ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3362
DATE: 1999-09-20

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

DOC TYPE:   Disposition of Comments
 
TITLE:
 Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N 3312, ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 28, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 28: Ideographic description characters
 
SOURCE: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2
 
PROJECT: JTC 1.0218.01.28
 
STATUS:
Disposition of Comments approved at the 37th SC 2/WG 2 Meeting held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999-09-13/16.
 
ACTION ID:
 		 FYI
DUE DATE:
 
DISTRIBUTION: P, O and L Members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
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ISO/IEC JTC 1 Secretariat
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Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Toshiko KIMURA
IPSJ/ITSCJ (Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan)*
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Report on JTC1/SC2 letter ballot on FPDAM.28,
Ideographic description characters, to ISO/IEC 10646-1: 1993 (E)

Disposition of Comments
The FPDAM appears in JTC1/SC2 N 3312 (also WG2 N 2023)
Responses to the letter ballot appear in JTC1/SC2 N 3347 (also WG2 N 2067).
National bodies that submitted comments are listed below.

Japan
Accepted in principle.
The following Note will be added to D.3, similar to the existing Note in 4.14 "Composite sequence":
NOTE An Ideographic description sequence is not a character and therefore is not a member of the repertoire of ISO/IEC 10646.

U.S.A.
Accepted in principle.
A Note will be added at the end of D.3.1 as follows:
NOTE An IDS is restricted to be no more than 16 characters in length. Also no more than six ideographs and/or radicals occur between any two instances of the IDC character within an IDS.
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