Date:         Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:52:10 -0400
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Subject:      Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 -- pre-order at special price
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Unicode Version 5.0 Pre-orders Now Accepted

Mountain View, CA, September 18, 2006 -- The Unicode(R) Consortium
announces that pre-orders of Version 5.0 of the Unicode Standard can be
made now through the Unicode Consortium's website. As a special
introductory offer, The Unicode Guide -- the handy tri-fold developer's
reference guide -- will be included with the Version 5.0 book at a combined
price of $40.00 for both. This offer will expire on October 15, 2006.

Published in a lighter, smaller size, Version 5.0 also includes for the
first time the Unicode Standard Annexes, which specify key processes for
ensuring reliable text interchange between programs and on the web.

Based on fifteen years of experience, this new version is a major update
which supersedes and obsoletes all previous versions of the standard. It
has hundreds of pages of new material and hundreds more of revised
material, including significant revisions to text, figures, tables,
definitions, and conformance clauses -- improving clarity and providing
practical guidance. "Hardcopy versions of the Unicode Standard have been
among the most crucial and most-heavily used reference books in my personal
library for year," said Donald E. Knuth, Professor Emeritus of The Art of
Computer Programming, Stanford University. "Unicode allows me to celebrate
the fact that computer science is a vast worldwide collaboration." For more
acclaim from industry notables, see
http://www.unicode.org/press/quotations.html.

Unicode Version 5.0 has become the basis for Microsoft's Vista generation
of operating systems, and is included in upgrade plans for Google, Yahoo!,
and ICU, to name but a few. This comprehensive and official Unicode
reference manual is the one book all developers using Unicode must have.
See the Unicode Consortium's website at
http://www.unicode.org/book/aboutbook.html for all the details.
The latest features of Unicode Version 5.0 will be showcased at the 30th
Internationalization and Unicode Conference
(http://www.unicodeconference.org/) from November 17-19, 2006 in
Washington, D.C.

About The Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop,
extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization
standards.

The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of
corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing
industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, Basis Technology,
Denic e.G., Google, Government of India, Government of Pakistan, HP, IBM,
Justsystems, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, UC Berkeley,
Yahoo! and over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual members.

For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
(http://www.unicode.org/contacts.html.)