L2/11-262R
Resolutions of the UTC 128/L2 225 Joint
Meeting
Redmond, WA — August 1-5, 2011
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #128 Agenda
Revision date: November 1, 2011
Monday August 1, 2011
Administrative — Minutes Approval (A.5.1.1 )[128-C1] Consensus: Approve the minutes of Joint Meeting UTC 127/L2/224. [L2/11-116R]
Properties — Bidi Class (B.13.1)[128-C2] Consensus: Change the default bidi class from "R" to "AL" for the two new Arabic-related blocks, Arabic Extended-A at U+08A0 - U+08FF and Arabic Mathematical Symbols at U+1EE00 - U+1EEFF. [L2/11-268]
Properties — Name Aliases for Control Characters (B.13.2)[128-C3] Consensus: Accept Ken Whistler's recommendations in L2/11-281 on name aliases for control characters with the addition of the abbreviations BEL and NUL.
[128-C4] Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue on updating NameAliases.txt with the addition of the abbreviations BEL and NUL. [L2/11-281]
Properties — Normalization Invariants (B.13.3)[128-C5] Consensus: The UTC asks the officers to establish a stability policy that the full compatibility and canonical decompositions of a single character cannot exceed eighteen characters. [L2/11-283]
Properties — Collation and General Category (B.13.5)
[128-C6] Consensus: Change the general category from "So" to "Po" for these characters, for Unicode 6: [L2/11-310]
U+00A7 SECTION SIGN
U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN
U+0F14 TIBETAN MARK GTER TSHEG
U+1360 ETHIOPIC SECTION MARK
U+10102 AEGEAN CHECK MARK
[128-C8] Consensus: Change the general category of the eight characters U+3248..U+324F from "So" to "No". The numeric type goes to "Numeric" and assign a numeric value, in Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-310]
Properties — Syriac Shaping (B.13.4)[128-C9] Consensus: Accept all four items of L2/11-286 for Unicode 6.1.
Public Review Issue 186 — Word-Joining Hyphen (B.10.6)[128-C10]
Consensus: To address the issue in Public Review Issue 186 add text
in Unicode Standard Annex#29,
Unicode Text Segmentation
to say that in those orthographies where hyphens are used
interior to words, it is appropriate to tailor the hyphen to be a
"MidLetter".
[L2/11-289]
[128-C11] Consensus: Add GC=Cn and GC=Cs to Grapheme Cluster Break Control. [L2/11-266]
Public Review Issue 199 — Unicode Character Database (B.10.15)[128-C12] Consensus: Implement the proposal to correct the documentation of Grapheme_Base and Grapheme_Extend in Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database that is documented in L2/11-282 and as amended in discussion.
Scripts and Symbols — Playing and Tarot Card Characters (WG2 N4089) (C.15)[128-M1] Motion: Accept 23 playing card characters at U+1F0BF and U+1F0E0..U+1F0E5, and 79 tarot card characters at U+1F900..1F955 with block "Tarot Cards" at U+1F900..U+1F95F for encoding in a future version of the standard with properties as documented in L2/11-216.
Moved by Eric Muller, Seconded by Tex Texin
4 for (Adobe, IBM, Rearden, Apple),
1 against (Google)
3 abstain (SAP, Microsoft, UCB)
Motion fails.
[128-M2] Motion: Accept 23 playing card characters at U+1F0BF and U+1F0E0..U+1F0E5 for encoding in a future version of the standard with properties as documented in L2/11-216.
Moved by Ken Whistler, Seconded by Eric Muller
5 for (Apple, Adobe, IBM, Rearden,
SAP)
1 against (Google)
2 abstain (Microsoft, UCB)
Motion carries.
Scripts and Symbols — Psalter Pahlavi Script (C.3)[128-C14]
Consensus: Accept 29 Psalter Pahlavi characters at U+10B80..U+10BAF
and block Psalter Pahlavi, U+10B80..U+10BAF (not including the 7
punctuation marks in document L2/11-147
at U+10B92..U+10B98) for encoding in a future version of the standard.
[L2/11-147]
[128-C15] Consensus: Approve 504 symbols for Wingdings and Webdings from proposal L2/11-247, with corrections made by Michel Suignard in L2/11-316, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-253]
Editorial Committee — Unicode 6.1 Beta (B.12.4 )[128-C16] Consensus: Authorize the issuance of a beta for version 6.1 of the Unicode Standard to close October 24, 2011.
Properties — Selected Odd Characters (B.13.8)[128-C17] Consensus: Add U+2071, U+207F, U+2095..U+209C to the contributory property Other_Lowercase for Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-320, L2/11-321]
Scripts and Symbols — Embedding Level Mark (C.11.1)[128-C18]
Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue on the proposed ALM and ELM
characters. [L2/11-183]
[128-C19] Consensus: Approve Unicode Technical Standard #37, Ideographic Variation Database as amended in discussion in the meeting. [L2/11-317]
Public Review Issue 201 — U-Source Ideographs (B.10.17)[128-C20] Consensus: Approve Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #45, U-Source Ideographs and its associated data files, with changes to the data files as discussed. [L2/11-302]
Editorial Committee — Initiating Versions of Unicode (B.12.3.1)[128-C21] Consensus: The UTC endorses the process for initiating new versions of the Unicode Standard documented in L2/11-325.
Public Review Issues — Other Feedback (B.10.18)
[128-C23] Consensus: Accept 82 Grantha characters at U+11301..U+11374 with block "Grantha" U+11300..U+1137F, for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as documented in [L2/11-284]
[128-C25] Consensus: Accept U+1CF8 VEDIC TONE RING ABOVE and U+1CF9 VEDIC TONE DOUBLE RING ABOVE for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-267]
South Asian Subcommittee — Pau Cin Hau (D.9 )[128-C26]
Consensus: Change the names for six Pau Cin Hau characters to: [L2/11-287]
[128-C27] Consensus: Accept 39 Mahajani characters at U+11150..U+11176, with block "Mahajani" U+11150..U+1117F in a future version of the standard, with properties as specified in L2/11-274.
WG2 — Consent Docket (B.1.1.4 )[128-C28] Consensus: Approve the revised codepoint for U+16AF5 BASSA VAH FULL STOP. [L2/11-253]
[128-C29] Consensus: Approve revised code points for the two Armenian eternity signs: U+058D RIGHT-FACING ARMENIAN ETERNITY SIGN and U+058E LEFT-FACING ARMENIAN ETERNITY SIGN, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-253]
[128-C30] Consensus: Approve the revised name U+1F545 SYMBOL FOR MARKS CHAPTER [L2/11-253]
[128-C31] Consensus: Reconfirm the approval of the 143 Duployan shorthand characters in the Duployan block (U+1BC00..U+1BC9F), with the revised ordering as documented in [L2/11-215]
[128-C32] Consensus: Accept U+2E40 DOUBLE HYPHEN for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-038]
[128-C34] Consensus: Accept 5 combining characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/11-224]
U+FE27 COMBINING LIGATURE LEFT HALF BELOW
U+FE28 COMBINING LIGATURE RIGHT HALF BELOW
U+FE29 COMBINING TILDE LEFT HALF BELOW
U+FE2A COMBINING TILDE RIGHT HALF BELOW
U+FE2B COMBINING CONJOINING MACRON BELOW
[128-C35] Consensus: Accept 82 characters for the Tirhuta script at U+11480..U+224D9, in a new block "Tirhuta", with range U+11480..U+114DF for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-175R]
[128-C36] Consensus: Accept U+2E41 REVERSED COMMA and U+2E42 DOUBLE LOW-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-242]
[128-C37] Consensus: Accept 109 characters of the Old Hungarian script at U+10C80..U+10CFF, in a new block "Old Hungarian", with range U+10C80..U+10CFF, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-242]
[128-C38]
Consensus: Approve 85 characters for German dialectology documented
in section 11 of [L2/11-240]:
for encoding in a future version of the standard, with name changes for U+AB5E and U+AB5D as documented in the PDAM 1.2 document, [L2/11-316]
Scripts and Symbols — Cyrillic Letter Pair for Orok (C.8 )[128-C39] Consensus: Accept U+0528 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH LEFT HOOK and U+0529 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH LEFT HOOK for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-265]
Scripts and Symbols — Playing Cards (C.15.1)[128-C40] Consensus: Add text to the standard that explains the variation of glyphs for playing cards, including numbers, letters, suits, mundane versus esoteric, and add guidance for usage, in Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-322]
Public Review Issues — Other feedback (B.10.18.1)[128-C41] Consensus: Change the sort order of U+214D AKTIESELSKAB so that it sorts equivalent to the sequence "A/S" at a primary level for UCA 6.1. [L2/11-289]
Public Review Issue 200 — Unicode Character Categories (B.10.16)[128-C42] Consensus: Withdraw Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories. [L2/11-318]
Properties — Japanese Text Layout (B.13.9)[128-C43] Consensus: Authorize a proposed draft with the title Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text Layout. [L2/11-327]