Internationalization & Unicode Conference ICU 39
October 26-28, 2015 – Santa Clara, CA USA
From the webpage:
The Internationalization and Unicode® Conference (IUC) is the premier event covering the latest in industry standards and best practices for bringing software and Web applications to worldwide markets. This annual event focuses on software and Web globalization, bringing together internationalization experts, tools vendors, software implementers, and business and program managers from around the world.
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.
This highly rated conference features excellent technical content, industry-tested recommendations and updates on the latest standards and technology. Subject areas include web globalization, programming practices, endangered languages and un-encoded scripts, integrating with social networking software, and implementing mobile apps. This year’s conference will also highlight new features in Unicode and other relevant standards.
In addition, please join us in welcoming over 20 first-time speakers to the program! This is just another reason to attend; fresh talks, fresh faces, and fresh ideas!
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If you want your software to be an edge case and hard to migrate in the future, go ahead, don’t support Unicode. Unicode libraries exist in all the major and many minor programming languages. Not supporting Unicode isn’t simpler, it’s just dumber.
Sorry, I have been a long time follower of the Unicode work and an occasional individual member of the Consortium. Those of us old enough to remember pre-Unicode days want to lessen the burden of interchanging texts, not increase it.
Enjoy the conference!