PRI #280: UTR #23, The Unicode Character Property Model

UTR #23, The Unicode Character Property Model, is being updated, to bring it back into synchronization with the latest release of the Unicode Standard. All citations to definitions from the conformance section of the standard have been corrected, and references to the standard have been updated from Version 5.0 to Version 7.0.

Reviewers of the proposed update of this document are invited to check the rest of the content and to make suggestions for improvement of the text.

The closing date for this issue is October 20, 2014. For information about how to discuss this Public Review Issue and how to supply formal feedback, please see the feedback and discussion instructions on the PRI page.

PRI #279: Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

The proposed update for Unicode 8.0 addresses three issues where the bidirectional algorithm, as written, did not produce the intended results in certain specific cases. Details and justification for the proposed changes to the specification are in a background document accessible from the PRI page.

The closing date for this issue is October 20, 2014. For information about how to discuss this issue and how to supply formal feedback, please see the feedback and discussion instructions on the PRI page.

The Public Review Issues index page is: http://www.unicode.org/review/

New Publication Schedule for The Unicode Standard

The Unicode Consortium has changed its publication schedule for versions of the Unicode Standard. Starting with the recent Version 7.0, a new major version of the Unicode Standard will be published each year in June.

This new schedule provides reliability and predictability for all software using Unicode. Implementers can now plan well ahead for the appearance of each new version.

Look for Unicode 8.0 in June of 2015.