L2/02-070
Preliminary Minutes of the UTC 90 / L2 187 Joint Meeting
Mountain View, CA -- February 11 - 14, 2002
April 16, 2002
February 11, 2002

Number of members in good standing as of this meeting: 20, Number of members in regular attendance: 18, Quorum: 9.

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Compaq Computer; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp.; Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; PeopleSoft; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; Trigeminal Software; Unisys Corporation  (by proxy).

NOT PRESENT: Basis Technology; Government of India, MIT; Oracle Corp.; Progress Software; Reuters, Ltd.; RLG; RWS Group LLC; SAP AG.

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: Government of India, MIT; RWS Group LLC.

Total members represented: 12, Total not represented: 8

Calendar Review and Update

UTC 91/L2 188 - April 30 - May 3, 2002, Pleasanton, host PeopleSoft
UTC 92/L2 189 - August 20 - 23, 2002, Redmond, host Microsoft
UTC 93/L2 190 - November 5 - 8, 2002, Nashua, NH, host Compaq (Annual Members Mtg)
UTC 94/L2 191 - January 27 - 30, 2003, Mountain View, host Microsoft
Calendar details posted at www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html
UTC 89/L2 186 Minutes
[90-M1] Motion: Approve the minutes of UTC 89/L2 186 as documented in L2/01-405R.
Moved by V.S. Umamaheswaran, seconded by Sandra Martin O'Donnell

10 for (Adobe, Apple, Compaq, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Trigeminal, Unisys)
0 against
2 abstain ( NCR, Sun)

Minutes posted publicly at www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/utc-minutes.html
UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT:  Basis now present.
Total members represented: 13; Total not represented: 7

Action Item Review

Properties -  Error in canonical mapping of U+F951
[90-M2] Motion: Fix the mapping error for U+F951 in UnicodeData.txt as part of Unicode 3.2. Change the mapping from U+96FB to U+964B. [L2/02-054]
Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Sandra Martin O'Donnell

12 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase, Trigeminal)
0 against
1 abstain (Unisys)

[90-A6] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update UnicodeData for the change in the mapping of U+F951, from U+96FB to U+964B, for Unicode 3.2. [L2/02-054]

[90-A7] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mike Ksar, Editorial Committee: Update the stability policy (reflecting change in mapping for U+F951). [L2/02-054]

[90-A8] Action Item for Cathy Wissink, Ken Whistler: Notify the IDN working committee that we are fixing an error in the mapping of U+F951. [L2/02-054]

[90-A9] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Include in list of normative changes for Unicode 3.2 (the change in the mapping of U+F951). [L2/02-054]

[90-A10] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update normalizationtest.txt for the change in the mapping of U+F951 for Unicode 3.2. [L2/02-054]

[90-A11] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Propose changes to policy document (for the change in the mapping of U+F951) for review. [L2/02-054]

[90-A12] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Create a permanent change documenting the fix to normalization (for the change in the mapping of U+F951). [L2/02-054]

[90-A13] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Unicode Standard Annex #15 Unicode Normalization Forms and point to the errata page (for the change in the mapping of U+F951). [L2/02-054]

Properties - Repetition Marks Properties - Case
[90-C3] Consensus: Change the mapping of the upper case Turkish I as described in L2/02-046, with the typo corrected (U+0407 should be U+0307).

[90-A15] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update special casings and case foldings with the change in mapping of the upper case Turkish I. [L2/02-046]

Properties - Default Word Boundaries
[90-C4] Consensus: Publish a proposed draft technical report on default word boundaries based on L2/02-047R3, -071, and feedback from discussion.  In Unicode 3.2 document that the guidelines in the standard will be superseded by the PDUTR.

[90-A16] Action Item for Mark Davis: Create a proposed draft technical report on default word boundaries based on L2/02-047R3, -071, and feedback from discussion.

[90-A17] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Review the proposed draft technical report on default word boundaries and post. [L2/02-047R3, -071]

[90-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add to the text of Unicode 3.2 a pointer to updated guidelines in the proposed draft technical report on default word boundaries. [L2/02-047R3, -071]

Properties - Compatibility Ideograph Mappings
[90-C5] Consensus: Do not change the canonical mappings of the new Japanese compatibility ideographs at FA30..FA6A. [L2/02-44]

[90-A19] Action Item for Mike Ksar: Contact Magda with the new IRG dates.

Properties - Explicit Line Break
[90-A20] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Ask Kent Karlsson for further background on the need for an explicit line break property - which programs and protocols require this. [L2/02-087]
Properties - CJK Numeric Value
[90-C6] Consensus: Add to Unicode 3.2 the tables 4-7 and 4-8  from document L2/02-018 to Unihan.txt (primary numeric and accounting values).

[90-A21] Action Item for Mark Davis: Prepare the input for machine readable CJK primary numeric and accounting values and forward to John Jenkins for inclusion in Unicode 3.2 Unihan.txt. [L2/02-018]

Properties - Invisible Property
[90-C7] Consensus: Add U+200B and four Hangul fillers (U+115F, U+1160, U+3164, U+FFA0) to the default ignorable code point property for Unicode 3.2 and add more explanatory text to Proplist.txt. [L2/02-080, 081]

[90-A22] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Proplist.txt with the five additional characters (U+200B, U+115F, U+1160, U+3164, U+FFA0) with the default ignorable code point property for Unicode 3.2. [L2/02-080, 081]

[90-A23] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Review the changes to Proplist.txt to include the five additional characters (U+200B, U+115F, U+1160, U+3164, U+FFA0) with the default ignorable code point property for Unicode 3.2. [L2/02-080, 081]

February 12, 2002

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Compaq Computer; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp.; Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; PeopleSoft; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; Trigeminal Software; Unisys Corporation  (by proxy).

NOT PRESENT: Government of India, MIT; Oracle Corp.; Progress Software; Reuters, Ltd.; RLG; RWS Group LLC; SAP AG.

Total members represented: 13, Total not represented: 7

Programming Languages

[90-A24] Action Item for Asmus Freytag:  Work with Ken, Mark and Mike Ksar to prepare comments on supporting UTF-8/UTF-16 in programming languages, and supporting Unicode datatypes.  Send to Frank for forwarding to TC 154. [L2/02-080, 081]

[90-A25] Action Item for John Benito:  Forward L2 comments on programming languages supporting UTF-8/UTF-16 to J11. [L2/02-080, 081]

Scripts and New Characters
[90-C8] Consensus: Accept the addition of the EJECT SYMBOL at U+23CF. [L2/01-414]

[90-A26] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline page with the EJECT SYMBOL, accepted for encoding at U+23CF. [L2/01-414]

[90-A27] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include the EJECT SYMBOL, accepted for encoding at U+23CF, in the US ballot comments. [L2/01-414]

[90-A28] Action Item for Deborah Goldsmith: Forward the WG2 proposal summary form for the EJECT SYMBOL to Mike Ksar for consideration at the WG2 meeting. [L2/01-414]

Technical Reports - Math
[90-C9] Consensus: Advance Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #25 Unicode Support for Mathematics to Draft Unicode Technical Report #25 Unicode Support for Mathematics, after removing the section on mathematics in plain text, and adding a description of the properties. [L2/02-077]

[90-A29] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Murray Sargent, Barbara Beeton: Update Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #25 Unicode Support for Mathematics to Draft Unicode Technical Report #25 Unicode Support for Mathematics, addressing comments raised during discussion. Forward to the Editorial Committee for review.  [L2/02-077]

[90-A30] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Review Draft Unicode Technical Report #25 Unicode Support for Mathematics and post. [L2/02-077]

WG2
[90-C10] Consensus: The UTC accepts the additional six Limbu characters:
1909 LIMBU LETTER JHA
190A LIMBU LETTER YAN
191A LIMBU LETTER SSA
1932 LIMBU SMALL LETTER ANUSVARA
1940 LIMBU SIGN LOO
1944 LIMBU EXCLAMATION MARK
requests a rearrangement of the vowel signs, appending the letter "A" to 1930..1938 and moving LIMBU QUESTION MARK from U+193F to U+1945. [L2/02-106]

[90-A30] Action Item for Editorial Committee, Michael Everson: Send Asmus an updated font for Limbu. [L2/02-106]

[90-A31] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include the updates to Limbu in US comments on PDAM-2. [L2/02-106]

[90-A32] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update pipeline with the changes to Limbu (6 additional characters, vowels rearranged, new names, new code assignment for question mark). [L2/02-106]

[90-A33] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include in comments on PDAM-1 a request for correction of the glyphs for variation selectors in US comments. [L2/02-106]

Variation Selectors
[90-M3] Motion: Add to the text of Unicode 3.2, the following guidelines for the handling of variation selectors: [L2/01-478, L2/02-002]
1) If a variation selector sequence is not available, the variation selector should be ignored.
2) The standardization or support of a particular variation selector does not limit the set of glyphs that can be used to represent the character alone.
3) If you want to have distinction between a character and a character plus a variation selector, you must have a font available that supports that distinction.
Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Asmus Freytag

7 for (Apple, Basis, IBM, NCR, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
3 against (Adobe, Compaq, Trigeminal)
3 abstain (Justsystem, Microsoft, PeopleSoft )

[90-A34] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add to Unicode 3.2 text on the handling of variation selectors described in motion 90-M3 . [L2/01-478, L2/02-002]
February 13, 2001

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Compaq Computer; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp.; Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; Oracle Corp.; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; Trigeminal Software; Unisys Corporation  (by proxy).

NOT PRESENT: Basis Technology; Government of India, MIT; PeopleSoft; Progress Software; Reuters, Ltd.; RLG; RWS Group LLC; SAP AG.

Total members represented: 12, Total not represented: 8

Congratulations

[90-C11] Consensus: The UTC congratulates Julie Allen on her recent, well deserved promotion to Senior Editor.  Her contributions to Unicode publishing are very much appreciated.
WG20
[90-A35] Action Item for Officers: Discuss hosting Keld Simonsen's website by the Unicode Consortium.

[90-A36] Action Item for Hideki Hiura: Let the Linux community know about the inaccurate locales.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT:  Basis, PeopleSoft, RLG now present.
Total members represented: 15; Total not represented: 6

Scripts and New Characters - Arabic

[90-C12] Consensus: The UTC accepts the 13 Arabic characters with the names and code locations as documented in L2/02-061, with the character properties to be finished later. The representative glyphs for 0600..0602 will be updated.
0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN
0601 ARABIC YEAR SIGN
0602 ARABIC FOOTNOTE
060D ARABIC POETIC VERSE SIGN
060E ARABIC DATE SEPARATOR
0610 ARABIC SIGN SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM
0611 ARABIC SIGN ALAYHE ASSALAM
0612 ARABIC SIGN RAHMATULLAH ALAYHE
0613 ARABIC SIGN RADI ALLAHOUN ANHU
0614 ARABIC SIGN NOM DE PLUME
0656 ARABIC SUBSCRIPT ALEF
0657 ARABIC TURNED DAMMA
0658 ARABIC BREVE

[90-A37] Action Item for Michel Suignard: In comments, request that the 13 newly accepted Arabic characters be included in PDAM-2. [L2/02-061]

[90-A38] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline document with the 13 newly accepted Arabic characters. [L2/02-061]

[90-A39] Action Item for Jonathan Kew, Mark Davis: Produce a WG2 proposal summary form and forward to WG2 for the newly accepted 13 Arabic characters. [L2/02-061]

[90-A40] Action Item for Michel Suignard: In comments, request a change to remove U+06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH from the list of combining characters in Annex B and change its glyph, to no longer represent as a combining character. [L2/02-061]

[90-A41] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the data files to reflect the change in U+06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH to no longer be a combining character. [L2/02-061]

[90-A42] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add a note to Unicode 3.2 documenting the change in U+06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH to no longer be a combining character, including a change in the list of combining characters in Chapter 4. [L2/02-061]

[90-A43] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update the glyph for U+06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH, in Unicode 3.2, 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]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
NOT PRESENT:  Basis, Trigeminal no longer present.
Total members represented: 13; Total not represented: 8

Collation - UCA

[90-A44] Action Item for Mark Davis: Submit L2/02-010, on Hangul ordering, as a WG20 document.

[90-M4] Motion: The UTC adopts position B from L2/02-010, as the fix to Hangul ordering.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Umamaheswaran

11 for (Adobe, Apple, Compaq, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sybase, Unisys)
0 against
2 abstain (NCR, Sun )

[90-A45] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Modify Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm, to include the change in Hangul from motion 90-M4. [L2/01-469, L2/02-008, L2/02-010]

[90-C13] Consensus: The UTC endorses  voting no on 16451 unless collation is synchronized with the Unicode Collation Algorithm.

[90-A46] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Prepare ballot comments on the change to Hangul ordering decided in 90-M4. [L2/01-469, L2/02-008, L2/02-010]

[90-C14] Consensus: The UTC is in support of having the compatibility Jamo sort according to user expectations.

[90-C15] Consensus: The UTC does not object to the introduction of more explanatory information on pre-handling, but would object to changes to the algorithm that would negatively impact performance or memory requirements.

[90-A47] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Change numeric secondary weight values to prevent consistency problems.

Editorial Committee - Unicode 3.2
[90-C16] Consensus: Change DerivedNormalizationProperties.txt to be less than 32 bytes. [L2/02-028]

[90-A48] Action Item for Mark Davis: Change the file name when generating derived files to be less than 32 bytes. [L2/2-028]

[90-A49] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Make appropriate changes for names less than 32 bytes in Unicode 3.2 as decided in motion 90-C16. [L2/2-028]

[90-A50] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make appropriate changes for names less than 32 bytes in Unicode 3.2 as decided in motion 90-C16, including Article 7. [L2/2-028]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT:  Basis, Trigeminal now present.
NOT PRESENT:  RLG  no longer present.
Total members represented: 14; Total not represented: 7
[90-C17] Consensus:  Adopt the behavior of grapheme cluster boundaries as described in L2/02-043 with the following changes: 1) use behavior described in 4' and 5' for join controls, 2)  add a rule that indicates that combining marks are ignored in the sequence, 3) add a rule which breaks before the start of text.

[90-A51] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode 3.2 based on the decision on default grapheme cluster boundaries in 90-C17. [L2/2-043]

[90-A52] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add information to html files in Unicode 3.2 to note that trailing blanks and blank lines can be ignored.

[90-A53] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Determine where to put the new radical/stroke index and place on the website.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT:  RWS (by proxy for CESU-8 votes), SAP (by proxy for CESU-8 votes) now present.
NOT PRESENT: Sun no longer present.
Total members represented: 15; Total not represented: 6

Technical Reports - CESU-8

[90-M5] Motion: Advance Draft Unicode Technical Report #26 Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8) to Unicode Technical Report #26 Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8), after adding suggested highlighting, a modification section, and with the final IANA status noted. [L2/02-088R]
Moved by Toby Phipps, seconded by Jianping Yang

12 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RWS, SAP, Sybase, Unisys)
2 against (NCR, Trigeminal)
1 abstain (Compaq)

[90-A54] Action Item for Toby Phipps: Update Unicode Technical Report #26 Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8) with feedback received during the meeting. [90-M5] [L2/02-088R]

[90-A55] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Review updates to Unicode Technical Report #26 Compatibility Encoding Scheme for UTF-16: 8-Bit (CESU-8) and post. [90-M5] [L2/02-088R]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT:  RLG now present.
Total members represented: 16; Total not represented: 5

Editorial Committee - Unicode 3.2

[90-M6] FAILED Motion: Strike the text after the first sentence from paragraph two, section  Elimination of Irregular Sequences. [L2/02-074]
Moved by Sandra Martin O'Donnell, seconded by Michael Kaplan

4 for (Compaq, Microsoft, NCR, Trigeminal)
7 against (Adobe, Basis, IBM, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Unisys)
5 abstain (Apple, Justsystem, RLG, RWS, SAP)

[90-M7] Motion: Change the second sentence of paragraph two, section Elimination of Irregular Sequences, to say: "Note: Some Implementations of UTF-8 might still interpret irregular sequences; for those, a separate compatibility encoding scheme, to be distinguished from UTF-8 may be used. [L2/02-074]
Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Eric Muller

10 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Unisys)
3 against (Compaq, NCR, Trigeminal)
3 abstain (RLG, RWS, SAP)

[90-A56] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Add a warning not to use CESU-8 in or after paragraph two, section Elimination of Irregular Sequences. [L2/02-074]
UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
NOT PRESENT: NCR, RWS (by proxy for CESU-8), SAP (by proxy for CESU-8) no longer present.
Total members represented: 13; Total not represented: 8
[90-M8] Motion: Remove the section Addition of the Word Joiner from 3.1 Conformance Requirements (revision), which means the clause C10 will remain unchanged. [L2/02-074]
Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Eric Muller

unanimous

[90-A57] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Remove the section Addition of the Word Joiner from 3.1 Conformance Requirements (revision). [L2/02-074]

[90-A58] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Add to section 3.1 Special Character Properties (revision), strong encouragement to implementers to use the new word joiner character where word joining semantics are required. [L2/02-074]

[90-C18] Consensus:  Change the term compatibility composite in D21, section 3.6 Decomposition (revision), to compatibility decomposable character and add aliases in D18.  [L2/02-074]

[90-A59] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Change the term compatibility composite in D21, section 3.6 Decomposition (revision), to compatibility decomposable character and add aliases in D18. [L2/02-074]

[90-C19] Consensus:  Accept the definition of D23a Canonical composite as given in L2/02-035, with a change in term from canonical composite to canonical decomposable. Include an explanatory diagram along with the new definition in Unicode 3.2.

[90-A60] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add the new definition of D23a Canonical decomposable as defined in L2/02-035, and include with an explanatory diagram in Unicode 3.2. [L2/02-074]


February 14, 2001

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Compaq Computer; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp.; Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; Oracle Corp.; PeopleSoft; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; Trigeminal Software; Unisys Corporation  (by proxy).

NOT PRESENT: Government of India, MIT; Progress Software; Reuters, Ltd.; RWS Group LLC; SAP AG.

Total members represented: 15, Total not represented: 6

Scripts and New Characters - NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO

[90-C20] Consensus: Accept the character NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO at U+24FF. [L2/01-480]

[90-A61] Action Item for Eric Muller: Update the proposal for U+24FF NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO and forward to WG2. [L2/01-480]

[90-A62] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add a request for acceptance of  U+24FF NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO to comments on PDAM-2. [L2/01-480]

[90-A63] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline document with U+24FF NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO.  [L2/01-480]

[90-A64] Action Item for Eric Muller: Send Asmus Freytag a font for U+24FF NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO. [L2/01-480]

Scripts and New Characters - Khmer
[90-C21] Consensus: In Unicode 3.2, add a chart, similar to the chart given in L2/02-096, that describe extended Cambodian characters with appropriate annotations and properties.

[90-A65] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Add to Unicode 3.2 a chart of extended Khmer characters with names, annotations and properties similar to that given in document L2/02-096.

[90-M9] Motion: The UTC formally identifies six Khmer characters as candidates for deprecation. These characters will be annotated and documented as such in Unicode 3.2 [L2/02-097]
17A3 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAQ
17A4 KHMER INDEPENDENT VOWEL QAA
17B4 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AQ
17B5 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AA
17D3 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AQ
17D8 KHMER SIGN BEYYAL

Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Joan Aliprand

10 for (Adobe, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sun)
0 against
5 abstain (Apple, NCR, Sybase, Trigeminal, Unisys)

[90-A66] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Add to Unicode 3.2 annotations and a description of status of the six Khmer characters that are candidates for deprecation (17A3..17A4, 17B4..17B5, 17D3, 17D8). [L2/02-097]

[90-A67] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Publicly document the intent to deprecate six Khmer characters (17A3..17A4, 17B4..17B5, 17D3, 17D8). [L2/02-097]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
NOT PRESENT: Compaq no longer present.
Total members represented: 14; Total not represented: 7
[90-A68] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Annotate the names list with the intent to deprecate the six Khmer characters (17A3..17A4, 17B4..17B5, 17D3, 17D8). [L2/02-097]

[90-C22] Consensus: The UTC requests the officers to issue a liaison communication to the Cambodian national body, with the intent to clarify issues, strengthen cooperation, and invite future participation.

[90-A69] Action Item for Officers: Issue a liaison communication to the Cambodian national body, with the intent to clarify issues, strengthen cooperation, and invite future participation.

[90-C23] Consensus: The UTC accepts 45 new Khmer characters: [L2/02-099, 100, 101]
17DD KHMER SIGN ATTHACAN
17EA KRUNG VOICING OR PREGLOTTALIZATION SIGN
17EB KRUNG VOICING AND PREGLOTTALIZATION SIGN
17F0 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK SON
17F1 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK MUOY
17F2 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK PII
17F3 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK BEI
17F4 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK BUON
17F5 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK PRAM
17F6 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK PRAM-MUOY
17F7 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK PRAM-PII
17F8 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK PRAM-BEI
17F9 KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK PRAM-BUON
19E0 KHMER SYMBOL PATHAMASAT
19E1 KHMER SYMBOL MUOY KOET
19E2 KHMER SYMBOL PII KOET
19E3 KHMER SYMBOL BEI KOET
19E4 KHMER SYMBOL BUOM KOET
19E5 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM KOET
19E6 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM-MUOY KOET
19E7 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM-PII KOET
19E8 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM-BEI KOET
19E9 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM-BUON KOET
19EA KHMER SYMBOL DAP KOET
19EB KHMER SYMBOL DAP-MUOY KOET
19EC KHMER SYMBOL DAP-PII KOET
19ED KHMER SYMBOL DAP-BEI KOET
19EE KHMER SYMBOL DAP-BUON KOET
19EF KHMER SYMBOL DAP-PRAM KOET
19F0 KHMER SYMBOL TUTEY ASAT
19F1 KHMER SYMBOL MUOY ROC
19F2 KHMER SYMBOL PII ROC
19F3 KHMER SYMBOL BEI ROC
19F4 KHMER SYMBOL BUOM ROC
19F5 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM ROC
19F6 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM-MUOY ROC
19F7 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM-PII ROC
19F8 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM-BEI ROC
19F9 KHMER SYMBOL PRAM-BUON ROC
19FA KHMER SYMBOL DAP ROC
19FB KHMER SYMBOL DAP-MUOY ROC
19FC KHMER SYMBOL DAP-PII ROC
19FD KHMER SYMBOL DAP-BEI ROC
19FE KHMER SYMBOL DAP-BUON ROC
19FF KHMER SYMBOL DAP-PRAM ROC

[90-A70] Action Item for 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]

[90-A71] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add the 45 new Khmer characters to the pipeline. [L2/02-099, 100, 101]

[90-A72] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add to comments on PDAM-2 a request to add the 45 new Khmer characters. [L2/02-099, 100, 101]

[90-A73] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add further discussion of Khmer to the agenda for the next UTC.

[90-A74] Action Item for All Members: Canvas their respective organizations on Khmer issues in order to discuss at the next UTC.

Editorial Committee - Updating Technical Reports
[90-C24] Consensus: The Editorial Committee should update the technical reports for consistency with Unicode 3.2 and post as proposed updates.

[90-A75] Action Item for 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.

[90-C25] Consensus: Add text to Unicode Standard Annex #21 Case Mappings stating that to preserve canonical equivalence in case mapping operations, the input text should be normalized.  Add further explanatory text as necessary.

[90-A76] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Standard Annex #21 Case Mappings to reflect 90-C25 as part of Unicode 3.2.

[90-A77] Action Item for Julie Allen: Work with Mark Davis and the rest of the Editorial Committee to update draft text for Unicode 4.0 regarding case mapping and normalization, to reflect 90-C25.

[90-C26] Consensus: Update Unicode Standard Annex #11 East Asian Width based on changes proposed in document L2/02-078.  Post as a final UAX as part of Unicode 3.2.

[90-A78] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Standard Annex #11 East Asian Width to reflect 90-C26 as part of Unicode 3.2.

[90-C27] Consensus: Update the East Asian Width datafile based on changes given in sections 1-a, 1-c, 2,  and 3 of document L2/02-078.  Include with Unicode 3.2.

[90-A79] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the East Asian Width datafile based on changes given in sections 1-a, 1-c, 2,  and 3 of document L2/02-078.  Include with Unicode 3.2.

Variation Selectors
[90-C28] Consensus: Accept the new text on variation selectors given in L2/02-104 with change made in committee.

[90-A80] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate the new text on variation selectors given in L2/02-104 into Unicode 3.2.

[90-A81] Action Item for Mark Davis: Forward a copy of L2/02-104 to Rick McGowan for posting.

IDN - Communication of change to canonical mapping of U+F951
[90-A82] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Write to the IETF describing the change in canonical mapping of U+F951 and the reasons for making the change.

[90-M10] FAILED Motion: The UTC rescinds its earlier decision to correct the error in the canonical mapping of U+F951.

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by Lee Collins

1 for (Apple)
8 against (Adobe, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase, Trigeminal)
5 abstain (Basis,  NCR, Oracle, RLG, Unisys)

[90-A83] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Officers: Amend the stability policy to reflect the reason for correcting the canonical mapping error for U+F951.
IDN - Ideographs
[90-A84] Action Item for 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.
Editorial Committee - Unicode 3.2
[90-C29] Consensus: The UTC approves Unicode 3.2 as documented in L2/02-074 and amended during the meeting, for public release.

[90-A85] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Make the required final changes to Unicode 3.2 and post publicly, targeting completion in March, 2002. [L2/02-074]

WG2
[90-A86] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Work with Michel Suignard to develop comments on the DPRK symbols. [L2/01-420]

[90-C30] Consensus: Remove the compatibility mappings for 23B4..23B6 from the Unicode 3.2 datafile.

[90-A87] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remove the compatibility mappings for 23B4..23B6 from the Unicode 3.2 datafile.

Technical Notes
[90-M11] Motion: The Editorial Committee has the responsibility for the technical notes web page, process, and approval of technical notes.  It can delegate the selection process for technical notes to a subcommittee, which may include members who are not on the Editorial Committee. [L2/02-075, 076]
Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Asmus Freytag

9 for (Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sun, Trigeminal)
1 against (Sybase)
4 abstain (Adobe, Justsystem, NCR, Unisys)

[90-A88] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Establish the process and subcommittee responsible for technical notes. [L2/02-075, 076]

UTC Attendees
 
Attendees: Representing:
Joan Aliprand RLG
Debbie Anderson UC Berkeley
Joe Becker Xerox
John Benito WG14 Convenor
James Caldwell Pacific Rim Connection
Sok Huor Chea Cambodia
Lee Collins Apple
Lawrence Crowl X3J16
Mark Davis IBM
Asmus Freytag Basis
Deborah Goldsmith Apple
Shiro Harada Cambodia
Ed Hart Share
Hideki Hiura Sun
Michael Kaplan Trigeminal
Norbert Klein Cambodia
Sue Kline HP
Tatsuo Kobayashi Justsystem
Mike Ksar  SC2/WG2
Kim Leang Lao Cambodia
Kamal Mansour Agfa Monotype
Rick McGowan  Unicode
Lisa Moore IBM
Eric Muller Adobe
Paul Nelson Microsoft
John O'Conner Sun
Sandra Martin O'Donnell Compaq
Toby Phipps PeopleSoft
Gabriel Plumlee PeopleSoft
Gary Roberts NCR
Lynn Ruggles HP
Murray Sargent  Microsoft
Markus Scherer IBM
Michel Suignard Microsoft
V.S. Umamaheswaran IBM
Ken Whistler Sybase
Joan Winters self
Cathy Wissink Microsoft
Jianping Yang Oracle


UTC Full Member Attendance Roster
 
Member
2/11/02
2/12/02
2/13/02
2/14/02
1. Adobe Systems, Inc.
 yes
yes 
yes 
yes 
2. Apple Computer, Inc.
 yes
yes
yes
yes
3. Basis Technology
yes
yes
yes
yes
4. Compaq Computer Corporation
yes
yes
yes
yes
5. Gov't of India, MIT        
8. IBM Corporation
yes
yes
yes
yes
9. Justsystem Corporation
yes
yes 
yes 
yes 
10. Microsoft Corporation
yes
yes
yes
yes
11. NCR Corporation
yes
yes
yes
yes (proxy)
12. Oracle Corporation    
 yes
yes 
13. PeopleSoft
 yes
 yes
yes
yes
14. Progress Software
 
 
 
 
15. RLG, Inc.    
 yes
yes 
16. Reuters, Ltd.        
17. RWS, Ltd.
 
 
yes (proxy)
 
18. SAP AG  
 
 yes (proxy)
  
19. Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 yes
yes
yes 
 yes
20. Sybase, Inc.
yes
yes
yes
yes
21. Trigeminal
 yes
yes 
yes
yes
22. Unisys
yes (proxy)
yes (proxy)
yes (proxy)
yes (proxy)