L2/03-240R3

Approved Minutes of the UTC 96 / L2 193 Joint Meeting
Pleasanton, CA -- August 25 - 28, 2003
November 4, 2003

August 25, 2003

Number of members in good standing as of this meeting: 15, number of members in regular attendance: 14, Quorum: 7.

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp; Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Oracle Corporation; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG;

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: SAP AG.

Total members represented: 11, Total not represented: 4

Minutes Approval

[96-C1] Consensus: Approve the updated minutes of the meeting UTC 94/L2 191 as documented in L2/03-039R.

[96-C2] Consensus: Approve the preliminary minutes of the meeting UTC 95/L2 192 as documented in L2/03-126.

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

Calendar Review (A.6)

UTC 97/L2 194 - November 4-7, 2003, Baltimore, host Johns Hopkins University, Annual Members Mtg
UTC 98/L2 195 - February 2-5, 2004, host Mountain View, Microsoft
UTC 99/L2 196 - June 15-18, 2004, Toronto, host IBM
UTC 100/L2 197 - August 17-20, 2004, Redmond, host Microsoft
Calendar details posted at www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html

Action Item Review  (A.5.3)

[96-A1] Action Item for Mark Davis: Put the letter to DIN concerning sharp-s in the document registry, with an English summary, and forward to WG20. Reference action item 95-A35.

[96-A2] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Contact Maria Pantelia about her open action items.

[96-A3] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Update all of the recent proposals so that the documentss are printable (new chars don't print).

[96-A4] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Review Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #32: Assessing Unicode Support before it is posted for public review.

[96-A5] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Determine the line breaking properties for Saurashtra. Also look at other property aliases, word-break properties, etc. in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries. Punctuation characters are particularly crucial.

[96-A6] Action Item for Michael Everson: Send a Glagolitic font to Asmus Freytag for publishing the standard.

[96-A7] Action Item for Hideki Hiura: Report to the IRG that the Unicode Standard has corrected a glyph error at code point U+3D0A. See 94-A44.

Public Review Issue 10 - Interlinear Annotation Characters  (B.11.2)

[96-M1] Motion: Resolve Public Review Issue #10: Interlinear Annotation Characters by changing the General Category for the Interlinear Annotation Characters from Cf to So (Symbol Other), and change the status to not be Default_Ignorable_Code_Points. [L2/03-248,L2/03-251]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

4 For (IBM, Microsoft, RLG, Sybase)
2 Against (Adobe, Basis)
4 Abstain (Apple, HP, Justsystem, Sun)

Motion 96-M1 fails

[96-C3] Consensus: Resolve Public Review Issue #10: Interlinear Annotation Characters by not changing the general category, but by making them non-default-ignorable, using an exclusion list.

[96-A8] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: In 4.0.1, resolve Public Review Issue #10: Interlinear Annotation Characters by not changing the general category, but by making them non-default-ignorable, using an exclusion list.

[96-A9] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Add an erratum that not all characters with dotted-box glyphs have the general category Cf.

Public Review Issue 11 - Soft-dotted Property (B.11.3)

[96-C4] Consensus: Resolve Public Review Issue #11: Soft-dotted Property by adding the list of proposed additional soft-dotted characters, excluding "ij" small ligature U+0133. [L2/03-248]

[96-A10] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add list of soft-dotted characters from Public Review Issue #11: Soft-dotted Property, as modified by consensus 96-C4 to Proplist.txt and give to Ken Whistler for inclusion in 4.0.1. [L2/03-248]

[96-A11] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Document the behavior of "ij" "fi" and "ffi" ligatures with accents in a FAQ. Reference 96-C4 96-A10.[L2/03-248]

[96-A12] Action item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Document the behavior of "ij" "fi" and "ffi" ligatures with accents in an appropriate future version of the standard. Reference 96-C4. [L2/03-248]

Public Review Issue 12 - Terminal Punctuation  (B.11.4)

[96-C5] Consensus: Close Public Review Issue 12: Terminal Punctuation and give the Terminal Punctuation property to Hebrew punctuation sof pasuq U+05C3 and all of the Tibetan "shad" characters: [L2/03-267]

U+0F08  TIBETAN MARK SBRUL SHAD
U+0F0D TIBETAN MARK SHAD
U+0F0E TIBETAN MARK NYIS SHAD
U+0F0F TIBETAN MARK TSHEG SHAD
U+0F10 TIBETAN MARK NYIS TSHEG SHAD
U+0F11 TIBETAN MARK RIN CHEN SPUNGS SHAD
U+0F12 TIBETAN MARK RGYA GRAM SHAD

[96-A13] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add the following characters from consensus 96-C5 to Terminal Punctuation and post to Ken Whistler for inclusion in 4.0.1: [L2/03-267]

U+05C3 HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ
U+0F08 TIBETAN MARK SBRUL SHAD
U+0F0D TIBETAN MARK SHAD
U+0F0E TIBETAN MARK NYIS SHAD
U+0F0F TIBETAN MARK TSHEG SHAD
U+0F10 TIBETAN MARK NYIS TSHEG SHAD
U+0F11 TIBETAN MARK RIN CHEN SPUNGS SHAD
U+0F12 TIBETAN MARK RGYA GRAM SHAD

Technical Reports - Collation (B.12.1)

[96-C6] Consensus: Post as a Public Review Issue a mechanism for algorithmically terminating clusters for the purpose of collation of certain scripts.

[96-A14] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare a document to issue for public review of the consensus 96-C6 (a mechanism for algorithmically terminating clusters for the purpose of collation of certain scripts).

[96-A15] Action Item for Mark Davis: Prepare a response to Kent Karlsson regarding documents L2/03-221,L2/03-222on collation, to be a contribution for the October meeting of WG20.

[96-A16] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to the Hebrew issues raised in L2/03-263 and L2/03-280.

[96-C7] Consensus: Post a Public Review Issue that we are considering changing the General Category of the Braille characters to be "Letter other" rather than "Symbol other".  [L2/03-281]

[96-A17] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Draft a Public Review Issue that includes a request for information about the Braille processing model, and documents that the UTC is considering changing the General Category of the Braille characters to be "Letter other" rather than "Symbol other", reference 96-C7).

[96-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis: Reply to Kent Karlsson regarding his comments on collation in document L2/03-281.

[96-C8] Consensus: Advance  Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm including the Default Unicode Collation Element Table draft 5 to Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm. [L2/03-177]

[96-A19] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the text of Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm including the Default Unicode Collation Element Table draft 5, based on discussion in the meeting, and post document and data tables as Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm. [L2/03-177]

[96-A20] Action Item for Mark Davis: Let Kent Karlsson know that the proposed category change to ZWJZWNJ in L2/03-276 would destabilize most implementations that use these characters, especially bidi.

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
NOT PRESENT:  Basis no longer present.
Total members represented: 10; Total not represented: 5

Base Character Definition D13 (B.17) 

[96-M2] Motion: Do not implement the "base character" property at this time. [L2/03-041R]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Cathy Wissink

8 For (Adobe, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
0 Against
2 Abstain (Apple; Peoplesoft)

Motion 96-M2 carries

[96-A21] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the base character definitions in L2/03-041R to reflect motion 96-M2 and re-submit.

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
NOT PRESENT:  Peoplesoft no longer present
PRESENT:  Basis  now present
Total members represented: 10; Total not represented: 5

[96-A22] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Change the annotation in the bullet under U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE and post an erratum, as in consensus 96-C9, for consistency with section 15.2 layout controls. [L2/03-139]

[96-C10] Consensus: Post changing the general category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE from Zs to Cf as a Public Review Issue, to close October 27, 2003. [L2/03-139]

[96-A23] Action Item for Mark Davis: Prepare the Public Review document for consensus 96-C10 to change the general category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE to Cf and give to Rick McGowan for posting. [L2/03-139]

August 26, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp; Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Oracle Corporation; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG;

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: SAP AG.

WG2 - Convenors Report (B.1.1)

[96-A24] Action Item for UTC Members: Send feedback on the merged document L2/03-061 before the WG2 meeting in October 2003.

[96-A25] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Check with Maria Pantelia on her action items. Ask about updated Greek Musical symbols based on WG2 feedback. Reference WG2-AI-43-7,. UTC/L2 AI 95-A38.

[96-A26] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Send merged data files of L2/03-061 to Rick McGowan for posting to the L2 document register.

[96-A27] Action Item for Eric Muller, Michel Suignard, Asmus Freytag: Propose an update the WG2 font policy and submit.

[96-A28] Action Item for V.S. Umamaheswaran: Send to Rick McGowan the WG2 feedback on Kharoshthi script.

[96-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Work with the authors of L2/02-203R2 Kharoshthi to update the proposal based on WG2 feedback, and resubmit for the October 2003, WG2 meeting.

[96-A30] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Review WG2 meeting minutes L2/03-296 and look for items to review with the authors of the various UTC proposals.

[96-A31] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Ask Cora to check the set of 107 DPRK compatibility characters in WG2 documents N2572, N2573. [L2/02-471, L2/02-472]

[96-A32] Action Item for Cathy Wissink, Michel Suignard: Write a response to the Chinese proposal on Tibetan in WG2 document N2558. Respond to WG2 as an L2/UTC position.

WG2 - Principles and Procedures (B.1.4)

[96-A33] Action Item for V.S. Umamaheswaran: Draft an added paragraph in the WG2 Principles and Procedures document to request contact information from the authors of proposals. Add information on how reviewers can follow the progress of their proposals. [L2/03-226]

[96-A34] Action Item for V.S. Umamaheswaran: Add naming guidelines for submissions to the WG2 Principles and Procedures document. Also add a description of levels 1, 2, and 3. [L2/03-226]

WG2 - Synchronization of 10646 and Unicode 4.0 (B.1.5) 

[96-C11] Consensus: The UTC and L2 endorse the 10646 editor's way forward to base 10646:2003 data on a combination of the two FDAMs. Subsequent changes to the data table should be dealt with in the context of a future amendment. [L2/03-061]

[96-C12] Consensus: (1) Before publishing 4.0.1, Unihan.txt should be synchronized with the 10646:2003 data file. (2) In order to document the changes to normative IRG source fields, we should add an IRG source corrections text file to the UCD, for Unicode 4.0.1, that documents all changes made to these fields from the prior versions. If there are no substantive differences, a file will not be created. [L2/03-061]

[96-A35] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Synchronize Unihan.txt with the10646:2003 data file, as per consensus 96-C12.  [L2/03-061]

[96-A36] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Create a corrections file if substantive differences are found between Unihan.txt and the 10646:2003 data file, also for the 3.0 -> 3.1 versions, etc. [L2/03-061]

WG2  - Character Names for Sequences (B.1.6)

[96-M3] Motion: UTC has agreed in principle to define named sequences of character codes. [L2/03-204]

Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Ken Whistler

9 For (Adobe, Apple, Basis, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, RLG, Sybase)
0 Against
2 Abstain (Justsystem, Sun)

Motion 96-M3 carries

[96-A37] Action Item for Mark Davis, Asmus Freytag: Prepare a working draft of a proposed draft UTR defining named sequences of character codes. Reference 96-M3.[L2/03-204]

[96-A38] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Draft an initial list of known named sequences of character codes. Reference 96-M3.[L2/03-204]

[96-A39] Action Item for Mike Ksar: Respond to Sato-san regarding UTC actions on named sequences of character codes L2/03-204. Reference 96-M3, 96-A37,96-A38.

WG2 - Updating Annex F (B.1.7)

[96-A40] Action Item for V.S. Umamaheswaran: Review the list of characters in Annex F for any missing format characters, such as U+0603, see 94-A34

SC2/SC22/SC36 (B.3.1.1)

[96-C13] Consensus: The Unicode SC2 liaison should strongly support the transfer of 14651 from WG20 to WG2. [L2/03-217,L2/03-232]

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
NOT PRESENT:  Adobe no longer present
Total members represented: 10; Total not represented: 5

ISO Country Codes (B.18.2)

[96-M4] Motion: With reference to the proposal by ISO CPSG to charge fees for the commercial use of ISO codes: ISO infrastructure standards such as ISO 3166 (country codes), ISO 4217 (currency codes), and ISO 639 (language codes) must be royalty-free. The negative consequences of charging royalties would be severe, including strong incentives for companies and other organizations to:

1. avoid future contributions to ISO standards development
2. avoid using or referencing ISO standards
3. develop and use alternative, royalty-free, standards.

Moreover, many of these ISO standards are themselves based on contributions from other sources or duplicate pre-existing data, and charging royalties for the use of this data may expose ISO itself to debates over intellectual property rights and financial liability. Even the discussion of this issue casts a cloud of uncertainty over future use of ISO standards in the IT environment.

Moved by V.S. Umamaheswaran, seconded by Cathy Wissink

10 for (Apple, Basis, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
0 abstain (Adobe out of room)

Motion 96-M4 carries unanimously

[96-A41] Action Item for Joan Aliprand: Communicate the text of motion 96-M4 on ISO charging fees for commercial use of standards to NISO.

[96-A42] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Communicate the text of motion 96-M4 on ISO charging fees for commercial use of standards to INCITS and TC 37.

[96-A43] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Communicate the text of motion 96-M4 on ISO charging fees for commercial use of standards to our liaison organizations, including IETF.

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT:  Adobe now present
Total members represented: 11; Total not represented: 4

[96-M5] Motion: The recent decision by the maintenance agency for ISO 3166 to re-assign "cs" (formerly Czechoslovakia) to Serbia and Montenegro can cause severe problems. Country codes are a fundamental component of modern computing infrastructure: major operating systems, postal services, business applications, identification and security systems, to name a few. Their stability must be guaranteed. Data that is identified by these codes has a shelf life of decades, not five years.

Corrective actions to take include:

1. Rescind the re-assignment of the code "cs" to Serbia and Montenegro at the earliest opportunity available, to minimize the impact.
2. Change the policy to allow the re-use of codes only after a long period of time, such as 100 years.

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

Motion 96-M5 carries unanimously

[96-A44] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Communicate the text of motion 96-M5 on reassigning the cs country code to the maintenance authority and INCITS.

[96-A45] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Communicate the text of motion 96-M5 on reassigning the cs country code to our liaison organizations, including IETF and Unicode members. In the message say that we urge members to contact their national bodies in other countries, especially in the most-affected countries.

[96-A46] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Communicate the text of motion 96-M5 on reassigning the cs country code to INCITS and TC 37

WG2 - Basic International CJK Subset (B.1.1.4)

1. The UTC welcomes the WG2 / IRG initiative to define a Basic International CJK Subset.

2. The UTC notes that it will be important for any such proposed repertoire development to clearly identify the target audience intended for its use. We suggest the development of a requirements list so that the scope of the proposed repertoire can be assessed against the requirements. Suggested requirements would include:

a. Basic CJK language needs, as far as basic educational character lists for Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

b. Implementation categories such as use in PDAs, mobile phones kiosk applications, library automation, and popular publishing.

It is important not to aim the Basic International CJK Subset at all possible audiences, e.g., scholars, which would extend its scope too far.

3. The UTC notes that keeping the Basic International CJK Subset in the approximate range of 7,000 characters would have many beneficial effects for implementation, memory footprints, and font size, while still providing adequate coverage for the vast majority of common CJK characters for all East Asian languages.

4. The UTC wishes to review the proposed Basic International CJK Subset in detail, but will need to have an actual proposed repertoire to be presented before this review can proceed. [L2/02-441]

[96-A47] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Post the resolution in consensus 96-C14 as an L2 document and forward to Mike Ksar for posting as a WG2 document in time for the October 2003 WG2 meeting. [L2/02-441]

Editorial Committee - Unicode 4.0.1 Beta (B.13.2)

[96-C15] Consensus: Extend the current beta review for 4.0.1 to October 27, 2003.

[96-A48] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Change the Public Review Issue notice to extend the beta review for 4.0.1 to October 27, 2003, update the beta pages, and make an announcement to notifications list.

Hexadecimal Digit Value Table (B.19)

[96-A49] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Create a FAQ based on John Cowan's document L2/03-271 on hexadecimal digit values.

W3C (B.19)

[96-A50] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add review of "W3C Character Model" to the agenda for next UTC meeting.

August 27, 2003

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

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG;

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: SAP AG.

Internet connections at UTC meetings (C.1)

[96-A51] Action Item for Lisa Moore, Cathy Wissink: Establish guidelines for internet connection capability for UTCs. (The committee informally favored having at least http connectivity during meetings.)

Public Review Issues - Bengali Reph and Ya-Phalaa (B.11.1 ) 

[96-A52] Action Item for Paul Nelson: Produce an updated document on Reph and Ya-phalaa for the next UTC meeting. Update the public review issue. Extend it and add more information about this versus the other approaches. Post for consensus-building in the community. Issue to close on Oct 27, 2003. [L2/03-248, L2/03-264, L2/03-233]

[96-A53] Action Item for Rick McGowan: As a standing action, explicitly forward web reporting forms on Public Review Issues to the authors of the documents that are put up for public review.

[96-A54] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Update the UTC Procedures with the process of reporting web feedback to public review issue authors. Reference 96-A53.

Unicode Technical Reports -  Normalization (B.12.6.1)

[96-A55] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate some of Kent Karlsson's suggestions in document L2/03-203 into the appropriate text in the Unicode Standard or Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms for a future version of the Unicode Standard. 

Unicode Technical Reports - Conformance Clause Update (B.12.7) 

[96-A56] Action Item for Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, Editorial Committee: Improve the conformance statement in Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm so that it is referencable by ISO 10646 and other standards, and create a proposed update for which the public review will close October 27, 2003. [L2/03-284]

[96-A57] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the proposed update to Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm as a Public Review Issue to close October 27, 2003. [L2/03-284]

[96-A58] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Look at all of the Unicode Technical Reports, Standard Annexes, and Technical Standards that are in draft form (PDUTR, DUTR, or proposed update) and add them to the Public Review Issues, to close October 27, 2003.

[96-C16] Consensus: Remand further work on the Unicode Standard Annex and Technical Standard sample conformance clause to the editorial committee. [L2/03-284.]

[96-A59] Action Item for Mark Davis, Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update the sample conformance clause of Unicode Standard Annexes and Technical Standards found in document L2/03-284. Reference 96-C16.

Unicode Technical Reports - Text Boundaries (B.12.9)

[96-C17] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries  to Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries for inclusion in Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/03-295]

[96-A60] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make the corrections to the proposed update of Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and post the result as an approved Unicode Standard Annex, as part of Unicode 4.0.1, when the UCD data file is ready as well.

[96-A61] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the draft 4.0.1 pages to include Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries as part of the update release.

Unicode Technical Reports - Regular Expressions (B.12.2.1)

[96-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis: See where the text of Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions can be improved in response to L2/03-290 and make the updates. [L2/03-179,L2/03-304]

[96-C18] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions to Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions. [L2/03-179, L2/03-290, L2/03-304]

[96-A63] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Amend Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions as discussed in committee and post as Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions. [L2/03-179, L2/03-290, L2/03-304]

Properties - Ethiopic (B.15.3)

[96-A64] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add Ethiopic Properties to the agenda for the November UTC. [L2/03-279, L2/03-298]

[96-A65] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to Daniel Yacob regarding Ethiopic properties. [L2/03-279, L2/03-298]

Unicode Technical Reports - Identifier and Pattern Syntax (B.12.8.1)

[96-A66] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate feedback and prepare an update of Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax, and post for public review, to close on Oct 27. [L2/03-275, L2/03-302, L2/03-303]

[96-A67] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Add a new Public Review Issue for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax to focus on the new parts of the TR that should be reviewed. Issue to close on October 27, 2003. Reference [96-A66].

[96-A68] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to Peter Kirk regarding his feedback on Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax.[L2/03-275]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs (B.20)

[96-A69] Action Item for Eric Muller: Come back with a proposed list of variation sequences needed to distinguish the compatibility ideographs for the next UTC meeting in November, 2003. [L2/03-294]

DPRK Compatibility Ideographs (B.20.1)

[96-A70] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: The Unicode liaison to WG2 is instructed to support the 107 DPRK compatibility ideographs, assuming they are vetted and stable. Reference 96-A31, L2/02-471, L2/02-472.

[96-C19] Consensus: Once the UTC accepts the 107 DPRK compatibility ideographs, treat them the same as the other CJK compatibility characters. [L2/02-471, L2/02-472]

Maintaining Han Variant Information  (B.16)

[96-A71] Action Item for Richard Cook: Work with Ken Whistler, Mike Ksar, Michel Suignard, Rick McGowan, and Tatsuo Kobayashi, on a proposal for WG2 on Han variant issues raised in document L2/03-286. 

Scripts and New Characters - Meteg and CGJ (B.14.5.1)

[96-C20] Consensus: Add text to Unicode 4.0.1 which points out that combining grapheme joiner has the effect of preventing the canonical re-ordering of combining marks during normalization. [L2/03-235, L2/03-236, L2/03-234]

[96-A72] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Draft language for consensus 96-C20 (on the effect of combining grapheme joiner to prevent canonical re-ordering of combining marks during normalization) for inclusion into Unicode 4.0.1 and create a FAQ describing this effect as well. [L2/03-235, L2/03-236, L2/03-234]

August 28, 2003

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

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG;

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: SAP AG.

WG20 - ISO/IEC 15897 (B.2.2.1)

[96-C21] Consensus: The UTC recommends voting No with comments on FCD 15897. Our review has found unauthorized edits, and the contents do not reflect in all points the agreements reached at the WG20 Korean meeting. Both of these defects must be remedied as a precondition for changing the vote. Additional comments as outlined in L2/03-250 must also be satisfactorily resolved.

[96-A73] Action Item for Joan Aliprand, Sandra Martin O'Donnell: Identify key comments in L2/03-250, and back out the DTR comment.

Scripts and New Characters - ATOM SYMBOL, FLEUR-DE-LIS (B.14.10)

[96-C22] Consensus: Change the proposed code point allocations for ATOM SYMBOL and FLEUR-DE-LIS to U+269B and U+269C, respectively, as proposed in document L2/03-214.

Scripts and New Characters - HANDICAPPED SIGN (B.14.11)

[96-C23] Consensus: Change the name of U+267F from HANDICAPPED SIGN to WHEELCHAIR SYMBOL. [L2/03-214]

[96-A74] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to change the name of U+267F from HANDICAPPED SIGN to WHEELCHAIR SYMBOL. [L2/03-214]

[96-A75] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Verify that WG2 has the latest proposal for U+267F with the mane WHEELCHAIR SYMBOL. [L2/03-214]

Scripts and New Characters - TAMIL LETTER SHA (B.14.9.1)

[96-C24] Consensus: Accept TAMIL LETTER SHA for encoding at U+0BB6. [L2/03-273]

[96-A76] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Supply to Michael Kaplan the character properties for U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA by September 5, so that L2/03-273 can be updated to include property assignments.

[96-A77] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Work with the authors to update document L2/03-273 proposing U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA to remove the reference to "Grantha" in the document title.

[96-A78] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Get permission from Peri Bhaskararao to include his paper L2/03-278 in the revision of L2/03-273 to be posted as a WG2 document.

[96-A79] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA. [L2/03-273]

[96-A80] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Forward to WG2 (Mike Ksar) the revised document L2/03-273 proposing U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA as a contribution from UTC and INFITT in time for the October, 2003, WG2 meeting.

[96-A81] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Send an updated Tamil font to Asmus Freytag which includes U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA.[L2/03-273]

Scripts and New Characters - Latin Variation Selector Umlaut and Trema (B.14.8)

[96-C25] Consensus: Document L2/03-215 on Latin Variation Selector Trema and Umlaut is not acceptable as proposed. The UTC would like to work with the submitter and the German bibliographic community to understand the requirements better and propose other solutions.

[96-A82] Action Item for Joan Aliprand: Write a response to L2/03-215, to engage in a discussion to determine if they need 2-way or 3-way distinction. Send response to Mike Ksar for posting as a WG2 document in time for the October, 2003, meeting.

Scripts and New Characters - Eleven Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde (B.14.15)

[96-C26] Consensus: Encode the eleven phonetic symbols with middle tilde at 1D6C..1D76. Reference document L2/03-174, motion 95-M2.

[96-A83] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Follow up with Peter Constable and Michael Everson to get a font for eleven phonetic symbols with middle tilde. L2/03-174, motion 95-M2.

[96-A84] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect the code assignments of 1D6C..1D76 for eleven phonetic symbols with middle tilde. Reference L2/03-174, motion 95-M2.

Scripts and New Characters - Horizontal Arrows with Tips Vertical (B.14.1)

[96-C27] Consensus: Accept the following four bent arrow characters: [L2/03-119R]

2B0E;RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP DOWNWARDS;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
2B0F;RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP UPWARDS;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
2B10;LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP DOWNWARDS;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
2B11;LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP UPWARDS;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;

[96-A85] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the four bent arrow characters:. [L2/03-119R]

2B0E RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP DOWNWARDS
2B0F RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP UPWARDS
2B10 LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP DOWNWARDS
2B11 LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP UPWARDS

[96-A86] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the proposal L2/03-119R using new proposal summary form, providing glyphs, information about the source of the font, and answering other questions that may occur on the new form. Forward to Mike Ksar in time for the October, 2003, WG2 meeting.

Scripts and New Characters - Georgian (B.14.2)

[96-C28] Consensus: Accept 43 Georgian characters for encoding: 38 Nuskhuri letters  at 2D00..2D25, U+10F9 GEORGIAN LETTER TURNED GAN, U+10FA GEORGIAN LETTER AIN, U+10FC MODIFIER LETTER GEORGIAN NAR, U+1D77 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED G, U+1D78
MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN, with new block Georgian Supplementary at 2D00..2D2F. [L2/03-230R]

[96-A87] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the 43 characters in the Georgian proposal at 2D00..2D25, 10F9..10FA, 10FC, 1D77..1D78, with new block Georgian Supplementary at 2D00..2D2F. [L2/03-230R]

[96-A88] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Let Michael Everson know the two new code point assignments in the Georgian proposal (Turned G to be encoded at U+1D77, Cyrillic EN to be encoded at U+1D78). Reference L2/03-230R,96-C28.

[96-A89] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Inform the chair of GSDIT of the acceptance of the Georgian repertoire as documented in L2/03-230R and 96-C28.

Scripts and New Characters - Combining Character for Lithuanian (B.14.3)

[96-C29] Consensus: Accept COMBINING ZIGZAG ABOVE for encoding at U+035B. [L2/03-219]

[96-A90] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the Lithuanian proposal for U+035B COMBINING ZIGZAG ABOVE. [L2/03-219]

Scripts and New Characters - Marwari Lam with Bar (B.14.6)

[96-C30] Consensus: Accept ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH BAR for encoding at U+076A. [L2/03-228R]

[96-A91] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+076A ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH BAR. [L2/03-228R]

[96-A92] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Update L2/03-228R with the new name (ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH BAR) and forward to Mike Ksar for consideration by WG2 at the October, 2003, meeting.

[96-A93] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Supply the font for U+076A ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH BAR in proposal L2/03-228R by September 30, 2003.

Scripts and New Characters - Saurashtra (B.14.4.1) 

[96-A94] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Draft a WG2 document giving feedback on the Saurashtra proposal, stating that Saurasthra is not currently ready for encoding. Forward the document  to Mike Ksar in time for October, 2003, WG2 meeting. Send Peri Bhaskararao's feedback to WG2, after getting permission from him. [L2/03-231; L2/03-277, L2/03-245, L2/03-256]

Scripts and New Characters - Phags-pa Script (B.14.7) 

[96-C31] Consensus: Accept the repertoire of 52 Phags-pa script characters for encoding at U+AB80..U+ABB3 with block name "Phags-pa" at AB80..ABBF. [L2/03-229R2,L2/03-224,L2/03-246,L2/03-269]

[96-C32] Consensus: Accept the representation of four variant Phags-pa glyphs with variation sequences as shown in Table 7 of L2/03-229R2.

[96-C33] Consensus: Accept the encoding model for the Phags-pa script as shown in document L2/03-229R2: such that each letter of a syllable unit is encoded in visual order from top to bottom with the use of positional variants as described in sections 6, 7, 8, and 9 of document L2/03-229R2.

[96-A95] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the 52 characters in the Phags-pa script at U+AB80..U+ABB3. Reference 96-C31,96-C32,96-C33,L2/03-229R2.

[96-A96] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Extend the pipeline to include variation sequences.

[96-A97] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Include the four variation sequences from the Phags-pa script in the pipeline. Reference 96-C32, L2/03-229R2.

[96-A98] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Send Asmus Freytag a font for Phags-pa by September 15, 2003.

[96-A99] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Follow up with the proposer of Phags-pa to provide an alternate name for AB9A that does not have a leading hyphen and correct the names for ABB0, ABB1 by removing the first "mark". [L2/03-229R2]

Scripts and New Characters - Glagolitic (B.14.14)

[96-M6] Motion: Accept 94 Glagolitic characters plus 3 punctuation characters for encoding at U+2C00..U+2C5F and U+2056, U+2058, U+2059; with new block Glagolitic at 2C00-2C5F. [L2/03-282]

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Joan Aliprand

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

Motion 96-M6 carries

[96-A100] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 94 Glagolitic characters plus 3 punctuation characters at U+2C00..U+2C5F and U+2056, U+2058, U+2059; with a new block Glagolitic at 2C00-2C5F. [L2/03-282]

[96-A101] Action Item for Michael Everson: Send Asmus Freytag a font for Glagolitic. [L2/03-282]

[96-A102] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Get line break properties for the three Glagolitic punctuation characters, including the description and narrative. [L2/03-282]

Scripts and New Characters - Coptic (B.14.20)

[96-C34] Consensus: Accept  58 Coptic characters for encoding at 2C80..2CBF, excluding the Chi-Rho symbol, and encoding Full Stop and Fraction One Half at U+2CBE and U+2CBF, with new block Coptic at 2C80..2CBF. [L2/03-283]

[96-A103] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 58 Coptic characters at U+2C80..U+2CBF, excluding the Chi-Rho symbol, and encoding Full Stop and Fraction One Half at U+2CBE and U+2CBF, with new block Coptic at 2C80..2CBF. [L2/03-283]

[96-A104] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Inform Michael Everson of the changes to the Coptic proposal L2/03-283 requested by the UTC in consensus 96-C34. Request that he send a Coptic font to Asmus Freytag by September 15, 2003.

[96-A105] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Correct the symbol properties for Coptic in L2/03-283 and give to Michael Everson for inclusion in the updated Coptic proposal.

[96-A106] Action Item for Eric Muller: Ask Michael Everson for more examples of double-hyphen and let him know that the UTC recommends writing a separate proposal for encoding of double-hyphen. [L2/03-283]

Scripts and New Characters - Old Persian (B.14.19)

[96-C35] Consensus: Accept 50 Old Persian characters for encoding on the SMP at U+103A0..U+103D5, with new block Old Persian at 103A0-103DF; with property corrections noted in the meeting. [L2/03-097, L2/03-149]

[96-A107] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 50 Old Persian Characters at U+103A0..U+103D5, with new block Old Persian at 103A0..103DF, with property corrections noted in the meeting. [L2/03-097, L2/03-149]

[96-A108] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Correct the properties for Old Persian characters and forward the information to Michael Everson for inclusion in the updated proposal..[L2/03-097, L2/03-149]

[96-A109] Action Item for Michael Everson: Send Asmus Freytag a font for Old Persian by September 15, 2003. [L2/03-097, L2/03-149]

Scripts and New Characters - Hebrew (B.14.5.2) 

[96-A110] Action Item for Joan Aliprand: Forward document L2/03-261 to Dr Seth Jerchower and get his feedback. 

[96-A111] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Asmus Freytag: Draft FAQs that address the Hebrew issues that are of generic interest, such as linguists' access and UTC policies, in document L2/03-261.

Unihan Updates (B.22)

[96-A112] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add Unihan updates (L2/03-285 and L2/03-288) to the agenda for next UTC meeting. 

[96-C36] Consensus: Verify and incorporate the fixes to the errors in Unihan.txt documented in L2/03-287 and L2/03-301, plus others identified by September 30, 2003 into 4.0.1.

[96-A113] Action Item for John Jenkins: Verify and incorporate the fixes to the errors in Unihan.txt documented in L2/03-287 and L2/03-301, plus others identified by Sept 30 into 4.0.1.

[96-A114] Action Item for Eric Muller: Ask Richard Cook to cross-check Super-CJK for the same errors. [L2/03-287, L2/03-301]

[96-A115] Action Item for Eric Muller: Communicate to Richard Cook the September 30, deadline for reporting errors to be fixed in Unihan.txt in 4.0.1.