L2/01-294R
Motions of the UTC 88 / L2 185 Joint Meeting
Redmond, WA -- August 14 - 17, 2001

September 7, 2001

UTC 87/L2 184 Minutes
[88-M1] Motion: Approve the minutes of UTC 87/L2 184 as documented in L2/01-184R.
Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

7 for (Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sybase, Trigeminal, Unisys)
0 against
3 abstain (Basis, Reuters, RLG)

WG2
[88-C1] Consensus: The UTC welcomes dialogue with representatives of Cambodia to ensure that the Unicode Standard meets the needs for text representation of Cambodian.
[88-M2] Motion: The UTC accepts the proposal to allow FFFE and FFFF in the 10646-1 definition of UTF-8. [L2/01-265]
Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

12 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Reuters, Sybase, Trigeminal, Unisys)
0 against
1 abstain (RLG)

[88-M3] Motion: The UTC recommends to WG2 that the Proposal Submission Form include a separate Help document. [L2/01-274]
Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

10 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Trigeminal, Unisys)
0 against
3 abstain (Oracle, Reuters, RLG)

Properties - Joining Behavior of U+06D5
[88-C2] Consensus: U+06D5 ARABIC LETTER AE should have the right joining type in ArabicShaping.txt.
WG20
[88-C3] Consensus: The UTC approves the following changes to collation:
Scripts and New Characters
[88-M4] Motion: The UTC accepts the addition of two monogram and four digram characters at 268A..268F*, and sixty four hexagram characters at 4DC0..4DFF, with the character names as specified in L2/01-283.
Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Michael Kaplan

11 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Trigeminal, Unisys)
0 against
2 abstain (Reuters, RLG)

* updated 9/6/01 to resolve encoding conflict with location in original resolution (voted at 2672..2677).
[88-M5] Motion: The UTC accepts an additional 255 variation selector characters, fifteen to be encoded at  FE01..FE0F with the names VARIATION SELECTOR 2..VARIATION SELECTOR 16, and 240 to be encoded at E0110..E01FF with the names VARIATION SELECTOR 17..VARIATION SELECTOR 256. The variation selector characters with have a general category type of Mc, including VARIATION SELECTOR 1 (at U+FE00), and the Mongolian free variation selectors (at 180B..180E). [L2/01-268, 309]
Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Murray Sargent

8 for (Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Trigeminal)
1 against (Compaq)
3 abstain (Basis, Reuters, RLG)

[88-C4] Consensus: The UTC approves the addition of a list of variants, StandardizedVariants to the Unicode Character Database. The list of Math variants will be the first addition.

[88-M6] Motion: The UTC accepts the Osmanya script with the character names as documented in L2/01-284, to be encoded at 10480..104A9.

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

10 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Trigeminal)
0 against
2 abstain (Reuters, RLG)

[88-M7] Motion: The UTC approves encoding the Shavian script  at 10450..1047F. [L2/01-285]
Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

8 for (Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Trigeminal)
0 against
4 abstain (Basis, Compaq, Reuters, RLG)

[88-M8] Motion: The UTC approves the encoding of five phonetic characters as given in L2/01-272:

U+0221 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CURL
U+0234 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CURL
U+0235 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH CURL
U+02AE LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H WITH FISHHOOK
U+02AF LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H WITH FISHHOOK AND TAIL

[88-M9] Motion: The UTC approves changing the general category type of U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA from Mn to Lo. [L2/01-304, 305]
Bracket Disunification and Normalization
[88-M10] Motion: The UTC accepts the 8 characters at 27E6..27EB and FF5F, FF60 with the properties as described in L2/01-317R:

U+27E6 MATHEMATICAL LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET
U+27E7 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET
U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET
U+27EA MATHEMATICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
U+27EB MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
U+FF5F FULLWIDTH LEFT WHITE PARENTHESIS
U+FF60 FULLWIDTH RIGHT WHITE PARENTHESIS

[88-M11] Motion: The UTC approves changing the East Asian Width and Math properties of 12 characters (2329, 232A, 3008, 3009, 300A, 300B, 3014, 3015, 3018, 3019, 301A, 301B) as described in L2/01-317R. [88-M12] Motion: The UTC approves changing the annotations of U+2329 and U+232A to reference U+27E8 and U+27E9 as the correct characters to use.  It also approves adding an annotation to U+2329 and U+232A to discourage their use. [ L2/01-317R]
IETF - IDN Name Preparation
[88-C5] Consensus: The UTC would like to see a paragraph added to the IDN Internet Draft, Preparation of Internationalized Host Names, regarding name preparation, which would clarify that alternate names may need to be registered to handle variant spellings for different languages and simplified and traditional forms. [L2/01-318]
Properties
[88-C6] Consensus: The UTC does not guarantee that casing preserves normalization form, but in the future such a requirement may be considered. [L2/01-321, 327]
[88-M13] Motion: Add the deprecated property to the Unicode Character Database, Proplist.txt, with eight characters (0340, 0341, 206A..206F) having that property. [ L2/01-275, 301, 326]
[88-M15] Motion: Add two informative properties, other grapheme extend (1160..11A2, 11A8..11F9, FF9E..FF9F) and grapheme link (094D, 09CD, 0A4D, 0ACD, 0B4D, 0BCD, 0C4D, 0CCD, 0D4D, 0DCA, 0E3A, 1039, 17D2). Incorporate the text of L2/01-322R, as modified during discussion, into UTR#18 Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines, and with other appropriate text changes in the next version of the standard.  The disposition of ZWJ and ZWNJ as regards these new properties is remanded to the Editorial Committee. [88-C7] Consensus: The Editorial Committee should use the modified text of L2/01-324 as the basis for the description of the behavior and properties of variation selectors.
[88-M16] Motion: Add FE00..FE0F to the list of characters with the default ignorable code point property. [88-C8] Consensus: The UTC understands the proposal in L2/01-262 to reserve D7C0..D7FF for internal use, but does not intend to take any action on it at this time.
UTF-8S/CESU-8
[88-M17] Motion: Accept the proposal documented in L2/01-328R2, amended during discussion, as Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report#26 Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16 - 8-bit.
W3C
[88-M18] Motion: The UTC is working towards eliminating irregular sequences from UTF-8 in Unicode 3.2. [L2/01-276]
WG20
[88-C9] Consensus: The UTC/L2 wish to use the comments in L2/01-330 as the basis for the comments on 14651.