UTC #

L2 #

Who?

Action

Status

92-A1

Mike Ksar

Send to Unicore the proposal for consensus on CLAUI. [L2/02-248] 

Done

92-A2

Mike Ksar

Send to Unicore a solicitation for comments on the CSDG report by the first week of September.

Done

92-A3

Peter Edberg

Make sure that Cora begins to check the DPRK compatibility character additions (122 chars) in time for them to be included in the US national ballot comments, by end of September 2002. Make sure there are no further duplicates and that the mappings for each character are correct. See the FPDAM document L2/02-300. [L2/02-291, 292]

92-A4

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Post an erratum for two variation sequences ([2278, FE00] and [2279, FE00]), remove from list of variation sequences, and reflect the erratum in Unicode 3.2.1. (see L2/02-291)

In progress

92-A5

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Add to the public issues list the U+17A3 and U+17D3 as candidates for deprecation, and U+17B4, U+17B5, U+17A4, and U+17D8 as discouraged for use. Post a public notice. [L2/02-291]

Done

92-A6

Peter Edberg

Ask Cora to verify that the CJK source references are correct in FPDAM document L2/02-300, by the end of October. 

92-A7

Peter Edberg, Mark Davis, Cathy Wissink

Check that suggested corrections in Amendment 1 (WG2 N2444, resolution M42.20) don't impact character set mappings. Verify by the end of October. 

92-A8

Lisa Moore

Add consideration of the 122 DPRK CJK compatibility characters to the agenda of  UTC 93. [L2/02-292]

Done 

92-A9

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline according to the approved WG2 consent docket, L2/02-292. 

Done

92-A10

Ken Whistler

Verify the name of U+0658 with Michael Everson.

Done

92-A11

Eric Muller

Get contrasting examples to show em dashes, 3/4 em dashes and 1/3 em dashes. [L2/02-277]

Done

92-A12

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Post as a Public Issue that the UTC is considering adding langauge on en dashes and em dashes that they should connect. Comments due by October 31, 2002.

Done

92-A13

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline for VERTICAL LINE EXTENSION. [L2/02-278]

Done 

92-A14

Eric Muller

Prepare the WG2 proposal summary form for submission to WG2.

Done

92-A15

All members

In preparation for approving Unicode 4.0 at the November meeting, review the draft of chapters 1 to 4 of Unicode 4.0 which will be posted a month in advance of the November meeting.

92-A16

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add a reference to Annex B of the standard that points to useful, informative material including Unicode Tech Notes and FAQs.

Done

92-A16a

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add a reference to an appendix of Unicode Annex: #15: Unicode Normalization that points to UTN #5, in the version 4 time frame.

92-A17

Eric Muller

Summarize for the Editorial Committee items from the TDIL January 2002 newsletter that pertain to descriptions in the standard. [L2/02-268]

Done 

92-A18

Mark Davis, Officers

Encourage Om Vikas and the Gov't of India to work within the UTC process when communicating with the committee. [L2/02-268]

92-A19

Michael Kaplan, Cathy Wissink

Write a FAQ entry within Indic FAQ covering the Unicode position with regard to the TDIL Newsletter document, and send to the editorial committee. [L2/02-268]

92-A20

Rick McGowan

Work with Michael Everson to ensure there is an initial proposal for Egyptian Hieroglyphics ready for the November meeting. It should contain the Gardiner set and all letters of support. [L2/02-281, 288, 290, 295]

92-A21

Stephan Baums, Rick McGowan

Update the Kharoshthi proposal with comments received and produce a modified proposal in time for the upcoming UTC and WG2 meetings. Forward to Mike Ksar for WG2 posting.

92-A22

Ken Whistler

Add GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL at U+03F9 to the pipeline. [L2/02-314]

Done 

92-A23

Maria Pantelia

Provide an amended proposal summary form with the name GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL and proposed code point U+03F9, for forwarding to WG2. [L2/02-314]

Done

92-A24

Maria Pantelia

Consult with epigraphers regarding whether a case pair for "san" is needed, and produce a revised proposal. [L2/02-313]

Done

92-A25

Maria Pantelia

Produce new proposal for the eleven New Testament sigla in time for the November meeting, taking into account more generic names, properties, etc. Have the Editorial Committee review the names. [L2/02-317]

92-A26

Maria Pantelia

Update the proposals for ancient Greek editorial and punctuation characters, Greek metrical characters, ancient Greek musical characters, and Greek numerical characters. Include WG2 proposal summary forms. [L2/02-312, 315, 316, 318]

92-A27

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Update Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm. Reflect the consensus items [92-C11] and [92-C12] synchronizing Unicode 4.0 and UCA.

92-A28

Mark Davis, Cathy Wissink, Editorial Committee

Move section 5.17 of the Unicode Standard into Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm and possibly update with material from Cathy & Michael's tutorial, time permitting.

Done

92-A29

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add language to Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm that describes the current use of soft hyphen to prevent contraction in collation.

92-A30

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add an informative section on stability (issues involved and possible ways to handle) to Unicode

92-A31

Asmus Freytag

Verify that U+2615 HOT BEVERAGE is correct in the Unicode charts.

92-A32

Peter Edberg

Ask Cora to check KSC 5601 mappings for the CJK compatibility ideographs in the F900 block, by the end of October.

92-A33

Rick McGowan, Debbie Anderson

Check the spelling of the name of U+10092.

Done

92-A34

Eric Muller

Supply Michel Suignard with information on Mongolian hyphens for US comments on the WD 3rd Edition of 10646. [L2/02-282]

92-A35

Peter Edberg

Investigate the 1.1 to 2.0 Hangul mapping inconsistencies and discuss the results with Michel Suignard, to be included in US comments on the WD 3rd Edition of 10646. [L2/02-282]

92-A36

Mark Davis

Add a section to Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm on stability of weights for scripts.

92-A37

Mark Davis, Rick McGowan

Update the open issues list regarding the proposed change to default weighting for German sharp s, and follow the notification process.

Done

92-A38

Mark Davis

On behalf of the UTC, forward the CLAUI consensus (92-C19) to the SC2 secretariat. [L2/02-320]

Done

92-A39

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add the proposed text recommending that Unicode Technical Report #22 Character Mapping names be matched solely on the basis of A-Z, 0-9, caseless, disregarding leading zeroes.

Done

92-A40

Michael Kaplan

Send example text to Mark for Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries.

92-A41

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Clarify the status statement boiler plate of Unicode Standard Annexes regarding conformance to the standard.

92-A42

Mark Davis

Update the UCD files relating to the correcting inconsistencies in some grapheme properties (see 92-C21) for the 4.0 time frame. [L2/02-304, 311]

92-A43

Mark Davis

Provide text to Julie Allen for the erratum related to inconsistent grapheme properties in Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries. [L2/02-304, 311]

Done

92-A44

Julie Allen

Post the erratum relating to inconsistencies in some grapheme properties (see 92-C21). [L2/02-304, 311]

92-A45

Mark Davis

Update Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries with comments received in the meeting and post again as a draft after review by the Editorial Committee. [L2/02-303]

Done

92-A46

Markus Scherer, Editorial Committee

Post a proposed update to Unicode Technical Standard #6 A Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode, adding the update on "XML Suitable". [L2/02-262]

92-A47

Mark Davis

For Unicode 3.2.1, fix PropList.txt for U+034F and U+205F as specified in section 1.A of document L2/02-267R3.

92-A48

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

For Unicode 3.2.1, fix the properties of U+00AD soft hyphen and clarify the Pd nature of U+058A and U+1806 as specified in section 1.B of document L2/02-267R3, and produce an erratum for posting.

92-A49

Rick McGowan

Post the property erratum for U+00AD, U+058A and U+1806 when available. [L2/02-267R3]

92-A50

Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee

Update 1) the text of the standard and 2) Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties for soft hyphen and related hyphens in version 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

1) done
2) open

92-A51

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Update the general categories of the soft hyphen and related hyphens in the data files for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

92-A52

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Clarify the situation regarding the distinctions among characters that have no visible glyph for the November 2002 UTC. [L2/02-267R3]

92-A53

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Change the general category of 02B9..02BA, 02C6..02CF to Sk in the data files for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

92-A54

Mark Davis

Supply text to Julie Allen for 4.0 about titlecasing of strings. See 92-C28 and section 1.D.b of L2/02-267R3.

Done

92-A55

Mark Davis, Officers

Update the UTC policies to reflect consensus 92-C29 on backwards compatibility of identifiers for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

92-A56

Mark Davis

Add the new ID_Start_Exceptions property containing the characters U+2118, U+212E, U+309B, U+309C for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

92-A57

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

For Unicode version 4, change the text of chapter 5 appropriately to reflect the policy on maintaining backwards compatibility of identifiers. [L2/02-267R3]

Done

92-A58

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

1) Document in Namelist.html the character encoding of the namelist file. 2) For the other files, in Unicode 4.0 document the encoding of the Unicode data files.

1) done
2) open

92-A59

Mark Davis

Fix the description and property of U+0307 in SpecialCasing.txt in 3.2.1. See section 5.A of L2/02-267R3.

92-A60

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

For version 4, update Unicode Standard Annex #21 Case Mappings to note that definition D1, condition 3 is redundant. See section 5.B of L2/02-267R3.

Done

92-A61

Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Move the material in the three lists (split, reordrant, subjoined) from section 6.A of L2/02-267R3 into the relevant block introductions, for version 4.

Done

92-A62

Mark Davis

Add U+2047 DOUBLE QUESTION MARK to terminal punctuation in PropList.txt for version 3.2.1, and add to the "Term" class defined in Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries. See section 7.A of L2/02-267R3.

92-A63

Mark Davis

Delete "Non_Break" from PropertyValueAliases.txt and add "Block_Property" to PropertyValueAliases.txt for version 3.2.1. See sections 8.A, 8.B of L2/02-267R3.

92-A64

Asmus Freytag

Use the information in section 4 of L2/02-267R3 and make a proposed update for Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties, to be available for comment before the November meeting, and incorporated into version 4.

92-A65

Mark Davis, John Jenkins

For version 4, add the Numerical, Radical/Stroke, & Source Reference PropertyAliases.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt as normative properties, and create a "provisional" property and state that all other Unihan tags are provisional. [L2/02-267R3]

92-A66

Peter Edberg

Discuss with John Jenkins if other Unihan tag properties could be improved to the point at which they could become informative rather than provisional.

92-A67

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Prepare a version 3.2.1 beta ASAP, and release 3.2.1 upon completion of the beta period, targeting the first of October.

92-A68

Mark Davis

Separate document L2/02-305, on assessing Unicode support, into two parts; the definitional part should be moved into Unicode 4.0. Update the remaining portions of L2/02-305 and post for comments.

92-A69

Mark Davis, Michel Suignard

Convey the UTC's misgivings about over reliance on early uniform normalization to the Internationalization Working Group in W3C.

Done

92-A70

Mark Davis

Write a paper for W3C regarding canonical equivalence, early and late normalization.

In progress 

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

91-4

Deborah Goldsmith

Follow up on all of John Jenkins' open Action Items.

Done

91-5

Lisa Moore

Follow up on action 88-35.

In progress

91-6

Rick McGowan, Officers

Make mirroring PDF files available to members on their web sites. Reference: AI 88-22. Write text explaining how to do the mirroring and which pages may be mirrored.

In progress

91-7

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Review the text for mirroring PDF files for legal disclaimers and post

In progress

91-10

Lisa Moore

Add to the agenda for UTC#92 an item about cross references -- to look at how aliases can be usefully represented in a machine readable form.

Done

91-11

Mark Davis

Add Unihan properties to the UCD.

In progress for 3.2, see doc

91-12

Eric Muller

Update the committee draft of UCD in XML for the next meeting (UTC#92). [L2/02-179]

91-14

Rick McGowan

Point John Jenkins to examples to use to complete AI 89-16

Done

91-15

John Jenkins

Create a document for AI 89-16.

Peter Edberg will follow up

91-16

John Jenkins

Bring to the IRG's attention the fact that mappings between simplified and traditional characters are of interest to the UTC, and the UTC will request such mappings from WG2.

Peter Edberg will follow up

91-17

John Jenkins

Use the latest WG2 proposal summary form and submit U+2FDF IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR for the next WG2 meeting in Dublin. Forward to Mike Ksar. [L2/02-052]

Done

91-18

Ken Whistler

Update pipeline to include U+2FDF IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR. [L2/02-052]

Done

91-19

John Jenkins

Inform the IRG of UTC acceptance of U+2FDF IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR. [L2/02-052]

Done

91-20

John Jenkins

Send a font for U+2FDF IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR to Asmus Freytag. [L2/02-052]

Done

91-23

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline to include the 87 tetragram and related characters accepted for encoding at 1D300..1D356. [L2/02-089]

Done

91-25

Michael Everson

Submit a font to Asmus Freytag for printing the 87 tetragram characters in the standard. [L2/02-089]

Done

91-26

Michael Everson

Submit a plain text version of the names for the 87 tetragram & related symbols to the Editorial Committee. [L2/02-089]

Done

91-29

Asmus Freytag

Address the problem with line breaking in hangul jamo for the next meeting, UTC#92.

Superceded by document L2/02-267 

91-31

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Make Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries a Unicode Annex in Unicode 4.0, after appropriate editorial updates to the content.

In progress; move to EC AI list?

91-37

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline with the two Greek characters to be used with Bactrian (U+03F7 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SHO and U+03F7 GREEK SMALL LETTER SHO). [L2/02-163]

Done

91-41

Rick McGowan

Relay the UTC consensus on Coptic disunification to Michael Everson. [L2/98-022]

Done

91-42

Ken Whistler, Umamaheswaran

Draft text for Annex A of  TR 10176 by May 25, 2002. [L2/02-142]

Moot

91-43

Lisa Moore

Add identifier stability to the agenda of the next UTC (UTC#92). [L2/02-142]

Done

91-44

Mike Ksar

Report on the status of the liaison between Unicode and SC2 and SC22, both directions.

91-45

John Jenkins, Editorial Committee

Issue an erratum and provide corrected glyphs for Han Extension B to Asmus Freytag in reasonably matching TrueType format. [L2/02-115]

91-48

John Jenkins

Raise UTC response to Sato-san's concerns regarding font policy at next week's IRG meeting. [L2/02-116]

Done

91-49

John Jenkins

Relay UTC comments on handling Han unification errors to the IRG at next week's. [L2/02-115]

Done

91-50

John Jenkins

Prepare a WG2 proposal summary form for the four new Desert characters, including glyphs and with L2/02-169 as an attachment for Part 2, Amendment 1.

Done 

91-51

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline with the four new Desert characters (91-C17). [L2/02-169]

Done

91-53

John Jenkins

Relay to the IRG the UTC consensus on CJK mapping additions (91-C18), and make associated updates to the Unihan data file. [L2/02-155, 156]

Done

91-57

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline to include the repertoire of the UPA accepted in 91-M4. [L2/02-192]

Done

91-59

Rick McGowan, Officers

Establish the process for public review of issues.

Process established; Rick to post doc

91-63

Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee

Update and post Draft Unicode Technical Report #23 Character Properties. [L2/02-172]

In progress

91-65

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline with the three new combining double diacritics (91-C22). [L2/02-148, 176]

Done

91-73

Lisa Moore

Put StandardizedVariants.html (regarding a machine readable file, 91-C24) onto the agenda for next meeting.

91-76

Asmus Freytag

Add standardized variant glyphs to the standard charting program.

91-78

Asmus Freytag, Mark Davis

Prepare a paper clarifying of the use of variation selectors with Mongolian.

91-79

Mark Davis

Remove U+06DD ARABIC END-OF-AYAH from default ignorable code point listing in Proplist.txt in Unicode 3.2.1.

 For 3.2.1.

91-80

UTC/Everyone

Question member experts if U+070F SYRIAC ABBREVIATION MARK should have the default ignorable code point behavior.

Done

91-82

Asmus Freytag

Draft text that documents existing information on known discrepancies in E. Asian mapping tables.

91-83

Mark Davis, Peter Edberg

Provide info to Asmus Freytag on pointers to information on mapping tables.

Done

91-85

Joan Aliprand

Contact Michael Everson after the June WG2 meeting to discuss Glagolitic and to progress his proposal.

91-86

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Document the UTC response to issues raised in points 1, 4, and 6b of L2/02-194.

Either for 3.2.1 or 4.0; to be moved to EC AI list

91-87

Asmus Freytag, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Document the UTC response to issues raised in point 6a of L2/02-194.

Either for 3.2.1 or 4.0; to be moved to EC AI list

91-88

Mark Davis, Bidi Committee

Come to consensus on issues raised in points 2, 3, and 5 of L2/02-194, and any other outstanding issues prior to the November UTC meeting.

In progress

91-90

Ken Whistler

Develop further documentation on the Unicode conformance model. [L2/02-165]

91-91

Mark Davis

Develop further test cases and test data for Unicode conformance testing. [L2/02-149]

In progress (see doc)

91-92

All UTC Members

Provide feedback to Mark Davis on the proposed conformance test cases. [L2/02-149]

Closed

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

90-4

Sandra O'Donnell

Ask Dave Birdsall if he still intends to discuss SQL character set issues raised at UTC 87 with the SQL committee. [L2/01-188]

Closed

90-5

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Extract useful information from Mark Davis' IUC21 tutorial on surrogates and create a FAQ (replaces 84-44).

In progress

90-36

Hideki Hiura

Let the Linux community know about the inaccurate locales.

John O’Conner will follow up

90-43

Asmus Freytag

Update the glyph for U+06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH, in a corregendum, to reflect that it is no longer a combining character. Note: On 2/20/02, the Editorial Committee made the decision to maintain synchrony in glyphs with 10646, so did not make the change. [L2/02-061]

Done

90-47

Ken Whistler

Change numeric secondary weight values to prevent consistency problems.

Done

90-70

Paul Nelson, Cambodian delegation

Fully complete WG2 proposal forms for the 45 new Khmer characters and forward to WG2 with informative exhibits. [L2/02-099, 100, 101] 

Done

90-75

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Review the technical reports for consistency with Unicode 3.2 and post changes as proposed updates to be reviewed at UTC 91.

In Progress (all updated except #17)

90-84

John Jenkins

Contact other organizations (Basis, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Xerox) with traditional and simplified mappings, asking them to make those mappings available for inclusion in Unihan.txt. Do this after Unicode 3.2 has been published.

In progress

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

89-12

John Jenkins

Work with Cora to determine the status of IDS decompositions and then work on any gaps and post on-line.

Peter Edberg will follow up

89-16

John Jenkins, Rick McGowan

Prepare a document from the UTC to the IRG exemplifying the (TC/SC) variant problem to be sent to the IRG before the meeting in November 2002. [L2/01-417]

89-17

John Jenkins, Asmus Freytag, Rick McGowan

Convey to WG2 that the UTC will request the IRG to indicate which proposed compatibility characters are duplicates of existing or proposed compatibility characters. Due to time schedules, the UTC will ask the IRG to help with indicating the duplicates in the DPRK set. [89-C6]  This will happen by the end of October.

In Progress

89-18

John Jenkins, Rick McGowan

Prepare a document to send to WG2 that requests that in the future 10646 should use variant tags for distinguishing new simplified Chinese variants from their traditional counterparts. [89-M2]  This will happen by end of Oct.

89-20

Deborah Goldsmith, Peter Edberg

Create a work group to evaluate the characters from GB 18030 that are mapped to the PUA, and generate a proposal for handling these for UTC consideration. [L2/01-416]

In Progress

89-27

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Appropriately document the font policy approved in motion 89-M4.

Julie to move to EC list

89-37

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

After review, post the approved update to Unicode Technical Report #22 Character Mapping Markup Language. [L2/01-315]

Done

89-54

Asmus Freytag; Editorial Committee

Correct the glyphs for U+0B66 and U+0A33. [L2/01-431R]

Partially Done; confirm on EC AI list?

89-70

Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Add language to the 4.0 standard on identifiers that describes the use of stable identifiers for meta-languages, and the tradeoffs involved in using them. [L2/01-454]

Move to EC AI list

89-72

Rick McGowan

Update the JIS X 0213 FAQ and after review by Julie Allen, post on the website. [L2/01-442]