Number of members in good standing as of this meeting: 18, number of members in regular attendance: 15, Quorum: 8.
PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NCR (by proxy); PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; Unisys Corporation (by proxy).
NOT PRESENT: Government of India, MIT; Government of Pakistan, NLA; Justsystem Corp.; Oracle Corp; Progress Software; SAP AG.
NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: Government of India, MIT; Progress Software; SAP AG.
Total members represented: 12, Total not represented: 6
Calendar Review and Update
UTC 94/L2 191 - March 4-7, 2003, Mountain View, host MicrosoftUTC 92/L2 189 Minutes
UTC 95/L2 192 - June 3-6, 2003, San Jose, host Adobe
UTC 96/L2 193 - August 9-22, 2003, Pleasanton, host PeopleSoft
UTC 97/L2 194 - November 4-7, 2003, East Coast, host TBD Annual Members Mtg.
Calendar details posted at www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html
[93-M1] Motion: Approve the minutes of UTC 92/L2 189 as documented in L2/02-253R, with the attendee list updated.Moved by Murray Sargent, seconded by Eric Muller
7 for (Adobe, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
5 abstain (Apple, Basis, PeopleSoft, RLG, Unisys )Minutes posted publicly at www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/utc-minutes.html
[93-A1] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Update the attendee list in UTC 92 minutes. [L2/02-253R]Action Item Review
[93-A2] Action Item for Eric Muller, Mark Davis: Update the committee draft of the UCD in XML format. [L2/02-179, 91-A12]Properties - ZWJ, ZWNJ[93-A3] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Add boiler-plate to Mark's IUC21 paper on surrogates (action item 90-A5), post as a tech note, and make an FAQ entry pointing to it.
[93-A4] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Review the technical reports for consistency and propose updates for the next UTC.
[93-A5] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add GB18030 status to the agenda for the next UTC.
[93-A6] Action Item for John Jenkins: Give Asmus a font with corrected glyphs for code points 48B4, 63AF, 29FD7, 29FCE, for a glyph erratum for Unicode 4.0.
[93-A7] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Check the pending glyphs on the "book" web site.
[93-A8] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Review text on the semantics (request nature) of ZWJ and ZWNJ. Clarify the intended semantics. [L2/02-363]Unicode 3.2.1[93-M2] Motion: Revise the semantics of ZWJ for scripts that traditionally have joining behavior such that it conforms with current legacy practice. This change means that ZWJ would be a request to break ligatures for such scripts. [L2/02-363]
Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Michael Kaplan (NCR)
7 for (Adobe, Basis, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sybase)
1 against (Apple)
4 abstain (HP, IBM, Sun, Unisys)[93-A9] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Ed Committee: Draft text supporting motion 93-M2, revising ZWJ (for scripts that traditionally have joining behavior) in the layout controls section of Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-363]
[93-C1] Consensus: Due to time constraints there will no longer be a 3.2.1 release. Changes formerly scheduled for 3.2.1 will be incorporated into Unicode 4.0.Unicode Technical Reports[93-C2] Consensus: Release the data changes planned for 3.2.1 in a Unicode 4.0 "alpha".
[93-A10] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Release a Unicode 4.0 alpha that includes planned 3.2.1 changes.
[93-A11] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the boilerplate section of L2/02-393 and bring back to UTC for further discussion.[93-C3] Consensus: Leave Unicode Technical Report #16 UTF-EBCDIC and Unicode Technical Report #26 Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-BIT (CESU-8) as Unicode technical reports.
[93-C4] Consensus: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Technical Report #24 Script Names as a UAX and post for public review.
[93-A12] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Standard Annex #24 Script Names and post for public review.
[93-C5] Consensus: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Technical Report #22 Character Mapping Markup Language (CharMapML) as a Unicode technical standard.
[93-A13] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #22 Character Mapping Markup Language (CharMapML) and post for public review.
[93-A14] Action Item for Mark Davis: Look at Unicode Technical Report #18 Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines and propose changes that will make it more referenceable, possibly as a UTS.
PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NCR (by proxy); PeopleSoft; RLG; Sybase, Inc.; Unisys Corporation (by proxy).
NOT PRESENT: Government of India, MIT; Government of Pakistan, NLA; Justsystem Corp.; Oracle Corp; Progress Software; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems.
Total members represented: 11, Total not represented: 7
Properties - Default Ignorables
[93-C6] Consensus: Remand the suggested text on default ignorables from L2/02-368 to the Editorial Committee for incorporation into the standard in version 4.
[93-A15] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate the suggested text on default ignorables from L2/02-368 into the standard in version 4.Scripts and New Characters - Devanagari[93-C7] Consensus: Include non-characters in the property, default ignorable code points, for Unicode Version 4. [L2/02-368]
[93-A16] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Proplist.txt for Unicode 4.0, to include non-characters in the property, default ignorable code points. [L2/02-368]
[93-C8] Consensus: Post for public review a discussion of the options for Object Replacement Character and the interlinear annotation characters: whether to treat as default ignorable or as having a default visible representation. [L2/02-368]
[93-A17] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Draft and post for public review with a closing date of February 14, 2003, a discussion of the options for Object Replacement Character and the interlinear annotation characters: whether to treat as default ignorable or as having a default visible representation. [L2/02-368]
[93-C9] Consensus: Arabic End of Ayah and Syriac Abbreviation Mark should be no longer be categorized as default-ignorable; update Proplist.txt for Unicode 4. [L2/02-368]
[93-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the default ignorable characters in Proplist.txt for version 4, remove Arabic End of Ayah and Syriac Abbreviation Mark and guarantee that similar characters (U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN, U+0601 ARABIC SIGN SANAH, U+0602 ARABIC FOOTNOTE MARKER ) are treated the same way. [L2/02-368]
[93-A19] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Correct the glyph for Syriac Abbreviation Mark, adding a symbol to the representative glyph. [L2/02-368]
[93-A20] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Incorporate the glyph change to Syriac Abbreviation Mark to US comments on FPDAM2. [L2/02-368]
[93-C10] Consensus: For Unicode 4.0, change the general category of U+180E MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR from "Cf" to "Zs"; add it to the "whitespace" property; remove from list of Default Ignorables; and ensure that the line break property is no-break, in order to align it with narrow no-break space. [L2/02-368]
[93-A21] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Asmus Freytag, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Fix data files for Unicode 4.0: change the general category of U+180E MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR from "Cf" to "Zs"; add it to the "whitespace" property; remove from list of Default Ignorables; and ensure that the line break property is no-break, in order to align it with narrow no-break space. Check consistency of explanatory text in Unicode 4 (add to the table of spaces, etc.). [L2/02-368]
[93-A22] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Add text and picture to the version 4 Devanagari block intro referring to the Marathi/Devanagari allographs described in L2/02-204. Also address Vedic symbols, currency sign, and four Sindhi consonants.UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:[93-A23] Action Item for Joan Aliprand: Make sure responding to the Government of India is on the agenda for the officers retreat on the TDIL newsletter document(s).
[93-A24] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Eric Muller, Cathy Wissink, Peri Bhaskararao: Produce a cover document for L2/02-402 (as revised) as a UTC response to the Government of India on the TDIL newsletter document(s).
[93-A25] Action Item for Peri Bhaskararao: Update L2/02-204 and send to L2doc by November 22, 2002.
Properties - Fallback Properties
[93-C11] Consensus: Start moving toward using UTF-8 in property files when it makes sense.WG2[93-A26] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Work with WG2 and request that Plane 3 be added to the roadmap as planned for ideographs.
[93-C12] Consensus: Make changes to the data files and documentation as described in "Fallback Properties", section 3 of document L2/02-360 as amended in discussion (updating bidi values, giving EA width of wide to 20000..2FFFD and 30000..3FFFD, omitting the titlecase mapping if the same as field 12) for Unicode 4.
[93-A27] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Ensure that Unicode Standard Annex #11 East Asian Width is in sync with the 93-C12 decision to make data file and documentation changes as discussed in section 3 of L2/02-360.
[93-A28] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the East Asian width and line break data files to reflect the changes to fallback properties for section 3, items C and D of L2/02-360.
[93-A29] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Update the data files and documentation to reflect the changes given in section 3, items A, B, E of L2/02-360.
[93-A30] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Unicode Standard Annex #9 The Bidirectional Algorithm to correct the ranges for the Bidi classes. [L2/02-360]
[93-A31] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add the text from section 6 of L2/02-360 to the proposed
update of Unicode Standard Annex #15 Unicode Normalization Forms, for review at the next UTC .
[93-C13] Consensus: The UTC would not oppose the addition of a combining right dot above, but firmly opposes any of the precomposed characters proposed in document L2/02-348.[93-A32] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Michel Suignard: Represent the UTC consensus on
combining right dot above: combining right dot above is acceptable if WG2 accepts, but the rest of
the proposal must be rejected. [L2/02-348][93-A33] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add the addition of Greek Capital Lunate Sigma at 03F9 to US comments. L2/02-314R
[93-A34] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward the proposal for Greek Capital Lunate Sigma at 03F9, document L2/02-314R to Mike Ksar for WG2 distribution.
[93-C14] Consensus: Incorporate the shaping behavior of six Syriac letters for Sogdian and Persian into Unicode 4. [L2/02-405]
[93-C15] Consensus: UTC requests WG2 to remove 122 DPRK compatibility characters (FA70..FAE9) from the FPDAM because of significant mapping errors. [L2/02-292]
[93-C16] Consensus: There are problems with the 122 DPRK compatibility characters that are serious enough to require further study before they are added to the standard. UTC requests that they be removed from the FPDAM. [L2/02-292]
[93-A35] Action Item for Deborah Goldsmith: Ensure that a report documenting the problems with the DPRK compatibility characters is written by December 1 for submission to WG2 before the December meeting.
[93-A36] Action Item for Deborah Goldsmith: Send a copy of the spreadsheet detailing DPRK compatibility character problems to Eric Muller, Michel Suignard, Daniel Chen, and Ken Lunde.
PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NCR (by proxy); PeopleSoft; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; Unisys Corporation (by proxy).
NOT PRESENT: Government of India, MIT; Government of Pakistan, NLA; Justsystem Corp.; Oracle Corp; Progress Software; SAP AG.
Total members represented: 12, Total not represented: 6
Scripts and New Characters - Greek Paleographic Additions
[93-C17] Consensus: The UTC accepts the TLG proposal for two letters, GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN to be encoded at U+03FA and U+03FB, respectively, for Unicode 4. [L2/02-313R]Properties - Unihan Database Errata[93-A37] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add the two letters, U+03FA GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and U+03FB GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN to US comments on the FPDAM ballot. [L2/02-313R]
[93-A38] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the two letters, GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN at U+03FA and U+03FB, respectively. [L2/02-313R]
[93-A39] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward proposal for the two letters, U+03FA GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and U+03FB GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN, L2/02-313R, to Mike Ksar for WG2 distribution.
[93-A40] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Forward the font for GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN to Asmus Freytag by November 22, 2002.
[93-A41] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan: Go through the BMP roadmap and look for space on the BMP for a new punctuation block for the New Testament sigla characters, post 4.0. [L2/02-317R]
[93-A42] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update the proposal for New Testament sigla characters with property information and resubmit. [L2/02-317R]
[93-C18] Consensus: The UTC invites Maria Pantelia to create a technical note on the presentation of archaic Greek symbols and letters in Unicode, including black letters "M" "S" and "H", see proposal L2/02-366.
[93-A43] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update proposal L2/02-312R as per the discussion in the meeting, including properties, names, and proposed encoding locations.
[93-C19] Consensus: The UTC accepts the 9 metrical symbols characters from proposal L2/02-315R at 2692..269A for encoding.
[93-A44] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update the chart to indicate suggested code positions and property values and names "metrical symbol" instead of just "metrical". [L2/02-315R]
[93-A45] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward the updated proposal for Greek metrical symbols to Mike Ksar for WG2 distribution. [L2/02-315R]
[93-A46] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the 9 new Greek metrical symbols at 2692..269A. [L2/02-315R]
[93-C20] Consensus: Accept the repertoire of archaic Greek musical notation symbols in a new block, Archaic Greek Musical Notation, at 1D200..1D24F, with character names and glyphs as shown in document L2/02-316R, with properties So or Mn as appropriate, for encoding post Unicode 4.
[93-A47] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update the proposal for archaic Greek musical notation symbols as per the discussion in UTC and forward to Rick McGowan. [L2/02-316R]
[93-A48] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Forward a font for Archaic Greek Musical Notation Symbols to Asmus Freytag by end of November, 2002.
[93-A49] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include Archaic Greek Musical Notation symbols, at 1D200..1D24F.
[93-A50] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward the updated proposal on Archaic Greek Musical Notation symbols, L2/02-316R2 to Mike Ksar for WG2 distribution.
[93-A51] Action Item for Deborah Goldsmith: Have Cora Chang verify the correctness of Unihan database errata in document L2/02-359R and verify all compatibility mappings of Han characters in the latest Unicode Character Database.Properties - CJK Compatibility Mapping[93-A52] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Inform the IETF liaison of document L2/02-359R (on Unihan DB errata) and that we are double-checking the data. We will take up the issue at the next meeting.
[93-A53] Action Item for Lisa Moore: to initiate a Letter Ballot on the errors in the mappings of five ideographic characters, to either fix the mapping errors as specified in L2/02-359R or to add new characters as replacements.
[93-C21] Consensus: Add the JIS 0213 mappings from L2/02-359R to Unihan database, and correct the HKSCS mappings to the values given by Hong Kong Government. [L2/02-359R]
[93-A54] Action Item for John Jenkins: Add the JIS 0213 mappings to the Unihan database, after they have been verified by Cora Chang. Correct the HKSCS mappings to the values given in L2/02-359R after they have been verified by Cora Chang against the mappings issued by the Hong Kong Government.
[93-A55] Action Item for Eric Muller, Ken Lunde: Reformat the JIS mappings in L2/02-359R and send to Michel Suignard so he can use for comparison with WG2 data.
[93-A56] Action Item for Eric Muller, Ken Lunde: If there are differences between mappings of the JIS data of L2/02-359 against existing WG2 mappings of JIS 0213, create a technical corrigendum to 10646 and submit as a WG2 document.
[93-A57] Action Item for Eric Muller, Ken Lunde: Check and see if the 10646 mappings are the same as our Unihan "V" source mappings.
[93-A58] Action Item for Eric Muller: Draft a document to WG2 requesting that they require three mappings to identify each compatibility character: (1) the "real" Unified ideograph in 10646; (2) the source character in the standard they come from; (3) the mapping for the "base" character in the original standard for which it is a compatibility duplicate. These have not been provided for all compatibility characters up to now.
[93-A59] Action Item for Eric Muller, Ken Lunde, Michel Suignard: See where the underlying issue is with the "V" source in document L2/02-390.
[93-C22] Consensus: Add a mechanism to Unicode Standard Annex #15 Unicode Normalization Forms that allows people to make conformance claims to certain tailorings of normalization, including a syntax for that tailoring, and a small number of named tailorings.[93-A60] Action Item for Mark Davis:, Editorial Committee: Post the need for tailorings of normalization as a public review issue which will close February 14, 2003 (see 93-C22).
[93-A61] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare proposed update text for addition to Unicode Standard Annex #15 Unicode Normalization Forms to address the need for tailorings of normalization, for the next UTC meeting.
[93-M3] Motion: Approve ballot comments on FPDAM1 and FPDAM2 found in L2/02-408 and L2/02-409.
Moved by Michel Suignard, seconded by Mark Davis[93-C23] Consensus: Recommend adding the principle of "loose name matching" to the principles and procedures document of WG2. [L2/02-365R]11 for (Adobe, Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
0 against
1 abstain (Basis)[93-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make a WG2 paper supporting the UTC consensus on "loose name matching" by the end of November, 2002. [L2/02-365R]
PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NCR; PeopleSoft; RLG; Sybase, Inc.; Unisys Corporation (by proxy).
NOT PRESENT: Government of India, MIT; Government of Pakistan, NLA; Justsystem Corp.; Oracle Corp; Progress Software; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems.
Total members represented: 11, Total not represented: 7
IETF - X.500 String Matching
[93-A63] Action Item for Mark Davis: Send feedback to the IETF on internationalized string matching rules through Patrik Faltstrom. [L2/02-358]W3C - XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators
[93-A64] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Mark Davis: Notify the IETF liaison and W3C liaison regarding our contemplated introduction of named tailorings of normalization; after publication as a public issue. [L2/02-355]
[93-A65] Action Item for All: Send comments to Mark Davis on L2/02-355 (XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators) by November 15, 2002.W3C - XML[93-A66] Action Item for Mark Davis: Relay UTC comments on L2/02-355 (XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators) back to W3C.
[93-A67] Action Item for Mark Davis: Send comment on security issue in XML 1.1 to unicore list before sending to W3C.W3C - Legacy Normalization[93-A68] Action Item for Mark Davis: Write up comment on lack of support for null (or zero) in XML, and send to unicore before sending to W3C.
[93-C24] Consensus: The UTC believes there is a security issue with transcoding from legacy encodings.Unicode Technical Reports - Bidi[93-A69] Action Item for Mark Davis: Prepare a liaison statement to W3C that there is a security issue with transcoding from legacy encodings.
[93-C25] Consensus: Change the bidi property of code points U+0CBF and U+0CC6 from NSM to L. [L2/02-194]Editorial Committee - Boilerplate for UAX/UTS/UTR[93-A70] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Change the bidi property of code points U+0CBF and U+0CC6 from NSM to L in Unicode data for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-194]
[93-A71] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add a note about canonical equivalence to Unicode Standard Annex #9 The Bidirectional Algorithm for Unicode 4.[L2/02-194]
[93-C26] Consensus: Update the Unicode policies to establish that canonically equivalent sequences behave the same under the bidi algorithm. [L2/02-194]
[93-A72] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode policies regarding invariance of the Bidi algorithm under canonical equivalence (see 93-C26).
[93-C27] Consensus: Add the proposed text in section 3 of L2/02-194 to Unicode Standard Annex #9 The Bidirectional Algorithm.
[93-A73] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the text of Unicode Standard Annex #9 The Bidirectional Algorithm to reflect consensus 93-C27.
[93-A74] Action Item for Mark Davis, Bidi Committee: Ask Bidi committee to review and make a determination about section 5 of L2/02-194.
[93-A75] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add L2/02-194, section 5 to the agenda for UTC #94.
[93-A76] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Raise bidi character property issues with respect to URIs to the bidi committee.
[93-C28] Consensus: Adopt the boilerplate section of document L2/02-393R as modified in discussion at the meeting.[93-A77] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the boilerplate on the technical report web page based on 93-C28. [L2/02-393R]
[93-A78] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update L2/02-393R to reflect the changes discussed in the meeting and post to the document register.
[93-A79] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Ensure that the new boilerplate is rolled into all of the technical reports. [L2/02-393R]
[93-M4] Motion: Update all of the Unicode Technical Reports and Unicode Technical Standards (except superseded ones) with the new conformance boilerplate. Note the change in Modifications" section, update the version number but do not post for review.Editorial Committee - Unicode 4Moved by Lisa Moore, seconded by Michael Kaplan[93-A80] Action Item for Magda Danish, Ed Committee: Update the Unicode Technical Reports and Unicode Technical Standards as required by motion 93-M4 (above), for Unicode 4.0.7 for (Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, RLG)
2 against (Basis, Sybase)
2 abstain (Adobe, Unisys)[93-A81] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Designate the actual list of Unicode Technical Reports and Unicode Technical Standards to be updated by Magda for 93-M4.
[93-A82] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Put a review of the conformance clause from L2/02-393R on the agenda for UTC #94.
[93-C29] Consensus: The normative content covered in chapters 1-4 (L2/02-342) as modified inProperties - Hangul Syllable Type
discussion, reflects the decisions taken by the UTC regarding version 4 of the standard.[93-A83] Action Item for Ken Whister, Editorial Committee: Make the version 4 update based on the discussion during the meeting, reflecting consensus 93-C29.
[93-C30] Consensus: Accept a new property, Hangul Syllable Type, with these six values: [L2/02-360, section 7.C.F]Properties - Reclassification of Hyphens
Leading_Jamo, L
Vowel_Jamo, V
Trailing_Jamo, T
LV_Syllable, LV
LVT_Syllable, LVT
Not_Applicable, NA[93-A84] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add the new Hangul Syllable Type to Proplist.txt for Unicode 4.0. Make the relevant changes to PropertyAliases.txt, PropertyValues.txt, and related documentation. [L2/02-360, section 7.C.F]
[93-A85] Action Item for Joan Aliprand: Contact Richard Youatt to determine what he knows about the implementation of Armenian hyphen. [L2/02-375]Technical Reports - Text Boundaries[93-A86] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Work with Mongolian experts to get feedback on the usage of Mongolian Todo Soft Hyphen. [L2/02-375]
[93-A87] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add text discussing normative aspects of Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties and Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries. [L2/02-362; L2/02-392]Technical Reports - Assessing Unicode Support[93-A88] Action Item for Mark Davis: Incorporate feedback from this meeting into another draft of Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries. If possible, post for public review before the next UTC meeting. [L2/02-362; L2/02-392]
[93-A89] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate updates to the Assessing Unicode Support document, L2/02-400, as discussed in the meeting, and post as an L2 document.Public Review Issues[93-C31] Consensus: Post the revised Assessing Unicode Support document, L2/02-400, for three weeks to gather UTC feedback. Then send back to the Editorial Committee and post as Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31 Assessing Unicode Support.
[93-A90] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate the three weeks of feedback received on the Assessing Unicode Support document, L2/02-400R, and post as Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31 Assessing Unicode Support.
[93-C32] Consensus: Extend the dates on three Public Review Issues to February 14, 2003: deprecating language tags, connecting characters, sharp s collation weight.Technical Reports - Line Breaking[93-C33] Consensus: Deprecate the following two Khmer characters: U+17A3 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAQ and U+17D3 KHMER SIGN BATHAMASAT and discourage the use of the following four Khmer characters: U+17B4 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AQ, U+17B5 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AA, U+17A4 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAA, and U+17D8 KHMER SIGN BEYYAL.
[93-A91] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the web page on Public Review Issues with the extended review period (to February 14, 2003) for deprecating language tags, connecting characters, and sharp s collation weight, and remove the closed issue on deprecating two Khmer characters and discouraging four others..
[93-A92] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Once all the new and revised Public Review Issues are up (93-A91), send a notification.
[93-A93] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Proplist.txt for the deprecations of the two Khmer characters: U+17A3 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAQ and U+17D3 KHMER SIGN BATHAMASAT, for Unicode 4.
[93-A94] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the nameslist with the various deprecation/discouragement tags for the six Khmer characters, for Unicode 4. See 93-C33.
[93-A95] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Request an agenda item for next meeting, regarding the documentation of Public Review Issues and the input gathering process.
[93-A96] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties with comments received in the meeting and post as Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties. [L2/02-360, 412]HKSCS PUA Mapping
[93-A97] Action Item for Eric Muller, Deborah Goldsmith: Have the same work group (as in AI89-20) that is investigating GB18030 also evaluate the HKSCS characters that are mapped to the PUA. Generate a proposal for handling them for UTC consideration. [L2/02-395]UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
Scripts and New Characters - Kharoshthi
[93-C34] Consensus: Accept the proposal to encode sixty six Kharoshthi characters atScripts and New Characters - Syloti Nagri
10A00..10A5F as described in document L2/02-203R2 for encoding post Unicode 4.[93-A98] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Submit a description of character properties for Kharoshthi as a new L2 document. Reference L2/02-203R2.
[93-A99] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline the sixty six new Kharoshthi characters at 10A00..10A5F. [L2/02-203R2]
[93-A100] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward the Kharoshthi font to Asmus Freytag.
[93-A101] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward the document L2/02-203R2 to WG2 in time for the December WG2 meeting.
[93-A102] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Report back to Peter Constable that the model used in the Syloti Nagri proposal is controversial with respect to the use of ZWJ, and this issue needs to be resolved among concerned parties before the script can be accepted. The UTC recommends that existing rendering practice should be used if at all possible. Thank the author for a well done proposal. If the proposal is for encoding on the BMP, it should be compressed into the fewest code points possible. [L2/02-388]Scripts and New Characters - Diacritics and Double Diacritics
[93-C35] Consensus: Accept COMBINING DOUBLE RING BELOW at U+035A, and forward a revised proposal to WG2 for possible acceptance in December and encoding in
Unicode 4. [L2/02-364][93-A103] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update L2/02-364 with the properties for COMBINING DOUBLE RING BELOW; modify the suggested code point in the proposal to U+035A; and forward the revised proposal to WG2 for possible acceptance in December and encoding in Unicode 4.
[93-A104] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline with COMBINING DOUBLE RING BELOW at U+035A. [L2/02-364]
[93-A105] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Create a font for COMBINING DOUBLE RING BELOW. [L2/02-364]
[93-A106] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Prepare a single proposal for the next UTC meeting for the three double combining marks (double stroke, double breve below, and double macron). Proposal to include names, glyphs, properties, and the WG2 form. Also in the proposal address the Greek hyphen proposed by TLG. Include more supporting rationale if possible. [L2/02-361, 367]Scripts and New Characters - Devanagari
[93-A107] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Request an agenda item for Devanagari "glottal stop", document L2/02-394, at the next UTC meeting.Public Review Issues - Dashes
[93-C36] Consensus: After further discussion of dashes, the UTC is satisfied that based on widespread implementations, imposing connecting behavior on dashes is not advisable, and the Public Review Issue can be closed.[93-A108] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: The Public Review Issue for connecting dash characters should be closed and the UTC consensus published with a pointer to the public minutes.
[93-A109] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Include the resolution of the connecting dashes in announcement of changes to Public Review Issues.
| Attendees: | Representing: |
| Joan Aliprand | RLG |
| Daniel Chen | IBM |
| Mark Davis | IBM |
| Asmus Freytag | Basis |
| Deborah Goldsmith | Apple |
| Ed Hart | Share |
| Michael Kaplan | Microsoft |
| Rick McGowan | Unicode |
| Lisa Moore | IBM |
| Eric Muller | Adobe |
| Paul Nelson | Microsoft |
| John O'Conner | Sun |
| Sandra Martin O'Donnell | HP |
| Maria Pantelia | UC Irvine |
| Richard Peevers | UC Irvine |
| Bhaskararao Peri | ILCAA, Tokyo U. |
| Gabriel Plumlee | PeopleSoft |
| Murray Sargent | Microsoft |
| Michel Suignard | Microsoft |
| Tex Texin | Xen Craft |
| Ken Whistler | Sybase |
| Cathy Wissink | Microsoft |
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