L2/08-004R

Preliminary Motions of the UTC 114 / L2 211 Joint Meeting
Cupertino, CA -- February 5 - 8, 2008
Hosted by Apple
UTC #114 Agenda
March 25, 2009

[114-C0] Consensus: The UTC notes with great sadness the tragic loss of Prof. R. K. Joshi, who passed away at 11:00 p.m., Monday, February 4, 2008, in San Francisco, on his way to attend this meeting. The UTC extends its deepest condolences to Professor Joshi's family, friends, and his many colleagues around the world.

[114-C1] Consensus: Adopt in principle the policies on stability for decomposition mapping, canonical combining class, and case pairs that are documented in L2/08-079. 

[114-C2] Consensus: Modify the list of SContinue characters in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries based on L2/08-029 after verifying canonical and compatibility closure.

114-C3] Consensus: Add definitions D51a and D56a as documented in L2/08-047 to Unicode 5.1 after editorial review.

[114-C4] Consensus: Update the definitions D60 and D61 in Chapter 3 for Unicode 5.1, as documented in  L2/08-047 and modified in discussion.

[114-C5] Consensus: Change the text of Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries to modify word break behavior so as to break before and after NewLine character sequences. [L2/08-083]

[114-C6] Consensus: There is good editorial feedback in L2/08-072, which should be considered by the Editorial Committee for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries for Unicode 5.1.

[114-C7] Consensus: For Thai, Lao, and Tai Viet define a new Grapheme_Cluster _Break property value called "Prepend" with short name "Pp" and appropriate rules, with the contents to be the characters that have the value "logical order exception" (U+0E40..U+0E44 and U+0EC0..U+0EC4). Add certain other Thai & Lao vowels to grapheme extend (U+0E30, U+0E32, U+0E33, U+0E45, U+0EB0, U+0EB2, U+0EB3).

[114-C8] Consensus: In Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries explain the relationship between aksaras and extended grapheme clusters, and why aksaras are not included in extended grapheme clusters.

[114-C9] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm to approved Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm after editorial work and small data fixes for Unicode 5.1. [L2/07-366]
  [114-C10] Consensus: Change the bidi category of U+1929 LIMBU SUBJOINED LETTER YA, U+192A LIMBU SUBJOINED LETTER RA, U+192B LIMBU SUBJOINED LETTER WA from NSM to L; and change the general category of U+A802 SYLOTI NAGRI SIGN DVISVARA from Mc to Mn. [L2/08-075]
[114-C11] Consensus: Change the combining classes of U+1DCE COMBINING OGONEK ABOVE and U+1DD0 COMBINING IS BELOW to 214 and 202 respectively.
[114-C12] Consensus: Add a note under conformance clause C7 in section 3.2 of the Unicode Standard pointing to Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations for the security issues involved. In section 16-7 of the Unicode Standard change "removal" of non-characters to "replacement" and add a note pointing to Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations. In Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations discuss non-character and normalization issues. [L2/07-415]

[114-C13] Consensus: Take comments on Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations from document L2/08-075 into consideration in the next update.

[114-C14] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations to approved Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations in the Unicode 5.1 timeframe.

[114-C15] Consensus: Remove controls (general category = Cc), surrogates, and non-characters from default ignorable. [L2/08-027]

[114-C16] Consensus: Delegate to the members of the South Asian Subcommittee who are voting UTC members the task of finalizing Tables 2, 3, and 4 of Unicode 5.1 and the text pertaining to those tables. If consensus cannot be reached among the voting members, then the chair of the South Asian Subcommittee shall request a UTC letter ballot to decide the issue. The subcommittee chair is to ensure that a written report documenting the decisions is submitted for the L2/UTC document register within a week after the conclusion of the meeting.

[114-C17] Consensus: Post Working Draft Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics as Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics after updating. [L2/08-107]

[114-C18] Consensus: Add to PropertyValueAliases.txt three values: Greek, Combining_Marks_for_Symbols, and Private_Use, with the normal format. [L2/07-405]

[114-C19] Consensus: Adopt as aliases in PropertyValueAliases.txt: ASCII, Latin-1, and Canadian_Syllabics in the normal format, for Unicode 5.1. [L2/07-405]

[114-C20] Consensus: Add the Tamil table in L2/08-078 and documentation of it to Unicode 5.1, as amended in the discussion. 

[114-C21] Consensus: Accept the Tamil provisional named sequences as approved for a future version of the standard, and note their status in the text of Unicode 5.1. [L2/08-078]

[114-C22] Consensus: Accept the proposed text concerning Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) sequences in L2/08-109 section 2 for a future version of the standard. [L2/08-109]

[114-C23] Consensus: Advance Working Draft Unicode Technical Report #45: U-Source Ideographs to Draft Unicode Technical Report #45: U-Source Ideographs and post for public review. [L2/08-053]

[114-C24] Consensus: After hearing the Chennai meeting report and having a preliminary discussion, the UTC resolves to explore avenues for making improvements in the ability of software to support Tamil.

[114-C25] Consensus: Approve section 1 of document L2/08-110 on dandas as amended in discussion, and submit a new document to WG2.

[114-C26] Consensus: Based on feedback from scholars and Government of Sri Lanka, remove archaic Sinhala numerals from Amendment 5 of 10646 and consider them for a future amendment pending further investigation. [L2/08-007, L2/08-068, L2/08-111]

[114-C27] Consensus: Approve the revised Tai Tham chart and nameslist as documented in L2/08-037, with the addition of the two subjoined variants in L2/07-073 at U+1A5D and U+1A5E. [L2/08-073]

[114-M1] Motion: Remove the 4 compatibility characters for Japanese television from Amendment 5 and use variation selectors instead: [L2/08-010]
U+FA6B CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA6B
U+FA6C CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA6C
U+FA6D  CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA6D
U+FA6E CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA6E

Moved by Eric Muller, seconded by Ken Whistler

8 for (Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Sun, Sybase, UCB, Yahoo)
1 against (Microsoft)
1 abstain (JustSystem)

Motion carried

[114-C28] Consensus: The unresolved conflicting information for KangXi sources must be resolved before Amendment 5 progresses.

[114-C28a] Consensus:  Correct the names of 3 Hangul characters as approved by prior WG2 resolution:

U+11FD HANGUL JONGSEONG KIYEOK-KHIEUK => U+11FD HANGUL JONGSEONG KIYEOK-KHIEUKH
U+A96E HANGUL CHOSEONG RIEUL-KHIEUK => U+A96E HANGUL CHOSEONG RIEUL-KHIEUKH
U+A973 HANGUL CHOSEONG PIEUP-KHIEUK => U+A973 HANGUL CHOSEONG PIEUP-KHIEUKH

[114-C29] Consensus: Accept 23 Vedic characters for encoding in a future version of the standard with properties and moves of code assignments of other previously accepted Vedic characters as given in sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4...3.12 of document L2/08-110:
U+094E DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN PRISHTHAMATRA E
U+1CE0 VEDIC TONE RIGVEDIC KASHMIRI INDEPENDENT SVARITA
U+1CD0 VEDIC TONE KARSHANA
U+1CD1 VEDIC TONE SHARA
U+1CD2 VEDIC SIGN PRENKHA
U+1CD3 VEDIC SIGN NIHSHVASA
U+1CD9 VEDIC TONE YAJURVEDIC KATHAKA INDEPENDENT SVARITA SCHROEDER
U+1CE2 VEDIC SIGN VISARGA SVARITA
U+1CE3 VEDIC SIGN VISARGA UDATTA
U+1CE4 VEDIC SIGN REVERSED VISARGA UDATTA
U+1CE5 VEDIC SIGN VISARGA ANUDATTA
U+1CE6 VEDIC SIGN REVERSED VISARGA ANUDATTA
U+1CE7 VEDIC SIGN VISARGA UDATTA WITH TAIL
U+1CE8 VEDIC SIGN VISARGA ANUDATTA WITH TAIL
U+1CF1 VEDIC SIGN ARDHAVISARGA
U+0900 DEVANAGARI SIGN INVERTED CANDRABINDU
U+A8F2 DEVANAGARI SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
U+1CEE VEDIC SIGN HEXIFORM LONG ANUSVARA
U+1CEF VEDIC SIGN LONG ANUSVARA
U+1CF0 VEDIC SIGN RTHANG LONG ANUSVARA
U+0973 DEVANAGARI SIGN PUSHPIKA
U+0974 DEVANAGARI CARET
U+1CED VEDIC SIGN TIRYAK

[114-M2] Motion: Accept 18 Samavedic letters and digits for encoding in a future version of the standard, with annotations as given in section 3.3 of document L2/08-110:
U+A8E0 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT ZERO
U+A8E1 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT ONE
U+A8E2 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT TWO
U+A8E3 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT THREE
U+A8E4 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT FOUR
U+A8E5 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT FIVE
U+A8E6 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT SIX
U+A8E7 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT SEVEN
U+A8E8 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT EIGHT
U+A8E9 COMBINING DEVANAGARI DIGIT NINE
U+A8EA COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER A
U+A8EB COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER U
U+A8EC COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER KA
U+A8ED COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER NA
U+A8EE COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER PA
U+A8EF COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER RA
U+A8F0 COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER VI
U+A8F1 COMBINING DEVANAGARI SIGN AVAGRAHA

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Deborah Anderson

6 for (Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, UCB)
2 against (Adobe, Google)
1 abstain (JustSystem)

Motion carried

[114-C30] Consensus: Retract rule LB30 in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm, and add an informative note about parentheses. [L2/08-112, L2/08-113]

[114-C31] Consensus: Approve the recommendations in L2/08-108, the first two of which are for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax in Unicode 5.1. The third is a request for the officers to add a stability policy for the General_Category values Private_Use, Surrogate, and Control, confirming that they are immutable.

[114-C32] Consensus: Advance the proposed update Unicode Standard Annexes to approved Unicode Standard Annexes for Unicode 5.1:
Unicode Standard Annex #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
Unicode Standard Annex #11: East Asian Width
Unicode Standard Annex #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm
Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms
Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names
Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries
Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax
Unicode Standard Annex #34: Unicode Named Character Sequences
Unicode Standard Annex #38: A User's Guide to the Unihan Database
Unicode Standard Annex #41: Common References for Unicode Standard Annexes
Unicode Standard Annex #42: An XML Representation of the UCD
Unicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database

[114-C33] Consensus: Approve Unicode 5.1 for release.

[114-C34] Consensus: Accept U+20B6 LIVRE TOURNOIS SIGN for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/07-332]

[114-C35] Consensus: Accept 32 Old South Arabian characters for encoding in a future version of the standard, in a new block "Old South Arabian",  at U+10A80..U+10A9F. [L2/08-044]

[114-C36] Consensus: Accept 91 Javanese characters for encoding in a future version of the standard, in a new block "Javanese" at U+A980..U+A9DF. [L2/08-015]

[114-C37] Consensus: Accept 61 Samaritan characters for encoding in a future version of the standard, in a new block "Samaritan" at U+0800..U+083F. [L2/08-024]

[114-C38] Consensus: Accept U+23E8 DECIMAL EXPONENT SYMBOL for encoding in a future version of the standard, and annotate its use in Algol-60 and in support of the GOST 10859-64 standard. [L2/08-030]

[114-C39] Consensus: Accept 48 Lisu characters for encoding in a future version of the standard, in a new block "Lisu" at U+A4D0..U+A4FF. Use "Lisu" rather than "Old Lisu" as the script name. [L2/08-019]

[114-C40] Consensus: Accept 71 Kaithi characters for encoding in a future version of the standard, in a new block "Kaithi" at U+11080..U+110CF. [L2/07-418]

[114-C41] Consensus: Accept 31 Rumi numeral symbols at U+10E60..U+10E7E for encoding in a future version of the standard in a new block "Rumi Symbols" at U+10E60..U+10E7F, with names and properties as given in L2/07-235.  [L2/07-235, L2/06-291]

[114-C42] Consensus: Update Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions based on L2/08-114 and extend public review to May 8, 2008.

[114-C43] Consensus: The UTC supports the position on  Egyptological Yod  in L2/08-087.