Unicode and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 (Universal Character Set)

Unicode is the industrial implementation standard for the Universal Character Set; Michael Everson is one of the authors and editors of The Unicode Standard version 3.0.

WG2 is the ISO/IEC working group responsible for the Universal Character Set; Michael Everson is Irish national representative to this working group, and is a Contributing Editor of ISO/IEC 10646.

Most of the papers linked from here are proposals to augment the International Standard with new scripts and characters.

• Formal proposal documents and other papers submitted to JTC1/SC2/WG2 and the Unicode Technical Committee
• Informal discussion documents not yet submitted JTC1/SC2/WG2 and the Unicode Technical Committee
• Roadmaps to Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
  
• Leaks in the Unicode Pipeline: Script, Script, Script... Paper given at the 21st International Unicode Conference, Dublin, May 2002.
• Archive of earlier WG2 papers. An archive of papers which are either no longer active, or which have been superceded by events (such as sending Canadian Syllabics and Cherokee out for ballotting).
• ISO/IEC TR 15285 - An operational model for characters and glyphs.

• ConScript Unicode Registry. A registry which coordinates the assignment of blocks out of the Private Use Zone to constructed/artificial scripts, including scripts for constructed/artificial languages. (Nothing in the CSUR has any official status of any kind, but it is fun.)