02n3124

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3124

DATE: 1998-07-02

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Coded Character Sets Secretariat: Japan (JISC)

DOC TYPE:	Summary of Voting/Table of Replies
TITLE:	Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3017, Combined PDAM Registration and FPDAM Consideration Ballot on Project JTC 1.02.18.01.21: ISO/IEC 10646-1, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 21: Sinhala
SOURCE:	Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
PROJECT:	JTC 1.02.18.01.21
STATUS:	1) PDAM registration: Approved. 2) FPDAM consideration: This document is forwarded to WG 2 for consideration. WG 2 is requested to prepare a disposition of comments report, revised text and a recommendation to SC 2 for further processing.
ACTION ID:	ACT
DUE DATE:	--
DISTRIBUTION:	P, O and L Members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 WG Conveners, Secretariats ISO/IEC JTC 1 Secretariat ISO/IEC ITTF
NO. OF PAGES:	8
ACCESS LEVEL:	Def
WEB ISSUE #:	021

Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Toshiko KIMURA
IPSJ/ITSCJ (Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan)*
Room 308-3, Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg., 3-5-8, Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 JAPAN
Tel: +81 3 3431 2808; Fax: +81 3 3431 6493; Telex: 2425340 IPSJ J; email: kimura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp
*A Standard Organization accredited by JISC

Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3017: Combined PDAM Registration and FPDAM Consideration Ballot on Project JTC 1.02.18.01.21: ISO/IEC 10646-1, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 21: Sinhala

1) PDAM Registration

	`Approve`	`Approve with Comments`	`Disapprove`	`Abstain`	`Comments`

`P-Member (36)`
`ARMENIA`
`AUSTRIA`
`BELGIUM`
`BRAZIL`				X
`CANADA`	X
`CHINA`	X
`DENMARK`	X
`EGYPT`	X
`FINLAND`	X
`FRANCE`
`GERMANY`	X
`GREECE`	X
`ICELAND`
`INDIA`
`IRAN`
`IRELAND`	X
`ISRAEL`		X			Attachment 1
`ITALY`
`JAPAN`	X
`KOREA`	X
`MOROCCO`
`NETHERLANDS`	X
`NORWAY`				X	No expertise.
`POLAND`	X
`ROMANIA`	X
`RUSSIAN FEDERATION`	X
`SINGAPORE`
`SLOVENIA`	X
`SWEDEN`				X	Lack of expertise.
`THAILAND`	X
`TUNISIA`
`TURKEY`	X
`UK`	X
`USA`	X
`VIET NAM`
`YUGOSLAVIA`
	20		0	3

2) FPDAM Consideration

	`Approve`	`Approve with Comments`	`Disapprove`	`Abstain`	`Comments`

`P-Member (36)`
`ARMENIA`
`AUSTRIA`
`BELGIUM`
`BRAZIL`				X
`CANADA`	X
`CHINA`	X
`DENMARK`	X
`EGYPT`	X
`FINLAND`	X
`FRANCE`
`GERMANY`	X
`GREECE`	X
`ICELAND`
`INDIA`
`IRAN`
`IRELAND`		X			Attachment 1
`ISRAEL`		X			Attachment 2
`ITALY`
`JAPAN`	X
`KOREA`	X
`MOROCCO`
`NETHERLANDS`	X
`NORWAY`				X	No expertise.
`POLAND`	X
`ROMANIA`	X
`RUSSIAN FEDERATION`	X
`SINGAPORE`
`SLOVENIA`	X
`SWEDEN`				X	Lack of expertise.
`THAILAND`	X
`TUNISIA`
`TURKEY`	X
`UK`		X			Attachment 3
`USA`	X
`VIET NAM`
`YUGOSLAVIA`
	20		0	3

Attachment 1: Israel

Israel votes YES, provided that the relevant (*) national body/bodies also approve, otherwise our vote is ABSTAIN.
(*) Relevant national body = the national body for which this character collection describes its national language.

Attachment 2: Ireland

See attached file: 02n31241.pdf

Attachment 3: UK

UK COMMENTS ACCOMPANYING VOTE OF APPROVAL ON ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM.21- SINHALA

Technical Comments

On page 2, Table 237 (the code table), the stroke width in the font used for displaying the Sinhala characters is much too thick and should be substantially reduced. The present font conceals some essential distinguishing features of the Sinhala characters, which are of exceptional complexity compared with most other alphabetic scripts encoded in this standard.

A sample of Table 237 using a more suitable font is attached (note paper copy only).

Editorial Comments

On page2, Table 237, the decimal numbers from 000-127 that are shown in the individual character cells are:
a. wrong (they should range from 128 to 255) and
b. much too small, and should be enlarged to the same size as the comparable numbers in existing tables in ISO/IEC 10646.

12 June 1998