L2/08-161R2

Approved Minutes of the UTC 115 / L2 212 Joint Meeting
San Jose, CA -- May 12 - 16, 2008
Hosted by Adobe
UTC #115 Agenda
October 30, 2008

Monday, May 12, 2008

South Asian Subcommittee, report at: L2/08-218.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Script Subcommittee, report at: L2/08-111.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Administrative  - Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., India, MIT, IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Network Appliance, Sun Microsystems (proxy), Sybase, Inc., UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Inc. 9 full members and 2 institutional members present, 11 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Basis Technology Corporation, Denic e.G., Hewlett Packard, Justsystem, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Oracle, Pakistan, NLA, SAP AG, Tamil Nadu 5 full members, 2 institutional member, and 2 supporting member not present, 9 total votes

Voting members: 14 full, 4 institutional, 2 supporting
Voting members in regular attendance: 13 full, 4 institutional
Quorum: 8

  UTC 116/L2 213 - August 11-15, 2008, Redmond, host Microsoft
  UTC 117/L2 214 - November 3-7, 2008, Mountain View, host Apple, Annual Members Mtg
  UTC 118/L2 215 - February 2-6, 2009, Mountain View, host Unicode, Members Mtg
  UTC 119/L2 216 - May 11-15, 2009, San Jose, host Adobe

Public Review Issue 111 - Regular Expressions (B.11.1 )

[115-A1] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add a comment to Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions that a possible example of loose matching would be traditional and simplified Chinese. See L2/08-211, L2/08-208.

[115-A2] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend the date of Public Review Issue #111 to August 4, 2008.

Public Review Issue 119 - Support for Mathematics (B.11.2)

[115-C1] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics to Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics after making updates noted in the meeting. [L2/08-212]

[115-A3] Action Item for Murray Sargent, Editorial Committee: Make updates, review, and post the approved Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics. [L2/08-212]

[115-A4] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #119, with the status that the proposed update was advanced to approved and will be posted.

[115-C2] Consensus: Add derived properties for Cased and Case_Ignorable to go into DerivedCoreProperties.txt, and NFKC_and_Casefolded into DerivedNormalizationProps.txt, for the next version of Unicode. [L2/08-157]

[115-A5] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add new derived properties for Cased, Case_Ignorable, and NFKC_and_Casefolded to DerivedCoreProperties.txt and DerivedNormalizationProps.txt. See consensus 115-C2 and L2/08-157.

[115-A6] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the documentation files for new derived properties: Cased, Case_Ignorable, and NFKC_and_Casefolded. See consensus 115-C2 and L2/08-157.

[115-A7] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update PropertyAliases.txt and PropertyAliaseValues.txt for new derived properties: Cased, Case_Ignorable, and NFKC_and_Casefolded. See consensus 115-C2 and L2/08-157.

[115-A8] Action Item for Mark Davis: Produce an updated proposal for the "operationally X-cased" properties with more background. See consensus 115-C2 and L2/08-157.

[115-A9] Action Item for Eric Muller: Update Unicode Standard Annes #42: Unicode Character Database in XML for the new derived properties: Cased, Case_Ignorable, and NFKC_and_Casefolded. See consensus 115-C2 and L2/08-157.

Script Subcommittee - Tifinagh (B.15.1, C.7) 

[115-C3] Consensus: Approve U+2D7F TIFINAGH CONSONANT JOINER with properties given in L2/08-198R and U+2D70 TIFINAGH SEPARATOR MARK with properties the same as a virama for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/08-198]

[115-A10] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+2D7F TIFINAGH CONSONANT JOINER with properties given in L2/08-198R and U+2D70 TIFINAGH SEPARATOR MARK with properties like virama. [L2/08-198]

[115-A11] Action Item for Lorna Priest: Update the Tifinagh proposal with a new glyph, change the combining clsss of U+2D7F to "9", and forward the proposal to WG2.

South Asian Subcommittee - Vedic (B.15.2, E.1)

[115-C4] Consensus: Approve name corrections for 8 characters: [L2/80-205]

1CD2 VEDIC TONE PRENKHA
1CE2 VEDIC TONE VISARGA SVARITA
1CE3 VEDIC TONE VISARGA UDATTA
1CE4 VEDIC TONE REVERSED VISARGA UDATTA
1CE5 VEDIC TONE VISARGA ANUDATTA
1CE6 VEDIC TONE REVERSED VISARGA ANUDATTA
1CE7 VEDIC TONE VISARGA UDATTA WITH TAIL
1CE8 VEDIC TONE VISARGA ANUDATTA WITH TAIL

[115-A12] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect name corrections for 8 Vedic characters in consensus 115-C4. See L2/08-205.

[115-C5] Consensus: Approve 4 characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/08-196]

1CE9 VEDIC SIGN ANUSVARA ANTARGOMUKHA
1CEA VEDIC SIGN ANUSVARA BAHIRGOMUKHA
1CEB VEDIC SIGN ANUSVARA VAMAGOMUKHA
1CEC VEDIC SIGN ANUSVARA VAMAGOMUKHA WITH TAIL

[115-A13] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect addition of 4 new Vedic characters in consensus 115-C5. See L2/08-196.

[115-A14] Action Item for L2 International Representative: Add 4 Vedic characters from 115-C5 to ballot comments for Amendment 6.2 of 10646, and include the necessary documentation.

[115-A15] Action Item for Swaran Lata: Assess U+1CF1 VEDIC SIGN ARDHAVISARGA to consider the combining behavior. See L2/08-218, L2/08-196.

[115-A16] Action Item for Swaran Lata: Follow up on prishtamatra using L2/08-218 as a basis.

[115-A17] Action Item for Swaran Lata, Peter Scharf: Come up with a common understanding of what Vedic means when encoding characters and allocating them to blocks. [L2/08-218]

[115-A18] Action Item for L2 International Representative: Add the comment to remove the cross reference to Bengali ya for U+097A DEVANAGARI LETTER HEAVY YA. Amend the current annotation to say "used for affricate glide, i.e., JJYA" to  ballot comments on Amendment 6.2 of 10646 .

[115-A19] Action Item for L2 International Representative: Add to ballot comments on PDAM 6.2, to change glyph of U+0973 DEVANAGARI SIGN PUSHPIKA to match L2/08-196.

[115-A20] Action Item for Swaran Lata: Follow up on maatraakaal for the August UTC. Document L2/08-043, page 35 shows examples that look like regular danda. Determine whether it should be a combining mark, and its relationship to U+A830 or U+A831.

[115-C6] Consensus: Move character VEDIC SIGN ARDHAVISARGA from U+1CF1 to U+1CF2. Accept: U+1CF1 DEVANAGARI SIGN ANUSVARA UBHAYATOMUKHA, with annotation "vaidika anusvara ubhayatomukha" and U+1CD4 VEDIC TONE YAJURVEDIC KASHMIRI SVARITA, with annotation "vaidika svarita urasi rekhaa". [L2/08-218]

[115-A21] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect the encoding of U+1CF1 DEVANAGARI SIGN ANUSVARA UBHAYATOMUKHA and U+1CD4 VEDIC TONE YAJURVEDIC KASHMIRI SVARITA, and the move of VEDIC SIGN ARDHAVISARGA  from U+1CF1 to U+1CF2. See consensus 115-C6.

[115-A22] Action Item for L2 International Representative: Add information from consensus 115-C6 to ballot comments on PDAM6.2 and include any necessary supporting documentation.

[115-A23] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Remand the proposed text for the Devanagari block description in L2/08-197 to the Editorial Committee and submit to the Government of India for review.

South Asian Subcommittee - Bodo, Dogri, Maithili (B.15.2, E.2)

[115-A24] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Simplify the annotation for U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE to "used as a tone mark in Bodo, Dogri, and Maithili". [L2.08-197, L2/08-210]

South Asian Subcommittee - Myanmar (B.15.2, E.3)

[115-A25] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Remand L2/08-192 to Editorial Committee to use as source material for any needed updates in the Myanmar block description.

[115-C7] Consensus: Approve for encoding in a future version of the standard 18 Myanmar characters for Khamti Shan with names, glyphs, and codepoints as proposed in L2/08-181, noting that the character name for U+AA60 is incorrect in the names list but correct in the properties list (and correctly noted in L2/08-179).

109A MYANMAR SIGN KHAMTI TONE-1
109B MYANMAR SIGN KHAMTI TONE-3
109C MYANMAR VOWEL SIGN AITON A
109D MYANMAR VOWEL SIGN AITON AI
AA60 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI CA
AA61 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI SA
AA62 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI NYA
AA63 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI NA
AA64 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI RA
AA65 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI HA
AA66 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI XA
AA67 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI ZA
AA68 MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI FA
AA69 MYANMAR SIGN KHAMTI REDUPLICATION
AA6A MYANMAR LETTER AITON RA
AA6B MYANMAR SYMBOL AITON EXCLAMATION
AA6C MYANMAR SYMBOL AITON ONE
AA6D MYANMAR SYMBOL AITON TWO

[115-A26] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect encoding of 18 Myanmar characters for Khamti Shan. See 115-C7 and L2/08-181.

[115-A27] Action Item for L2 International Representative: Check the name for U+AA60 in the ballot with the aim of the eventual approved character being named MYANMAR LETTER KHAMTI TSA.

South Asian Subcommittee - Malayalam (B.15.2, E.4)

[115-A28] Action Item for Swaran Lata, Cibu Johny: Provide an analysis of Malayalam dot reph. See L2/08-195.

[115-C8] Consensus: Approve U+0D29 MALAYALAM LETTER NNNA and U+0D3A MALAYALAM LETTER TTTA for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/07-283]

[115-A29] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect U+0D29 MALAYALAM LETTER NNNA and U+0D3A MALAYALAM LETTER TTTA. [L2/07-283]

[115-A30] Action Item for Michael Everson: Update proposal L2/08-283 for encoding U+0D29 MALAYALAM LETTER NNNA and U+0D3A MALAYALAM LETTER TTTA, and forward to WG2.

[115-A31] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add a review of accepted characters that we need to request WG2 to add to an amendment to the agenda for the August 2008 meeting.

South Asian Subcommittee - Meetei Mayek (B.15.2, E.5)

[115-M1] Motion: Reconfirm approval of the encoding of Meetei Mayek, with changed names and code points, including the two danda punctuation marks, as per L2/08-180.

Moved by Eric Muller, seconded by V S Umamaheswaran

10 for (Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Sun, Sybase, UCB, Yahoo)
1 against (India)
0 abstain

Motion carried

[115-A32] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect changes in Meetei Mayek. See motion 115-M1 and L2/08-180.

[115-A33] Action Item for Swaran Lata: Get more feedback from the Government of Manipur regarding L2/08-180.

[115-A34] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Forward to Swaran Lata and Lisa Moore the names of institutions and organizations requiring the use of historic Meetei Mayek characters.

[115-A35] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Respond to the Government of Manipur, pointing out the modifications which have been made to the original proposal to accommodate their concerns. [L2/08-136]

Properties - Code Point Labels (B.14.5) 

[115-C9] Consensus: Accept the concept of a Unicode codepoint label as documented in L2/08-206, to be documented in a future version of the standard.

[115-A36] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: For a future version of the standard, create documentation of the concept of codepoint label and clarify Unicode character names. [L2/08-206] 

[115-A37] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Provide a contribution to WG2 requesting an update to Principles and Procedures that will prevent character name collisions with codepoint labels. [L2/08-206]

[115-A38] Action Item for Eric Muller: Produce an erratum on the for the XML version of the UCD for Version 5.1, for the "na" attribute. See L2/08-206.

Properties - Classification for Brahmi-derived Scripts (B.14.6) 

[115-A39] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Extend the proposal on property classification for Brahmi-derived script characters based on discussion in the meeting. [L2/08-207]

Properties - Deprecated Characters (B.14.7)

[115-C10] Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue regarding deprecated characters, based on L2/08-220 and as amended in the meeting. Separate the characters into two lists -- one an "other candidates" list. [L2/08-220]

[115-A40] Action Item for Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Editorial Committee: Create a Public Review Issue on deprecated characters. See L2/08-220 and consensus 115-C10.

[115-A41] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Issue a Public Review Issue on deprecated characters to close August 4, 2008. See consensus 115-C10.

Thursday May 15, 2008

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems (proxy), Sybase, Inc., UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Inc. 8 full members and 1 institutional member present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Basis Technology Corporation, Denic e.G., Hewlett Packard, India, MIT, Justsystem, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Network Appliance, Oracle, Pakistan, NLA, SAP AG, Tamil Nadu 6 full members, 3 institutional member, and 2 supporting member not present, 10 total votes

[115-C11] Consensus: In response to the new Korean standared KS X 1026-1:2007, the UTC reaffirms that normalization cannot be changed. The UTC understands that normalization cannot be implemented conformantly to the Unicode standard or to 10646 if done in the way that is specified in KS X 1026-1:2007. To address the concerns raised in the Korean standard, the UTC resolves to initiate a Unicode Technical Report that specifies a preferred representation for Korean text and mechanisms for conversions to that representation. [L2/08-225]

[115-A42] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Create a FAQ on problems with the new Korean standard. See consensus 115-C11 and L2/08-225.

[115-A43] Action Item for Peter Constable: Submit a communication to WG2 and SC2 based on results of an ad hoc meeting about Korean issues. See 115-C11 and L2/08-228.

[115-A44] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, Ienup Sung, Editorial Committee: Create a working draft Unicode Technical Report on preferred representation for Korean text and mechanisms for conversions to that format. See 115-C11 and L2/08-225.

Handling Ill-formed Sequences (B.17) 

[115-C12] Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue on the clarification of the use of U+FFFD as a substitute for ill-formed sequences in Unicode encoding form conversions or validations and by extension for comparable handling of conversion of bad bytes from other character encodings.  [L2/08-150]

[115-A45] Action Item for Mark Davis, Peter Edberg, Editorial Committee: Create a Public Review Issue on the use of U+FFFD in ill-formed sequences. See L2/08-150.

[115-A46] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Issue a Public Review Issue on the use of U+FFFD in ill-formed sequences to close August 4, 2008.

[115-A47] Action Item for Eric Muller: Draft a proposal on using IVD to send to the WG2, and present it at the next UTC meeting. [L2/08-177]

WG2 - Meeting Report (B.1.2a) 

[115-A48] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Michael Everson, Editorial Committee: Review the resolutions related to the approval of Amendment 5 of 10646 and document L2/08-178. Make the corresponding glyph changes in the live Unicode code charts. 

[115-A48a] Action Item for Rick McGowan:  Once action item 115-A48 is complete, publicize the updated charts to highlight the glyph changes.

WG2 - Consent docket (B.1.6) 

[115-C13] Consensus: Approve the glyph change for U+19D1 NEW TAI LUE DIGIT ONE. [L2/08-205]

[115-C14] Consensus: Approve 4 CJK ideographs for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/08-205]9FC6 (= ARIB #93)

[115-A49] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add the 4 additional CJK ideographs in above consensus 115-C14 to the pipeline.

[115-C15] Consensus: Approve 4 character name corrections for: [L2/08-205]

11FD HANGUL JONGSEONG KIYEOK-KHIEUKH
A96E HANGUL CHOSEONG RIEUL-KHIEUKH
A973 HANGUL CHOSEONG PIEUP-KHIEUKH
AAB7 TAI VIET MAI KHIT

[115-A50] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add review of Nushu to the August agenda.

[115-C16] Consensus: Approve "Rumi Numeral Symbols" as the block name for Rumi. [L2/08-205]

[115-C17] Consensus: Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/08-077R3]

[115-A51] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect encoding of 186 Japanese TV symbols.[L2/08-077R3]

[115-C18] Consensus: Rescind approval of 10 characters for Kaithi digits, at U+110C0..U+110C9. They will be unified with Devanagari.[L2/08-205]

[115-A52] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect removal of 10 Kaithi digits from ballot. See 115-C18.

[115-A53] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Follow up with author of the Kaithi proposal to determine all character properties. [L2/07-418, L2/08-156]

[115-C19] Consensus: Update the approved Old South Arabian block range to U+10A60..U+10A7F, with all code points revised accordingly. [L2/08-044]

[115-A54] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect movement of Old South Arabian to new block with range to U+10A60..U+10A7F. See L2/08-044, 115-C19.

[115-C20] Consensus: Approve U+19DA NEW TAI LUE THAM DIGIT ONE for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/08-205]

[115-A55] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect addition of U+19DA NEW TAI LUE THAM DIGIT ONE. [L2/08-205]

[115-C21] Consensus: Approve 4,149 CJK ideographs in Extension C at codepoints U+2A700..U+2B734 for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/08-227]

[115-A56] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect the encoding of 4,149 CJK ideographs in Extension C at codepoints U+2A700..U+2B734. [L2/08-227]

[115-A57] Action Item (withdrawn)

[115-A58] Action Item for John Jenkins: Ensure that the new IRG principles and procedures include the requirement to provide multi-column fonts to WG2 and Unicode.

[115-A59] Action Item for Richard Cook, Ken Lunde: Raise the issue of making fonts available to Unicode at the June IRG meeting.

[115-C22] Consensus: Whereas the continued synchronization of Unicode and 10646 is vital to the success of both, and the publication of a version of the Unicode Standard containing Extension C requires fonts sufficient to print in multi-column format for all sources, the UTC urgently requests that the IRG provide fonts for the publication of Extension C in the Unicode Standard. The same considerations will apply to all future CJK additions.

Friday, May 16, 2008

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems (proxy), Sybase, Inc., UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Inc. 8 full members and 1 institutional member present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Basis Technology Corporation, Denic e.G., Hewlett Packard, India, MIT, Justsystem, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Network Appliance, Oracle, Pakistan, NLA, SAP AG, Tamil Nadu 6 full members, 3 institutional member, and 2 supporting member not present, 10 total votes

Hangul - Ad Hoc Report (B.16.2)

[115-C23] Consensus: The UTC endorses the position on KS X 1026-1:2007 presented in document L2/08-228.

[115-A60] Action Item for Peter Constable: Raise the Unicode concerns regarding KS X 1026-1:2007 presented in document L2/08-228 to WG2.

[115-C24] Consensus: The UTC would like to see the 37 CJK ideographs documented in L2/08-148R be considered for encoding by the IRG. 

[115-A61] Action Item for John Jenkins: Create U-Source information for all 40 ideographs in L2/08-148R.

[115-A62] Action Item for Ken Lunde: Update L2/08-148 with U-Source information and separating out the 3 already-encoded characters. 

[115-A63] Action Item for Ken Lunde: Forward revised L2/08-148R to the IRG.

CJK - CJK Unified Ideographs in Multi-column Format (B.18.3) 

[115-C25] Consensus: UTC requests that the design concepts for multi-column CJK ideograph chart formats presented in document L2/08-143 be used as the principal basis for printing future versions. [L2/08-143]

Symbols Subcommittee - Soccer Ball Symbol (B.15.3, D.3) 

[115-C26] Consensus: Remand the proposal to encode the soccer ball symbol to the symbols subcommittee. [L2/08-135]

[115-A64] Action Item for Markus Scherer: Add the proposal to encode the soccer ball symbol to the symbols subcommittee agenda. [L2/08-135]

[115-A65] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Reply to the author of the proposal to encode the soccer ball symbol informing him of the disposition. [L2/08-135]

Properties - Useful values to assign to unassigned CJK code points (B.14.8) 

[115-C27] Consensus: Assign the two properties of East Asian Width and Linebreak to unassigned characters in the ideographic ranges documented in L2/08-226R. 

[115-A66] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Update UCD.html and Unicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database with the new default properties for ideographic ranges. [L2/08-226R]

[115-A67] Action Item for Eric Muller: Update Unicode Standard Annex #11: East Asian Width with the property changes for East Asian Width, and mention the default value for ideographic ranges. [L2/08-226R]

[115-A68] Action Item for Andy Heninger: Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm with explanation of default linebreak properties for unassigned characters in the CJK ranges. [L2/08-226R]

[115-A69] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model and the text of the standard regarding the scope of default property assignments. [L2/08-226R]

[115-A70] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update EastAsianWidth.txt and LineBreak.txt to incorporate new default properties for ideographic ranges for the next version of the standard. [L2/08-226R]

Public Review Issues - Other Feedback (B.11.3)

[115-A71] Action Item for Eric Muller: Review Public Review Issue comments on Unicode Standard Annex #42: Unicode Character Database in XML. [L2/08-208]

[115-A72] Action Item for Rick McGowan: File a bug report based on Martin Duerst's feedback on Unicode Standard Annex #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. [L2/08-208]

[115-A73] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Verify that Asmus Freytag responded to questions on Mongolian from Henri de Solages. If not, send a response and copy Asmus. [L2/08-208]

[115-A74] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Respond to Christopher Yeleighton regarding comments on Roman numerals. [L2/08-208]

Script Subcommittee - Esperanto Spesmilo Sign (B.15.1, C.17) 

[115-C28] Consensus: Approve U+20B7 SPESMILO SIGN for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/08-205]

Script Subcommittee - Batak (C.11)

[115-A75] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, Michael Everson, Rick McGowan: Follow up on the Batak model and try to get some user tests.[L2/08-011, L2/08-147]

Script Subcommittee - Additional Latin and Cyrillic Characters (C.5) 

[115-C29] Consensus: Approve 4 Latin and Cyrillic characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/08-182]

A78D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TUR
* lowercase is 0265
A78E LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT
0526 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHHA WITH DESCENDER
0527 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHHA WITH DESCENDER

Script Subcommittee - Abkhaz (C.1) 

[115-A76] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Create a glyph erratum for the 4 changed Abkhaz glyphs in section 2 of L2/08-144R.

04A7 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN HA
04A8 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN HA
04BE CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE
04BF CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE

[115-M2] Motion: Approve 2 Cyrillic characters for Abkhaz U+0524 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER, U+0525 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/08-144R]

Moved by Lisa Moore, Eric Muller

5 for (Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft)
3 against (Sybase, UCB, Yahoo)
1 abstain (Sun)

Motion carried.

[115-A77] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add review of pipeline for ballot comments to August UTC agenda.

[115-A78] Action Item for Eric Muller: Update the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Unicode information on Abkhaz.

[115-A79] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Respond to Alexander Ankwab regarding the Abkhaz "Pe with descender" character. [L2/08-134 and L2/08-144R]

Script Subcommittee - Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (C.2.1) 

[115-C30] Consensus: Approve 39 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/08-132R]

1400;CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN
1677;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WOODS-CREE THWEE
1678;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WOODS-CREE THWI
1679;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WOODS-CREE THWII
167A;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WOODS-CREE THWO
167B;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WOODS-CREE THWOO
167C;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WOODS-CREE THWA
167D;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WOODS-CREE THWAA
167E;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WOODS-CREE TH
167F;CANADIAN SYLLABICS BLACKFOOT W
A9E0;CANADIAN SYLLABICS NWI
A9E1;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY NWI
A9E2;CANADIAN SYLLABICS NWII
A9E3;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY NWII
A9E4;CANADIAN SYLLABICS NWO
A9E5;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY NWO
A9E6;CANADIAN SYLLABICS NWOO
A9E7;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY NWOO
A9E8;CANADIAN SYLLABICS RWEE
A9E9;CANADIAN SYLLABICS RWI
A9EA;CANADIAN SYLLABICS RWII
A9EB;CANADIAN SYLLABICS RWO
A9EC;CANADIAN SYLLABICS RWOO
A9ED;CANADIAN SYLLABICS RWA
A9EE;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY P
A9EF;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY T
A9F0;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY K
A9F1;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY C
A9F2;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY M
A9F3;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY N
A9F4;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY S
A9F5;CANADIAN SYLLABICS OJIBWAY SH
A9F6;CANADIAN SYLLABICS EASTERN W
A9F7;CANADIAN SYLLABICS WESTERN W
A9F8;CANADIAN SYLLABICS FINAL SMALL RING
A9F9;CANADIAN SYLLABICS FINAL RAISED DOT
A9FA;CANADIAN SYLLABICS BEAVER DENE L
A9FB;CANADIAN SYLLABICS BEAVER DENE R
A9FC;CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER DENTAL

[115-A80] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Provide feedback to the authors of  the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics proposal that UTC prefers no "carrier" in the names and requests that they propose encoding only attested characters . [L2/08-149]

Script Subcommittee - Brahmi (C.9.1)

[115-A81] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Respond to authors of the Brahmi proposal with feedback from the Scripts Subcommittee. [L2/07-342]

Script Subcommittee - Kazakh Tenge Sign (C.18) 

[115-C31] Consensus: Approve U+20B8 TENGE SIGN for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/08-116]

Script Subcommittee - Arabic Pedagogical Characters (C.19) 

[115-M3] Motion: Approve 16 Arabic Pedadagogical Symbol characters for encoding in a future version of the standard with block name "Arabic Pedagogical Symbols" and range 0880..089F. [L2/08-159]

0880 A ARABIC SINGLE NUQTA ABOVE
0881 B ARABIC SINGLE NUQTA BELOW
0882 C ARABIC DOUBLE NUQTA ABOVE
0883 D ARABIC DOUBLE NUQTA BELOW
0884 E ARABIC TRIPLE NUQTA ABOVE
0885 F ARABIC TRIPLE NUQTA BELOW
0886 G ARABIC TRIPLE INVERTED NUQTA ABOVE
0887 H ARABIC TRIPLE INVERTED NUQTA BELOW
0888 I ARABIC QUADRUPLE NUQTA ABOVE
0889 J ARABIC QUADRUPLE NUQTA BELOW
088B L ARABIC DOUBLE DANDA BELOW
088C M ARABIC DOUBLE NUQTA VERTICAL ABOVE
088D N ARABIC DOUBLE NUQTA VERTICAL BELOW
0893 T ARABIC SINGLE CIRCLE BELOW
0894 U ARABIC TOTA ABOVE
0895 V ARABIC TOTA BELOW

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V S Umamaheswaran

7 for (Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Sun, UCB, Yahoo)
1 against (Sybase)
1 abstain (Microsoft)

Motion carried.

[115-A82] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Dr Durrani that 16 Arabic Pedadagogical Symbol characters were accepted. Get further information on the remaining characters for a future proposal. [L2/08-159]

[115-A83] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the proposal  for Arabic Pedadagogical Symbol characters based on feedback. [L2/08-159]

[115-A84] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Create a document with feedback on Arabic Pedadagogical Symbol characters. [L2/08-159]

[115-A85] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward Deborah Anderson's feedback on Arabic pedagogical symbols to Dr Durrani in 115-A84.

Script Subcommittee - Tai Don (C.21) 

[115-A86] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Send feedback to Jim Brase regarding the Tai Don proposal. [L2/08-217]

Script Subcommittee - Old Turkic(C.16.2) 

[115-C32] Consensus: Approve  71 Old Turkic characters for encoding in a future version of the standard at U+10C00..U+10C46, with block name "Old Turkic" and range U+10C00..U+104CF. [L2/08-071]

Script Subcommittee - Oriya Fraction Signs (C.8)

[115-C33] Consensus: Approve 6 Oriya fraction signs, with numeric properties as given in the proposal, for encoding in a future version of the standard: 

	0B72 ORIYA FRACTION ONE QUARTER
	0B73 ORIYA FRACTION ONE HALF
	0B74 ORIYA FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
	0B75 ORIYA FRACTION ONE SIXTEENTH
	0B76 ORIYA FRACTION ONE EIGHTH
	0B77 ORIYA FRACTION THREE SIXTEENTHS

[115-A87] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Create a Public Review Issue on the numeric properties of Bengali currency numerators. [L2/08-199]

[115-A88] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on Bengali currency numerators to close August 4, 2008.

[115-A89] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline with all characters accepted out of script subcommittee report. [L2/08-111]

Properties - Review of property values (B.14.1)

[115-A90] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Follow up on the linebreaking properties of Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics hyphen U+1400.

[115-A91] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, Rick McGowan: Follow up with Michael Everson on Meetei Mayek properties for symbols and other non-letter characters. [L2/08-180]

[115-A92] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Follow up with Peter Scharf on properties of newly accepted Vedic characters.

[115-A93] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Follow up on properties for the new Tifinagh separator character. 

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