The Unicode Consortium is the organization that develops the 
Unicode standard. It is an organization open to any company or individual willing to pay the membership dues. Members include virtually all of the main computer software and hardware companies with any interest in 
text processing standards, such as 
Apple Computer, 
Microsoft, 
IBM, 
Xerox, 
HP, 
Adobe Systems and many others.
 
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