Internationalization &
Unicode Conference

October 13-15, 2021, Santa Clara, CA U.S.A.

About Us

Unicode characters — A Global Standard to Support ALL the World’s Languages

For 30 years the Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC) has been the preeminent event highlighting the latest innovations and best practices of global and multilingual software providers. Join us in Santa Clara to promote your ideas and experiences working with natural languages, multicultural user interfaces, producing and supporting multinational and multilingual products, linguistic algorithms, applying internationalization across mobile and social media platforms, or advancements in relevant standards.

Keynote Speaker is Announced for IUC 45!

Gretchen McCulloch

Internet Linguist

Join us at IUC 45 as Keynote Speaker
Gretchen McCulloch presents: 

“Taking Playfulness Seriously – When Character Sets Are Used in Unexpected Ways.”

Gretchen is an internet linguist and author of the New York Times bestselling Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. She is the Resident Linguist at Wired and the co-creator of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. She lives in Montreal, but also on the internet.

Be A Sponsor

If your company sells, markets or promotes natural language products, multicultural user interfaces or multinational or multilingual products, services, applications or solutions, then you need to have a presence at our conference.

Be An Exhibitor

As part of the Internationalization & Unicode® Conference, there will be an exhibit area for vendors and service providers related to Unicode, the web, software and internationalization to demonstrate their products, services or research.

Acclaim for Unicode

"The world is a global village, trade crosses language barriers, and yet every one of us likes to feel comfortable within their own mother tongue. Unicode enabled us to give the local sense to every one of our users, while connecting the world of trade—which is the reason we will support Unicode in all of our products"
Shai Agassi
former Member SAP Executive Board
“The W3C was founded to develop common protocols to lead the evolution of the World Wide Web. The path W3C follows to making text on the Web truly global is Unicode. Unicode is fundamental to the work of the W3C; it is a component of W3C Specifications to the growing XML Family of specifications and beyond.”
sir tim berners-lee, kbe
Web Inventor and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)