for text, as well as architects of fonts, text rendering, and beyond that into software engineering aspects of internationalisation and localisation. About 100% of the audience are solidly in favour of the values and goals of Universal Acceptance. However, much fewer than 100% know what the Universal Acceptance Group does, and what the current successes and obstacles are. I think Universal Acceptance should not be absent from this conference. If anyone has questions about this conference, I have been attending for many years, and I would be happy to answer them. Others on this list are probably even more expert than I am. Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada -------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:29:05 -0500 Message-Id: <202002202129.01KLT5NP015843(a)aquamarine.omg.org> From: Unicode Conference <programs(a)unicodeconference.org> Subject: Call for Participation Reminder! - 44th Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - October 14-16, 2020 IUC 44 Conference To see this message in your browser click *here <https://www.unicodeconference.org/e-marketing/IUC44-CfPReminder-02-20-20.htm>* Internationalization & Unicode Conference 44. October 14-16, 2020 - Santa Clara, CA U.S.A. *2 Weeks Left To Submit your Proposals For IUC 44!* The IUC 44 Program Committee invites you to submit your session, tutorial, or panel abstracts for the 44th Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC 44) in Santa Clara, California, October 14-16, 2020. Join other industry leaders as they map the future of internationalization, ignite new ideas, and showcase the latest technologies and best practices for creating, managing, and testing global, web, and multilingual software solutions. Be a leader. Direct the future of multilingual text and software internationalization! Submission types could include case studies, best practices, innovative technology, or evolving standards, to name a few. In addition, understanding the design of a development platform is often critical to implementing best practices in applications. The Internationalization and Unicode Conference seeks to offer technical tutorials on the internationalization capabilities and architecture of development platforms, including Mobile, Desktop, Cloud, and Virtual Operating Systems, Social Network Platforms, and Machine Translation and Machine Learning Systems. Please submit your proposals for presentations or tutorials by Friday, March 6, 2020. Submit Now! <https://www.unicodeconference.org/call-for-participation.htm> * *The Program Committee will notify authors by Friday, April 3, 2020. Speaker agreements and materials such as photos, bios and final presentation abstracts will be required from selected presenters by Friday, April 17, 2020. Tutorial Presenters receive complimentary conference registration, and two nights lodging, while Session Presenters receive a fifty percent conference discount and two nights lodging. Please visit our website to view examples of content from past conferences <https://www.unicodeconference.org/past-conferences.htm>. GOLD SPONSORS: Adobe <https://www.unicodeconference.org/adobe-banner> Google <https://fonts.google.com/> MEDIA SPONSOR: Multilingual <https://www.unicodeconference.org/ml-banner/> *About The Unicode Consortium* The Unicode®Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization standards. The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, Apple, Google, Government of Bangladesh, Government of India, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, The Society for Natural Language Technology Research, The University of California (Berkeley), The University of California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual members. 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RFC 8398 "Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 Certificates" implementation
by Dmitry Belyavsky Aug. 28, 2020

Aug. 28, 2020

Hi all, Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ is happy to announce a draft implementation of RFC 8398 "Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 Certificates" for OpenSSL: https://cctld.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=21240 The implementation and some test examples are available for download here: https://cctld.ru/files/books/EAI.pdf (in Russian) Direct links: Draft implementation - https://cctld.ru/files/eai/rfc8398.diff Test examples - https://cctld.ru/files/eai/root.tar.gz Instructions - https://cctld.ru/files/eai/README.8398 The implementation covers the following cases: - Displaying the EAI in X.509 certificates - Verifying NameConstraints in X.509 certificate chains of trust - Matching EAIs in X.509 with provided EAI. Feel free to test the patch and send feedback to pr(a)cctld.ru or to me directly. -- SY, Dmitry Belyavsky

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Universal Acceptance now on Wikipedia...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Acceptance
by Don Hollander July 9, 2020

July 9, 2020

A nice way to end a fairly productive year. Plans coming up: There will be a Universal Acceptance gathering on Monday the 8th of January in Hong Kong with the Hong Kong IT Community. This is being organised by .asia, ISOC HK and UASG. If you’ve not yet received an invitation but will be in Hong Kong that afternoon, please let me know and we’ll organise one. 15:00 - 18:00 at the Sheraton. The UASG Coordination Group will be meeting on Tuesday the 9th of January and the morning of the 10th if necessary, also in Hong Kong. The agenda will be out next week. Full remote participation will be available if there’s interest. There will be a meeting of EAI operators on the 11th and 12th in Guangzhou, China, hosted by Coremail and CNNIC. If you are an EAI practitioner and would like to participate and have not otherwise registered, please let me know. I expect that we’ll have remote participation facilities. The UASG is expecting another UA Workshop on Day 0 of the ICANN meeting in Puerto Rico as well as a public update session during the week. Dates and venues still to be confirmed. Happy New Year to everyone. If you’re out celebrating, please get home safe. Don Don Hollander Universal Acceptance Steering Group www.uasg.tech don.hollander(a)icann.org Skype: don_hollander

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New UA Resource: UASG027
by Jane Sexton June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020

Hi All – The UASG has just published UASG027<https://uasg.tech/wp-content/uploads/documents/UASG027-en-digital.pdf> – Country-Based Evaluation of Websites for Acceptance of Email Addresses in 2020. Please help promote and share on your channels if possible. @UASGTech: https://twitter.com/UASGTech/status/1260258814017728514?s=20 Best, Jane -- Jane Sexton Communications Coordinator, Global Domains Division Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mobile: +1 310 570 7293 Slack: jane.sexton www.icann.org<http://www.icann.org/>

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https://emailregex.com/
by Don Hollander May 21, 2020

May 21, 2020

Anyone know anything about this? Apparently it's not fit for purpose and should be either fixed or withdrawn. John: How's the universal regex going in the IETF? Hope everyone out there is OK. Here in New Zealand we are emerging from our bubbles. So far, so good. Don

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Microsoft Pulling Support for 27 Languages on iOS apps
by Michele Neylon - Blacknight May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

https://www.onmsft.com/news/no-more-urdu-irish-filipino-or-norwegian-outloo… -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com https://blacknight.blog / http://ceo.hosting/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park, Sleaty Road, Graiguecullen, Carlow, R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845

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ICANN new preview website and a chance to inquire about IDN use
by Mark Datysgeld May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

Hello everyone, ICANN has put up a preview of its new website, which among other things seeks to be compliant with accessibility guidelines and other must-haves in this day and age. You can find it here: https://preview.icann.org/ This brought back to my mind a point made by Dusan, that ICANN should drink its own beverage, and start using IDNs and nGTLDs. While I am not hopeful they would make that their main domain (out of fear of lack of UA), they could sure use them for regional outreach campaigns and such. The current goal on the Feedback portal is to exactly inquire about the website refresh: https://feedback.icann.org/ I would like to ask the group about its interest in giving them collective feedback, maybe as a letter, requesting something along these lines: please use the entire range of domains you enable, to show that UA is really a priority. Best regards, -- Mark W. Datysgeld from Governance Primer [www.markwd.website] In partnership with AR-TARC and the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES)

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EuroDIG session
by Roberto Gaetano May 17, 2020

May 17, 2020

Hi all. Some of you know already EuroDIG - it is a conference on Internet Governance that is held yearly, where different topics are discussed. This year it will be held fully online, from 10 to 12 June - details here<https://www.eurodig.org/index.php?id=76>. One session will touch on Universal Acceptance<https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Universal_Acceptance_%E2%80%93_a_technical_or_…> but with a slightly different point of view. We would like to explore all aspects of “diversity” on the Internet that are related to language or script that can be a source of difficulties for the end users, ultimately reducing the ability for some people to access or to fully benefit from the Internet. The main point is that although there is a large technical component in Universal Acceptance - or the lack thereof - there is also a non negligible cultural factor. We would like to explore issues like multilingualism and local content on the Internet, ask ourselves whether this is in some way related to Universal Acceptance in the “classical” sense - i.e. the problems with some applications of the DNS - but also what are the impacts on, e.g., search engines or social media. To make an example, one question might be whether the search engines are affected by - and whether they take into account in the algorithms - cultural diversity. We believe that the discussion would benefit from the participation of experts that can describe how search engines, social platforms, or other applications that run “over” the fabrics of the Internet are affected by these cultural aspects. Can anybody in this group propose some points for discussion - or volunteer to give a presentation at EuroDIG? Thanks, Roberto

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Safe and Healthy - New Normal.
by Ajay Data May 16, 2020

May 16, 2020

Hello Everyone We all are witnessing a unique situation and trying to deal as New Normal. I hope that you and your family are safe and healthy. UASG is having our regular calls, virtual meetings going on for all WGs and our focus is also shifting to finalise New year's stretegic plan while reviewing what we have achieved till now. Thank you everyone for contributing to UASG. UASG is also going to have one session in ICANN68 and you will see that soon in ICANN Schedule. We will soon have our UA Community Update call. You will hear from me again soon. Just wanted to reach out to all of you to convey my wishes for staying healthy and safe. Beat wishes Dr. Ajay Data -- Sent from my Android device with XGen Email.

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[FYI] UA tutorial at IUC 44 conference [was: Unicode 44 - Save the Date!]
by Jim DeLaHunt May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020

UA Colleagues: The program for the 44th Internationalization and Unicode Conference <https://www.unicodeconference.org/program.htm> has just been published, and I'm glad to be able to share with you that there is a Universal Acceptance talk included. It is the tutorial, /"Email Addresses and Domain Names are NON-Latin! Now What?" It will be an introduction to UA, IDNs, and EAI people who don't know much about any of them./ /More details at the link above, or in the email below./ /Best regards, —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada/ -------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 08:02:47 -0600 Subject: Unicode 44 - Save the Date! From: Mike Narducci <mike(a)omg.org> Reply-To: mike(a)omg.org To: IUC 43 Conference To see this message in your browser click *here <https://go.omgprograms.org/e/658223/eting-IUC44-Program-051020-htm/2j57xy/1…>* Internationalization & Unicode Conference 44. October 14-16, 2020 - Santa Clara, CA U.S.A. *Program Announced - Register Today!* Join Us At IUC 44! *Trained, Tested, Trusted:* Understand best practices in process and among teams reliably delivering high quality global products. Examine how developers build, test, and deploy great global products. Explore technologies for design, localization, multilingual testing, workflow management, and content management. *Expert practitioners and industry leaders* present detailed recommendations for businesses looking to expand to new international markets and those seeking to improve time to market and cost-efficiency of supporting existing markets. Recent conferences have provided specific advice on designing software for European countries, Latin America, China, India, Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and emerging markets. For over 29 years the Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC) has been the preeminent event highlighting the latest innovations and best practices of global and multilingual software providers. Join us in Santa Clara to promote your ideas and experiences working with natural languages, multicultural user interfaces, producing and supporting multinational and multilingual products, linguistic algorithms, applying internationalization across mobile and social media platforms, or advancements in relevant standards. *Track and Session Topics to Include:* * Architecture * Emojis * Internationalization * Localization * Case Studies * ICU/CLDR * Language Sustainability * Scripts Submit Now! <https://go.omgprograms.org/e/658223/2020-05-13/2j57y1/114971948?h=vBaWiYwlr…> GOLD SPONSORS: Adobe <https://go.omgprograms.org/e/658223/adobe-banner/2j57y7/114971948?h=vBaWiYw…> Google <https://go.omgprograms.org/e/658223/2020-05-13/2j57y9/114971948?h=vBaWiYwlr…> MEDIA SPONSOR: Multilingual <https://go.omgprograms.org/e/658223/ml-banner-/2j57yc/114971948?h=vBaWiYwlr…> *About The Unicode Consortium* The Unicode® Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization standards. 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