L2/08-361R

Approved Minutes of the UTC 117 / L2 214 Joint Meeting
Cupertino, CA -- November 3-7, 2008
Hosted by Apple

UTC #117 Agenda
February 2, 2009


Monday, November 3, 2008

South Asia Subcommittee meeting, report: L2/08-411.

Scripts Subcommittee meeting.


Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Scripts Subcommittee meeting, draft report: L2/08-422.


Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Administrative  - Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., India MIT, IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems (proxy), UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Inc. 7 full members and 2 institutional members present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Basis Technology Corporation, Denic e.G., Hewlett Packard, Justsystem, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Network Appliance, Oracle, Pakistan, NLA, SAP AG, Sybase, Tamil Nadu 6 full members, 2 institutional member, and 2 supporting members not present, 9 total votes

Voting members: 13 full, 4 institutional, 2 supporting
Voting members in regular attendance: 12 full, 2 institutional
Quorum: 8

Administrative  - Minutes Approval (A.5.1)

[117-C1] Consensus: Approve the minutes for UTC #116 / L2 #213. [L2/08-253R]

[117-C2] Consensus: Approve the minutes for UTC #115 / L2 #212. [L2/08-161R]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT: Sybase now represented.
10 members present

Administrative  - Calendar Review (A.6)  

  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
  UTC 120/L2 217 - August 10-14, 2009, Redmond, host Microsoft
  UTC 121/L2 218 - November 2-6, 2006, host TBD, Annual Members Mtg

Public Review Issue 123 - Bengali Currency Numerator Values (B.11.1)  

[117-C3] Consensus: Update the numeric values for Bengali Currency Numerators (U+09F4..U+09F8) in accordance with document L2/08-288.

[117-A1] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Inform the appropriate people in Bangladesh and on the Indic list about the results for Public Review Issue #123 on Bengali Currency Numerators numeric values. [L2/08-288]

[117-A2] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update UnicodeData.txt with the resolution of the Bengali Currency Numerator Values public review issue. See document L2/08-288.

[117-A3] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #123 on Bengali Currency Numerators numeric values with the disposition that the values will be changed in accordance with the PRI document. [L2/08-288]

Public Review Issue 124 Unicode Character Property Model (B.11.2)

[117-C4] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model to approved Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model. [L2/08-387]

[117-A4] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #124 with the disposition that Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model was approved.

[117-A5] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Review and post Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model as an approved technical report.

Public Review Issue 125 Unicode Conformance Model (B.11.3)

[117-C5] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #33: Unicode Conformance Model to approved Unicode Technical Report #33: Unicode Conformance Model. [L2/08-386]

[117-A6] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #125 with the disposition that Unicode Technical Report #33: Unicode Conformance Model was approved.

[117-A7] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Review and post Unicode Technical Report #33: Unicode Conformance Model as an approved technical report.

Public Review Issue 126 - Unicode Character Encoding Model (B.11.4)

[117-C6] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #17: Unicode Character Encoding Model to approved Unicode Technical Report #17: Unicode Character Encoding Model. [L2/08-385]

[117-A8] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #126 with the disposition that Unicode Technical Report #17: Unicode Character Encoding Model was approved.

[117-A9] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Review and post Unicode Technical Report #17: Unicode Character Encoding Model as an approved technical report.

Public Review Issue 127 - Unicode Character Database (B.11.5)

[117-A10] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Reply to Michael Adams regarding the disposition of his comments on Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database. [L2/08-384, L2/08-388]

[117-A11] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend the date for Public Review Issue #127 Review of Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database to January 26, 2009.

Public Review Issue 128 - Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (B.11.6)

[117-A12] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Reply to Philippe Verdy regarding his feedback in document L2/08-388, and include that the UTC reponds positively to creating an XML document.

[117-A13] Action Item for John Jenkins, Richard Cook: Investigate putting together a list that identifies all characters separated only by the source separation rule, for possible inclusion into the UCD. [L2/08-383, L2/08-394]

[117-C7] Consensus: Update the Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #37: Unicode Ideographic Variation Database with the 2 alternatives discussed in the UTC meeting, including possible folding. Post and extend the Public Review Issue #128 closing date to January 26, 2009. [L2/08-383, L2/08-394]

[117-A14] Action Item for Eric Muller: Request the Unicode officers that Mark Davis send a letter to SC2 saying that the Unicode Consortium will waive fees for registering IVSes in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database if SC2 has approved the sets.

[117-A15] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Update and re-post Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #37: Unicode Ideographic Variation Database based on feedback in discussions.[L2/08-383, L2/08-394]

[117-A16] Action Item for Eric Muller: Provide Rick McGowan updated text for Public Review Issue #128 on review of Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #37: Unicode Ideographic Variation Database

[117-A17] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Repost the new Public Review Issue #128 text and extend the closing date to January 26, 2009.

Unicode Technical Reports - Bidirectional Algorithm (B.12.1)

[117-C8] Consensus: Incorporate the changes in document L2/08-357 and issue as Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex#9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm for review and eventual publication in the next version of the standard.

[117-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Create a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex#9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm that incorporates the changes in L2/08-357, and post for public review.

[117-A19] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex#9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm to close January 26, 2009.

Public Review Issue - Other feedback (B.11.8)

[117-C9] Consensus: In the next release of the standard, change the annotations for: [L2/08-388]
U+015F LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA to:
    • Turkish, Azerbaijani
    • The character 0219 is preferred for Romanian
Make a similar change for U+0163 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA, and delete the related annotations for:
U+0219 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
U+021B LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW

[117-A20] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update annotations for the following characters regarding their use in Romanian:h [L2/08-388]
U+015F LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
U+0163 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
U+0219 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
U+021B LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW

[117-A21] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Inform the author of feedback on Romanian that the UTC will update the annotations for the following characters in the next version of standard: [L2/08-388]
U+015F LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA
U+0163 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
U+0219 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
U+021B LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW 

[117-A22] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward the Mongolian feedback from MA Xudong to the Mongolian mail list and respond to the author, telling him how to join the list. [L2/08-388]

[117-A23] Action Item for Magda Danish: Change the last sentence of the FAQ on "What should I do with U+FEFF in the middle of a file?" to: "Any FEFF occurring in the middle of a file can be treated as an unsupported character." Link to http://www.unicode.org/faq/unsup_char.html. [L2/08-388]

[117-A24] Action Item for Rick McGowan: After Magda has updated the FAQ, "What should I do with U+FEFF in the middle of a file?", let Chris Weber know. [L2/08-388]

[117-A25] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Daniel Freedman, author of Hebrew feedback, that we will examine his comments. Send the comments to John Hudson. Also check to see if they went to the Unicode mail list, and follow-up appropriately. [L2/08-388]

[117-A26] Action Item for Eric Muller: Communicate to the bidi list that we would like a FAQ on certain Hebrew issues, and ask for volunteers to work on it. [L2/08-388]

[117-A27] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Ake Persson's feedback that the bug has been entered into the internal bug database, and it will be fixed in the next release of the UCA. [L2/08-388]

Properties - Zero Width Space (B.14.1 ) 

[117-C10] Consensus: Post a Pubic Review Issue to say that the UTC is considering changing the word boundary property of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE to "XX". [L2/08-344]

[117-A28] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare a Pubic Review Issue and background document on changing the word boundary property of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE to "XX". [L2/08-344]

[117-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Pubic Review Issue on changing the word boundary property of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE to "XX" to close January 26, 2009.

[117-A30] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to author saying we will issue a Pubic Review Issue on changing the word boundary property of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE to "XX". The UTC thanks him and appreciates the work that went into the proposal.[L2/08-344]

Properties - Stability of Property and Property Value Aliases (B.14.3) 

[117-C11] Consensus: Make contributory properties a separate type of property status, not normative, informative, or provisional. [L2/08-352]

[117-C12] Consensus: Contributory properties are those whose names begin with "Other_", plus "Jamo_Short_Name" (as listed in the properties table of UCD.html). [L2/08-352]

[117-C13] Consensus: Request the officers to add a stability policy for property aliases and property value aliases for normative and informative properties, along the lines of document L2/08-352.

[117-A31] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make updates to the Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database according to the decisions taken on contributory properties. See 117-C11 and 117-C12. [L2/08-352]

[117-A32] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Produce wording for a proposed stability policy based on L2/08-352 and request action by the officers.

[117-A33] Action Item for Mark Davis: Convey the decisions on the new stability policy for property aliases and property value aliases to the W3C. [L2/08-352]

[117-A34] Action Item for John Jenkins, Richard Cook: Review the provisional Unihan properties and to see if any should be made informative.



Thursday, November 6, 2008

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Sybase, Sun Microsystems (proxy), 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, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Network Appliance, Oracle, Pakistan, NLA, SAP AG, Tamil Nadu 5 full members, 3 institutional members, and 2 supporting members not present, 9 total votes

Unicode Technical Reports - Unihan (B.12.2)

[117-A35] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Document in section 3.7 of Unicode Technical Report #38: Unicode Han Database (Unihan) that simplified and traditional mappings may be to multiple alternates. Also change section 2.3 to define precisely when spaces mean alternate values instead of sequences of elements. [L2/08-415]

[117-A36] Action Item for Julie Allen, John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Create and post an erratum for the problem identified in (1a) (U+5446 and U+7343 are listed as simplified variants of each other). [L2/08-415]

[117-A37] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Make fixes in Unicode Technical Report #38: Unicode Han Database (Unihan) based on sections 1a and 2 in document L2/08-415, for the next version of the standard.

[117-A38] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Add informative notes on testing characters, particularly the seven characters that are both traditional and simplified and the status to Unicode Technical Report #38: Unicode Han Database (Unihan). [L2/08-415]

Encoding Conversion Security Issues (B.18) 

[117-A39] Action Item for Peter Constable, Markus Scherer, Editorial Committee: Create text for a new section in Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations on Unicode encoding conversion security issues. [L2/08-407]

Properties - Stability of Property and Property Value Aliases (B.14.3) 

[117-C14] Consensus: Take the list of normative and informative properties from Unihan and add them to PropertyAliases.txt and add the enumerated values of kIICore to PropertyValueAliases.txt. [L2/08-352

[117-C15] Consensus: Document the changes for Unihan properties in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database. See 117-C14. [L2/08-352

[117-A40] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update PropertyAliases.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt with the Unihan properties. [L2/08-352]

[117-A41] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database with changes for Unihan properties. See 117-C14.[L2/08-352]

WG2 - Liaison report (B.1.1.2 )

[117-A42] Action Item for Mark Davis: Produce text on the preferred representation of Korean text.

[117-A43] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Upadate section 3.12 of the Unicode Standard in accordance with the recommendations of the new Korean technical report.

[117-A44] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Include an update on Korean in the rewrite of Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms for the next version of the standard.

[117-A45] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update information on Korean in the Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm for the next version of the standard.

Scripts - Compatibility Ideographs (C.2.3)

[117-A46] Action Item for Eric Muller: Review and prepare draft feedback for the next UTC on the request from Japan for additional compatibility characters. [L2/08-371]

WG2 - Consent docket (B.1.5 ) 

[117-C16] Consensus: Approve the new Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended code assignments and block at 18B0..18FF for the 29 already approved Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics characters, to synchronize with Amendment 6. [L2/08-397]

[117-C17] Consensus: Approve the repertoire of 41 Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic characters documented in L2/08-342 (except for the two without attestation (18D2 and 18D8)) for encoding in the standard.

[117-C18] Consensus: Approve the new Old South Arabian Names. [L2/08-397]

[117-C19] Consensus: Approve 2 Old Turkic characters for encoding in the standard: [L2/08-397]
U+10C1C OLD TURKIC LETTER ORKHON OEK
U+10C27 OLD TURKIC LETTER YENISEI ENT
Rename and move:
U+10C1C OLD TURKIC LETTER ORKHON OK --> U+10C1D OLD TURKIC LETTER YENISEI OEK
U+0C2C OLD TURKIC LETTER YENISEI ENG --> U+10C2E OLD TURKIC LETTER YENISEI AENG

[117-C20] Consensus: Approve 5 HKSCS characters for encoding in the standard: [L2/08-372, L2/08-397]
U+9FC7: H-87C2
U+9FC8: H-87D2
U+9FC9: H-87D6
U+9FCA: H-87DA
U+9FCB: H-87DF

[117-C21] Consensus: Approve 2 New Tai Lue characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/08-397]
U+19AA NEW TAI LUE LETTER HIGH SUA
U+19AB NEW TAI LUE LETTER LOW SUA 

[117-C22] Consensus: Approve 3 Kaithi punctuation marks for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/08/370, L2/08-397]
U+110BD KAITHI NUMBER SIGN
U+110C0 KAITHI DANDA
U+110C1 KAITHI DOUBLE DANDA

[117-A47] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Provide FPDAM text for U+110BD KAITHI NUMBER SIGN. [L2/08-370]

[117-C23] Consensus: Change the name of U+26EF LIGHTHOUSE to U+26EF MAP SYMBOL FOR LIGHTHOUSE. [L2/08-370]

[117-C24] Consensus: Approve 23 Unicode Named Character Sequences for a future version of the standard: [L2/08-374]
<02E9, 02E5> MODIFIER LETTER EXTRA-LOW EXTRA-HIGH CONTOUR TONE BAR
<00E6, 0300> LATIN SMALL LETTER AE WITH GRAVE
<0254, 0300> LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O WITH GRAVE
<0254, 0301> LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O WITH ACUTE
<028C, 0300> LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V WITH GRAVE
<028C, 0301> LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V WITH ACUTE
<0259, 0300> LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA WITH GRAVE
<0259, 0301> LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA WITH ACUTE
<025A, 0300> LATIN SMALL LETTER HOOKED SCHWA WITH GRAVE
<025A, 0301> LATIN SMALL LETTER HOOKED SCHWA WITH ACUTE
<304B, 309A> HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGA
<304D, 309A> HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGI
<304F, 309A> HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGU
<3051, 309A> HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE
<3053, 309A> HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGO
<30AB, 309A> KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGA
<30AD, 309A> KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGI
<30AF, 309A> KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGU
<30B1, 309A> KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE
<30B3, 309A> KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGO
<30BB, 309A> KATAKANA LETTER AINU CE
<30C4, 309A> KATAKANA LETTER AINU TU
<30C8, 309A> KATAKANA LETTER AINU TO

[117-A48] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add 23 Unicode Named Sequences to NamedSequencesProv.txt as provisional. See 117-C24.  [L2/08-374]

[117-A49] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add Batak to the agenda for the next meeting, to be discussed as part of Amendment 7 comments.

[117-C25] Consensus: Approve U+3097 HIRAGANA LETTER YE for encoding in a future version of the standard. 

[117-C26] Consensus: Approve the revised code points (FBB2..FBC1) for 16 Arabic Pedagogical Symbols and rescind approval of the Arabic Pedagogical Symbols block (0880..089F).

[117-A50] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add to the agenda for next UTC meeting: Resolve the discrepency with 30/31 Imperial Aramaic letters. See code point U+10857. [L2/08-374]

[117-A51] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline with all decisions made in reference to the WG2 consent docket. [L2/08-397]

TC12 -ISO/DIS 80000-2 (B.2.2.3) 

[117-A52] Action Item for Eric Muller: Forward Murray Sargent's comments on ISO/DIS 80000-2 to TC 12. [L2/08-421]

IETF - IDNA Preprocessing (B.5.2) 

[117-A53] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add a section to Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #46: Unicode IDNA Compatible Preprocessing describing the problems with final sigma and sharp-s and make recommendations. [L2/08-417]

[117-A54] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: In the next update of UTR #36 call attention to the final sigma and sharp-s problems.

[117-A55] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to John Cowan that the UTC in the last meeting had already decided on the approach that he proposes. [L2/08-388]

Editorial Committee - Unicode 5.2, 6.0 Schedule (B.13.3)

[117-C27] Consensus: The UTC supports the following schedule for version 5.2 to be synchronized with Amendments 5 and 6 of 10646: beta for Unicode Version 5.2 will start in May-August, 2009, and the Unicode Character Database will release for version 5.2 in September-October, 2009.

[117-C28] Consensus: The UTC supports the following schedule for 6.0 to be synchronized with Amendment 7: beta for Unicode version 6.0 will start in May, 2010, and the Unicode Character Database will release for 6.0 in September-October, 2010.



Friday, November 7, 2008

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Sybase, Sun Microsystems (proxy), 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, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Network Appliance, Oracle, Pakistan, NLA, SAP AG, Tamil Nadu 5 full members, 3 institutional members, and 2 supporting members not present, 9 total votes

South Asian Script Subcommittee - Malayalam (E.2)

[117-A56] Action Item for Eric Muller, Cibu Johny: Create a proposal document for separate encoding of dot-reph as a base character for Malayalam. Forward the document to Government of India by November 21, 2008. See L2/08-306.

[117-A57] Action Item for Bharat Bhushan: Provide feedback on the Malayalam dot-reph base characer proposal for the February 2009 UTC meeting. [L2/08-411]

[117-A58] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Take the recommendation on Malayalam in section E.2.2 of document L2/08-411 into account in the discussion of Indic in the standard.

South Asian Script Subcommittee - Myanmar (E.3)

[117-A59] Action Item for Eric Muller: Respond to the proposer of Myanmar changes in L2/08-408.

Korean - KS X 1026-1: 2007 (B.16.2)

[117-A60] Action Item for Peter Constable: Prepare a Unicode/US response on the use of fillers in Korean and forward to WG2 and Korea.

Script Subcommittee - Latin (C.5) 

[117-A61] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to author of document L2/08-251 that there was no consensus in UTC to take any action.

[117-C29] Consensus: Approve U+A790 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER and U+A791 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/08-404]

[117-A62] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline for the encoding of U+A790 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER and U+A791 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DESCENDER. [L2/08-404]

[117-A63] Action Item for Peter Constable: Do not support U+A792 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH RIGHT BOWL, U+A792 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I WITH RIGHT BOWL in WG2 meetings. [L2/08-404]

[117-A64] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to the author of L2/08-404 with the dispositions as per consensus 117-C29.

[117-A65] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler: Respond to the author of a request to encode 10 Latin letters with diagonal stroke. [L2/08-405]

Script Subcommittee - Combining diacritic for Low German (C.13 ) 

[117-A66] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Formulate a response to the author of a request to encode a combining diacritic for Low German dialect writing. [L2/08-392]

Script Subcommittee - Additional Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (C.3) 

[117-A67] Action Item for Debbie Anderson, Michael Everson: Respond on the harmonization and re-ordering of the new additional Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic characters in Amendments 6 and 7 for the next UTC. [L2/08-342]

Script Subcommittee - Old Bamum (C.4.2)

[117-A68] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Put agenda item C.4.2 Old Bamum on the next UTC agenda. [L2/08-351]

Script Subcommittee - Kana (C.6)

[117-A69] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Add ballot comments for 10646 Amendment 7 urging Japan to continue investigation toward encoding the Katakana character "ORIGINAL E". See L2/07-421, L2/08-359.

[117-A70] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Debbie Anderson: Follow up with author of L2/07-421, L2/08-359 to seek other experts who want to see the kana character encoded.

Script Subcommittee - HKSCS (C.2.4) 

[117-A71] Action Item for Richard Cook: Check Extension D as it progresses to ensure the 5 HKSCS chararacters (9FC7..9FCB) accepted at this UTC are removed from Extension D. [L2/08-372]

Script Subcommittee - Unihan feedback (C.2.1) 

[117-A72] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Richard Cook: Check the Unihan feedback in document L2/08-281 in detail. Make corrections if needed, and report to UTC if larger issues arise. 

[117-A73] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Use Unihan to correct any IRG source mappings. [L2/08-281]

gTLD Program - Draft Applicant Guidebook (B.17) 

[117-C30] Consensus: Approve feedback on document L2/08-403 based on discussion in the meeting. 

[117-A74] Action Item for Mark Davis: Forward feedback on the new gTLD program Draft Applicant Guidebook to ICANN. [L2/08-264]

Script Subcommittee - CJK (C.2) 

[117-A75] Action Item for John Jenkins, Richard Cook, Michel Suignard, Eric Muller: Come up with a plan for how to progress Unihan data (Kwanyin) to make it most useful for QA and development of the standard. [L2/08-264]

[117-A76] Action Item for Eric Muller: Examine the proposed repertoire in L2/08-371 and identify the delta between Adobe J1 and what Japan is proposing so we can provide feedback to Japan for the registration alternatives. 

[117-A77] Action Item for John Jenkins: Provide a U-source font to Michel Suignard for multi-column chart printing for the 94 U-source characters by Friday November 7, 2008. 

IRG - Meeting 30 (B.3.3)

[117-A78] Action Item for John Jenkins: Follow through with John Knightley on Annex S revision.

Script Subcommittee - Tangut (C.1)

[117-A79] Action Item for Debbie Anderson, Richard Cook: Follow up with Andrew West about Tangut. Request Andrew to be specific about what should and should not be unified in the Tangut repertoire. [L2/08-349]

Script Subcommittee - Old South Arabian (C.7) 

[117-A80] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Follow up with the experts regarding the names list issues in Old South Arabian. [L2/08-348]

Script Subcommittee - Arabic Ghost Characters (C.15.1) 

[117-A81] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Send another clarification that the Arabic model cannot be changed, and clarify the intended role of the spacing nuqtas that were previously encoded. [L2/08-343]

Public Review Issues - Code Point Name Labels (B.11.7.3 ) 

[117-M1] Motion: Create a Public Review Issue based on L2/08-423as amended in the meeting.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Lisa Moore

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

Motion carried.

[117-A82] Action Item for Mark Davis: Prepare Public Review Issue text for codepoint name labels. [L2/08-423]

[117-A83] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue for codepoint name labels to close January 26, 2009.

[117-A84] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #129 with the disposition that a new Public Review Issue will be issued with new wording, and point to the new Public Review Issue.

Unicode Technical Reports - Bidirectional Algorithm (B.12.1)

[117-A85] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Come up with proposed language for a revision of rule HL6 in UAX #9 that accounts for mirroring of right-to-left scripts when overridden to a left-to-right directionality. [L2/08-418]

[117-A86] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Asmus Freytag that no one was willing to champion boustrophedon. He is free to propose specific language for the standard. [L2/08-419]

Properties - Bidi class (B.14.4) 

[117-C31] Consensus: Change the bidi class of 5 characters  to "ON" Other Neutral in the next version of the standard: [L2/08-406]
U+1D6DB MATHEMATICAL BOLD PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
U+1D715 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
U+1D74F MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
U+1D789 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
U+1D7C3 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL

[117-A87] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update 5 chars to "ON" in next version of the standard. See 117-C31. [L2/08-406]

[117-A88] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to the proposer about the results of changing the bidi class. [L2/08-406]



UTC Attendance

Person Representing
Deborah Anderson U C Berkeley
E. K. Bharat Bhushan    Gov't of India
Peter Constable Microsoft
Richard Cook U C Berkeley
Craig Cummings Yahoo!
Mark Davis Google
Peter Edberg Apple
Mike Ksar WG2
Chris Little LSA
Rick McGowan Unicode
Lisa Moore IBM
Eric Muller Adobe
Rob Munro LSA / Stanford    
Murray Sargent Microsoft
Michel Suignard Unicode
V S Umamaheswaran IBM
Ken Whistler Sybase
   
By Phone
Michael Everson Evertype
Wallace Hooper Indiana Univ
John Jenkins Apple
Stacy Kowalczyk Indiana Univ
William Newman Indiana Univ
John Walsh Indiana Univ

Members Represented

Member August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15
Full
1. Adobe Systems, Inc. yes yes yes yes yes
2. Apple, Inc. yes yes yes yes yes
3. Denic e. G. no no no no no
4. Google, Inc. no no yes yes yes
5. Hewlett Packard no no no no no
6. IBM Corporation yes yes yes yes yes
7. Microsoft Corporation yes yes yes yes yes
8. Oracle Corporation no no no no no
9. Network Appliance no no no no no
10. SAP AG no no no no no
11. Sun Microsystems, Inc. yes(proxy) yes(proxy) yes(proxy) yes(proxy) yes(proxy)
12. Sybase, Inc. yes yes yes yes yes
13. Yahoo! no no yes yes yes
Institutional
1. India, MIT yes no yes no no
2. Pakistan, NLA no no no no no
3. Tamil Nadu, Gov't no no no no no
4. UC Berkeley yes yes yes yes yes
Supporting
1. Basis Technology Corp. no no no no no
2. Monotype Imaging Corp. no no no no no