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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by r3un1 on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:49PM (#26390599)
I'm afraid that you are comparing apples and Walmart.

Unicode is a standard for encoding characters. ISO is an organisation that _creates_ standards for just about anything.

Unicode became a standard as a result of beating other competing standardisations. ISO declares that whatever they came up with is the standard, no competition required. Hence the effectiveness of the business model.

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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by wodenokoto on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:54PM (#26390663)
Parent is talking about the Unicode Consortium, not the character encoding, that the consortium is responsible for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Consortium

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