Program
Note: Tutorial Day (Tuesday, Nov. 11) is available only for those who are registered to attend the Tutorial Day. Attending UTW workshop sessions on Wednesday, Nov. 12 and Thursday, Nov. 13 also requires registration.
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9:00 - 9:20 Unicode |
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Introduction to Internationalization and Unicode Internationalization Technologies 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial Internationalization |
Demystifying Unicode Text Display: From Unicode Code Points to Positioned Glyphs 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial Scripts & Encoding Fonts |
9:30 - 11:00 Break |
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| 11:00 |
11:00 - 11:30
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11:00 - 11:30
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11:30 - 13:00 Tutorial Internationalization ICU/CLDR |
Making Fonts for Unicode: Tools, Workflows, and Quality Assurance 11:30 - 13:00 Tutorial Fonts |
11:30 - 13:00 Break |
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13:00 - 14:00
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| 14:00 |
14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial Internationalization ICU/CLDR |
Bidirectional Text and UI: A Tutorial 14:00 - 15:30 Tutorial Internationalization |
14:00 - 15:30 Break |
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| 9:00 |
9:00 - 9:15 Unicode |
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From Clay to Code: The Story of Encoding 9:15 - 10:15 Keynote Unicode |
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10:15 - 11:00 Networking |
10:15 - 11:00 Networking |
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| 11:00 |
11:00 - 11:20
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Advances in ICU4X: Now in Chrome and Android 11:20 - 12:00 ICU/CLDR Internationalization |
Behind the Curtain: The Unicode Technical Committee Debbie Anderson, Peter Constable, Jennifer Daniel, Ken Lunde, Markus Scherer 11:20 - 12:00 ICU/CLDR Unicode Scripts & Encoding Fonts |
Scaling Up Digital Inclusion: Summer 2025 Report from SILICON @ Stanford Daniel Argento, Samantha Leventis, Diana Bernabe 11:20 - 12:00 ICU/CLDR Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Emoji |
11:20 - 12:00 Break |
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| 12:00 |
12:00 - 13:00
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12:00 - 13:00
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Grammatical Agreement with Unicode Inflection 13:00 - 13:40 Internationalization Localization |
An Accidental Map of the History of Writing 13:00 - 13:40 Fonts Scripts & Encoding |
Contributing to CLDR: How You Can Make a Difference 13:00 - 13:40 ICU/CLDR Localization |
13:00 - 14:30 Break |
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13:50 - 14:30 Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Fonts |
Experiences and Challenges in Migrating Academic Documents and Dictionaries to Unicode Stephen Morey, Craig Cornelius 13:50 - 14:30 Scripts & Encoding |
Quechua and Community-Led Transcreation 13:50 - 14:30 Digitally Disadvantaged Languages |
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14:30 - 14:50
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14:30 - 14:50
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14:30 - 14:50
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No Spaces? No Problem! Segmenting Complex Scripts with Machine Learning 14:50 - 15:30 ICU/CLDR Internationalization |
Guidelines for Handling Unstandardized and Undeciphered Scripts in Unicode 14:50 - 15:30 Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Scripts & Encoding |
Using AI to Create Keyboard Layouts 14:50 - 15:30 Keyboards AI/ML Digitally Disadvantaged Languages |
14:50 - 17:10 Break |
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15:40 - 16:20 ICU/CLDR Internationalization |
Assessing a Script's Unicode Readiness Anushah Hossain, Helena Kansa, Kyra Dawkins 15:40 - 16:20 Scripts & Encoding |
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Links with Non-ASCII: Unicode Detection and Display 16:30 - 17:10 ICU/CLDR Internationalization |
Capturing Script Dynamism: The Indic Case 16:30 - 17:10 Scripts & Encoding |
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17:30 - 18:30 Networking |
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| #I0 | Portage Theater | EQI | FOX | GYR |
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Automated I18n Quality for Enterprise Platforms 9:00 - 9:40 Testing & Quality AI/ML Internationalization Localization |
9:00 - 9:40 Keyboards ICU/CLDR |
9:00 - 10:30 Break |
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Why Did We Build Our Own Cross-Platform I18n SDKs for TikTok? Zhongjun Ge, Phil Song, Frank Yao 9:50 - 10:30 Internationalization |
Reducing Barriers for CLDR Contributors: Introducing Homescreen and MokBlok Tyler Abernethy, Alyssa Hoang, Neev Seedani 9:50 - 10:30 Internationalization Digitially Disadvantaged Languages |
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10:30 - 10:50
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10:30 - 10:50
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10:30 - 10:50
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Unicode AMA: Specs, Data, and Code for Characters and Text, Languages and Locales 10:50 - 11:30 ICU/CLDR Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Internationalization Scripts & Encoding Emoji Fonts |
Understanding the Language Data Landscape to Make Informed Decisions 10:50 - 11:30 ICU/CLDR Digitally Disadvantaged Languages |
10:50 - 12:20 Break |
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Ritika Mathur, Nitin Choweth Vijayakumar 11:40 - 12:20 Testing & Quality AI/ML Localization |
The Shape of Feeling: Designing Emoji for Everyone 11:40 - 12:20 Emoji |
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13:40 - 14:20
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14:40 - 15:20
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15:30 - 16:10 Unicode |
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16:10 - 16:50 Lightning Talks |
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16:50 - 17:00 Unicode |