"Unicode enabled us to give the local sense to ... our users..." — Shai Agassi

"Unicode 5.0 is a lifeline for scholars..." — Deborah Anderson

"Unicode is fundamental to the work of the W3C..." — Sir Tim Berners-Lee

"Unicode ... has become an essential component of world literacy..." — Charles Bigelow

"Embrace Unicode, don’t fight it..." — Tim Bray

"[Unicode] helps Google accomplish its mission." — Vint Cerf

"Unicode est la contribution la plus importante de ces dernières années..." — Bernard Desgraupes

"Version 5.0 is a great milestone for the Unicode Standard..." — Bill Gates

"Without Unicode, Java wouldn’t be Java..." — James Gosling

"Unicode... is already a key standard for internationalization." — Nick Jones

"...Unicode has underscored the Internet’s truly global character." — Brendan Kehoe

"For ... research in the field of ancient Greek, Unicode is a godsend..." — Donald J. Mastronarde

"Unicode... is a solid foundation for e-business in a global economy." — Steve Mills

"... ensuring computers worldwide work seamlessly in everyone’s language." — Larry Page

"Unicode 5.0 ... a new milestone in the definition of the standard." — Bertrand Serlet

"Unicode... the most widely adopted software standard in the world..." — Richard Mark Soley

"Justsystems ... welcomes the publication of Version 5.0." — Kazunori Ukigawa

"Modern programs must handle Unicode..." — Guido van Rossum

"Unicode is marvellous." — John Wells

"Unicode marks the most significant advance in writing systems since the Phoenicians." — James J. O’Donnell

"Unicode... one of the most important global standards in digital typography." — Charles Bigelow

"UTF-8 [is the IETF’s] preferred default character encoding..." — Brian E. Carpenter

"Javaコミュニティーの一員として、私はユニコード標準第5版の刊行を大いに歓迎する。" — 風間一洋

"As a member of the Java community, I greatly welcome Unicode 5.0." — Kazuhiro Kazama

"...the best tool I know to help bring understanding between people of different cultures." — Donald. E. Knuth

"...will likely impact the way the world interchanges information for centuries to come." — Joel Lee

"...respecting the diversity of traditions and cultures." — Shigeki Moro

"ユニコードを基盤技術とすることにより、将来の仏教研究は急速に発展することを確信する。" — 師茂樹

"...future research in Buddhist studies will rapidly develop based on Unicode infrastructure." — Shigeki Moro

"Unicode 5.0 provides the characters required by the Japanese e-government." — Makoto Murata

"Unicode is a vital part of the effort to make computing global." — Rob Pike

"... for truly international communication and commerce." — Guy L. Steele Jr.

"...for over a decade Japanese computer users have enjoyed the benefits of Unicode..." — Kazunori Ukigawa

"Apple has been supporting Unicode since the beginning..." — Bertrand Serlet

"...we will support Unicode in all of our products." — Shai Agassi

"The path W3C follows to making text on the Web truly global is Unicode." — Sir Tim Berners-Lee

"...Unicode plays a central role in [Google’s] efforts..." — Vint Cerf