Markus Scherer is a Software Engineer and Unicode expert and works in IBM's Unicode Technology Group in Cupertino, California. He is currently leading the development of the C/C++ library of the International Components for Unicode (ICU), an open source Unicode library. Before that, he worked on IBM projects for Wireless and Mobile Computing, including GUIs, Translation, and Internationalization, in his native Germany and in North Carolina. Markus can be reached at markus.scherer@us.ibm.com
