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Lee Collins
Lee Collins at a meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 at Redmond, Washington in June 2019
OccupationSoftware engineer
Known forDeveloping the Unicode Standard

Lee Collins is a software engineer and co-founder of the Unicode Consortium. In 1987, along with Joe Becker and Mark Davis they began to develop what is today known as Unicode.[1] Collins has a Master of Arts in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University[2][3] and was the Technical Vice President of Unicode Consortium from 1991 to 1993.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Early Years of Unicode". www.unicode.org. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. ^ "IMUG Events 2014 :: Unicode, TAUS, L20n, T9n Crowdsourcing, Google XL8, L10n Process, G11n Strategy, and more". www.imug.org. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Emoji lords to release 67 new symbols". ABC Australia. 24 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Previous Officers and Staff". www.unicode.org. Retrieved 12 December 2020.

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