Preliminary Motions of the UTC 118 / L2 215 Joint Meeting
Mountain View, CA -- February 2-6, 2009
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UTC #118 Agenda
March 13, 2009

[118-C1] Consensus: Approve the minutes of joint meeting UTC 117/L2 214. [L2/08-361R]

[118-C2] Consensus: Add information about the Regex pattern for grapheme clusters to the update of Unicode Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation as informative. [L2/09-051]

Editorial Committee —  UAX Updates for Unicode 5.2 (B.13.5)

[118-C3] Consensus: Open Public Review Issues for proposed updates for all of the Unicode Standard Annexes for Unicode 5.2.

[118-C4] Consensus: Change the names of 10 ARIB symbols and move SQUARE DJ from U+1F14F to U+1F190: [L2/09-064]
U+1F157 WHITE ON BLACK CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H => NEGATIVE CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
U+1F15F WHITE ON BLACK CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P => NEGATIVE CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
U+1F179 WHITE ON BLACK SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J => NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
U+1F17B WHITE ON BLACK SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L => NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
U+1F17C WHITE ON BLACK SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M => NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
U+1F17F WHITE ON BLACK SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P => NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
U+1F18A CROSSED WHITE ON BLACK SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P => CROSSED NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
U+1F18B WHITE ON BLACK SQUARED IC => NEGATIVE SQUARED IC
U+1F18C WHITE ON BLACK SQUARED PA => NEGATIVE SQUARED PA
U+1F18D WHITE ON BLACK SQUARED SA => NEGATIVE SQUARED SA

Symbols —  Proposal to encode a German trademark symbol in the UCS (D.5) 

[118-C5] Consensus: Accept U+1F12E CIRCLED WZ for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/09-034]

[118-C6] Consensus: Accept U+275F HEAVY LOW SINGLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT and U+2760 HEAVY LOW DOUBLE COMMA QUOTATION MARK ORNAMENT for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/09-021]

[118-C7] Consensus: Adopt the proposal in Public Review Issue 130 to change the word break property for U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE to "Other" for Unicode 5.2. [L2/09-053]

[118-C8] Consensus: Adopt option D of Public Review Issue 132 on code point names or labels. Make changes in the text as documented in "Changes if we do option C" of the PRI document, except for the fourth bullet of section 4.8. That bullet becomes an informative note about API and chart conventions. The Editorial Committee to make adjustments as necessary. [L2/09-055]

[118-C9] Consensus: Request the officers to update the stability policy on character names to align with the proposed wording in L2/09-055.

[118-C10] Consensus: Documenation error. See action 118-A29.

[118-C11] Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue connected with 1) X9 in the Unicode Bidi Algorithm and 2) the "Bug 1" reported on N1 of the bidi algorithm, both as described in L2/09-073 and amended in discussion. The Public Review Issue will provide test cases that can be used to assess  existing implementations. 

[118-C13] Consensus: Ask the Bidi Committee to come up with proposed conformance test data and a background document for the Public Review Issue connected with 1) X9 in the Unicode Bidi Algorithm and 2) the "Bug 1" reported on N1. See 118-A32 and 118-C12.

Scripts —  Additional Ethiopic Characters (B.15.16) 

[118-C14] Consensus: Accept 32 Ethiopic characters in block "Ethiopic Extended-A" at U+AB00..U+AB2F and two other Ethiopic characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/09-050R]
U+135D ETHIOPIC COMBINING GEMINATION AND VOWEL LENGTH MARK
U+135E ETHIOPIC COMBINING VOWEL LENGTH MARK
U+AB01 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE TTHU
U+AB02 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE TTHI
U+AB03 THIOPIC SYLLABLE TTHAA
U+AB04 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE TTHEE
U+AB05 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE TTHE
U+AB06 THIOPIC SYLLABLE TTHO
U+AB09 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DDHU
U+AB0A ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DDHI
U+AB0B ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DDHAA
U+AB0C ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DDHEE
U+AB0D ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DDHE
U+AB0E ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DDHO
U+AB11 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DZU
U+AB12 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DZI
U+AB13 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DZAA
U+AB14 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DZEE
U+AB15 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DZE
U+AB16 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE DZO
U+AB20 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE CCHHA
U+AB21 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE CCHHU
U+AB22 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE CCHHI
U+AB23 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE CCHHAA
U+AB24 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE CCHHEE
U+AB25 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE CCHHE
U+AB26 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE CCHHO
U+AB28 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE BBA
U+AB29 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE BBU
U+AB2A ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE BBI
U+AB2B ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE BBAA
U+AB2C ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE BBEE
U+AB2D ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE BBE
U+AB2E ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE BBO

[118-C15] Consensus: Accept U+10857 IMPERIAL ARAMAIC SECTION SIGN for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/09-066]

[118-C16] Consensus: Accept U+A660 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED TSE and U+A661 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER REVERSED TSE for encoding in a future version of the standard with properties as documented in L2/09-020. 

[118-C17] Consensus: Re-order the Amendment 6 and 7 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics characters and change the block name to "Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended" at U+18B0..U+18FF. [L2/09-018]

[118-M1] Motion: In ballot comments on Amendment 7, ask for removal of Batak because some characters should be unified, and BATAK SYMBOL BINDU GODANG and BATAK SYMBOL BINDU PINARJOLMA. [L2/08-011, L2/09-063]

Moved by Eric Muller, seconded by Peter Constable

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

Motion carried.

Scripts — Historic Kana (B.15.18)

[118-C18] Consensus: Accept U+1B000 KATAKANA LETTER ARCHAIC E in a new block "Historic Kana" U+1B000..U+1B0FF for encoding in a future version of the standard. L2/07-421.

[118-C19] Consensus: Accept 4 Tibetan letters for encoding in a future version of the standard with properties as documented in L2/09-032:
U+0F8C TIBETAN SIGN INVERTED MCHU CAN
U+0F8D TIBETAN SUBJOINED SIGN LCE TSA CAN
U+0F8E TIBETAN SUBJOINED SIGN MCHU CAN
U+0F8F TIBETAN SUBJOINED SIGN INVERTED MCHU CAN

[118-A54] Action Item for Peter Edberg, Mark Davis: Look for middle dots with suitable properties that would work for Phags-Pa transliteration. [L2/09-031]

Scripts —  Bopomofo  (B.15.15)

[118-C21] Consensus: Accept three Bopomofo letters for encoding in a future version of the standard with properties as given in L2/09-049:
U+31B8 BOPOMOFO LETTER GH
U+31B9 BOPOMOFO LETTER LH
U+31BA BOPOMOFO LETTER ZY

South Asian Script Subcommittee — Malayalam (E.3) 

[118-C22] Consensus: Adopt the recommendation in section 3.2 of document L2/09-075 regarding the representation of Malayalam Chandrakkala.

[118-C24] Consensus: Accept U+110BE KAITHI SECTION MARK and U+110BF KAITHI DOUBLE SECTION MARK for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/07-199, L2/09-070, L2/09-071]

Scripts — Alchemical Symbols (B.15.14) 

[118-C25] Consensus: Accept the repertoire of 116 alchemical symbols at U+1F700..U+1F773 with block name "Alchemical Symbols" at U+1F700..U+1F77F for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/09-037R]

WG2 — Compatibility Ideographs (B.1.7) 

[118-C26] Consensus: Adopt the position on compatibility ideographs outlined in document L2/09-080 and as amended in discussion. [L2/08-371]

Symbols Subcommittee — Emoji (D.2)

[118-M2] Motion: Accept 674 emoji characters for encoding in a future version of the standar with names and codepoints as documented in L2/09-026R.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Peter Edberg

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, UCB, Yahoo)
1 against (NetApp)
0 abstain

Motion carried.

[118-C27] Consensus: Create two new blocks to accommodate the 674 emoji characters. "Miscellaneous Pictographic Symbols" at U+1F300..U+1F5FF and "Emoji Compatibility Symbols" at U+1F600..U+1F64F. [L2/09-026R]

[118-C29] Consensus: Include the emoji source data in the UCD for a future version of the standard. [L2/09-078]

[118-C30] Consensus: Approve the ballot comments on Amendments 6 and 7 and the requested new additions, as documented in L2/09-082, L2/09-083, and L2/09-084.

[118-C32] Consensus: Change the general category of  U+2071 SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER I and U+207F SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N  from "Ll" to "Lm" for Unicode 5.2. [L2/08-431]

Properties — kRSURadBreak Data (B.14.1) 

[118-C33] Consensus: Add data relating radical numbers to the appropriate unified ideographs and CJK radicals and have the Editorial Committee determine the appropriate place for the data. [L2/09-017]

UTC Attendance

Members Represented

Member	February 2	February 3	February 4	February 5	February 6
Full
1. Adobe Systems, Inc.	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
2. Apple, Inc.	yes (proxy)	yes	yes	yes	yes
3. Denic e. G.	no	no	no	no	no
4. Google, Inc.	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
5. IBM Corporation	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
6. Microsoft Corporation	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
7. NetApp	yes	yes	yes	yes (proxy)	yes
8. Oracle Corporation	no	no	no	no	no
9. SAP AG	no	no	no	no	no
10. Sun Microsystems, Inc.	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
11. Sybase, Inc.	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
12. Yahoo!	yes	no	yes	yes	yes
Institutional
1. India, MIT	no	no	no	no	no
2. W. Bengal SNLTR	no	no	no	no	no
3. Tamil Nadu, Gov't	no	no	no	no	no
4. UC Berkeley	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Supporting
1. Monotype Imaging Corp.	no	no	no	no	no