L2/05-180R

Approved Minutes of the UTC 104 / L2 201 Joint Meeting
Mountain View, CA -- August 9 - 12, 2005
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #104 Agenda
January 18, 2005

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer (proxy), Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); IBM Corporation; Justsystem; Microsoft Corporation (proxy); SAP AG (proxy); Sun Microsystems (proxy); Sybase, Inc.; UC Berkeley. 9 full members present, 1 institutional member present, 1 supporting member present, 10.5 total

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; Denic; Hewlitt Packard; Monotype Imaging Corporation; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; RLG; VeriSign. 8 full members not  present, 1 institutional member not present

Voting members: 17 full, 2 institutional, 1 supporting
Voting members in regular attendance: 14 full, 1 institutional, 1 supporting
Quorum: 8

UTC 105/L2 202 - November 1-4, 2005, San Jose, host Adobe, Annual Members Mtg
UTC 106/L2 203 - February 6-9, 2006, Mountain View, host Unicode
UTC 107/L2 204 - May 16-19, 2006, Cupertino, host Apple
UTC 108/L2 205 - August 8-11, 2006, Seattle, host Adobe

[104-C1] Consensus: Create a Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #30: Unicode Support for Mathematics, including a new section on security, and post for public review to close October 24, 2005. [L2/05-192]

[104-A1] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Prepare and post a Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #30: Unicode Support for Mathematics including a new section on security. [L2/05-192]

[104-A2] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #30: Unicode Support for Mathematics, to close October 24, 2005. [L2/05-192]

Properties - Grapheme_Link Property (B.14.1) 

[104-C2] Consensus: Introduce a new meta-property of "Deprecated". Remove the Grapheme_Link property from PropList.txt, but add it as a derived property in DerivedCoreProperties.txt. Update the references in UCD.html and other places, and deprecate the Grapheme_Link property. [L2/05-168]

[104-A3] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Add the "deprecated" meta-property to Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model. [L2/05-168]

[104-A4] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: With reference to consensus 104-C2, update UCD.html and the data files for a new meta-property of "deprecated" for the next version of the standard. [L2/05-168]

[104-A5] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Create a proposal for a machine-readable list of metaproperties. [L2/05-168]

Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Umamaheswaran

8.5 for (Adobe, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, SAP, Sun, UCB, VeriSign)
1 against (Sybase)
1 abstain (Apple)

Motion 104-M1 carries

[104-A6] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Remove Appendix A (script icons) from the next Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names.

[104-A7] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue 69 #69. Reason for closure: removing the section on iconic indicators from Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names.

[104-A8] Action Item for Hideki Hiura, Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Update Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #37: Registration of Ideographic Variation Sequences and post as Draft Unicode Technical Standard #37: Registration of Ideographic Variation Sequences. [L2/05-205, L2/05-226]

[104-A9] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a public review issue for Draft Unicode Technical Standard #37: Registration of Ideographic Variation Sequences, to close October 24, 2005.

[104-A9a] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue 70; Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #37: Registration of Ideographic Variation Sequences is advanced to Draft Unicode Technical Standard #37: Registration of Ideographic Variation Sequences, and a new public review issue will be posted when it is available. [L2/05-205, L2/05-226]

[104-A10] Action Item for Eric Muller, Asmus Freytag: Update L2/05-227 and forward to SC2/WG2 with the latest Draft Unicode Technical Standard #37: Registration of Ideographic Variation Sequences attached. Include a reference in the Unicode liaison report.

Public Review Issue 72 - Bidi Mirrored Property (B.11.4.2)

[104-C4] Consensus: Issue Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm, clarifying the text in section 6 and restricting the optionality in rule HL6 to mathematical layout. Change Bidi_Mirrored and Bidi_Mirroring properties to make required mirroring apply to all, and only, paired delimiters, and a few other changes for consistency. Issue a new public review issue. [L2/05-202]

[104-A11] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue 72 on the bidi mirrored property. The UTC chose option B, and will issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm to clarify section 6, and a new public review issue on the specific content of the Bidi Mirroring property. [L2/05-202]

[104-A12] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Create and post a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm, clarifying the text in section 6 and restricting the optionality in rule HL6 to mathematical layout. Change Bidi_Mirrored and Bidi_Mirroring properties to make required mirroring apply to all, and only, paired delimiters, and a few other changes for consistency. [L2/05-202]

[104-A13] Action Item for Mark Davis, Bidi Committee: Come up with a draft list of characters whose Bidi_Mirrored or Bidi_Mirroring properties would be changed to make them consistent. Include in the public review issue on Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm. [L2/05-202]

[104-A14] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the public review issue on Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm to close on October 24, 2005. [L2/05-202]

[104-A15] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Communicate to WG2 a revised list of mirrored characters for Annex E (once they have been firmed up for Unicode 5.0). [L2/05-202]

[104-C5] Consensus: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries that uses the characters from the "word extensions" list in L2/05-083 as examples of tailoring word boundaries.

[104-A16] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries that uses the characters from the "word extensions" list in L2/05-083 as examples of tailoring word boundaries.

[104-A17] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries to close October 24, 2005. [L2/05-083]

[104-C6] Consensus: Add notes to Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax to explain that certain modifier letters (those with "gc = Sk") and having "Modifier Letter" in their name are not alphabetic in L2/05-083 are not normally parts of words or identifiers, and explain why.

[104-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare and issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax. Include text to explain why certain modifier letters are not parts of identifiers. See 104-C6. [L2/05-083]

[104-A19] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add text to Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries, to explain why certain modifier letters are not parts of "words". See 104-C6. [L2/05-083]

[104-A20] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax to close October 24, 2005. [L2/05-083]

[104-A21] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare and issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms adding material to section 3 on stability, for a particular version and applying corrigenda. [L2/05-211]

[104-A22] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms to close October 24, 2005.

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer (proxy), Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); IBM Corporation; Justsystem (proxy); Microsoft Corporation; SAP AG (proxy); Sybase, Inc.; UC Berkeley; VeriSign. 8 full members present, 1 institutional member present, 1 supporting member present, 9.5 total

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; Denic; Hewlitt Packard; Monotype Imaging Corporation; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Yahoo!. 9 full members not  present, 1 institutional member not present

Unicode Technical Reports - Security (B.12.4)  

[104-A24] Action Item for Michel Suignard, Mark Davis, Security Subcommittee: Create a document outlining the problems with a language-based security approach. [L2/05-161, L2/05-225]

Public Review Issue 73 - Representative Glyphs for Certain Arabic Characters (B.11.5)

[104-C8] Consensus: Change the representative glyphs for three Arabic characters:  U+06DF, U+06E0, U+06E1. For U+06E9 document the range in representative glyphs. [L2/05-203]

[104-A25] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Post a glyph erratum (and defect report) on the glyphs for U+06DF, U+06E0, U+06E1. [L2/05-203]

[104-A26] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue  #73. Mention that the UTC will change the glyphs for three Arabic characters:  U+06DF, U+06E0, U+06E1. For U+06E9, The UTC will document glyphic variations in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-203]

[104-A26a] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add annotation to names list to indicate there is a range of glyphs for U+06E9. [L2/05-203]

Unicode Technical Reports - Assessing Unicode (B.12.5)

[104-C9] Consensus: Withdraw Draft Unicode Technical Report #32: Assessing Unicode.

[104-A27] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Document Draft Unicode Technical Report #32: Assessing Unicode. as withdrawn on the technical reports web page and the index page, making it an ordinary withdrawn technical report.

[104-C10] Consensus: Move Appendixes A, B and D of document L2/05-209 (Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #36: Unicode Security Considerations) and other necessary pieces into a new Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Operations. Take document L2/05-209 and revert to Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations. Both are authorized for posting for public review after work by the Security Subcommittee and Editorial Committee.

[104-A28] Action Item for Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, Security Committee, Editorial Committee: Update and post a Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations. Prepare and post Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Operations (based on Appendices A, B, and D of the current Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #36: Unicode Security Considerations). See 104-C10. [L2/05-209]

[104-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post one public review issue for the two security documents (Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations and a new Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Operations) above to close October 24, 2005. [L2/05-209]

[104-A30] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to those who made comments on the script icons in either Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names or Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #36: Unicode Security Considerations that we have taken into account their feedback, and they are invited to comment again on the next draft.

Diacritics (B.15)

[104-C11] Consensus: Submit the modified document L2/05-172 on criteria for disunifying diacritics as a joint US/UTC position proposing their adoption as part of the WG2 principles and procedures.

[104-A31] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Michael Ever son, Mark Davis, Deborah Anderson: Submit an updated document L2/05-172 on criteria for disunifying diacritics to Mike Ksar by August 26, 2005.

[104-C12] Consensus: Change the representative glyphs for Kharoshthi U+10A3F and Khmer U+17D2 to be the same as U+17D2, but with both enclosed in a dashed box. And add the same explanation in the text and the names list as to the appearance. [L2/05-134]

[104-A33] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Create the two new glyphs for Kharoshthi U+10A3F and Khmer U+17D2 to be the same as U+17D2, but with both enclosed in a dashed box, and issue an erratum for the glyphs. [L2/05-134]

[104-A34] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make changes to the text of the standard and to the names list associated with change of Kharoshthi U+10A3F and Khmer U+17D2 virama glyphs for version 5. [L2/05-134]

[104-A35] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Inform Andrew Glass and Stefan Baums of the glyph change for Kharoshthi virama U+10A3F. [L2/05-134]

Stability of Named Sequences (B.19)

[104-C13] Consensus: Incorporate an initial provisional phase into the process when defining Named Sequences.

[104-A36] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #34: Unicode Named Character Sequences noting the provisional process for achieving stability.

[104-A37] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Create a FAQ on the stability of named sequences stating that version 4.1 does not make a guarantee of stability of sequences and of names.

Scripts - Gurmukhi (C.6)

[104-C14] Consensus: Remove the two Gurmukhi named sequences, GURMUKHI HALF YA;0A2F 0A4D and GURMUKHI PARI YA;0A4D 0A2F, from the next version of the standard (5.0), and give the other four (GURMUKHI PARI CA;0A4D 0A1A, GURMUKHI PARI TA;0A4D 0A24, GURMUKHI PARI NA;0A4D 0A28, GURMUKHI PARI VA;0A4D 0A35) provisional status. Remove the six Gurmukhi named sequences from the US ballot comments on FPDAM2. [L2/05-167]

[104-A38] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Change NamedSequences.txt to remove the six Gurmukhi named sequences, for the next version of the standard.

[104-A39] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Create a list of provisional named sequences in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #34: Unicode Named Character Sequences, to include the four acceptable Gurmukhi named sequences (GURMUKHI PARI CA;0A4D 0A1A, GURMUKHI PARI TA;0A4D 0A24, GURMUKHI PARI NA;0A4D 0A28, GURMUKHI PARI VA;0A4D 0A35) and the two Tamil named sequences (TAMIL LETTER KSSA and TAMIL LETTER SHRII). [L2/05-167, L2/05-185]]

 Scripts - Tamil  (C.12.1)

[104-C15] Consensus: Remove the two Tamil named sequences (TAMIL LETTER KSSA and TAMIL LETTER SHRII) from US ballot comments on FPDAM2, and make them provisional. [L2/05-185]

[104-A40] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Mark Davis: Notify Om Vikas of the provisional status of the Gurmukhi named sequences.  Also, let him know we have added a new provisional stage to the process of adding named sequences. [L2/05-185]

Editorial Committee (B.13.3)

[104-C16] Consensus: If no changes other than minor maintenance are required for a UAX at the point that UTC authorizes a release, the Editorial Committee is authorized to update that UAX without a proposed update or public review issue.

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); IBM Corporation; Justsystem (proxy); Microsoft Corporation; SAP AG (proxy); Sybase, Inc.; UC Berkeley; VeriSign (proxy). 8 full members present, 1 institutional member present, 1 supporting member present, 9.5 total

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; Denic; Hewlitt Packard; Monotype Imaging Corporation; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Yahoo!. 9 full members not  present, 1 institutional member not present

Scripts - Malayalam (C.5.1)

[104-C17] Consensus: Accept three Malayalam numbers for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/05-175]

U+0D70 MALAYALAM NUMBER TEN
U+0D71 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE HUNDRED
U+0D72 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE THOUSAND

[104-A41] Action Item for V. S. Umamaheswaran: Create a proposal summary form for U+0D70 MALAYALAM NUMBER TEN, U+0D71 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE HUNDRED, and U+0D72 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE THOUSAND and forward to Mike Ksar by August 26, 2005. [L2/05-175]

[104-A42] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+0D70 MALAYALAM NUMBER TEN, U+0D71 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE HUNDRED, and U+0D72 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE THOUSAND for a future version of the standard. [L2/05-175]

Public Review Issue 71: Malayalam Digits (B.11.3)

[104-C18] Consensus: Change the glyph for U+0D66 MALAYALAM DIGIT ZERO to be ellipsoid as documented in L2/05-165 and L2/05-201.

[104-A44] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Prepare a glyph erratum for U+0D66 MALAYALAM DIGIT ZERO. [L2/05-165]

[104-A43] Action Item for Michael Everson: Send a font to Asmus Freytag for printing U+0D70 MALAYALAM NUMBER TEN, U+0D71 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE HUNDRED, U+0D72 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE THOUSAND, and the corrected glyph for U+0D66 MALAYALAM DIGIT ZERO. [L2/05-165, L2/05-175]

[104-A45] Action Item for V. S. Umamaheswaran: File a defect report with WG2 regarding the glyph for U+0D66 MALAYALAM DIGIT ZERO. [L2/05-165]

[104-A46] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue 71, and send a note to the Indic list about the resolution.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT:  Yahoo! now present
10.5 members represented

[104-C19] Consensus: Accept three Malayalam fractions for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/05-164, L2/05-173, L2/05-165]

U+0D73 MALAYALAM FRACTION ONE QUARTER
U+0D74 MALAYALAM FRACTION ONE HALF
U+0D75 MALAYALAM FRACTION THREE QUARTERS

[104-A47] Action Item for V. S. Umamaheswaran: Add the three Malayalam fractions to the WG2 proposal. [104-C19]

[104-A48] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to add Malayalam fractions 1/4, 1/2, 3/4. [104-C19]

[104-A49] Action Item for Michael Everson: Give Asmus a font for the three Malayalam fractions added in 104-C19.

[104-A50] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Invite Cibu and the Kerala State IT Mission to provide information about numeric ordinal symbol and other fractional symbols for Malayalam and prepare a proposal for these characters. [104-C19]

[104-A51] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Send Lanna materials to Michael Everson for evaluation of the Lanna and Lao Tham proposals. [L2/05-166, L2/05-188]

[104-A52] Action Item for Eric Muller: Get in touch with Kourilsky and Berment, authors of L2/05-166, and help progress the Lao Tham and Lanna proposals.

[104-A53] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Set up a mailing list for Southeast Asian scripts discussion. Announce it on Unicore and invite participation. For the initial subscription list use: Debbie Anderson, Michael Everson, Peter Constable, Ken Whistler, Eric Muller, Rick McGowan, Martin Hosken.

Scripts - Myanmar (C.10)

[104-A54] Action Item for Eric Muller, Rick McGowan: Correlate and analyze the requests in all current Myanmar documents. Come up with a set of questions and concerns, and then invite the Myanmar national body experts to participate in an e-mail discussion. [L2/04-273, L2/04-198, L2/05-178, L2/05-184]

[104-A55] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Contact Chuck Riley regarding other possible participants at Yale for the SE Asian discussions.

[104-A56] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Do not oppose the encoding of Saurashtra in Amendment 3 at the WG2 meeting. [L2/04-222]

Scripts - Gurmukhi (C.6)

[104-A57] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Incorporate annotations for Gurmukhi vowels into the names list for 5.0. See section D.1 of  L2/05-167 .

[104-A58] Action Item for Eric Muller: Invite Sidhu to write a tech note on the Gurmukhi character annotations, and relay the UTC positions on the items in A.1: there was no consensus to encode them. L2/05-167

[104-A59] Action Item for Michael Everson: Fix the glyphs for U+0B4C ORIYA VOWEL SIGN E and U+0B57 ORIYA AU LENGTH MARK and send the font to Asmus Freytag. (Note: This AI was generated during a discussion of canonical equivalence in the midst of a Gurmukhi discussion, and may seem out of place here.) [L2/05-167]

[104-A60] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Add to the text of the Gurmukhi block introduction information on how to refer to the subjoined consonants ("pairin ka" etc). See section B.2 of L2/05-167.

[104-A61] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Communicate with the author of L2/05-167 regarding the following: for Udaat, ask for further evidence of usage; for Yakash, advise him that the UTC is currently evaluating it for encoding.

Scripts - Latin additions (C.19)

[104-C20] Consensus: Accept twelve Latin characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/05-097R]

A71B MODIFIER LETTER RAISED UP ARROW
A71C MODIFIER LETTER RAISED DOWN ARROW
A71D MODIFIER LETTER RAISED EXCLAMATION MARK
A71E MODIFIER LETTER RAISED INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
A71F MODIFIER LETTER LOW INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
2C6D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA
2C6E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M WITH HOOK
2C6F LATIN LETTER TRESILLO
2C70 LATIN LETTER CUATRILLO
2C71 LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH RIGHT HOOK
2C72 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH HOOK
2C73 LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH HOOK

[104-A62] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font to Asmus for the 12 Latin letters accepted in consensus 104-C20. [L2/05-097R]

[104-A63] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include 12 Latin letters from 104-C20. [L2/05-097R]

[104-A64] Action Item for Lorna Priest: Update L2/05-097R on encoding 12 Latin letters and submit to Mike Ksar and Rick McGowan.

Scripts - Cyrillic  (C.18)

[104-C21] Consensus: Accept ten new Cyrillic letters for encoding in a future version of the standard:  [L2/05-080R]

04FA CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND HOOK
04FB CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND HOOK
04FC CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA WITH HOOK
04FD CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA WITH HOOK
04FE CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA WITH STROKE
04FF CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA WITH STROKE
0510 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED ZE
0511 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER REVERSED ZE
0512 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL WITH HOOK
0513 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL WITH HOOK

[104-A65] Action Item for Michael Everson: Send Asmus a font for the ten new Cyrillic letters added in 104-C21. [L2/05-080R]

[104-A66] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the ten new Cyrillic letters added in 104-C21. [L2/05-080R]

[104-A67] Action Item for Lorna Priest: Update the proposal for encoding ten new Cyrillic letters, including code point assignments, and send to Rick McGowan and Mike Ksar. [L2/05-080R]

Scripts - LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP  (C.16)

[104-M2] Motion: Accept the character U+0242 LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP, and change the general category property of U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP to be Letter Other. Move the character LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH CURL from U+024F to U+2C74, and the rest of the column U+024n down by one. [L2/05-194]

Moved by V. S. Umamaheswaran, Seconded by Eric Muller

6.5 for (Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, SAP, Yahoo)
1 against (Sybase)
2 abstain (Adobe, UCB)

Motion 104-M2 carries

[104-A68] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline with the character U+0242 LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP, and change the data file for the general category property change of U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP to Letter Other. Move the character LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH CURL from U+024F to U+2C74, and the rest of the column U+024n down by one.<> See motion 104-M2. [L2/05-194]

[104-A69] Action Item for Michael Everson: Update proposal L2/05-194 on LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP and submit to Mike Ksar and Rick McGowan.

[104-A70] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Add explanatory text on the changes to glottal stop characters to the IPA section in version 5.0. L2/05-194

Scripts - Claudian (C.15)

[104-C22] Consensus: Accept four Claudian characters for encoding in a future version of the standard:  [L2/05-191, L2/05-193R2]

2184 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED C
214E TURNED SMALL F
2C75 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER HALF H
2C76 LATIN SMALL LETTER HALF H

with property changes as described in L2/05-191: U+2132 So -> Lu, ON -> L, and U+2183 Nl -> Lu.

[104-A71] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline for the four Claudian Latin letters accepted in consensus 104-C22, and update the general category data file for U+2132 So -> Lu, ON -> L, and U+2183 Nl -> Lu. [L2/05-191]

[104-A72] Action Item for Michael Everson: Update the proposal for four Claudian letters and submit to Mike Ksar for distribution to WG2, and to Rick McGowan. [L2/05-193R2]

[104-A73] Action Item for Michael Everson: Supply Claudian letter fonts to Asmus Freytag. [L2/05-193R2]

Scripts - Malayalam Chillu Characters (C.5.2)

[104-C23] Consensus: Rescind acceptance of the six Malayalam chillu characters added at the last meeting (103-C20, 103-C24).

[104-A74] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect rescinding acceptance of six Malayalam Chillu characters.

[104-A75] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Withdraw the U.S. ballot comment requesting the addition of six Malayalam chillu characters.

[104-A76] Action Item for Eric Muller: Inform the Indic list of the decision to rescinded acceptance of six Malayalam chillu characters.

Scripts - Lepcha (C.1) 

[104-C24] Consensus: Accept 73 Lepcha characters at 1C00 - 1C4F, with the new block name "Lepcha" for encoding in a future version of the standard (except for the character U+1C35 LEPCHA CONSONANT SIGN KANG.) [L2/05-158]

[104-A77] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the acceptance of 73 Lepcha characters, at 1C00 - 1C4F, minus the character U+1C35 LEPCHA CONSONANT SIGN KANG. [L2/05-158]

[104-A78] Action Item for Michael Everson: Clarify U+1C35 LEPCHA CONSONANT SIGN KANG and submit a document discussing it.

Scripts - Vai (C.2) 

[104-C25] Consensus: Accept 284 Vai characters at A500..A61F, with block name "Vai", for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-159]

[104-A79] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include acceptance of 284 Vai characters at A500..A61F. [L2/05-159]

[104-A80] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Update the Tamil section of Unicode 5.0 to document that KSSA has two forms - a non-conjunct and a conjunct consonant. [L2/05-185]

Scripts - Jain Symbol Teen Lok (C.8) 

[104-A81] Action Item for V. S. Umamaheswaran: Let Manoj Jain know that the UTC does not think that Teen Lok is a text element. If there is evidence of its use in running text, please supply it. [L2/05-170]

Scripts - Todo Mongolian Punctuation (C.21) 

[104-A82] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Provide Chinese example material on to Asmus before the WG2 meeting (to exemplify centered punctuation in old Taiwan texts). [L2/05-218]

Scripts - Collection of Vedic Materials (C.22) 

[104-A83] Action Item for Eric Muller: Acknowledge receipt of the Vedic materials, and communicate what the next steps should be. [L2/05-228]

Editorial Committee (B.13)

[104-A84] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Post an erratum on the character counts in Unicode 4.0 book Table D-2: "A few counts in the alpahbetics and symbols row of Table D-2, page 1356 are incorrect due to inconsistent counting of format characters. The total code point count is correct."

[104-C26] Consensus: Approve the minutes of Joint Meeting UTC 103/L2 200 as documented in L2/05-108R.

UTC Attendees

Member Attendance Roster

Members not in regular attendance: Agencie Francophonie, India MLA, Pakistan NLA

Total full members in regular attendance: 14

Total institutional members in regular attendance: 1

Total supporting members in regular attendance: 1

Quorum: 8