UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status

88-1

Editorial Committee

Update bidi and normalization source, post in the beta directory (was 87-A12).

In progress

88-2

Lisa Moore

Update the UTC Procedures with the change in allowing e-mail proxy designations.

88-3

Lisa Moore

Coordinate UTC Liaison activities better - improve communication in advance of IRG, WG2 meetings.

88-4

Michel Suignard

Include the following in the US comments on Amendment 1 FPDAM: 1) MES 3a, b should be removed or otherwise reconciled
2) certain names changed: 
a) 27FF LONG RIGHTWARDS ZIG-ZAG ARROW => LONG RIGHTWARDS SQUIGGLE ARROW; 
b) 29D1, 29D2, 29D4, and 29D5 in accordance with motion 87-M16; 
c) 29FC, 29FD, should be LEFT-POINTING and RIGHT-POINTING (with hyphen); 
d) 2AF7, 2AF8, STACKED => TRIPLED NESTED
3) FA45 is mapped to an incorrect character

88-5

Mark Davis

Prepare and submit to WG2 a joint L2/UTC position paper on modifying UTF-8 to allow FFFE and FFFF, with exact proposed wording changes to 10646-1, along with the justification.  This needs to be done in time for the Singapore meeting in October. [L2/01-265]

Done

88-6

Asmus Freytag

As Unicode Liaison, bring forward the UTC recommendation to add a separate Help document to the Proposal Submission Form. [L2/01-274]

Done

88-7

Cathy Wissink

Update the draft GB18030 FAQ and distribute to Unicore, to be later posted on the Unicode web site on October 1, 2001. [L2/01-314]

Pending decisions from China

88-8

Arnold Winkler, Ken Whistler

Write a position paper on TR 10176 - there should be no more revisions of  TR 10176 as new characters are encoded, rather 10176 should be modified to point to the Unicode Character Database for determining identifiers.

88-9

Mark Davis

Explain more clearly in the Unicode Collation Algorithm why the default tables are ordered as they are and also list the scripts that have a preliminary ordering and are likely to change.

88-10

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Draft ballot comments on 14651 PDAM by September 1.[L2/01-269]

Done

88-11

Ken Whistler

Extend the collation table to the 3.1 repertoire.

88-12

Mark Davis

Test the updated 3.1 repertoire collation table.

In progress

88-13

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Update UTS#10 Unicode Collation Algorithm with items agreed to in 88-C3.

88-14

Mark Davis

Provide sample code to produce collation elements for characters that are not explicitly in all keys.

88-15

Sandra O'Donnell

Examine 14652 to determine its essential elements. [L2/01-281]

Moot

88-16

Arnold Winkler

Give Sandra O'Donnell a list of national body contacts in SC22. [L2/01-287]

88-17

Sandra O'Donnell

Provide information to other interested parties (list from Arnold Winkler) about the UTC's analysis of the content of 15897. [L2/01-287]

Closed.

88-18

Sandra O'Donnell

Incorporate feedback received during discussion, update the UTC/L2 comments on 15897, and give to Arnold Winkler. [L2/01-287]

Done

88-19

Sandra O'Donnell

Provide information to other interested parties (list from Arnold Winkler) about the UTC's analysis of the content of 15897. [L2/01-287]

Closed, duplicate of
88-17

88-20

Sandra O'Donnell

Regarding Generic European Locales, update the comments on MES and collation and forward to Arnold Winkler before October 15, for US comments. [L2/01-282, 312]

Done

88-21

Editorial Committee

Post any necessary errata to Unicode 3.1.1 plus an updated Unihan data file in the beta directory.

88-22

Officers

Make mirroring of portions of the Unicode web site available to members on their intranets. Consider allowing member companies to have copies of the Unicode Standard PDF publications.

88-23

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline page with the new monogram, digram, and hexagram characters. [L2/01-283]

Done

88-24

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline page with 255 new variation selectors. [L2/01-268, 309]

Done

88-25

Michel Suignard

Include in US ballot comments the 255 new variation selectors approved in motion 88-M5, and their change in category to combining. [L2/01-268, 309]

88-26

Michel Suignard

Include in US ballot comments a request to ask for variation selectors 2-16 to go into the FPDAM for Amendment 1, with their being incorporated into Amendment 2 as the backup position. [L2/01-268, 309]

88-27

Rick McGowan

Prepare a proposal summary form for the 240 new variation selectors (17..256) and forward to WG2. [L2/01-268, 309]

88-28

Ken Whistler

Work with Michael Everson to update the roadmap for the BMP and Part 2 to include the new variation selectors 2..256. [L2/01-268, 309]

88-29

Asmus Freytag

Draft explanatory text on variation selectors to forward to WG2 and also supply a list of math variants. [L2/01-268, 309]

Done

88-30

Michel Suignard

Add to the US ballot comments on FPDAM 1 the location of the Math variant list to be maintained as part of the Unicode Character Database.

88-31

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline page with to include the Osmanya script. [L2/01-284]

Done

88-32

Asmus Freytag (Unicode Liaison to WG2)

Support new scripts in Plane 1 as candidates for amendment 1 of Part 2.

Done

88-33

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline page with the encoding position of the Shavian script. [L2/01-285]

88-34

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline page with the five phonetic characters approved in motion 88-M8. [L2/01-272]

Done

88-35

Lisa Moore

Respond to the proposer of the Arabic Kaf character that the UTC thinks the character is already encoded at U+0681. The character may need and annotation and/or an explanation. [L2/01-316]

88-36

Cathy Wissink

Verify that U+0B82 is used for Sanskrit.  If so, the Editorial Committee needs to add an appropriate annotation. [L2/01-304, 305]

Done

88-37

Mark Davis, Arabic Ad-hoc

Make a recommendation on the Arabic characters proposed in Feedback on UNICODE Standard 3.0, and to make a recommendation on an annotation for U+0690. [L2/01-304, 305]

88-38

Editorial Committee
Lisa Moore

Create an erratum that notes the change in general category from Mc to Lo for U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA, including a glyph correction. [L2/01-304, 305]

88-39

Michel Suignard

Provide comments to the FPDAM for Amendment 1 that request the removal of U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA from clause B.1 in Annex B, because it has been determined by feedback from Tamil experts that this character is not combining. [L2/01-304, 305]

88-40

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Update Unidata.txt and appropriate derived data files to account for the change in general category of  U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA from Mc to Lo. Place updated data files in the Beta directory. [L2/01-304, 305]

Done

88-41

Lisa Moore

Respond to Dr. Om Vikas, with a notice on Unicode, Unicore, and to representative experts about the change in general category of  U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA from Mc to Lo. [L2/01-304, 305]

88-42

Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, and Uma

Draft a UTC response to Feedback on UNICODE Standard 3.0 (published by Indic experts in Vishwabharat@tdil, May 2001), which includes proposed UTC actions regarding which characters need to be encoded, annotated, or described in explanatory text. Also draft a list of items for the Editorial Committee to address in a technical document. [L2/01-304, 305]

88-43

Lisa Moore

Respond to Dr. Om Vikas, with a notice on Unicode, Unicore, and to representative experts about the initial UTC actions in response to the feedback on Unicode 3.0 (studied it, formed an ad-hoc subcommittee to formulation specific actions, etc.). [L2/01-304, 305]

88-44

Michael Kaplan

Communicate the change in general category of  U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA from Mc to Lo to INFITT. [L2/01-304, 305]

88-45

Michel Suignard

Forward feedback to the W3C on suggested revisions to clause 3.2 (UA Conformance) of XHTML 1.0 2nd edition, including normatively referencing UTR#24 Script Names. [L2/01-319]

88-46

Murray Sargent

Inform the MathML working group of the six new math bracket characters encoded in 88-M10 and their intended use instead of the brackets already in the CJK symbols area. [L2/01-317R]

88-47

Michel Suignard

Include in the US comments on FPDAM1 the eight new bracket characters encoded in 88-M10. [L2/01-317R]

88-48

Ken Whistler

Update the Pipeline with the eight new bracket characters encoded in 88-M10. [L2/01-317R]

Done

88-49

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Update data files and appropriate derived files to account for the change in East Asian Width and Math properties of  2329, 232A, 3008, 3009, 300A, 300B, 3014, 3015, 3018, 3019, 301A, 301B. Place updated data files in the Beta directory. [L2/01-317R]

Done

88-50

Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Make the annotation changes to U+2329 and U+232A that were approved in motion 88M12. [L2/01-317R]

Closed

88-51

Michel Suignard

Give comments to Mark Davis and Cathy Wissink on IDN name prep for them to forward to the appropriate people. [L2/01-318]

88-52

Mark Davis, Cathy Wissink

Write and submit a paragraph on alternate names to the IDN working group. Include Michel Suignard's comments. [L2/01-318]

Done

88-53

Asmus Freytag

Suggest text for UAX#15 Unicode Normalization Forms about IDN name preparation. [L2/01-318]

Done

88-54

Lisa Moore

Forward the UTC response on preserving normalization form when casing to Kent Karlsson. [L2/01-321, 327]

88-55

Mark Davis

Incorporate changes into the suggested elaboration of the deprecated property in document L2/01-326 and submit to the Editorial Committee for further cleanup.

Done

88-56

Editorial Committee

Make appropriate text updates for the deprecated property created in motion 88-M13. [L2/01-326]

Closed

88-57

Ken Whistler

Update the Unicode Character Database with the eight characters (0340, 0341, 206A..206F) that have the new deprecated property. [ L2/01-326]

Done

88-58

Editorial Committee

Make appropriate text updates for the default ignorable code point property created in motion 88-M14. [L2/01-326]

Closed

88-59

Ken Whistler

Update the Unicode Character Database (Proplist.txt) with the characters (2060..206F, FFF0..FFFC, E0000..E0FFF) that have the new default ignorable code point property, and post in the Beta directory. [ L2/01-326]

Done

88-60

Julie, Editorial Committee

Incorporate information from L2/01-307, 308 on Myanmar spelling for publication at an appropriate time.

In progress

88-61

Ken Whistler

Update Proplist.txt with characters which have the ideographic description properties as given in L2/01-323, and post in the Beta directory.

Done

88-62

Ken Whistler

Update Proplist.txt with the characters which have the other grapheme extend and grapheme link properties as given in L2/01-322R, and post in the Beta directory.

Done

88-63

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Finalize text updates for the new grapheme properties, resolve their behavior with ZWJ and ZWNJ, and post a proposed update for UTC review. [L2/01-322R].

Done

88-64

Editorial Committee
Mark Davis

Develop appropriate text for behavior and properties of variation selectors and adjust the properties of the Mongolian free variation selectors as appropriate. [L2/01-324]

Done

88-65

Editorial Committee

Post a draft list of math variant characters in StandardizedVariants in the Beta directory. [L2/01-324]

In progress

88-66

Michel Suignard

Include in the US comments on FPDAM 1 a request to add 15 new variation selectors at FE01..FE0F and include in annex B1. This should be done in response to the IRG's request.

88-67

Ken Whistler

Include FE00..FE0F in the list of characters with the default ignorable code point property in Proplist.

Done

88-68

Mark Davis

Advise Markus Scherer on the UTC's response to his proposal to reserve D7C0..D7FF for internal use. [L2/01-262]

Closed

88-69

Editorial Committee
Mark Davis

Complete the final review of the two new sections in UTR#22 Character Mapping Markup Language, 2.3.1 Simple SI/SO-Stateful Encodings and 2.5 ISO 2022, and post. [L2/01-315, 320]

88-70

Toby Phipps

Update the document on CESU-8 with the feedback received during the meeting and forward to the Editorial Committee for their review and posting. [L2/01-328R2]

88-71

Editorial Committee

Complete the final review of the updated CESU-8 document, and post as Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report#26 Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16 - 8-bit. [L2/01-328R2]

Done

88-72

Mark Davis

Communicate to the W3C that the UTC is working towards eliminating irregular sequences from UTF-8 in Unicode 3.2. [L2/01-276]

Done

88-73

Editorial Committee

Draft text for the next version of the standard (Unicode 3.2) that eliminates irregular sequences from UTF-8. [L2/01-276]

In progress

88-74

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Use the comments in L2/01-330 as the basis for the comments on 14651.

Done

185-75

Arnold Winkler

Send jeopardy letters

Done

185-76

Arnold Winkler

Inform NCITS about changes in delegations

Done

185-77

Arnold Winkler

Confirm meeting rooms for Baltimore with Ed Hart

Done

UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status

87-2

Rick McGowan

Follow up with John Jenkins on AI 83-2 (have Cora Chang verify the collection of compatibility characters).

Done

87-5

Officers, Rick McGowan

Better document the Unicode patent policy.

In progress

87-6

John O'Conner

Check if Sun can host the Feb 11-14 UTC.

Done, NO

87-8

Lisa Moore

Include in the minutes the link to the publicly accessible location .

87-10

Dave Birdsall

Initiate discussion of SQL character set issues and provide background information from L2/01-188 and the UTC discussion.

87-23

Rick McGowan

Get a Limbu font. [L2/01-137, 138, 139]

In progress

87-27

Arnold Winkler

Communicate with the US SC22 delegate that 15435 should be withdrawn.

In progress

87-28

Markus Scherer, Cathy Wissink

Work with the Editorial Committee to update the GB 18030 FAQ and post. [L2/01-216]

Closed, see 88-7

87-29

Rick McGowan

Post GB 18030 mapping table with explanatory text.

Waiting for 88-7

87-30

Cathy Wissink

Verify the mappings for GB 18030 with the Chinese committee.

In progress

87-33

Uma

Develop an FAQ on JIS X 0213.

87-34

Nobu Mori

Write up a document requesting that the C/C++ committees add a UTF-16 datatype and string literal support. Send to the UTC/L2 lists for review as a joint UTC/L2 proposal. [L2/01-195, 220]

87-36

Hideki Hiura

Inform Steve Clamagh (Chair of C++ committee) about the UTC proposal on supporting UTF-16 and ask to have it be considered. [L2/01-195, 220]

87-39

Mark Davis, Eric Muller

Produce a draft technical report for the next UTC and a sample file showing the Unicode Character Database in that format. [L2/01-194]

87-40

Rick McGowan, John Jenkins

Set up a database for UTC members to use to contain information about variants.

In progress

87-43

Bidi Committee
Mark Davis

Analyze the bidi issues raised in the Atkin/Stansifer documents and make recommendations on what actions to take. [L2/01-218, 219]

87-44

Editorial Committee

Take the recommendations from the bidi committee on the issues raised in the Atkin/Stansifer documents and see if documentation changes are required and how such changes should be managed. [L2/01-218, 219]

87-46

Steve Atkin

Contact Mark Leisher and let him know about the bidi problems detected in his freeware.

87-48

Bidi Committee
Mark Davis

Analyze the bidi issues raised in items 2, 3, 4, and 5 of document L2/01-214 and make recommendations to the UTC on what actions to take.

87-51

Toby Phipps, Nobu Mori, Jianping Yang

Update the UTF-8S proposal, including adding performance measurements. [L2/01-230]

In progress

87-55

Mark Davis

Update property files with the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]

Done

87-56

Mark Davis

Update UTR#17: Character Encoding Model and      UTR#18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines with the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]

In progress

87-57

Editorial Committee

Create appropriate erratum for the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]

87-58

Mark Davis

Notify the W3C of the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]

Done

87-61

Mark Davis

Document the semantics of the combining grapheme joiner for discussion at the next UTC.

Done

87-62

Unicode L2 Liaison

Ensure that the name changes to 29D1, 29D2, 29D4, 29D5 given in motion 87-M15 are part of the US comments on the FPDAM. [L2/01-227]

87-64

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Develop a stability proposal for the UCA collation weight table.

In progress

87-66

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Post a draft update of UTS#10: Unicode Collation Algorithm and solicit feedback.

In progress

87-69

Murray Sargent, Asmus Freytag

Update Proposed Draft UTR#25: Unicode Support for Mathematics, have it reviewed by the Editorial Committee and then post. [L2/01-226]

In progress

87-72

Asmus Freytag

Make updates to the East Asian width tables to reflect the changes agreed to in 87-M20. [L2/01-189]

87-74

Ken Whistler

Write up the problem with the mapping of FA45 by JIS X 0213 and distribute to Japan SC2, IRG, and WG2 (Sato-san, Kobayashi-san, John Jenkins, and Mike Ksar) L2/01-164, p.82.

87-75

John Jenkins

Present the problem with the mapping of FA45 by JIS X 0213 at the June IRG meeting.

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

86-32

Rick McGowan

Initiate an internet draft describing the registration
process for namespace authorities. [L2/01-056]

In progress

86-57

Lisa Moore

Reply to the Patriarch of Georgia on behalf of the UTC.

86-78

Editorial Committee
Asmus Freytag

Review document L2/01-081, update as
appropriate, and post as Proposed Draft Technical Report#23: Survey and Guidelines for Unicode Character Properties.

183-84

Joan Aliprand

Contact Pat Harris to prepare documentation for registration of ANSI/NISO Z39.47

Done

183-85

Joan Aliprand
Rick McGowan

Publish mapping tables for ISO TC46 standards

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

85-9

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Put a link on the Unicode web site to the roadmap.

Done

85-38

Om Vikas

Provide text for Indic script block introductions, particularly including information on syllable formation.

In progress

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

84-04

Asmus Freytag

Complete the table given in the Character Foldings proposal, L2/00-261, and make suggested updates including the rationale section.

In progress

84-29

Toby Phipps

Include the issues raised in L2/00-184 in the TR on using Unicode in databases.

84-44

Mark Davis,
Ed. Committee

Pull out appropriate text from L2/00-262 on handling
surrogates and create a FAQ.

Re-assign to Rick

84-28

Editorial Committee

Correct the terminology used on the Unicode web site
(particularly in the Technical Introduction) based on the confusion in terms noted in Appendix B of L2/00-184. 

In progress

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

83-30

Patrick Ion
Ken Whistler

Analyze math symbols to propose annotations to clarify character usage.

Waiting for input from Patric