A strong understanding of Universal Acceptance (UA) is the new competitive differentiator every developer should have in their skill set. Not only is it the cornerstone of a more inclusive and multilingual Internet, but it also offers a $9.8+ billion opportunity to businesses. Universal Acceptance is essential for developers who want to be at the forefront of their industry and keep pace with the new, global Internet.

Becoming proficient in UA does not require learning a new category of coding, but rather builds upon existing skill sets to expand systems to recognize and support URLs and email addresses in all character lengths, languages, and scripts.

The UA Academic Curricula was developed in early 2024 to make future developers aware of UA and realize in systems from design. 

To find out more about the UA Curricula please see the documents below.

Key Objectives for Universal Acceptance Academic Curricula: 

• Introduce basic internationalization, including Unicode, IDNs and EAI.
• Operationalize UA use cases, i.e., accept, store, process, validate and display.
• Learn to use built-in libraries for processing Unicode and IDNs.
• Provide technical knowledge and skills on standards or RFCs for IDNs and EAI.
• Produce test cases and procedures to verify UA support.

The UA Curricula offers the following micro-learning modules in relevant technical programs (e.g., computer engineering).

UA Academic Curriculum Overview

• Module 1 - Unicode Programming Fundamentals
  • Instructor Guide
• Module 2 - Unicode Advanced Programming
  
  • Instructor Guide
• Module 3 - Unicode in Data Structures and Algorithms
  
  • Instructor Guide
• Module 4 - Unicode in Database Systems
• Module 5 - Introducing Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
• Module 6 - Programming in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
• Module 7 - Email Address Internationalization (EAI)
• Module 8 - Advanced Topics in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
• Module 9 - Programming in Email Address Internationalization (EAI)