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Unicode Enabled Products

About this List

This page contains a sample list of products that are reported to be fully (or partially) Unicode-enabled. To see the exact degree of Unicode support for any particular product, click on the link (if available) or contact the manufacturer (you may be able to get a link from the Unicode members page). More products are being Unicode-enabled all the time, so this list is not in any way complete.

The Unicode Consortium staff receives many questions from the public about products that support the Unicode Standard. This list is provided solely for public information and does not imply any endorsement by the Consortium. Links on this page are provided by the respective companies, and the Consortium bears no responsibility for their content or correctness.

The products are grouped into rough areas, and sorted alphabetically within each group. The latest available version of each product is assumed; in some cases it is a forthcoming product.

Refer to FAQ for additional information or to  Useful Resources  for a number of external references pertaining to Unicode and Internationalization.

If you have any updates to this list, please contact the Unicode office. This should include:

  • Category (listed in the left navigation bar under "Contents")
  • Manufacturer
  • Product name and version number
  • URL for a page describing the product's Unicode support

Databases and Repositories

Fonts and Printing Software

Internationalization Libraries

  • Alis Batam
  • Basis Technology Euclid
    Scalable engine determining the encoding and language of text with no encoding or language tags. Supports most European, Arabic and Asian encodings.
  • Basis Technology Rosette
    Cross-platform, high-performance, C++ Unicode library available in source or SDK. Enables globalization of Web, desktop and embedded applications. Supports over 150 legacy encodings. Provides text transformations, normalization, collation. Thread-safe.
  • Celios version 1.0
  • Delphi Fundamentals Code Library
    by Fundamentals Open-Source Project
  • DIConverters 1.9.1 by The Delphi Inspiration / Ralf Junker New
    The converters-only version of the libiconv character set conversion library for Delphi 2-7.
  • ElPack Version 3.0 by Eldos Corporation
  • Genesis 11
  • IBM ICU
    Portable, open-source C/C++ Unicode library with: charset-independent locales (and multiple locales simultaneously supported in same thread); character conversions; formatting/parsing for numbers, currencies, date/time and messages; message catalogs (resources); transliteration, collation, normalization; text boundaries (grapheme, word, line-break)), etc.
  • IBM ICU4j
    Open-source Java Unicode library with extensions to the core Java internationalization libraries: enhanced number formatting and parsing; customizable BreakIterators; additional Calendars (Japanese, Buddhist, Hebrew, Islamic); Business Holidays; Normalizer; optimized international searching; UnicodeSet and Transliteration; SCSU; etc.
  • Kazan Unicode C Standard library Kazan UNIX Unicode Library is an open-source library of functions that extends the standard C runtime library and provides Unicode support for a range of Unix platforms.
  • Lextek Language Identifier by Lextek International
    Portable engine for automatically identifying what language and encoding a document or piece of text is. Supports and detects Unicode 16Bit Big Endian, 16 Bit Little Endian, UTF-8, and numerous 8 bit character sets for well over 200 languages -- far more than any other language identifier.
  • Libiconv
    This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
  • Lionbridge
  • Nigeria Library
    open-source (GPL) C library for character set conversion, collation, and string processing by Bionic Buffalo Corporation.
  • SDL International
  • SimulTrans
  • Tk is a UI toolkit that is used by several languages and which takes advantage of the Unicode features
  • Troll Tech QT V2.0 and up
  • Unicode support library for Borland Delphi version 2.0
    by Dipl. Ing. Mike Lischke
  • WorldPoint
  • xIUA by X.Net, Inc. is an open source software package for Unicode enabling

Operating Systems

Programming Languages, IDEs

  • Ada 95
  • CLISP Common Lisp, version 2000-03-00
  • An implementation of the Common Lisp language with useful information about Encoding
  • Exchanger XML Editor version 1.2 New
  • GAWK 3.0.3
  • Java
  • JavaScript (ECMAScript)
  • IBM APL2
  • Led C++ class library by Sophist Solutions, Inc.
  • Lingscape Multilanguage Designer/Suite
  • Microsoft VJ++, Visual Studio 7.0 (forthcoming), Visual Basic
  • oXygen XML editor version 1.2, an XML editor in Java, supports XML, XSD, XSL and DTD. Offers validation for XML, XSD, DTD and XSL. Features XSLT transformation, Unicode support, FOP support, browser preview, automatic DTD generation, syntax highlight and code insight.
  • Perl started to support Unicode in release 5.6, but for robust Unicode support the release 5.8.0 (or later) is recommended. Perl is available for several platforms.
  • Python by Python Software Foundation is an open-source object-oriented programming language. Unicode support was added in version 1.6 and is being maintained in all later versions. The current version is Python 2.2 which supports Unicode 3.0; Python 2.3 will follow in a few months with support for Unicode 3.2.
  • SoftQuad XMetaL 2.1
  • Sybase Support for Unicode
  • Tcl 8.1+ contains transparent support for Unicode and supports most major encodings. Tk also has full support for displaying Unicode across platforms, including support for Windows IME and Unix XIM in 8.3+.
  • UniEdit DLL
  • xmlBlueprint XML Editor version 2.2 - The fast, easy to use XML editor for Windows developers.
    xmlBlueprint makes editing XML faster, easier, and more enjoyable. Features include: Unicode aware text editing; validation of any DTD, XML Schema or XML Document against its DTD or XML Schema; XML layout tidying; real-time XML coloring; context-sensitive XML dropdown tips; identification of XML dialects by their namespace; XML tree explorer; unlimited undo/redo.
  • XML Spy 3.0 from Icon Information-Systems GmbH
  • Zaval Creative Engineering Group Java Resource Editor, v1.1

Standards

  • Unicode and ISO 10646 are synchronized in character repertoire and code point assignments
  • Unicode is required by the new technologies coming from the W3C, IETF and OMG; including XML, XHTML, XSL, LDAP, CORBA 3.0, etc.
  • The Unicode Collation Algorithm (UTR #10) is synchronized with ISO 14651
  • WAP-Forum WML

Other Systems and Products

  • 123Buildit Online Shopping Cart System by Yu-Jian-Yo Language Services, Ltd. (Victoria, Canada)
  • Alis, Gist-in-time
  • AltaVista
  • B & E Software Product RagTime 4 supports Unicode (exchange editable documents between English, French, German and Japanese versions)
  • BabelMap Version 1.0.1.0 A Unicode Character Map utility for Windows that allows the user to select and copy any character in Unicode 3.2.
  • BabelPad Version 1.0.1.0 (forthcoming) A Unicode text editor for Windows, with input methods for the Tibetan and Yi scripts. Includes a Character Map utility to allow input of any Unicode 3.2 character. Supports UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 file formats.
  • Basis Technology C2C
    Dictionary-based tool for conversion between the two modern Chinese scripts: traditional and simplified. The traditional Chinese script is used primarily in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the simplified script is used primarily in Mainland China (PRC) and Singapore.
  • Basis Technology Morphological Analyzers
    Cross-platform, high-performance, text segmentation engines for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Available in source or SDK. Provides dictionary-based segmentation for information retrieval and other text processing needs.
  • BBEdit 6.5 offered by Bare Bones Software, Inc. provides support for reading and writing files in UTF8 and UTF16 format, with and without BOM (with preferred and by default), and in Little Endian or Big Endian (BE preferred and by default) format.
  • The Big Faceless PDF Library is a Java class library for creating PDF documents. It supports Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and most other languages providing an appropriate font is available. Several examples are available showing multilingual text.
  • Brio Software SQR Server (Brio Reports) versions 6.0 - 8++
  • Chinese Star 3.0
  • dtSearch Known for its "industrial-strength text searching" (PC Magazine), the dtSearch product line includes end-user, enterprise and developer products for instantly searching gigabytes of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet site (or publishing large document collections to Web sites or CD/DVDs).
  • E2db Server V1.0 by Interkonect Services UK Ltd. New
  • E-Learning Engine 1.2 by Lightningseed Technologies, Inc.
  • EmEditor V3 is a text editor for Windows that fully supports Unicode. Users can edit Unicode files with multiple languages. EmEditor has code page detection capability, and can detect "charset=..." (HTML) as well as "encoding=..." (XML). It can also save Unicode character as HTML/XML character reference.
  • Ericsson A, R and T series mobile phones
  • EventReporter Version 5.1 offered by Adiscon GmbH, allows monitoring of Windows NT/2000/XP event logs and forwarding them to a syslog daemon or email recipient. It allows centralization of NT administration. A Unicode support url is also provided.
  • Extended Name Services, Inc. XTNS devises and sells Multilingual domain names which are resolved using Unicode via the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser. Our system, with our upstream partners Realnames and Microsoft, is fully Unicode based and permits us to create, resolve and sell Domain Names in just about any language in the world. Our system can also handle ACE translations of the Unicode strings, and each Domain Name is logged in both Unicode and ACE in our WhoIs database and within our universal name servers.
  • FriBidi library a fully compliant (3.2) portable free library implementing the Unicode BiDirectional Algorithm (UAX#9).
  • GlyphGate a Web server extension that makes it possible to show text with any formatting of any language in all browsers on all platforms. This product was previously known as FAIRY (see http://www.glyphgate.com/info/gginfo.htm for details).
  • Huntersoft's Business Translator V5.0, Magic translator V4.0 and Web Translator V4.0
  • International Components for Unicode: portable, open-source Unicode library with: charset-independent locales (with multiple locales simultaneously supported in same thread; character conversions; formatting/parsing for numbers, currencies, date/time and messages; message catalogs (resources) ; transliteration, collation, normalization, and text boundaries (grapheme, word, line-break)).
  • Java internationalization and localization articles
  • Justsystem Ichitaro, Ichitaro Lite, Sanshiro, ATOK
  • Columbia University Kermit 8.0 communications software for UNIX, VMS, VOS, Plan 9, ...
  • Columbia University Kermit 95 communications software for Windows 95/98/NT/2000
  • LanguageScripter 1.2 by Language Intelligence 
  • Linux products: yudit,  KDE V1.89 & up, GTK+ (forthcoming)
  • Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes
  • Linux mined 2000 an editor that runs in plain text mode terminals, on Unix and DOS/Windows platforms. Supports Unicode (including double-width and combining characters, right-to-left scripts, keyboard mapping, script coloring), and provides mouse control and menus.
  • Linux xterm (utf-8), qt, gscript
  • Lugaru Epsilon by Lugaru Software, Ltd.
    An advanced EMACS-style programmer's text editor for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2 and DOS.
  • Matrubhasha 1.0 by CDAC 
    A Unicode based Speech Synthesis Framework for Indian Languages
  • Microsoft Office 2000 (Microsoft Word 97/2000 for Windows,  Microsoft Word98 for Macintosh, Excel 97/2000 for Windows, PowerPoint 97/2000, PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh, Access2000, FrontPage 97/98/2000, Project 2000, Publisher 98/2000, PhotoDraw 2000v2, Outlook 97/98/2000, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer)
  • Multilingual Universal Domain Name System by Domain Island & Universal Registry: System, and tools allowing the registration of Domain Names in 7,000 languages, using Unicode UTF-8, Japanese (Shift-JIS), Traditional Chinese (Big-5), Simplified Chinese (GB2312), All Latin languages (ISO-8859), Korean (KSC5601), Thai Windows-874, and Vietnamese (Windows-1258).
  • MultiTranse 1.01.3 by Tialsoft software
    MultiTranse is a software that employs free online resources to translate to/from 12 different languages.
  • NativeNames Multilingual DNS provides a completely server-based multilingual DNS solution that is Unicode based, can handle different ACE encodings of ISO/IEC 10646-1 and conversions from all common codepages, and requires no user agent downloads.
  • Netscape Navigator
  • NJStar Communicator 2.2 by NJStar Software Corp
  • Novell Distributed File Services, NetWare Directory Services, Storage Services, NDK development kit
  • Open Market Transact
  • Origin Systems Ultima Online
  • PeopleSoft 8 by PeopleSoft, Inc.
    PeopleSoft pure internet applications enable organizations to reduce costs and increase productivity by directly connecting customers, suppliers, partners and employees to business processes online, in real time. PeopleSoft's integrated, best-in-class applications include Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Human Capital Management, Financial Management and Application Integration.
  • PDFLib 5.0 by PDFlib GmbH
  • Richwin Chinese Language Kit
  • Sharmahd Computing UniPad Unicode 4.01 plain text editor for all Windows  operating systems
  • Siebel products starting with Siebel 7.5 are all Unicode enabled.
  • SilkTest International 1.0 A functional and regression testing product by Segue Software, Inc.
  • SlickEdit 7.0.1 A full-featured programming editor with Unicode support
  • Softlink Library Global 5.45 is best described as Library Management software, providing an automated way of managing physical and electronic resources. It is currently being used in as many as 12 languages
  • SSA-NAME3 contains Algorithms that enable applications to better search and match names, addresses and other identity data in databases, despite the error and variation in the data.
  • Sun Microsystems Collation Demo Part of section on Writing Global Programs
  • Sun Microsystems Solaris Developer's connection site
  • Sybase, Inc.  Sybase products for Unicode.
  • TX Text Control 9 by The Imaging Source Europe.
  • Transit/TermStar XV Unicode based translation memory system Transit with integrated terminology management system
  • TwinBridge Partner programs
  • Unicode Syntax Edit (USE)  control with syntax highlighting for Borland Delphi version 1.3 by Dipl. Ing. Mike Lischke
  • UniEdit text editor V1.5
  • UniGeez 1.05 developed by Marcus Wright and Will Briggs and distributed under the GNU Public License as Freeware for the Eritrean Technical Exchange Project, this program is setup to handle Amharic(Ethiopian). However, it will work with any language if properly configured. It enables the input of Unicode into Microsoft's Office products 97 & 2000 in Windows 9x/NT/2000 (on a limited basis in Win95).
  • Unitype Global Writer 98, Global Office  Unicode based editor and components supporting most of the world's languages; developed for the US Information Agency.
  • Unired, An editor for Windows in English, French, Russian and Esperanto
  • Unitoolbox by Woodbury Associates Ltd. A set of Unicode-aware ActiveX controls and utilities for creating Unicode-enabled software with Visual Basic. By replacing Visual Basic's intrinsic Label, TextBox, ComboBox and ListBox controls with UniToolbox , existing forms can be Unicode-enabled in minutes, with no extra design re-work or code modifications.
  • UrbanPress 3.0
  • Vaachak Indian Language text to speech synthetizer 
  • VietIME 1.0 A cross-platform Vietnamese input method editor (IME). Enable input of Vietnamese Unicode text in Java's AWT (TextArea and TextField) and Swing text components.
  • VietPad 1.0.1 A cross-platform Vietnamese Unicode text editor. Open, edit, convert, print, and save Vietnamese text-based files in Unicode UTF-8 format.
  • VIM version 6.0 A powerful text editor for UNIX and Windows.
  • Web Term 5.0 Unicode based professional Intranet and Internet terminology management
  • Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese. CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh which combines a Unicode text editor with a large Chinese-English dictionary/database.
  • WinCALIS authoring system V2.5
  • XStandard XHTML 1.1 WYSIWYG Editor
    The first WYSIWYG editor that outputs XHTML 1.1 code. It can be easily integrated into any Windows or browser-based content management system, is a valuable accessibility tool for webmasters and permits authoring of content in any language
   
 

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