L2/07-015R2

Approved Minutes of UTC 110 / L2 207 Joint Meeting
Mountain View, CA -- February 5-8, 2007
Hosted by Microsoft

UTC #110 Agenda
November 9, 2007


Wednesday, February 6, 2007

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Basis Technology Corporation (proxy), Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Justsystem (proxy), Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Inc., UC Berkeley. 8 full members, 1 institutional member, and 1 supporting member present, 9.5 total

NOT PRESENT: Denic e.G., Hewlett Packard, India-MIT, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Pakistan-NLA, SAP AG, Yahoo! Inc. 5 full members, 2 institutional members, and 2 supporting members not present, 8 total

Voting members: 13 full, 3 institutional, 2 supporting
Members in regular attendance: 13.5 
Quorum: 7

Administrative - Action Item Review (A.5.2.1)

[110-A1] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Write a letter to Government of India, Ministry of Information Technology regarding Swaran Lata's participation in the next UTC meeting.

Administrative - Calendar Review (A.6)

UTC 111/L2 208 - May 14-18, 2007, Mountain View, host, Google
UTC 112/L2 209 - August 6-10, 2007, Redmond, host, Microsoft
UTC 113/L2 210 - October 17-19, 2007, San Jose, host, Adobe or OMG, annual members meeting
UTC 114/L2 211 - February 5-8, 2008, Cupertino, tentative host, Apple

Administrative - Minutes Approval (A.5.1)

[110-C1] Consensus: Approve the minutes of UTC 109/L2 207 Joint Meeting. [L2/06-324R2]

Properties - Script Property (B.14.2)

[110-C2] Consensus: Change the script property of U+327E: CIRCLED HANGUL IEUNG U to "Hangul". [L2/06-399]

[110-A2] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make the change to Scripts.txt for changing U+327E to have "Hangul" script property. [L2/06-399]

[110-C3] Consensus: Change the script property for all the characters in L2/06-399 with Katakana parts to "Katakana" script, and highlight this in the Unicode 5.0.1 beta to draw attention to the changes.

[110-A3] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Scripts.txt to reflect consensus 110-C3 to change the script property for all the characters in L2/06-399 with Katakana parts to "Katakana" script, and highlight this in the Unicode 5.0.1 beta.

[110-C4] Consensus: Open a Public Review Issue (PRI) on the desirability of further changes to the script property of the characters in the U+3200 and U+3300 blocks. The wording of the PRI will point out what has been changed and what may be open for review. [L2/06-399]

[110-A4] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Draft a Public Review Issue on reviewing the script property of the U+3200 and U+3300 blocks. [L2/06-399]

[110-A5] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue (PRI) on the U+3200 and U+3300 blocks script property, to close on May 8, 2007.

Properties - Property and Value Aliases (B14.5)

[110-A6] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add an invariant test to tools that "Script=unknown" is equivalent to the union of Unassigned, Private Use, and Non-character code points. [L2/07-026R2]

[110-A7] Action Item for Eric Muller: Prepare text for Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names describing the use of the script property in layout systems, as part of the proposed update. [L2/07-026R2]

[110-A8] Action Item for John Jenkins: Fix the regex in Unihan.html and Unihan.txt per section 1.1 of document L2/07-026R2.

[110-A9] Action Item for John Jenkins: Fix the error in kFourCornerCode in the Unihan database per section 1.2 of document L2/07-026R2.

[110-C5] Consensus: Add regexes from Table 2 of document L2/07-026R2, as revised in discussion, to UCD.html as test patterns, after review by the Editorial Committee.

[110-A10] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make the changes to UCD.html to add regular expressions, as in consensus 110-C5. See also action items 110-A8 and 110-A9. [L2/07-026R2]

[110-C6] Consensus: Document the default values for the properties (string and catalog values) as in table 2 of L2/07-026R2, as amended in discussion.

[110-A11] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add the default string values as in consensus 110-C6. [L2/07-026]

[110-C7] Consensus: Document the way that booleans are represented in the data files for both True and False values, using N and Y instead of F and T in those cases where specific values are called out. [L2/07-026R2]

[110-A12] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Document consensus 110-C7 regarding convention for booleans in PropertyValueAliases.txt and UCD.html. [L2/07-026R2]

[110-C8] Consensus: Document in UCD.html and in the text of V 5.0.1 that the algorithmic decomposition mapping values for Hangul syllables are not the full ones but the pair-wise ones. [L2/07-026R2]

[110-A13] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Document the decomposition mapping for Hangul syllables, as in consensus 110-C8. [L2/07-026R2]

Thursday, February 7, 2007

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Basis Technology Corporation (proxy), Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Justsystem (proxy), Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Inc., UC Berkeley. 8 full members, 1 institutional member, and 1 supporting member present, 9.5 total

NOT PRESENT: Denic e.G., Hewlett Packard, India-MIT, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Pakistan-NLA, SAP AG, Yahoo! Inc. 5 full members, 2 institutional members, and 1 supporting member not present, 7.5 total

Liaison Reports  -  IETF (B.5)

[110-C9] Consensus: The UTC is willing to add a new Unicode property for use in IDN with contents of that property determined by rules established by the IETF.

[110-A14] Action Item for Mark Davis: Communicate consensus 110-C9 to IETF colleagues.
[110-A15] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend Public Review Issue (PRI) periods for 102, 103, 104 to May 8, 2007.

Technical Reports - Regular Expressions (B.12.1)

[110-A16] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: See if Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions needs an update. [L2/07-029]

Properties - Property and value aliases issues (B.14.5)

[110-C10] Consensus: Correct Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names to say that "Script = unknown" value includes surrogates. [L2/07-026R]

[110-A17] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names.

[110-A18] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue (PRI) for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names when ready, to close May 8, 2007. [L2/07-026R]

[110-C11] Consensus: Make changes to "blk" and "dt" values in PropertyValueAliases.txt, as in items 8 and 9 of document L2/07-026R without the notes.

[110-C12] Consensus: Document in UCD.html what happens when an explicit value is not provided for the foldings and mappings listed in item #10 of document L2/07-026R, except for special casing conditions.

[110-A19] Action Item for Mark Davis: Document in UCD.html what happens when an explicit value is not provided for the foldings and mappings listed in item #10 of document L2/07-026R, except for special casing conditions.

[110-A20] Action Item for Mark Davis: Correct the spelling for Simple_Case_Folding in PropertyValueAliases.txt. [L2/07-026R]

[110-C13] Consensus: Add a new field to derived numerical values with the rational format for the number. [L2/07-026R]

[110-A21] Action Item for Mark Davis: Create a new field to derived numerical values with the rational format for the number. [L2/07-026R]

[110-C14] Consensus: Remove special casing conditions from PropertyValueAliases.txt and UCD.html. Comment in CaseFolding.txt and SpecialCasing.txt that the lines included in item #13 of document L2/07-026R constitutes conditional casing data and do not constitute a formal Unicode property.

[110-A22] Action Item for Mark Davis: Remove special casing conditions from PropertyValueAliases.txt and UCD.html. Comment in CaseFolding.txt and SpecialCasing.txt that the lines included in item #13 of document L2/07-026R constitutes conditional casing data and do not constitute a formal Unicode property.

Technical Reports - Line Break (B.12.2.1)

Properties - Linebreak (B.14.6)

[110-C15] Consensus: Change the linebreak property for U+1FFD GREEK OXIA from AL to BB. [L2/07-028]

[110-A23] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Change the linebreak property for U+1FFD GREEK OXIA from AL to BB. [L2/07-049]

Properties - Linebreak (B.14.7)

[110-A24] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Create a Public Review Issue on the Ethiopic linebreak issue based on document. [L2/07-050]

[110-C16] Consensus: Approve the linebreak changes for 7 characters as documented in [L2/07-050].

[110-A25] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Make linebreak data changes for 7 characters as documented in [L2/07-050].

[110-A26] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties, and the text of the standard (16.2) to reflect linebreak data changes for 7 characters as documented in [L2/07-050].

Technical Reports - Line Break (B.12.2.1)

[110-C17] Consensus: Accept the change in L2/07-028 for linebreak rule 12B with the addition of ", HY" to the rule. [L2/07-028]

[110-A27] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Make the update in L2/07-028 for linebreak rule 12B with the addition of ", HY" to the rule. In Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties and text of the standard.

[110-C18] Consensus: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties. [L2/07-028]

[110-A28] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties. [L2/07-028]

[110-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public review Issue (PRI) for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties to close May 8, 2007.

Public Review Issue 100 - Middle Dot (B.11.6 )

[110-C19] Consensus: Add U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT to ID_Continue. [L2/07-033 L2/07-042]

[110-A30] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT to Other_ID_Continue in PropList.txt for Unicode 5.0.1. [L2/07-033 L2/07-042]

[110-A30b] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #100.

Editorial Committee - Unicode 5.0.1 (B.13.4 )

[110-C20] Consensus: Authorize a beta for Unicode 5.0.1.

[110-A31] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Create a beta page and issue a Public Review Issue for beta Unicode 5.0.1 to close May 8, 2007.

Public Review Issue 100 - Middle Dot (B.11.6 )

[110-C21] Consensus: Document in Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax that people may want to tailor identifiers to only permit U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT in certain contexts.
[110-A30a] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add text to Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax regarding potential tailoring of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT for identifiers in certain contexts. [L2/07-033 L2/07-042]

Public Review Issue 96 - Joiner Characters in Identifiers (B.11.2)

[110-C22] Consensus: Issue a new Public Review Issue based on discussion in the meeting of Public Review Issue #96 feedback, including the new Indic properties. [L2/07-043]

[110-A32] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Eric Muller: Create new draft properties that support the determination of orthographic clusters in Indic scripts. [L2/07-043]

[110-A33] Action Item for Mark Davis, Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Create a new Public Review Issue on joiner/non-joiner based on discussion in the meeting of Public Review Issue #96 feedback, including the new Indic properties.

[110-A34] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on joiner characters based on Public Review Issue #96 feedback, to close May 8, 2007.

Public Review Issue 98 - Ideographic Variation Database (B.11.4)

[110-C23] Consensus: Create a document proposing that WG2 reference in 10646 the current submission of the Ideographic Variation Database (IVD).

[110-A35] Action Item for Eric Muller: Create a WG2 proposal for L2 and UTC, to include in 10646 a reference to the Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) submissions.

Public Review Issue 101 - External Link Sign (B.11.7)

[110-A36] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend Public Review Issue #101on external link sign to May 8, 2007. [L2/07-046]

Greek Mute Iota (B.17)

[110-A37] Action Item for Eric Muller: Create an FAQ on the Greek mute iota representation and casing issues. [L2/07-068]

Public Review Issue 75 - Math (B.11.1)

[110-C24] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics to Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics after incorporating input on floors and ceilings from the script subcommittee. L2/07-030]

[110-A38] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics and post.

[110-A39] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #75. The draft is advanced to final and will be published.

[110-C25] Consensus: Adopt the proposal on the disposition of Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics math data tables in L2/07-051 in principle.

[110-A40] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Murray Sargent, Editorial Committee: Implement the consensus on the disposition of Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics data tables. [L2/07-051]

Public Review Issue 99 - Conformance Model (B.11.5)

[110-C26] Consensus: Advance Draft Unicode Technical Report #33: Conformance Model to Unicode Technical Report #33: Conformance Model. [L2/07-045]

[110-A41] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Publish Unicode Technical Report #33: Conformance Model. [L2/07-045]

[110-A42] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #99.

Technical Reports - Unicode in XML and Other Markup Languages (B.12.3)

[110-M1] Motion: Authorize the Editorial Committee to publish an updated version of Unicode Technical Report #20: Unicode in XML and Other Markup Languages jointly with the W3C. [L2/07-040]

Moved by Asmus Freytag, Seconded by Ken Whistler

6.5 for ( Adobe, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sybase, UCB)
1 against (Google)
2 abstain (JustSystem, Apple)

Motion 110-M1 passes.

[110-A43] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Publish an updated version of Unicode Technical Report #20: Unicode in XML and Other Markup Languages jointly with the W3C. [L2/07-040]

Friday, February 8, 2007

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Justsystem (proxy), Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Inc., UC Berkeley. 8 full members, 1 institutional member, and 0 supporting members present, 9 total
NOT PRESENT: Basis Technology Corporation (proxy), Denic e.G., Hewlett Packard, India-MIT, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Pakistan-NLA, SAP AG, Yahoo! Inc. 5 full members, 2 Institutional members, and 2 supporting members not present, 8 total

Technical Reports - BOCU-1 (B12.4)

[110-C27] Consensus: Withdraw Draft Unicode Technical Standard #40: BOCU-1 MIME-Compatible Unicode Compression from the website, and point to the Unicode Technical Note. [L2/07-059]

[110-A44] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Point the "withdrawn" stub for Draft Unicode Technical Standard #40: BOCU-1 MIME-Compatible Unicode Compression on the reports page back to the Unicode Technical Note, and make page updates as appropriate [L2/07-040].

Identity theft standards (B.19)

[110-C28] Consensus: In response to INCITS IDSP document "Survey on Existing and Needed Identity-Related Standards", the UTC recommends to INCITS that they include consideration of the Unicode Standard (and ISO 10646), as well as Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Consideration and Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms. [L2/07-074]

[110-A45] Action Item for Mark Davis, Michel Suignard: Add a section to Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Consideration that explains the implications of character and property stability. [L2/07-074]

[110-A46] Action Item for Eric Muller: Respond to the INCITS IDSP survey request in document [L2/07-074].

ISO 4217 Currency Code Issues (B.16)

[110-C29] Consensus: The committee is very grateful for the steps taken by TC68/SC7 regarding stabilizing ISO 4217 currency codes to address the requested improvements in "Resolution of US comments on ISO WD 4217", document SC7N094. [L2/07-025]

[110-A47] Action Item for Eric Muller: Respond to the letter from TC68/SC7. [L2/07-025]

[110-A48] Action Item for Mark Davis: Go through L2/07-025 and create a document summarizing any remaining issues with ISO 4217.

Hangul (B.18)

[110-A49] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Kent Karlsson asking that he clarify his intent for the proposal in document L2/06-310 "Auxiliary character decompositions for supporting Hangul". [L2/06-310]
[110-A50] Action Item for Mark Davis: Extend the room reservations for the May UTC meeting to 5 days.

Scripts - Avestan (C.16) 

[110-C30] Consensus: Accept 61 Avestan characters at 10B00..10B3F, with block name Avestan at 10B00..10B3F, and with properties as specified in document L2/07-006, for encoding in a future version of the Unicode standard and a future amendment to 10646:

@@    10B00    Avestan    10B3F
@ Vowels
U+10B00 AVESTAN LETTER A
U+10B01 AVESTAN LETTER AA
U+10B02 AVESTAN LETTER AO
U+10B03 AVESTAN LETTER AAO
U+10B04 AVESTAN LETTER AN
U+10B05 AVESTAN LETTER AAN
U+10B06 AVESTAN LETTER AE
U+10B07 AVESTAN LETTER AEE
U+10B08 AVESTAN LETTER E
U+10B09 AVESTAN LETTER EE
U+10B0A AVESTAN LETTER O
U+10B0B AVESTAN LETTER OO
U+10B0C AVESTAN LETTER I
U+10B0D AVESTAN LETTER II
U+10B0E AVESTAN LETTER U
U+10B0F AVESTAN LETTER UU
@ Consonants
U+10B10 AVESTAN LETTER KE
U+10B11 AVESTAN LETTER XE
U+10B12 AVESTAN LETTER XYE
U+10B13 AVESTAN LETTER XVE
U+10B14 AVESTAN LETTER GE
U+10B15 AVESTAN LETTER GGE
U+10B16 AVESTAN LETTER GHE
U+10B17 AVESTAN LETTER CE
U+10B18 AVESTAN LETTER JE
U+10B19 AVESTAN LETTER TE
U+10B1A AVESTAN LETTER THE
U+10B1B AVESTAN LETTER DE
U+10B1C AVESTAN LETTER DHE
U+10B1D AVESTAN LETTER TTE
U+10B1E AVESTAN LETTER PE
U+10B1F AVESTAN LETTER FE
U+10B20 AVESTAN LETTER BE
U+10B21 AVESTAN LETTER BHE
U+10B22 AVESTAN LETTER NGE
U+10B23 AVESTAN LETTER NGYE
U+10B24 AVESTAN LETTER NGVE
U+10B25 AVESTAN LETTER NE
U+10B26 AVESTAN LETTER NYE
U+10B27 AVESTAN LETTER NNE
U+10B28 AVESTAN LETTER ME
U+10B29 AVESTAN LETTER HME
U+10B2A AVESTAN LETTER YYE
U+10B2B AVESTAN LETTER YE
U+10B2C AVESTAN LETTER VE
U+10B2D AVESTAN LETTER RE
U+10B2E AVESTAN LETTER LE
U+10B2F AVESTAN LETTER SE
U+10B30 AVESTAN LETTER ZE
U+10B31 AVESTAN LETTER SHE
U+10B32 AVESTAN LETTER ZHE
U+10B33 AVESTAN LETTER SHYE
U+10B34 AVESTAN LETTER SSHE
U+10B35 AVESTAN LETTER HE
@ Punctuation
U+10B39 AVESTAN ABBREVIATION MARK
U+10B3A TINY TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION
U+10B3B SMALL TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION
U+10B3C LARGE TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION
U+10B3D LARGE ONE DOT OVER TWO DOTS PUNCTUATION
U+10B3E LARGE TWO RINGS OVER ONE RING PUNCTUATION
U+10B3F LARGE ONE RING OVER TWO RINGS PUNCTUATION

[110-A51] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add the 61 Avestan characters to the pipeline. See 110-C30. [L2/07-006]

[110-A52] Action Item for Michael Everson: Submit a revised Avestan proposal to WG2. [L2/07-006]

Scripts - Glyph corrections for U+027F and U+0285 (C.7)

[110-A53] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Add a note to the effect that "preferred typography" for U+027F LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK and U+0285 LATIN SMALL LETTER SQUAT REVERSED ESH have descenders. [L2/07-022]

[110-A54] Action Item for Lorna Priest, Asmus Freytag: Send to Asmus Freytag a font to make the glyph changes for U+027F LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK and U+0285 LATIN SMALL LETTER SQUAT REVERSED ESH. [L2/07-022]

Scripts - Tay Viet (revised) (C.21 )

[110-C31] Consensus: Accept 73 Tay Viet characters at AA80..AADF, with block name Tay Viet at AA80..AADF for encoding in a future version of the standard and a future 10646 amendment. Note that this script is planned to be encoded in visual order. [L2/07-039R]

[110-A55] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add the 73 Tay Viet characters to pipeline, as documented in L2/07-039R and consensus 110-C31.

[110-A56] Action Item for Jim Brase, Debbie Anderson: Revise the Tay Viet proposal to take Peter Constable's comments into account, also add combining class information and other comments from the subcommittee; then re-submit to the UTC and also forward to WG2. [L2/07-039R]

[110-A57] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Make sure Asmus Freytag gets a Tay Viet font. [L2/07-039R]

Scripts - Meitei Mayek (C.15)

[110-C32] Consensus: Accept 76 Meitei Mayek characters at 1C80..1CCF; with block name Meitei Mayek at 1C80..1CCF, and with properties as specified in L2/07-005 for encoding in a future version of the standard and in a future amendment of 10646.

[110-A58] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add 76 Meitei Mayek characters to the pipeline, as documented in L2/07-005 and consensus 110-C32.
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[110-A59] Action Item for Michael Everson: Submit a revised proposal (without the dandas and removing "ariba" from the names) to the UTC and to WG2. [L2/07-005]

Scripts - Lanna (C.17)

[110-C33] Consensus: Approve the new Lanna names as given in L2/07-007, new code point range of 1A20..1AAD, and accept the two new characters U+1A29 LANNA LETTER KHUN HIGH CHA and U+1AAD LANNA SIGN CAANG. 

[110-C34] Consensus: Remove the two Lanna characters with compatibility decompositions: U+1A65 LANNA VOWEL SIGN AM and U+1A66 LANNA VOWEL SIGN TALL AM. [L2/07-007]

[110-A60] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add Lanna to the pipeline, with changes as indicated in the two consensus items 110-C33 and 110-C34.  [L2/07-007]

[110-A61] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add above consensus on Lanna additions and deletions to the ballot comments for amendment 4 of 10646. See 110-C33 and 110-C34.  [L2/07-007]

Scripts - Archaic numbers for Sinhala (C.12)

[110-C35] Consensus: Accept 20 archaic Sinhala numbers at 0DE7..0DEF and 0DF5..0DFF for encoding in a future version of the standard and future amendment to 10646; all with general category of number-other. [L2/07-002]

[110-A62] Action Item for Michael Everson: Update the proposal for encoding 20 archaic Sinhala numbers to change the Sinhala digits 1-9 to not have "decimal digit" property and submit a revised proposal. [L2/07-002]

[110-A63] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add 20 archaic Sinhala numbers at 0DE7..0DEF and 0DF5..0DFF to the pipeline. [L2/07-002]

Scripts - Bamum (C.8 )

[110-C36] Consensus: Accept 88 Bamum characters at A680..A6DF (with name changes to indicate combining marks), with block name Bamum at A680..A6DF, and with properties as specified in document [L2/07-024], for encoding in a future version of the standard and future amendment to 10646.

[110-A64] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add 88 Bamum characters to pipeline. [L2/07-024]

[110-A65] Action Item for Michael Everson: Update the Bamum proposal section on names to discuss syllable vs letter in char names, and indicate why they chose "letter". [L2/07-024]

Scripts - Cyrillic (C.13 )

[110-C37] Consensus: Accept 106 Cyrillic letters, with new blocks Cyrillic Extended B at A640..A67F and Cyrillic Extended C at A8E0..A8FF, for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/07-003]
U+0487 COMBINING CYRILLIC POKRYTIE
U+0514 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LHA
U+0515 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LHA
U+0516 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER RHA
U+0517 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER RHA
U+0518 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YAE
U+0519 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YAE
U+051A CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER QA
U+051B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER QA
U+051C CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER WE
U+051D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER WE
U+051E CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ALEUT KA
U+051F CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ALEUT KA
U+0520 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL WITH MIDDLE HOOK
U+0521 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL WITH MIDDLE HOOK
U+0522 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH MIDDLE HOOK
U+0523 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH MIDDLE HOOK
U+2DF6 COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER A
U+2DF7 COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER IE
U+2DF8 COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER DJERV
U+2DF9 COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER MONOGRAPH UK
U+2DFA COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER YAT
U+2DFB COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER YU
U+2DFC COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER IOTIFIED A
U+2DFD COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER LITTLE YUS
U+2DFE COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER BIG YUS
U+2DFF COMBINING CYRILLIC LETTER IOTIFIED BIG YUS
U+2E3B VERTICAL TILDE
U+A640 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZEMLYA
U+A641 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZEMLYA
U+A642 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZELO
U+A643 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZELO
U+A644 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED DZE
U+A645 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER REVERSED DZE
U+A646 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
U+A647 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTA
U+A648 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJERV
U+A649 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJERV
U+A64A CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER MONOGRAPH UK
U+A64B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER MONOGRAPH UK
U+A64C CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BROAD OMEGA
U+A64D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BROAD OMEGA
U+A64E CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NEUTRAL YER
U+A64F CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NEUTRAL YER
U+A650 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YERU WITH BACK YER
U+A651 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU WITH BACK YER
U+A652 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTIFIED YAT
U+A653 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTIFIED YAT
U+A654 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED YU
U+A655 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER REVERSED YU
U+A656 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTIFIED A
U+A657 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTIFIED A
U+A658 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CLOSED LITTLE YUS
U+A659 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CLOSED LITTLE YUS
U+A65A CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BLENDED YUS
U+A65B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BLENDED YUS
U+A65C CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTIFIED CLOSED LITTLE YUS
U+A65D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTIFIED CLOSED LITTLE YUS
U+A65E CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YN
U+A65F CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YN
U+A662 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT DE
U+A663 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT DE
U+A664 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT EL
U+A665 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT EL
U+A666 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT EM
U+A667 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT EM
U+A668 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER MONOCULAR O
U+A669 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER MONOCULAR O
U+A66A CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BINOCULAR O
U+A66B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BINOCULAR O
U+A66C CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DOUBLE MONOCULAR O
U+A66D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DOUBLE MONOCULAR O
U+A66E CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O
U+A66F COMBINING CYRILLIC VZMET
U+A670 COMBINING CYRILLIC TEN MILLIONS SIGN
U+A671 COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED MILLIONS SIGN
U+A672 COMBINING CYRILLIC THOUSAND MILLIONS SIGN
U+A673 SLAVONIC ASTERISK
U+A67C COMBINING CYRILLIC KAVYKA
U+A67D COMBINING CYRILLIC PAYEROK
U+A67E CYRILLIC KAVYKA
U+A67F CYRILLIC PAYEROK
U+A8E0 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DWE
U+A8E1 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DWE
U+A8E2 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZWE
U+A8E3 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZWE
U+A8E4 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHWE
U+A8E5 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHWE
U+A8E6 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CCHE
U+A8E7 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CCHE
U+A8E8 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZZE
U+A8E9 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZZE
U+A8EA CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TE WITH MIDDLE HOOK
U+A8EB CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TE WITH MIDDLE HOOK
U+A8EC CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TWE
U+A8ED CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TWE
U+A8EE CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSWE
U+A8EF CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSWE
U+A8F0 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSSE
U+A8F1 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSSE
U+A8F2 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TCHE
U+A8F3 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TCHE
U+A8F4 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HWE
U+A8F5 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HWE
U+A8F6 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHWE
U+A8F7 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHWE

[110-A66] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add 88 Bamum and 106 Cyrillic characters to WG2 input document, requesting addition to amendment 4 of 10646. [L2/07-024]

[110-A67] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add 106 Cyrillic characters accepted in consensus 110-C37 to the pipeline. [L2/07-003]

[110-C38] Consensus: Accept the name changes to U+2DE0..U+2DF5 as shown on page 17 of document L2/07-003, and change all the glyphs to those shown on page 16 of the same document.

[110-A68] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline noting name changes for the Cyrillic letters, as per consensus 110-C38.

[110-A69] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add name and glyph changes for U+2DE0..U+2DF5 to the ballot comments for amendment 4 of 10646.

[110-A70] Action Item for Michael Everson: Create an updated Cyrillic proposal with changes as discussed and resubmit to WG2 and UTC. [L2/07-003]

[110-A71] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Issue a glyph erratum for U+0478 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UK and U+0479 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UK.

[110-A72] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Issue a glyph erratum on U+0460 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA and U+047E CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER OT based on document L2/07-003, page 10.

Scripts - Mathematical Characters and Symbols (C.4 )

[110-C39] Consensus: Accept 29 new math characters for encoding in a future version of the standard and a future amendment of 10646: [L2/07-011R]
U+2064 INVISIBLE PLUS
U+20F0 COMBINING ASTERISK ABOVE
U+27CC  LONG DIVISION 
U+27EE MATHEMATICAL LEFT FLATTENED PARENTHESIS
U+27EF MATHEMATICAL RIGHT FLATTENED PARENTHESIS
U+2B1B BLACK LARGE SQUARE
U+2B1C WHITE LARGE SQUARE
U+2B1D BLACK VERY SMALL SQUARE
U+2B1E WHITE VERY SMALL SQUARE
U+2B1F BLACK PENTAGON
U+2B24 BLACK LARGE CIRCLE
U+2B25 BLACK MEDIUM DIAMOND
U+2B26 WHITE MEDIUM DIAMOND
U+2B27 BLACK MEDIUM LOZENGE
U+2B28 WHITE MEDIUM LOZENGE
U+2B29 BLACK SMALL DIAMOND
U+2B2A BLACK SMALL LOZENGE
U+2B2B WHITE SMALL LOZENGE
U+2B2C BLACK HORIZONTAL ELLIPSE
U+2B2D WHITE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSE
U+2B2E BLACK VERTICAL ELLIPSE
U+2B2F WHITE VERTICAL ELLIPSE
U+2B45 LEFTWARDS QUADRUPLE ARROW
U+2B46 RIGHTWARDS QUADRUPLE ARROW
U+2B50 WHITE MEDIUM STAR
U+2B51 BLACK SMALL STAR
U+2B52 WHITE SMALL STAR
U+2B53 BLACK RIGHT-POINTING PENTAGON
U+2B54 WHITE RIGHT-POINTING PENTAGON

[110-A73] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add the 29 new math symbols to the pipeline as documented in L2/07-011R and consensus 110-C39.

[110-A74] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Create an updated proposal for L2/07-011R and forward to WG2. See consensus 110-C39.

Scripts - Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters (C.14)

[110-C40] Consensus: Accept 16 punctuation characters for encoding in a future version of the standard and a future amendment of 10646: [L2/07-004]
U+2E1A HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS
U+2E1B SWUNG DASH WITH RING ABOVE
U+2E1E SWUNG DASH WITH DOT ABOVE
U+2E1F SWUNG DASH WITH DOT BELOW
U+2E2A TWO DOTS OVER ONE DOT PUNCTUATION
U+2E2C ONE DOT OVER TWO DOTS PUNCTUATION
U+2E2E SQUARED FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION
U+2E2F FIVE DOT MARK
U+2E34 REVERSED QUESTION MARK
U+2E38 RING POINT
U+2E40 LEFT VERTICAL BAR WITH QUILL
U+2E41 RIGHT VERTICAL BAR WITH QUILL
U+2E46 LEFT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET
U+2E47 RIGHT SIDEWAYS U BRACKET
U+2E48 LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
U+2E49 RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS

[110-A75] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add 16 punctuation characters to pipeline. See consensus 110-C40. [L2/07-004]

[110-A76] Action Item for Michael Everson: Update proposal for Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters, L2/07-004, with comments from the meeting.

[110-A77] Action Item for Michael Everson, Debbie Anderson: Create a new proposal for Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters focused only on the positura and other related punctuation characters in L2/07-004 not already accepted.

[110-C41] Consensus: Accept 4 half-bracket characters U+2E42 - U+2E45 for encoding in a future version of the standard and future amendment of 10646: [L2/07-004]
U+2E42 TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET
U+2E43 TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET
U+2E44 BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET
U+2E45 BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET

[110-A78] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add 4 half-bracket characters to the pipeline at U+2E42..U+2E45.  [L2/07-004]

[110-A79] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the names list with annotations that are consistent with the new half bracket characters at t U+2E42..U+2E45. See consensus 110-C41. [L2/07-004]
[110-A80] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the names list with annotations to be consistent with the suggestions in L2/07-007 regarding Cyrillic glyph changes in section 2.

Scripts - I LONGA (C.6)

[110-A81] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Write back to the author and ask if there is any further evidence that I LONGA is being used unequivocally in a lower cased form, as opposed to a transcription that happens to use modern lower case. [L2/07-032, L2/06-269]

Scripts - CJK Unified Ideographs (C.20)

[110-C42] Consensus: Accept 7 CJK ideographs at U+9FBC..U+9FC2 for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/07-067]

[110-A82] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add 7 CJK ideographs at U+9FBC..U+9FC2 to the pipeline. [L2/07-067]

[110-A83] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add 7 CJK ideographs to ballot comments on amendment 4 of 10646. See consensus 110-C42. [L2/07-067]

[110-A84] Action Item for Eric Muller, Ken Lunde: Send the revised proposal for 7 CJK ideographs to Mike Ksar for WG2 consideration. [L2/07-067]

[110-A85] Action Item for Eric Muller: Gather and submit the necessary Unihan.txt data for the 7 new ideographs in consensus 110-C42. [L2/07-067]

Scripts - Rumi numerals (C.10)

[110-A86] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Debbie Anderson: Follow up on Rumi with Lazrek and other scholars. [L2/06-291]

Scripts - Devanagari Candra A (C.18)

[110-C43] Consensus: Accept U+0972 DEVANAGARI LETTER CHANDRA A for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/07-027]

[110-A87] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add U+0972 DEVANAGARI LETTER CHANDRA A to the pipeline. [L2/07-027]

[110-A88] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add U+0972 DEVANAGARI LETTER CHANDRA A to ballot comments on amendment 3 of 10646, including an indication of the urgency for encoding it in support of Marathi. [L2/07-027]

[110-A89] Action Item for Peter Constable: Add a proposal summary form to L2/07-027 and resubmit with appropriate changes, and forward to WG2 for consideration.

Scripts - CJK Character U+4039 (C.3)

[110-A90] Action Item for John Jenkins: Update proposal L2/07-010 regarding CJK character U+4039 in accordance with comments from Ken's document, then send to WG2 requesting that they take action. 

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

Scripts - Hangul (B.18)

[110-A91] Action Item for Michael Kaplan, Michel Suignard: Prepare a demo on the Microsoft support for complex jamos for Old Hangul. [L2/07-076]
Properties - UCD Canonical Check (B.14.9)
[110-C44] Consensus: Make the following changes in properties: [L2/07-071]

U+0374 Alphabetic = F T
U+0374 GC = Sk Lm
U+0374, U+0385, U+1FC1, U+1FED..U+1FEF, U+1FFD Script = Greek Common
U+0387 Wordbreak = Other MidLetter
U+0387 Other_ID_Continue

[110-A92] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Make changes to UCD data files for property changes as in above consensus 110-C44. [L2/07-071]

Liaison Reports - ISO/IEC CD 19757-7: Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL)  (B.2)

[110-C45] Consensus: There are serious technical problems with the document ISO/IEC CD 19757-7: Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) - Part 7: Character Repertoire Description Language. The grapheme cluster description is unnecessarily restrictive and makes it impossible to describe repertoires containing arbitrary combining marks. The UTC also has serious concerns about IANA registrations, and the registration process is unspecified. [L2/06-397, L2/07-052]

[110-A93] Action Item for Eric Muller: Forward comments regarding ISO/IEC CD 19757-7: Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL) - Part 7: Character Repertoire Description Language on behalf of L2 before February 21, 2007. [L2/06-397, L2/07-052]

Scripts - Malayalaym Ad Hoc Report

[110-A94] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to the governments of India and Kerala noting UTC support for their positions on Malayalam chillus.

[110-C46] Consensus: Text based upon the discussions in the Malayalam ad hoc will be added to the 5.0.1 beta and be part of the public review.

[110-A95] Action Item for Cibu Johny, Mark Davis, Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Create text and background material for Malayalam in the 5.0.1 beta.

[110-A96] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Respond to the contributors reporting on the results of the recent conference in Kerala, and also to people who contributed feedback on Public Review Issue #96.

[110-A97] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Push all significant agenda items which haven't been covered to the next UTC agenda.

[110-A98] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler: Create draft PropList.txt data (especially punctuation and symbols) for all of the new characters that have been accepted at this meeting. Come back with suggested resolution at next meeting.

[110-A99] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Create a set of questions for determining character properties, particularly punctuation. 

Scripts - Orkhun Turkish Runes (C.0.1 )

[110-A100] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Follow up with the authors of L2/06-392 to better understand the script that they are proposing. Complete before the April WG2 meeting 

UTC Attendance

Person                                 Representing        
Debbie Anderson UCB
Jim Brase SIL
Mark Davis Google
James Do Pacific Links
Asmus Freytag Basis
Deborah Goldsmith Apple
Cibu C. Johny Google
Michael Kaplan Microsoft
Tatsuo Kobayashi Justsystem
Mike Ksar Unicode
Rick McGowan Unicode
Lisa Moore IBM
Eric Muller Adobe
Addison Phillips Yahoo
Murray Sargent Microsoft
Ienup Sung Sun
VS Umamaheswaran IBM
Ken Whistler Sybase
By Phone
Tina Dam ICANN
Michael Everson Evertype
Cary Karp IETF
Lorna Priest SIL
Marcos Sanz Denic
Ram Viswanadha IBM

Members Represented

  Feb 6 Feb 7 Feb 8 Feb 9
Full        
1. Adobe yes yes yes yes
2. Apple yes (proxy)     yes (proxy)     yes (proxy)     yes (proxy)
3. Denic     yes  
4. Google yes yes yes yes
5. HP        
6. IBM yes yes yes yes
7. Justsystem     yes (proxy) yes (proxy) yes (proxy) yes (proxy)
8. Microsoft yes yes yes yes
9. Oracle        
10. SAP        
11. Sun yes yes yes yes
12. Sybase yes yes yes yes
13. Yahoo       yes
         
Institutional        
1. India, MIT        
2. UC Berkeley yes yes yes yes
         
Supporting        
1. Basis yes yes yes
2. Monotype