Michael Everson
Michael Everson (born January 1963) is an American and Irish
His central area of expertise is with
Life
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Everson was born in
In 1989, a former professor, Dr.
Work
Everson is active in supporting minority-language communities, especially in the fields of
Everson is one of the co-editors (along with Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler, and V.S. Umamaheswaran) of the Unicode roadmaps that detail actual and proposed allocations for current and future Unicode scripts and blocks.[7]
On July 1, 2012, Everson was appointed to the
Encoding of scripts
Everson has been actively involved in the encoding of many scripts
Encoding of symbols
Everson authored or co-authored proposals for many symbol characters for encoding into Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. Among those proposals submitted to
Among proposals that have not yet been approved for encoding: N1866 (an early proposal for encoding
Everson, along with
Font development
In 1995 he designed a
Conscript Unicode Registry
Together with
Language and locale information
Everson has also created locale and language information for many languages, from support for the
Work on a standard for Cornish
In 2007 he co-authored a proposal for a new standard written form of Cornish, called Kernowek Standard.[23] Following the publication of the Standard Written Form in 2008, Everson and a group of other users examined the specification and implemented a set of modifications to it, publishing a formal specification in 2012.[24]
Publishing at Evertype
As of March 2014[update] Everson operates a publishing company, Evertype, through which he has published a total of 295 books.[25] These include a wide range of titles by various authors and editors, with Everson himself as co-author of one, editor of several, and having adapted or revised several more. He also designed fonts for several.[25]
Everson has a particular interest in Gaelic typeface design, and does a considerable amount of work typesetting books in Irish for publication by Evertype.[26]
Another project consists of his publications of translations of
References
- ^ a b Erard, Michael (September 25, 2003). "For the World's ABC's, He Makes 1's and 0's". The New York Times. Retrieved May 23, 2008.
- ^ Everson, Michael (January 27, 2007). "Papers formally submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2". Evertype.
- ^ "Tenacity in religion, myth, and folklore". Evertype.com. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ "About Michael Everson". Evertype.com. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
- ^ "ISO 15924 Registration Authority". ISO, Unicode, Inc., & Evertype. 2004. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ "The Bulldog Award". Unicode, Inc. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ "Roadmaps to Unicode". unicode.org.
- ^ [1] Archived January 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Everson, Michael (March 19, 2009). "Papers formally submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 (Universal Character Set)". Evertype. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ "Proposal to encode five miscellaneous symbols in the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. September 4, 2003.
- ^ "Proposal to encode Regional Indicator Symbols in the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. September 18, 2009.
- ^ "Proposal to encode symbols for chess notation" (PDF). unicode.org. January 26, 2017.
- ^ "Encoding Blissymbolics in Plane 1 of the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. September 10, 1998.
- ^ "Roadmap to the SMP". unicode.org. April 9, 2023.
- ^ "Proposal to add characters from legacy computers and teletext to the UCS" (PDF). unicode.org. January 4, 2019.
- ^ "Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 170". unicode.org. January 25, 2022.
- ^ "Antinoou - A standard font for Coptic". Evertype. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ Everson, Michael (March 14, 1997). "Sami locales". Evertype. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (July 29, 2003). "Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan" (PDF). Evertype.
- ^ Lepage, Marc (April–June 2003). "Afghans beat language obstacle to entering digital age" (PDF). Poverty Alleviation Initiatives. 13 (2). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 12, 2006.
- ^ "UNESCO B@bel Initiative". Portal.unesco.org. Archived from the original on March 13, 2005. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
- ^ "Development of a Unicode standard for the West African Language N'ko". Multilingualism in Cyberspace. UNESCO. November 12, 2004. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ [2] Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-1-904808-99-2
- ^ a b "Evertype complete catalogue". Evertype.com. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
- ^ Everson, Michael (October 5, 2006). "Books typeset by Michael Everson". Evertype. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ "Evertype Publications - Wonderland and Carrolliana". Evertype.com. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
External links
- Evertype.com, Michael Everson's website
- Michael Everson on Twitter
- An interview with Michael Everson by Dick Gordon on National Public Radiopublic affairs call-in program
- Dork Forest interview by Jackie Kashian, 2012-09-18
- Michael Everson at Library of Congress, with 6 library catalogue records