 Mark Davis (Unicode)

Mark E. Davis (born September 13, 1952) is an American specialist in software text processing and internationalization and the co-founder and president of the Unicode Consortium.He is one of the key technical contributors to the Unicode specifications, being the primary author or co-author of Bi-directional Algorithm (used worldwide to display Arabic and Hebrew text), Collation (used for sorting and searching), Normalization, Scripts, Text segmentation, Identifiers, Regular Expressions, Compression, Character Conversion and Security.