Unicode technical committee - a working group of people responsible for determining the content of the Unicode standard, its interpretation, and its quality. The voting members of the UTC are representatives of The Unicode Consortium member companies. An initial attempt to approve ISO 10646 failed because of a desire by ISO members to merge ISO 10646 and the Unicode standard. This merging effort is expected to be complete by mid-1992. In this merger, the Unicode standard would be a two-byte subset of the ISO standard.
Text compression is regarded as a distinct problem from character encoding.
Code conversion from other standards to the Unicode standard will be considered conformant if the matching table produces accurate conversion in both directions. Braille can be considered a font variant. 1985 - bibliographic standard used in libraries containing Roman characters. 1990 - bibliographic standard used in libraries containing East Asian characters. Less common and archaic scripts are under consideration for inclusion in future versions of the Unicode standard.