L2/14-177R

Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 140
Redmond, WA -- August 5-8, 2014
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #140 Agenda
Revision date: October 17, 2014

Tuesday August 5, 2014

Administrative — Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, SAP AG, UC Berkeley. 6 full members and 1 institutional member present, 7 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh, MIT, Bangladesh, MICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Sultanate of Oman, MARA, Tamil Nadu, W. Bengal, Yahoo! 3 full members,4 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 7.5 total votes

Oral review by Ken Whistler. No new actions. [L2/SD2, L2/14-178]

UTC 141 — October 27-30, 2014, host Apple, Annual Members Mtg
UTC 142 — February 2-5, 2015, host IBM
UTC 143 — May 5-8, 2015, host Adobe
UTC 144 — July 27-31, 2015, host Microsoft

Administrative — Membership update (A.9)

Oral report by Mark Davis.

[140-M1] Motion: Accept 38 Glagolitic combining characters with properties as documented in L2/14-087R, at 1E000..1E02A in block "Glagolitic Extended-A" at 1E000..1E02F for encoding in a future version of the standard.

Moved by Lisa Moore, seconded by Roozbeh Pournader

4 for (Google, IBM, Microsoft, UCB)
0 against
3 abstain (Adobe, Apple, SAP)

Motion carries.

[140-A1] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include 38 new Glagolitic characters. [L2/14-087R]

[140-A2] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the 38 new Glagolitic characers to the the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-087R]

[140-A3] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with Aleksandr Andreev to update the Glagolitic proposal and then forward to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-087R]

Scripts — Latin Dialectology (C.4.1) 

The UTC took no action at this time. [L2/14-169]

Scripts — Greek Byzantine Indiction Sign (C.9.1)

[140-C1] Consensus: Accept U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN with properties as given in L2/14-156 for encoding in a future version of the standard.

[140-A4] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN. [L2/14-156]

[140-A5] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-156]

[140-A6] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Forward the proposal to encode U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-156]

[140-A7] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Follow up on a font for U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN and forward to Michel Suignard. [L2/14-156]

Scripts — Double Suspension Mark (C.9.2) 

[140-C2] Consensus: Accept U+2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in L2/14-157.

[140-A8] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK. [L2/14-157]

[140-A9] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-157]

[140-A10] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with the proposer of the Double Suspension Mark to update the proposal and forward to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-157]

[140-A11] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Forward a font for U+2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK to Michel Suignard. [L2/14-157]

Roll call adjustment
PRESENT: Oman MARA now present.
8 members now represented

Symbols — Emoji (E.1.4)

The UTC provided comments, but took no action at this time. [L2/14-184]

Technical Reports — Unicode Collation Algorithm (B.12.1)

[140-C3] Consensus: For the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) Version 8, remove from the DUCET all Cyrillic contractions except for Й and й (U+0419 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I, U+0439 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I). [L2/14-106]

[140-A12] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remove all Cyrillic contractions from the DUCET, except for Й and й (U+0419 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I, U+0439 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I) for V8.0. [L2/14-106]

[140-A13] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Editorial Committee: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm highlighting the change for Cyrillic contractions. [L2/14-106]

[140-A14] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for the proposed update of the Unicode Technical Standard #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm, to close October 20, 2014, highlighting the impact on the European Ordering Rules from the change for Cyrillic. [L2/14-106]

[140-A15] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Regenerate the DUCET with the V7.0 repertoire without the Cyrillic contractions, and post that for the initial Public Review Issue on the Unicode Technical Standard #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm for V8.0. [L2/14-106]

[140-A16] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Lisa Moore: Update document  L2/14-140 on removing most Cyrillic contractions and forward to Alain LaBonte as a UTC liaison document.

[140-A17] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to William Overington regarding his feedback on Working Draft UTR #51, Unicode Emoji. [L2/14-184]

[140-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis, Peter Edberg: Update Working Draft Unicode Technical Report #51, Unicode Emoji based on input received for the October 2014 Unicode Technical Committee meeting. [L2/14-184]

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh, MIT, Bangladesh, MICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu, W. Bengal, Yahoo! 2 full members,4 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 6.5 total votes

[140-C4] Consensus: Accept U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in document L2/14-153.

[140-A19] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU.

[140-A20] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-153]

[140-A21] Action Item for Vinodh Rajan: Provide a font for U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU to Michel Suignard. [L2/14-153]

[140-A22] Action Item for Vinodh Rajan: Forward the proposal to encode for U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-153]

South Asian — Saurashtra Candrabindu (D.5) 

[140-C5] Consensus: Accept U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU with properties as given in L2/14-163, for encoding in future version of the standard.

[140-A23] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU. [L2/14-163]

[140-A24] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-163]

[140-A25] Action Item for Vinodh Rajan: Provide font for U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU to Michel Suignard. [L2/14-163]

[140-A26] Action Item for Vinodh Rajan: Forward the proposal to encode U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU to SC2/ WG2. [L2/14-163]

South Asian — New Tai Lue (D.2)

[140-C6] Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue to say that the UTC is considering a change in the rendering model of New Tai Lue to visual order. [L2/14-090]

[140-A27] Action Item for Martin Hosken, Andrew Glass, Deborah Anderson, Editorial Committee: Draft a Public Review Issue background document on the New Tai Lue rendering model, by August 31, 2014. [L2/14-090]

[140-A28] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on the New Tai Lue rendering model to close October 20, 2014.

[140-A29] Action Item for Peter Constable: Add information on the New Tai Lue Public Review Issue to his SC2/WG2 liaison report. [L2/14-090]

[140-A30] Action Item for Peter Constable: Communicate the proposed changes in the rendering model for New Tai Lue to the Chinese National Body in advance of upcoming SC2/WG2 meeting. [L2/14-090]

CJK — Bopomofo Letter I (B.15.1)

[140-C7] Consensus: Change the representative glyph of U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I to use the horizontal bar form. [L2/14-189]

[140-A31] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Issue a glyph erratum for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I. [L2/14-189]

[140-A32] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Michel Suignard: Update the chart font for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-189]

[140-A33] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update text and annotations relevant to the glyph change for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I. [L2/14-189]

[140-A34] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the glyph change for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-189]

Public Review Issue 278 — Vertical Text Layout (B.11.5)

[140-C8] Consensus: Accept the editor's proposals 1, 3, and 4 from document L2/14-171.

[140-A35] Action Item for Koji Ishii: Incorporate editor's proposals from L2/14-171 into UTR #50. [L2/14-171]

[140-C9] Consensus: Change the vertical layout property of U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I from "U" to "Tu". [L2/14-171]

[140-C10] Consensus: Approve the publication of Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout, updated for Unicode V7.0. [L2/14-171]

[140-A36] Action Item for Koji Ishii, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout based on feedback and discussion in the meeting and prepare revision 13. [L2/14-171]

[140-A37] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the final Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout. [L2/14-171]

[140-A38] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #278. [L2/14-171]

[140-A39] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add "B.15.2 CJK ideographs glyphs representation and sources references (WG2 N4544) [Suignard, L2/14-149]" to the agenda for the October UTC meeting.

CJK — WAVE_DASH (B.15.3) 

[140-M2] Motion: Change the glyph for U+301C WAVE DASH as per document L3/14-198.

Moved by Mark Davis, Seconded by Peter Edberg

5 for (Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft)
0 against
3 abstain (Oman, SAP, UCB)

Motion carries.

[140-A40] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Issue a glyph erratum for the change to U+301C WAVE DASH. [L2/14-198]

[140-A41] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the text of the core specification and the nameslist for the glyph change for U+301C WAVE DASH, for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-198]

[140-A42] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Include the glyph change for U+301C WAVE DASH in the Unicode V8.0 migration information.

IRG — U+2827C Unification Issue (B.3.2) 

UTC discussed the issue but took no action. [L2/14-138]

IRG — Meeting Resolutions (B.3.3)

[140-A43] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Fix the pipeline entry for CJI ideograph  U+9FD0. [L2/14-197]

Scripts — Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters (C.7.1.1) 

[140-C11] Consensus: Accept nine Cyrillic characters at U+1C80..U+1C88 with properties as documented in L2/14-196, and block "Cyrillic Extended-C" at U+1C80..U+1C8F, for encoding in future version of the standard:

	U+1C80 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ROUNDED VE
	U+1C81 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LONG-LEGGED DE
	U+1C82 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NARROW O
	U+1C83 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER WIDE ES
	U+1C84 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TALL TE
	U+1C85 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER THREE-LEGGED TE
	U+1C86 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TALL HARD SIGN
	U+1C87 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TALL YAT
	U+1C88 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UNBLENDED UK

[140-A43a] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to add nine Cyrillic characters at U+1C80..U+1C88. [L2/14-196]

[140-A44] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add nine Cyrillic letters to the document requesting future additions to 10646, and note that this as an urgent request. See Consensus 140-C11. [L2/14-196]

[140-A45] Action Item for Aleksandr Andreev: Forward an updated proposal for nine Cyrillic letters to WG2. See Consensus 140-C11. [L2/14-196]

[140-A46] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font for nine Cyrillic letters at U+1C80..U+1C88 to Michel Suignard. See Consensus 140-C11. [L2/14-196]

Symbols — Emoji (E.1.1)

The UTC discussed but took no action on the iDiversicons proposal. [14-154R]

[140-A47] Action Item for Mark Davis: Talk to Facebook and Twitter to see if they would like to get more involved.

Scripts — Pitman Shorthand Scripts (C.8)

[140-A48] Action Item for Van Anderson: Relay feedback to the author of the Pitman shorthand proposal. [L2/14-167]

[140-A49] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Work with the Roadmap Committee to add Pitman Shorthand, after Duployan. [L2/14-167]

Symbols — Adding Georgian Lari currency sign (E.2) 

[140-C12] Consensus: Accept U+20BE LARI SIGN with properties as given in document L2/14-161 and "LB=Po" for encoding in Unicode version 8.0.

[140-A50] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+20BE LARI SIGN. [L2/14-161]

[140-A51] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+20BE LARI SIGN to the document requesting future additions to 10646 and note the urgency. [L2/14-161]

[140-A52] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Follow up with submitters of U+20BE LARI SIGN to update the name and provide a font. Obtain an updated proposal and forward to WG2. [L2/14-161]

Thursday, August 7, 2014

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh, MIT, Bangladesh, MICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu, W. Bengal, Yahoo! 2 full members,4 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 7.5 total votes

The UTC discussed but took no action at this time. [L2/14-108R]

Properties — Defining "Block" (B.14.1)

[140-A53] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update document L2/14-155 to propose a definition of block for the core specification for Version 8 of the Unicode Standard. 

Properties — Cherokee Casing and Identifier Syntax (B.14.2) 

[140-C13] Consensus: Start a proposed update to Unicode Standard Annex #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax that addresses the Cherokee casing issue docuemtned in L2/14-187.

[140-A54] Action Item for Mark Davis Editorial Committee: Create a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax that addresses the Cherokee casing issue. [L2/14-187]

[140-A55] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Prepare and post a Public Review Issue on Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax to close October 20, 2014.

Properties — Feedback on Mandaic Shaping (B.14.3) 

[140-C14] Consensus: Create an erratum to address the changes to Mandaic shaping documented in items #1 and #2 of document L2/14-194.

[140-A56] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Create an erratum for Mandaic shaping, based on document L2/14-194.

Properties — UCD Test Stability (B.14.4)

[140-A57] Action Item for Mark Davis, Laurentiu Iancu: Provide a document that details requirements and proposes a solution for Unicode test files, for Unicode V8.0.

Scripts — Proposal to encode Latin characters for Osage (C.4.2) 

[140-C15] Consensus: Osage should be encoded as a separate script, not Latin. [L2/14-175]

[140-M3] Motion: Osage should be encoded as a bicameral script. [L2/14-175]

Moved by Peter Constable, seconded by Ken Whistler.

6 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, UCB)
0 against
1 abstain (Google)

Motion carries.

Properties — Script Extensions and Indic Properties (B.14.5) 

[140-C16] Consensus: Change the name of the Indic_Matra_Property to Indic_Positional_Category, for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-199]

[140-A58] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Prepare the revised data file IndicPositionalCategory.txt, for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-199]

[140-A59] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make all the relevant adjustments to PropertyValues.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt for the updates to Indic properties for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-199]

[140-A60] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Adjust the text of Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database for the updates to Indic properties. [L2/14-199]

[140-A61] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Adjust the text of Unicode Standard Annex #42, Unicode Character Database in XML for the updates to Indic properties [L2/14-199]

[140-C17] Consensus: Make Indic_Syllabic_Category and Indic_Positional_Category informative properties in Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-199]

[140-A62] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make further adjustments in Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database related to Indic_Positional_Category and Indic_Syllabic_Category. [L2/14-199]

Technical Reports — IDNA Compatibility Processing — Testing for Empty Labels (B.12.4.1)

[140-A63] Action Item for Mark Davis: Produce a revised version of L2/14-137 that fixes the links.

[140-C18] Consensus: Prepare an update of Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing for Unicode V8.0 to add "0. The label must have length not-equal-to zero, if it is not the final label." That is, always check for zero-length labels. [L2/14-137]

[140-A64] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare an update of Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing for Unicode V8.0.

[140-A65] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing for Unicode V8.0, to close October 20, 2014.

Technical Reports — IDNA Update for Unicode 7.0.0 (B.12.4.2)

The UTC discussed, but took no action at this time. [L2/14-159]

Technical Reports — IDNA Compatibility Processing (B.12.4)

[140-A66] Action Item for Mark Davis: Look at feedback from Anne van Kesteren in L2/14-179 regarading Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing, and report back to UTC with a recommendation whether to do anything, and if so, what.

[140-A67] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Thank Anne van Kesteren for the input in L2/14-179 regarding Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing.

[140-A68] Action Item for Mark Davis: Fix the typo in Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing reported by Diego Perini. [L2/14-179]

Public Review Issue 272 — Unicode Security Considerations (B.11.1) 

[140-C19] Consensus: Approve the update of Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations. [L2/14-181]

[140-A69] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Upate the approved Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations and prepare for publication.

[140-A70] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #272.

[140-A71] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the approved Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations.

Public Review Issue 273 — Unicode Security Mechanisms (B.11.2)  

[140-A72] Action Item for Mark Davis: Compare the list of maximal starting repertoire characters in Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms for V8.0.  

[140-C20] Consensus: Approve the proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms as amended during the meeting. [L2/14-182]

[140-A73] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms and prepare for publication.

[140-A74] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the approved Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms.

[140-A75] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #273.

[140-C21] Consensus: After releasing Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms for V7.0, post a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms for version 8.0 that removes the SL, SA, and ML tables, and documents how they can be derived instead, and makes the appropriate changes in the text.

[140-A76] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Issue a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms for V8.0.

[140-A77] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms, to close January 26, 2015.

Scripts — Latin Characters for Mazahua (C.4.3)

[140-A78] Action Item for Denis Jacquerye, Deborah Anderson: Contact the Mazahua language speakers to validate use of the two characters proposed in document L2/14-201.

Scripts — Additional Latin Dialectology Characters (C.4.1)

The UTC discussed, but took no action at this time. [L2/14-169R]

Scripts — Additional proposal to encode Latin characters for theta and delta (C.4.5)

[140-A79] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add "C.4.5 Additional proposal to encode Latin characters for theta and delta [Jacquerye, L2/14-202]" to the agenda for the October 2014 UTC meeting.

Properties — U+E01EF VARIATION SELECTOR-256 (B.14.6)

[140-A80] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Communicate UTC feedback on L2/14-200 to Behdad Esfahbod.

Properties — Closing the Donut Hole (B.13.4)

[140-A81] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add the following agenda items to the agenda for October 2014 UTC meeting:
     B.13.4 Closing the donut hole [Whistler, L2/14-146]
     B.13.5 Mongolian representations in the charts [Suignard, L2/14-150]
     C.9.4 Proposal to change glyph for small GREEK LETTER YOT [Bobeck, L2/14-185]
     C.6 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Turkestani Script [Wilson, L2/14-192]
     C.4.4 Revised proposal to encode Unifon characters [SEI, Everson, L2/14-070]

[140-A82] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remand the proposal to include Cyrillic and Latin extended blocks in the roadmap to the Roadmap Committee. [L2/14-190]

[140-A83] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Karl Pentzlin regarding his roadmap request. [L2/14-190]

Scripts — Nomisma Sign (C.9.3)

[140-C22] Consensus: Accept U+1018E NOMISMA SIGN with GC=So, Bidi=ON, and no decomposition, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/14-158]

[140-A84] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+1018E NOMISMA SIGN. [L2/14-158]

[140-A85] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+1018E NOMISMA SIGN to the document requesting future additions to 10646. [L2/14-158]

[140-A86] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Get a font to Michel Suignard for U+1018E NOMISMA SIGN. [L2/14-158]

[140-A87] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Forward an updated proposal to encode the nomisma sign to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-158]

SEI — Liaison report (B.7.1)

Oral report by Deborah Anderson. [L2/14-191]

Friday, August 8, 2014

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh, MIT, Bangladesh, MICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu, W. Bengal, Yahoo! 2 full members,4 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 7.5 total votes

The UTC discussed but took no action at this time. [L2/14-104]

Scripts — Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa (C.3.1.1) 

[140-C23] Consensus: Accept U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in section 7 of document L2/14-170.

[140-A88] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB. [L2/14-148]

[140-A89] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB to the document requesting future additions to 10646. [L2/14-148]

[140-A90] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB to US ballot comments. [L2/14-148]

[140-A91] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader, Tom Milo: Write a section in the core specification about horizontally stacking Koranic marks. [L2/14-148]

[140-A92] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Respond to Lateef Sagar Shaikh asking him to update his proposal and send to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-148]

[140-A93] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font to Michel for U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB. [L2/14-148]

[140-A94] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add the following to the agenda for the October 2014 UTC meeting:
     C.3.1.2 Proposal to encode Proposal to encode Quranic mark Small High Yeh with Fatha [Shaikh, L2/14-203]
     C.3.3.1 Proposal to encode seventeen Arabic honorifics [Pournader, L2/14-147]
     C.3.3.2 Proposal to encode two Arabic honorifics [Shaikh, L2/14-152]
     B.11.4 Issue 277: Reconciling Script and Script_Extensions character properties
     B.12.2.1 Linebreaking before IN [Muller, L2/14-168]

South Asian — ZWJ Joiner for Grantha Chillus (D.3.2) 

[140-A95] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Peter Constable: Discuss how to represent Grantha chillus, and create a recommendation for the next UTC meeting. See documents L2/14-097 and L2/14-110.

Scripts — Warsh Orthography (C.3.2) 

[140-C24] Consensus: Accept three Arabic letters for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in [L2/14-207]:
    U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH
    U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF
    U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON

[140-A96] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH, U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF, and U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON. [L2/14-207]

[140-A97] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH, U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF, and U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON to the document requesting new additions to 10646. [L2/14-207]

[140-A98] Action Item for Lorna Evans: Update the proposal for three African Arabic letters and forward to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-207]

[140-A99] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font to Michel Suignard for the three new African Arabic letters. See L2/14-104 and L2/14-207.

Scripts — Nushu (C.5.1) 

[140-C25] Consensus: The UTC requests US ballot comments to remove Nushu from PDAM2. [L2/14-186]

[140-A100] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add request for removal of Nushu to ballot comments on PDAM2. [L2/14-186]

[140-A101] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with Toshiya Suzuki to update document L2/14-186 on the Nushu code chart review and submit to both SC2/WG2 and to UTC (as L2/14-186R).

Public Review Issue 276 — Repertoire of 10646:2014 Amendment 2 (B.11.3.1) 

[140-C26] Consensus: Change U+1F32D BLACK WANING CRESCENT MOON to U+23FE POWER SLEEP SYMBOL. [L2/14-179]

[140-A102] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline with new name and code point for U+23FE POWER SLEEP SYMBOL. [L2/14-179]

[140-A103] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+23FE POWER SLEEP SYMBOL to US ballot comments.[L2/14-179]

[140-A104] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Review the content of feedback on Public Review Issue #276 when processing the nameslist for Unicode 9.0. See PRI #276 feedback.

[140-A105] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Jörg Knappen regarding his feedback on PRI #276.

[140-A106] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to feedback from Mu. Elangovan regarding Tamil names in PRI #276.

[140-A107] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to feedback from Krishnaswamy Nachimuthu in PRI #276.

[140-A108] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add to ballot comments a request to change the header "Letter for Gabonese" to "Letter for African Languages" over the section of the names list starting with U+A7AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I. See feedback from Denis Moyogo Jacquerye in PRI #276.

[140-A109] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the comments on the text of the amendment in L2/14-205 to ballot comments on PDAM2 as editorial comments. 

[140-A109a] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #276.

Editorial — Unicode 8.0 (B.13.3)

[140-C27] Consensus: Release Unicode 8.0 in the summer of 2015.

[140-A110] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Release Unicode 8.0 in the summer of 2015.

Editorial — Emoji (E.1)

[140-C28] Consensus: Accept five symbol modifier letters (general category "Sk", for encoding in Unicode 8.0: [L2/14-213]

	U+1F3FB LIGHT SKIN TONE
	U+1F3FC MEDIUM LIGHT SKIN TONE
	U+1F3FD MEDIUM SKIN TONE
	U+1F3FE MEDIUM DARK SKIN TONE
	U+1F3FF DARK SKIN TONE

[140-A111] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the five symbol modifier letters at 1F3FB..1F3FF. [L2/14-213]

[140-A112] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the five symbol modifier letters 1F3FB..1F3FF to the request for new additions as an urgent request. [L2/14-213]

[140-A113] Action Item for Mark Davis, Peter Edberg: Prepare a proposal summary form for the five symbol modifier letters at 1F3FB..1F3FF and send to WG2. [L2/14-213]

[140-A114] Action Item for Peter Constable: Add a discussion of skin tone modifiers to the Unicode SC2 liaison report. [L2/14-213]

[140-A115] Action Item for Peter Edberg, Mark Davis: Update L2/14-172, L2/14-173, L2/14-174 and post as R versions.

[140-A116] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Provide font for the five symbol modifier letters 1F3FB..1F3FF. [L2/14-213]

[140-A117] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Reply to the two documents from Nzewi Uchenna, L2/14-144 and L2/14-145.

[140-A118] Action Item for Mark Davis: Set up monthly telephone calls on emoji.

[140-A119] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend Public Review Issue #277 to October 20, 2014.

Technical Reports — Character Property Model (B.12.3.1)

[140-C29] Consensus: Create a proposed update of Unicode Technical Report #23, Unicode Character Property Model. [L2/14-193]

[140-A120] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Technical Report #23, Unicode Character Property Model based on L2/14-193.

[140-A121] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #23, Unicode Character Property Model to close October 20, 2014.

Public Review Issue — Other feedback (B.11.6.1)

[140-A122] Action Item for Mark Davis: Review feedback from Claus Faerber in L2/14-179.

[140-A123] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Create a new document for unreviewed feedback from document L2/14-179 and request an agenda item for the October UTC.

UTC Attendance

Members Represented

Members not in regular attendance: Andhra Pradesh, India, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Monotype, Oracle

Total full members in regular attendance: 7

Total institutional members in regular attendance: 2

Total supporting members in regular attendance: 0

Quorum: 5