L2/03-039R
Approved Minutes of the UTC 94 / L2 191 Joint Meeting
Mountain View, CA -- March 4 - 7, 2003
August 25, 2003

March 4, 2003

Number of members in good standing as of this meeting: 14, number of members in regular attendance: 13, Quorum: 7.

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; India, MIT; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp. (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; Oracle Corp; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: SAP AG.

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: SAP AG.

Total members represented: 13, Total not represented: 1

Letter Ballot Review

[94-L1] Letter Ballot: to decide the correction for five canonical mapping errors in the Unicode Character Database. Option A was approved. [L2/02-457]

APPROVE Option A: 13 (Adobe, Apple, Basis, HP, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, Peoplesoft, RLG, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys)
APPROVE Option B: 1 (IBM)

A) Fix the canonical mappings and issue another normalization corrigendum with corrected mappings in the Unicode 4.0 time frame, as follows:

Make the following corrections in UnicodeData.txt for 4.0:

Add the following entries to NormalizationCorrections.txt:

[94-A0] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Fix the canonical mappings for U+2F868, U+2F874, U+2F91F, U+2F95F, U+2F9BF in Unicode 4.0, issue Technical Corrigendum 4, and prepare input for WG2  for a technical corrigendum for 10646.

Calendar Review and Update 

UTC 95/L2 192 - June 10-13, 2003, San Jose, host Adobe
UTC 96/L2 193 - August 25-28, 2003, Pleasanton, host PeopleSoft
UTC 97/L2 194 - November 4-7, 2003, Baltimore, host Johns Hopkins, Annual Members Mtg.
UTC 98/L2 195 - February 2-5, 2004, Mountain View, host Microsoft
Calendar details posted at www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html

[94-A1] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Confirm November meeting with Dean Snyder at Johns Hopkins University.

Action Item Review
[94-A2] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Work with the Mongolian experts to have a description of Mongolian shaping by the end of 2003.

[94-A3] Action Item for Deborah Goldsmith: See if someone from Apple can take over 91-A82.

[94-A4] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Work with Martin Duerst to update Unicode Technical Report #20 Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages for 4.0 characters.

UTC 93/L2 190 Minutes
[94-C1] Consensus: Approve the minutes of UTC 93/L2 190 as documented in L2/02-345R, with 93-C33 modified to read: two Khmer characters deprecated, four Khmer characters discouraged.

Minutes posted publicly at www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/utc-minutes.html

[94-A5] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Update 93-C33 in the UTC 93 minutes. [L2/03-345R]
WG2 - Review of Amendments
[94-A6] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Raise the concerns with the number of errors caught at FPDAM stage to the convenor of WG2. [L2/03-029]

[94-A6a] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Ken Whistler: Form an ad hoc group to address quality concerns in our current review processes. Group to include Mark Davis, Sandra Martin O'Donnell, Michael Kaplan, Umamaheswaran, Eric Mueller, Markus Scherer. [L2/03-029]

Properties - Scope of Enclosing Marks
[94-M1] Motion: When a sequence of default grapheme clusters are linked by a combining  grapheme joiner, an enclosing mark may be rendered as enclosing the entire sequence. The target of the enclosing mark is the preceding grapheme cluster or sequence of default grapheme clusters linked by grapheme joiner. The intent of the usage of enclosing marks is on free-standing default grapheme clusters or grapheme clusters linked by grapheme joiner. Clarify this in section 7.7 of the Unicode Standard 4.0. The rendering of enclosing marks in complex cases should have many caveats.[L2/03-026, 027, 028]

     Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

          11 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, HP, IBM, India MIT, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
          0 against
          2 abstain (Justsystem, Oracle)

[94-A7] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make relevant changes on the scope of enclosing marks (from 94-M1) in sections 3.11, 7.7, and 15.2. [L2/03-026, 027, 028]

[94-A8] Action Item for Mark Davis: Look at the definition of grapheme cluster in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and see whether it should be updated based on decision 94-M1 on the scope of enclosing marks. [L2/03-026, 027, 028]

Properties - Identifiers
[94-C3] Consensus: Change the name of "ID_Start_Exceptions" to "Other_ID_Start". [L2/03-082]

[94-A9] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make the name change from "ID_Start_Exceptions" to "Other_ID_Start" in Proplist.txt and PropertyAliases.txt, for Unicode 4.0. [L2/03-082]

[94-A10] Action Item for Julie Allen, Editorial Committee: Update version 4.0 text with the name change of "ID_Start_Exceptions" to "Other_ID_Start". [L2/03-082]

Properties - Han
[94-C4] Consensus: 1) Incorporate the numeric values from the Unihan file without adding a new property (using numeric_type), 2)  remove the han numeric property from U+5793 and U+4EAC, and 3) drop source standards as a property. [L2/03-094]

[94-A11] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the derived numeric values and derived numeric type for 4.0 to incorporate the numeric values from Unihan. [L2/03-094]

[94-A12] Action Item for John Jenkins: Remove the kPrimaryNumeric property for U+5793 and U+43AC from the Unihan database and adjust accordingly. [L2/03-094]

Properties - Turkish Case Folding
[94-A13] Action Item for Mark Davis: Include in the standard information about the implications of canonical equivalence and Turkish case foldings. Update the text of the standard (including text from Unicode Standard Annex #21: Case Mappings) and SpecialCasing.txt.

[94-A14] Action Item for Mark Davis: Modify the description in UCD.html for the hyphen property to be accurate and point to Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties.


March 5, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; India, MIT; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp. (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; Oracle Corp; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: SAP AG; Sun Microsystems.

Total members represented: 12, Total not represented: 2

Unicode Technical Reports - Linebreak

[94-A15] Action Item for Cathy Wissink, Sandra O'Donnell: Create a proposal on the linebreaking behavior of currency symbols in a locale independent manner.

[94-C5] Consensus: Accept linebreak classification changes as proposed in L2/03-071 sections 1, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, and 5. Change the class of U+2044 to IS from NS.

  • 30FC, 30FE to NS
  • 060D to IS
  • 17B4, 17B5 to SA
  • 213B, 2690, 2691, 26A0, 26A1, 2B00..2B0D to AI
  • 1100..1159, 115F to JL
  • 1160..11A2 to JV
  • 11A8..11F9 to JT
  • Update PropertyValueAliases.txt to add JL Leading_Jamo, JV Vowel_Jamo, JT Trailing_Jamo
[94-M2] Motion: Create a new linebreaking class of NL for U+0085. [L2/03-071]
Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran
10 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, India MIT, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sybase)
1 against (HP)
1 abstain (Justsystem)
[94-A16] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Make updates to Linebreak.txt and EastAsianWidth.txt to reflect changes agreed to in 94-C5 and 94-M2. [L2/03-071]

[94-A17] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make updates to PropertyValueAliases.txt for the new linebreaking class of NL and new classes for Jamo, see L2/03-071 sections 2 and 5, 94-C5, and 94-M2.

[94-A18] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Send Mark Davis the long names for the new
linebreak classifications from 94-C5 and 94-M2. [L2/03-071]

[94-A19] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update text of Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties with the changes required from 94-C5 and 94-M2. [L2/03-071]

Scripts and New Characters - TLG
[94-A20] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Write a response to the TLG character proposal in L2/03-074. Forward to Debbie Anderson and Maria Pantelia for answers and eventual incorporation into an updated proposal.

[94-A21] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler, Debbie Anderson: Organize a meeting on the Greek Numeric and Acrophonic characters. Communicate with Maria Pantelia regarding the proposal in L2/03-075.

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT:  Sun now present.
Total members represented: 13; Total not represented: 1

Scripts and New Characters - Indic

[94-A22] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Set up an Indic subcommittee mail list. Start the discussion with the five documentss from this meeting. Invite participation from the Unicore list.

[94-A23] Action Item for Mark Davis: Arrange for a group to visit India to engage in further dialog.

Unicode Technical Reports - Linebreak
[94-M3] Motion: Accept the recommendation given in section 4.3 of document L2/03-071, to create the linebreaking class WJ that contains U+2060 and U+FEFF, and to relax the rules for GL to allow the SPACE linebreak class as well as the ZW class to override the non-breaking nature of GL.

Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Mark Davis.

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, India MIT, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sybase)
1 against
(HP)
3 abstain (Justsystem, RLG, Sun)

[94-A24] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update property names and property value aliases to reflect the new class WJ and relaxation of the GL rule as in the motion 94-M3. [L2/03-071]

[94-A25] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update the text of Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties to reflect the new class WJ and the relaxation of the GL rule as in the motion 94-M3.[L2/03-071]

[94-A26] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the linebreaking data file to reflect the new class WJ and the relaxation of the GL rule as in the motion 94-M3. [L2/03-071]

[94-A27] Action Item
for Mark Davis: Regenerate the linebreak table 2 "example pair table" in Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties. [L2/03-105]

[94-M4] Motion:
Linebreak rule LB 18b is in the correct place in the algorithm to prevent the breaking of negative numbers and dates using hyphens. [L2/03-105]

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Mark Davis

                  7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, India MIT, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
                  0 against
                  6 abstain (Basis, HP, Justsystem, Microsoft,Oracle, RLG)

[94-C6] Consensus: Take the linebreak rule LB6 and split it into two rules, with the Hangul Syllable part first. [L2/03-105]

[94-A28] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update the text of Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties regarding splitting LB6 into two pieces, as per 94-C6. [L2/03-105]

[94-C7] Consensus: Remove U+FF9E and U+FF9F from the "other_grapheme_extend" property.

[94-A29] Action Item for Mark Davis: Fix Proplist.txt to reflect removing of U+FF9E and U+FF9F from other_grapheme_extend, and check the text of Unicode Standard Annex #29:  Text Boundaries as well.

  Properties - Mongolian Vowel Separator 
[94-C8] Consensus: Give U+180E Mongolian Vowel Separator the linebreak category of GL (change from CM). [L2/03-065, 073]

[94-A30] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the data file to change the linebreak category for U+180E from CM to GL. [L2/03-065, 073]

[94-A31] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Add the text "Older implementations of Mongolian variation sequences may interpret a sequence with an intervening ZWJ or ZWNJ" to the discussion on variation selectors in section 15.6 of the Unicode Standard 4.0. Inspect the current language on Mongolian in the description of Mongolian in the Unicode Standard 4.0.[L2/03-065, 073]

[94-A32] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Clarify the behavior of join controls (ZWJ / ZWNJ / Variation Selectors) and combining marks with regard to base characters, in section 15.2 of the Unicode Standard 4.0, and elsewhere as appropriate, as discussed in Proposal 2 of L2/03-065.

[94-A33] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update the description of the use of Narrow NBSP with Mongolian based on the language given in L2/03-065.

Properties - ARABIC SIGN SAFHA 
[94-A34] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include U+0603 ARABIC SIGN SAFHA in the list in 10646 Annex F5. This was an oversight. Do the same in the merged document. [L2/03-034]

[94-A35] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update the glyph for U+0603 ARABIC SIGN SAFHA (with dashed box) to match its properties. [L2/03-034]


March 6, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; India, MIT; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp. (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy);Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Oracle; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems.

Total members represented: 11, Total not represented: 3

Scripts and New Characters - Saurashtra, Manichaean, Glagolitic, Guarani

[94-A36] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Document the properties for Saurashtra characters before next meeting, and see that they are part of a revised proposal for the June UTC. [L2/03-098]

[94-A37] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Document the properties, joining classes, and shaping behavior information for Manichaean. Send a message to the bidi committee to inform them of the proposal. [L2/03-099]

[94-A38] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Ask Michael Everson to send a font for Glagolitic to Asmus Freytag.

[94-C9] Consensus: Accept two symbols, Guarani Sign and Austral Sign, for encoding at U+20B3 and U+20B4, respectively, with glyphs as shown in document L2/03-095 for encoding in a future version of Unicode. Document the alternate glyphs for Guarani Sign (G-slash and G-vertical-line) with an annotation in names list.

[94-A39] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the Gurani and Austral signs at U+20B3 and U+20B4, respectively. [L2/03-095]

[94-A40] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Inform Michael Everson that the UTC approved acceptance of the Gurani and Austral signs. [L2/03-095]

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT:  Sun now present.
Total members represented: 12; Total not represented: 2

INFITT
[94-A41] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Relay to INFITT feedback based on comments received at the meeting. [L2/03-111]
Scripts and New Characters - Indic

[94-A42] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Take suggested name changes and annotations from the Government of India's documents and extract annotations for the Unicode Standard 4.0, as part of beta feedback. [L2/03-101, 102]

CJK Glyph Error

[94-A43] Action Item for Deborah Goldsmith: U+3D0A needs a glyph correction. Ask John Jenkins to write an erratum, and provide a corrected glyph to Asmus Freytag.

 [94-A44] Action Item for Deborah Goldsmith: Request that John Jenkins report to the IRG that the Unicode Standard has corrected a glyph error at U+3D0A.

Properties - Categorization of Numbers/Decimal Discrepancy 
[94-C10] Consensus: Remove decimal digit field value (field 6) from superscripts and subscripts for the Unicode Standard 4.0. [L2/03-108]
    1. Include points 2.3, 2.4 of doc L2/03-108 in the Unicode Standard 4.0; post 2.2 as a public review issue.
    2. Math digits: Give general category of "No" and delete the value of field 6.
    3. Editorial action: Make U+2044 capture "Nd"s.
    4. Decimal digit is equivalent to decimal number type as an invariant.

[94-A45] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update UnicodeData.txt superscripts and subscripts, for the Unicode Standard  4.0. [L2/03-108]

[94-A46] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update text on U+2044 for the Unicode Standard 4.0. [L2/03-108]

[94-A47] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update UCD.html making decimal digit an invariant of decimal number type. [L2/03-108]

[94-A48] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Prepare point #2 of consensus 94-C10 for public review and post, with review to close on June 1, 2003. [L2/03-108]

Properties - Default Ignorables

[94-C11] Consensus: Modify the derivation of the default ignorable codepoints to be consistent with the derivation of similar properties in PropList.txt. Refer to document number L2/03-103 for details.

[94-A49] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the Unicode data file and PropList.txt and UCD.html to modify the derivation of default ignorable codepoints.

Public Review Issues - Deprecating Language Tags
[94-A50] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Write text on the public review page to say that the issue of deprecdating lang tags is closed: there is no change in status; additional clarification was added to the Unicode Standard 4.0 text.  [L2/03-045]
Public Review Issues - Object Replacement Character
[94-A51] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the closing date to June 1 for Public Review Issue #5 (Object Replacement Character).

Public Review Issues - Sharp-s collation weight

[94-M5] Motion: Approve the change of Sharp-s collation weight from having a secondary difference to a tertiary difference from "ss" in UCA 4.0 and work to make the same change in ISO 14651 and to convey the implications of this to the editor of the European ordering rules (Marc Kuester).
Moved Asmus Freytag, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

        7 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, India, IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun)
        1 against (HP)
        4 abstain (RLG, Microsoft, Sybase, Justsystem)

[94-A52] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Inform Marc Kuester of the change in collation weight for sharp s.

[94-A53] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the UCA table as required by the above concensus on collation weight for sharp s.

Public Review Issues - Object Replacement Character

[94-A54] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the Public Review page as required by UTC discussion of the open review issues and send notification about updates to various mail lists.

Public Review Issues - Unicode 4.0 Beta

[94-C12] Consensus: Unicode 4.0 will be released with Unihan.txt unchanged from its 3.2 level.

[94-A55] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Ensure that Versions.html reflects the consensus to release Unicode 4.0 with Unihan.txt at the 3.2 level, and docment that the numeric value type excludes the two characters U+5793 and U+4EAC in document L2/03-094.

[94-C13] Consensus: A revised Unihan.txt will be posted for beta review as soon as possible for the next available update release.

[94-A56] Action Item for John Jenkins: Make the updated Unihan.txt file available with all fixes as soon as possible.

Public Review Issues - Tailored Normalization Forms
[94-C14] Consensus: Extend the closing date of Issue #7, Tailored Normalization Forms,  to June 1, 2003 and post a public link to document L2/03-047.

[94-A57] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the public review issue #7, Tailored Normalization Forms, to extend the closing date to June 1, 2003. Post a link to Document L2/03-047 as part of documentation for the issue. Announce this new doc when posting notification.

Bidi - Shaping and reordering

[94-M6] Motion: Shape according to display order, but do not shape across directional run boundaries, option "C". Document this in the Unicode Standard Annex #9:The Bidirectional Algorithm for the Unicode Standard Version 4.0. [L2/03-064]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded Asmus Freytag
 
10 for (Apple, Basis, HP, India, IBM, PeopleSoft, RLG, Microsoft, Sybase, Justsystem)
1 against (Adobe)
1 abstain (Sun).

[94-A58] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the Unicode Standard Annex #9:The Bidirectional Algorithm for Unicode 4.0 to reflect option C of L2/03-064.

[94-C15] Consensus: Document the following correction: the character shaping classes of U+0600 through U+0603 and U+06DD are changed to class "U"; U+070F is changed to class "T" as in document L2/03-064.

[94-A59] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Update the text in Version 4.0 and the ArabicShaping.txt file, and in the derived files the formula for deriving "T" class. [L2/03-064]

Scripts and New Characters -  Myanmar
[94-C16] Consensus: Have the Editorial Committee add text from the executive summary section and table of L2/02-283R to the text of the Myanmar block introduction of Unicode 4.0.

[94-A60] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the Myanmar block intro with information from the executive summary and table of L2/02-283R.

Unicode Technical Reports -  Line Breaking 
[94-A61] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Split the conformance section of Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking into two parts: part 1 addressing the normative nature of some of the character properties; part 2 describing the informative nature of the algorithm. [L2/03-105]

Unicode Technical Reports - Normalization

[94-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make the editorial updates to Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms without final review of the UTC as the updates are only informative.
Unicode Technical Reports - Sample Conformance Clause Review 
[94-C17] Consensus: Accept the boilerplate for the Status section of the Technical Report template as modified by discussion in the meeting. [L2/02-393R2]

[94-A63] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make updates and post the TR Template [L2/02-393R2] online in the reports folder.

[94-A64] Action Item for Mark Davis: Create a new document on UTR Sample Conformance clause review, based on L2/02-393R2 for discussion at the next UTC in June.

Unicode Technical Reports - Character Properties
[94-A65] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Make changes as discussed in the meeting and post Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #23 Character Properties as Draft Unicode Technical Report #23 Character Properties.

March 7, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; India, MIT; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp. (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; Oracle; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Basis Technology; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems.

Total members represented: 11, Total not represented: 3

Properties - Fallback Properties

[94-A66] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Ed Committee: Take the following four points of feedback from the ad-hoc Indic group into account, as feasible, for Unicode Version 4.0:
1. Use italicized word "halant" in the standard where feasible in running text instead of the formal name "virama".
2. Add annotations of the two part vowels in the names list for those scripts that have them.
3. Have descriptions in the script blocks of how to represent characters that aren't obvious.
4. State more clearly how one would represent the function of the ISCII INV (invisible) character.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Basis now present.
Total members represented: 12; Total not represented: 2

Unicode Technical Reports - Bidirectional Algorithm

[94-A67] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make updates to Unicode Standard Annex #9: Bidirectional Algorithm with a  target date of April 3, 2003 for final text.
Unicode Technical Reports - Collation
[94-C18] Consensus: Make document L2/03-081 "Hangul Collation Requirements" a UTC and US position proposal for Hangul collation in WG20.

[94-A68] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the document format of L2/03-081, adding a status section. Have Ken Whistler review it, and forward the document to WG20.

[94-A69] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the Unicode Technical Standard #10: Collation with further informative notes on tailoring Hangul. [L2-03-081]

[94-C19] Consensus: The UTC authorizes the release of a Unicode 4.0 UCA beta table and a proposed update of the Unicode Technical Standard #10: Collation for the June meeting.

[94-A70] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Release a Unicode 4.0 UCA beta table.

Unicode Technical Reports - Text Boundaries

[94-M7] Motion: Advance Draft Unicode Technical Report #29: Text Boundaries to Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries for publication with Unicode Version 4.0.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V. S. Umamaheswaran

        11 for  (Adobe, Apple, Basis, India, IBM, Justsystem, PeopleSoft, RLG, Microsoft,Sun, Sybase)
        0 against
        1 abstain (HP)

[94-A71] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries for publication with Unicode Version 4.0.
Unicode Technical Reports - Regular Expressions
[94-C20] Consensus: Update Unicode Technical Report #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines based on document L2/03-107 and create a Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard  #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines and request review in the status section. Remove the "deprecated" property from the list in 2A of L2/03-107.

[94-A72] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make the updates to Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard  #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines as in consensus 94-C20, and post. [L2/03-107]

[94-A73] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Make sure the programming language committee representativess are on the notification list.

[94-A74] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Send a notification of the Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard  #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines when it is available.

Unicode Technical Reports - Script Names
[94-C21] Consensus: Give the Braille characters the "Braille Script" property in the data file (ScriptNames.txt) of Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names and update the text accordingly.
[94-A75] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names and the two data files (Scripts.txt, PropertyValues.txt) to reflect the addition of Braille as a script name. Post for Unicode 4.0. [Note: There should be an annotation in UAX #24 that in addition to "common" and "inherited" types, there may be "pseudo scripts" also named that are notational systems.]
WG2 
[94-C22] Consensus: Approve the FDAMs as in documents L2/03-022, L2/03-024, and have Eric Muller, Ken Whistler follow up with the 10646 editor Michel Suignard about discovered editorial defects in the FDAMs.[L2/03-022, L2/03-024]

[94-A76] Action Item for Eric Muller, Ken Whistler: Review FDAMs and follow up with the 10646 editor Michel Suignard about discovered editorial defects in the FDAMs.

WG20

[94-M8] Motion: The UTC favors progressing CD 15897 as an FCD once the US comments are accepted, as continuing further rounds of balloting and attempted corrections are not a productive enterprise.
Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Cathy Wissink

        5 for (Apple, India, Microsoft, Oracle, Peoplesoft)
        2 against (RLG, HP)
        5 abstain (IBM, Adobe, Basis, Sybase, Justsystem).

[94-M9] Motion: CD 15897 continues to fail at satisfying key requirements for a usable standard; the UTC does not see the process as condusive to having these deficiencies fixed; the UTC doesn't see that the deficiencies will be accommodated; and therefore the UTC discourages its use.
Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by Asmus Freytag

        5 for  (Apple, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Peoplesoft)
        0 against
        7 abstain (IBM, Adobe, Oracle, India, Sybase, Justsystem, RLG)

Scripts, New Characters - Bengali

[94-C23] Consensus: Add to the text of the standard that the way of encoding Bengali ya-phalaa needs further investigation. Alternative approaches to the encoding will be investigated for future versions of the Unicode Standard. Add this caution to the FAQ.

[94-A77] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the Unicode 4.0 text and the FAQ to reflect the above consensus on ya-phalaa.

Scripts, New Characters - Devanagari

[94-C24] Consensus: Accept the character "DEVANAGARI GLOTTAL STOP" as described in document L2/02-394 for encoding at U+097D post Unicode 4.0.

[94-A78] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of L2/02-394.

[94-A79] Action Item for Peter Constable: Change the status of L2/02-394 to submit as an L2/UTC contribution and forward to WG2.

Scripts, New Characters - Cyrillic
[94-C25] Consensus: Accept CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER at U+04F6 and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER at U+04F7 for encoding post Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-452]

[94-A80] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of  CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER at U+04F6 and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH DESCENDER at U+04F7. [L2/02-452]

Scripts, New Characters - Georgian 
[94-C26] Consensus: The UTC is considering how to add additional characters to accommodate the Nuskuri alphabet. The UTC will need to gather more information on character properties such as sorting order, cursive shaping behavior, and ligatures. [Tarkhan-Mouravi, L2-03-087]

[94-A81] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Respond to the letter from David Tarkhan-Mouravi.

[94-A82] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Discuss the outcome of the UTC decision on Georgian with Michael Everson.


UTC Attendees
 
Attendees: Representing:
Joan Aliprand RLG
Debbie Anderson UC Berkeley
Beth Bryson SIL
Mark Davis IBM
Asmus Freytag Basis
Deborah Goldsmith Apple
Michael Kaplan Microsoft, Trigeminal
Jonathan Kew SIL
Mike Ksar Microsoft
Kamal Mansour Agfa Monotype
Rick McGowan  Unicode
Lisa Moore IBM
Eric Muller Adobe
Paul Nelson Microsoft
John O'Conner Sun
Sandra Martin O'Donnell HP
Lee Pearce LPC
Gabriel Plumlee PeopleSoft
Murray Sargent  Microsoft
Markus Scherer IBM
Michel Suignard Microsoft
V.S. Umamaheswaran IBM
Om Vikas India, MIT
Ken Whistler Sybase
Cathy Wissink Microsoft
Jianping Yang Oracle


UTC Full Member Attendance Roster
 
Member
3/4/03
3/5/03
3/6/03
3/7/03
1. Adobe Systems, Inc.
 yes
yes 
yes 
yes 
2. Apple Computer, Inc.
 yes
yes
yes
yes
3. Basis Technology
yes
yes
yes 
yes
4. India, MIT
 yes
yes 
yes 
yes 
5. Hewlett Packard yes yes yes yes
6. IBM Corporation
yes
yes
yes
yes
7. Justsystem Corporation yes (proxy)
yes (proxy)
yes (proxy)
yes (proxy)
8. Microsoft Corporation
yes
yes
yes
yes
9. Oracle Corporation
 yes
yes 
yes 
yes 
10. PeopleSoft
yes 
yes 
yes 
yes 
11. RLG, Inc.
 yes (proxy)
yes (proxy)
yes (proxy)
yes
12. SAP AG  
 
 
 
13. Sun Microsystems, Inc.
yes 
yes
yes 
 
14. Sybase, Inc.
yes
yes yes yes