Mark Davis (Unicode)

Mark Edward Davis (born September 13, 1952) is an American specialist in the internationalization and localization of software and the co-founder and president of the Unicode Consortium.

Mark Davis
Born
Mark Edward Davis

(1952-09-13) 13 September 1952
Alma materStanford University (PhD)
Known forUnicode
Unicode Consortium
Scientific career
FieldsInternationalization and localization
InstitutionsIBM
Apple
Google
Taligent
Unicode Consortium
ThesisFormal problems for Utilitarianism (1979)
Websitewww.macchiato.com

He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications, being the primary author or co-author of bidirectional text algorithms (used worldwide to display Arabic language and Hebrew language text), collation (used by sorting algorithms and search algorithms), Unicode normalization, Unicode scripts, text segmentation, identifiers, regular expressions, data compression, character encoding and security.

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