L2/01-183


Motions of the UTC 87 / L2 184 Joint Meeting

Pleasanton, CA -- May 21 - 24, 2001

June 18, 2001


Publicly Publishing UTC Minutes

[87-C1] Consensus: Publish approved UTC minutes (in the current format) publicly on the Unicode website.

[87-M1] Motion: The UTC supports the public publication of preliminary minutes after a prior review.

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by V.S. Umamheswaran

8 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft,  PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (NCR)

Updates to the Unicode Standard

[87-C2] Consensus: A Unicode 3.1.1 update is needed to incorporate file fixes and updates to the bidi source file. The Editorial Committee should assemble the data files for a timely beta so that the UTC can approve and release Unicode 3.1.1 at the latest by the next UTC.

UTC 86/L2 183 Minutes

[87-M2] Motion: Approve the minutes of UTC 86/L2 183 as documented in L2/01-012R.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
3 abstain (Basis, NCR, SAP)

Restoring Canonical Equivalence

[87-C3] Consensus: The proposals on canonical equivalence given in documents L2/01-065 and 066 are inappropriate. It is also against Unicode policies to make such changes.

Scripts and New Characters

[87-M3] Motion: The UTC rejects encoding the Klingon script. [L2/01-212]

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by Mark Davis

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (SAP)

[87-M4] Motion: The UTC accepts the proposal to encode Aegean scripts given in document. L2/01-149, with a glyph correction at U+100CA and a change in character name for U+10090, from LINEAR B IDEOGRAM B122 OLIVE OIL to LINEAR B IDEOGRAM B122 OLIVE.

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

8 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (Basis)

[87-M5] Motion: The UTC accepts the proposal to encode the Limbu script with the character repertoire, names and glyphs as shown in L2/01-137, 138, and 139.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Rick McGowan

7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, Sybase)
0 against
3 abstain (Basis, SAP, Sun)

[87-M6] Motion: The UTC accepts the character ARABIC CURRENCY SIGN RIAL at U+FDFC, with the following properties: general category Sc, bidi AL, with the compatibility decomposition and glyph as given in L2/01-148R.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

8 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
3 abstain (PeopleSoft, SAP)

[87-M7] Motion: The UTC accepts the Ugaritic character repertoire and names as given in document L2/01-141, to be encoded as described in the Roadmap (103C00..103DF).

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (Basis,  SAP)

[87-C4] Consensus: The UTC supports the development of a proposal for encoding Egyptian hieroglyphs consisting of the Gardiner subset while leaving hieroglyphic extensions and markup issues for later study.

INFITT

[87-C5] Consensus: The UTC has a general policy not to re-encode existing scripts. Thus the UTC will not re-encode Tamil. Based on the information available, the current encoding of Tamil is sufficient for Tamil text processing.  The UTC invites submission of information on characters that might be missing from the encoding. [L2/01-221]

Character Mapping Tables

[87-C6] Consensus: The UTC authorizes a draft update of UTR#22: Character Mapping Tables which incorporates the three items from L2/01-180 (for charset xml: subchar1, stateful (SI/SO) encoding - single xml mapping file, and also for charset xml: iso-2022) and takes into account the feedback received during the discussion.

[87-M8] Motion: Archive the mappings/EastAsian files to an archive directory and add a readme to explain the issues with them. [L2/01-179, 192, 193]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

8 for (Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
2 against (Basis, NCR )
1 abstain (Adobe)

Supporting UTF-16 in C and C++

[87-M9] Motion: Forward to the C and C++ committees a request for an unambiguous UTF-16 datatype and string literal support. [L2/01-195, 220]

Moved by Nobu Mori, seconded by Asmus Freytag
7 for (Basis, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun)
1 against (Sybase)
3 abstain (Adobe, Apple, IBM)

Properties - Case Mappings

[87-M10] Motion: Make the change (given in L2/01-196) to SpecialCasing.txt to better handle Greek sigma.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Murray Sargent

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (SAP)

[87-M11] Motion: Incorporate UTR#21: Case Mappings into Unicode 4.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

8 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (SAP, Sun)

PUA Descriptions

[87-C7] Consensus: The UTC supports development of an XML description of Unicode character properties. [L2/01-194]

IRG

[87-C8] Consensus: The UTC wishes to thank the IRG and its Rapporteur, Mr. Zhang, for their excellent work on Vertical Extension B.

[87-M12] Motion: The UTC asks the IRG to include the U-source in its publications and also to include EACC in that U-source.

Moved by John Jenkins, seconded by Ken Whistler

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (PeopleSoft, SAP)

Arabic Cursive Joining

[87-M13] Motion: The UTC approves fixing the inconsistency in joining behavior for U+06C0 when decomposed into U+06D5 U+0654 by changing the joining rules (item 1 of L2/01-214). It remands to the Editorial Committee to make the necessary fixes for items 1 and 6 (using the name LAM ALEF instead of ALEF.LAM). Items 2, 3, 4, and 5 should be considered by the Bidi Committee for its recommendation. [L2/01-214]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
4 abstain (Basis, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP)

Properties - Graphemes

[87-M14] Motion: Adopt the definition of locale-independent grapheme as given in L2/01-086, with the term locale-independent grapheme to be revised.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Rick McGowan

11 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (NCR)

Properties - Ideographic Description Property

[87-M15] Motion: Adopt the definition of  an ideographic description property as given in L2/01-085, with the change to split the IDS operand into CJK radical and unified CJK ideograph.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

11 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (Justsystem)

WG2 - Consent Docket

[87-M16] Motion: Accept items 1-6 of Consent Docket L2/01-227 with additional name changes to item 6:
ITEM 1: name changes to 10F7, 10F8, 267C, 267D
ITEM 2: additional 74 math characters added to the BMP
ITEM 3: moved character from 255F to 27D0
ITEM 4: reconfirm 4 characters the UTC had requested to be removed (FA4A, FA5E, FA5F, FA67)
ITEM 5: name changes to 2144, 23BE, 23BF..23CC
ITEM 6: 29D1 LEFT BLACK BOWTIE  => BOWTIE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK
              29D2 RIGHT BLACK BOWTIE => BOWTIE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK
              29D4 LEFT BLACK TIMES => TIMES WITH LEFT HALF BLACK
              29D5 RIGHT BLACK TIMES => TIMES WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

11 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (SAP)

Collation

[87-C8] Consensus: The UTC favors stabilization of the UCA table, targeting the repertoire of Unicode 3.1. Stabilization means stabilization of the weights under extension by the addition of future scripts, with a goal of maintaining backwards compatibility.

[87-M17] Motion: Give the unit separator the least non zero primary weight and also it must not be a variable weight.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (Oracle, RLG)

[87-M18] Motion: The UTC authorizes the posting of a draft UCA conformance test, with the eventual goal being an approved conformance test as part of UTS#10: Unicode Collation Algorithm.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

10 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (NCR)

[87-C9] Consensus: The UTC authorizes the posting of a draft update of UTS#10: Unicode Collation Algorithm to update the table and incorporate other changes as discussed.

Math Technical Report

[87-M19] Motion: The UTC authorizes progressing document L2/01-226 to Proposed Draft UTR#25: Unicode Support for Mathematics, after incorporating the feedback received during the meeting.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Murray Sargent

12 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (SAP)

East Asian Width

[87-M20] Motion: Update the East Asian data files changing the list in L2/01-189, 00AE to 273D to A, and all Jamo to W, post, and include in Unicode 3.1.1.

Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Ken Whistler

13 for (unanimous)

Bracket Disunification

[87-M21] Motion: Reverse the decision made in motion 86-M6 not to disunify brackets.

Moved by Michel Suignard, seconded by Asmus Freytag (by proxy)

7 for (Adobe, Basis, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP)
4 against (Apple, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
2 abstain (IBM, Justsystem)

W3C

87-M22] Motion: The UTC authorizes a draft update to UAX#13: Unicode Newline Guidelines to add a section on collapsing white space.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

10 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RLG, SAP, Sun)
1 against (Sybase)
2 abstain (Basis, Justsystem)