Michael Everson - Everson Typography
Michael Everson is a Dublin-based alphabetician, expert on the
writing systems of the world. His company, Everson Typography,
supports minority-language communities, especially in the fields of
character standardization and internationalization. He is one of the
co-authors of the Unicode Standard, and is a Contributing Editor and
Irish National Representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, the committee
responsible for the development and maintenance of the Universal
Character Set. He is a font designer who has contributed to the
encoding in the UCS of a large number of scripts (Braille, Buhid,
Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, Cypriot, Deseret, Ethiopic, Gothic,
Hanunóo, Khmer, Limbu, Linear B, Myanmar, Ogham, Old Italic, Osmanya,
Runic, Shavian, Sinhala, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Le, Tibetan,
Ugaritic, and Yi). He is working on proposals to encode a number of
ancient and lesser-known scripts (Batak, Blissymbolics, Brahmi,
Buginese, Chakma, Cham, Cirth, Coptic, Egyptian Hieroglyphs,
Glagolitic, Hungarian Runic, Indus, Lepcha, Linear A, Luvian, Mayan
Hieroglyphics, Meithei, Meroitic, Naxi Geba, Newari, N'ko, Ol Cemet',
Old Permic, Old Persian Cuneiform, Pahawh Hmong, Phoenician,
Rongorongo, Siddham, Sorang Sompeng, South Arabian, Sumero-Akkadian
Cuneiform, Sutton SignWriting, Tengwar, Varang Kshiti). In the early
1990s, he was involved in the localization of the Mac OS and other
software into Irish Gaelic, Welsh, and Inuktitut.
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