Unicode: History


1986-88basic design of Unicode at Xerox, Apple
Dec. 1987first use of term "Unicode"
1988,89Kanji-Unification work
1990major players like Sun, IBM join
Jan 1991founding of Unicode, Inc.
Oct 1991Unicode 1.0
Jun 1993Unicode 1.1 - merge with ISO/IEC 10646
Jul 1996Unicode 2.0 - extention of character space
May 1998Unicode 2.1.2 - add Euro symbol
Sep 1999Unicode 3.0 - clarify encodings and properties
Mar 2001Unicode 3.1 - add many more characters
Mar 2002Unicode 3.2 - conformance tight up