L2/00-186R


Motions of the UTC 84 / L2 181 Joint Meeting

Boston, MA -- August 8 - 11, 2000

August 23, 2000


UTC 83/L2 180 Minutes
[84-M1] Motion: Approve the minutes of UTC 83/L2 180 after incorporating feedback received at the meeting. [L2/00-115R] 
    Moved by Mike Ksar, seconded by Murray Sargent

    10 for (Basis, Compaq, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    2 abstain (Apple, Progress) 

Normalization - Test Suite
[84-M2] Motion: Add the Normalization Test Suite to the Unicode Character Database,  with the file to be included in the Unicode 3.0.1 update, make associated changes to UAX#15, Unicode Normalization Forms, in particular to the conformance clause.
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Sandra Martin O'Donnell

    10 for (Basis, Compaq, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (Apple) 

Normalization - Quick Check
[84-C1] Consensus: Incorporate the QuickCheck data and routine into UAX#15, Unicode Normalization Forms. Update section 8 and note that the file is informative. [L2/00-263]
Bidi
[84-M3] Motion: The UTC accepts the data file of mirrored characters as an informative file to be added to the Unicode Character Database with the file to be included in the Unicode 3.0.1 update. Incorporate the comments received during the meeting and have a final review by the editorial committee. [L2/00-236]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V. S. Umamaheswaran

    11 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (NCR) 

[84-M4] Motion: The UTC accepts two changes to UTR#9, The Bidirectional Algorithm, for sections 3.12 and 4.7, regarding higher level protocols and mirroring, to be included in Unicode 3.0.1 after final review by the editorial committee. [L2/00-154]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Asmus Freytag

    10 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    2 abstain (HP, NCR) 

WG2 - 10646 Part 1
[84-M5] Motion: The UTC accepts the code points and character names for new characters as documented in L2/00-255 as modified with the addition of THAANA LETTER NAA.
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Mark Davis

    11 for (unanimous)

Not a Character
[84-M6] Motion: Not a Character has the following characteristics:
  • they are not to be publicly transmitted
  • they can be deleted without an impact of the interpretation of the text
  • they should be removed in normalization
  • their presence may also indicate corrupted text.

    • Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Michel Suignard

    10 for (Apple, Basis, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    2 abstain (Compaq, Progress) 

[84-M7] Motion: Give the code point range FDD0..FDEF Not a Character status.
    Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Michel Suignard

    9 for (Apple, Basis, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    3 abstain (Compaq, Justsystem, Progress) 

Internationalized Domain Names
[84-M8] Motion: Endorse the model for determining character acceptability as given in paper L2/00-215 and convene and ad hoc meeting to determine what will be the definition of the filtering and folding for Internationalized Domain Names. Note that [L2/00-217 is the requirements document.
    Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Sandra Martin O'Donnell

    12 for (unanimous)

WG2 - 10646 Part 2
[84-M9] Motion: The UTC accepts the 527 CNS compatibility ideographs for encoding on Plane 2, starting at F800, following the encoding given in the FCD with the holes removed and closed up. [L2/00-169]
    Moved by Mike Ksar, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

    11 for (Apple, Basis, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (Compaq) 

Grapheme Joiner
[84-M10] Motion: The UTC accepts the COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER with a suggested code point assignment of U+0363. The COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER will be used to indicate that the adjacent character(s) are part of a single grapheme in terms of grapheme production. It will behave in general like a virama and for line breaking, it will behave like a glue character. It will be a combining mark with a canonical class of zero. The UTC discourages its use for graphical effects, such as for circled numbers. [L2/00-156]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Tex Texin

    10 for (Basis, Compaq, HP, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sybase, Unisys)
    1 against (Apple)
    1 abstain (Justsystem) 

Variation Selector
[84-M11] Motion: Change the previous approval of U+2063 VARIATION SELECTOR to amend the name to VARIATION SELECTOR 1 and the suggested encoding to U+FE00, and adjust the proposed encodings in the math symbols proposal accordingly. 
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Asmus Freytag

    11 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (HP) 

UTR#20 Unicode in Markup Languages
[84-M12] Motion: Advance Draft UTR#20: Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages to  UTR#20: Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages. [L2/00-266]
    Moved by Mike Ksar, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

    10 for (Unanimous)

Math Alphanumeric Characters
[84-C2] Consensus: UTR#20: Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages will be updated with the math alphanumeric characters when they are added to the standard in V3.1. [L2/00-240, 250, 251, 271]

[84-M13] Motion: Assign the math alphanumeric characters in Plane 1 the general category property of Symbol Other. [L2/00-266]

    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Lisa Moore

    1 for (Apple)
    6 against (Basis, HP, Microsoft, NCR, Sybase, Unisys)
    5 abstain (Compaq, IBM, Justsystem, Peoplesoft, Progress)

[84-M14] Motion: Assign the math alphanumeric characters in Plane 1 the general category property of Lu, Ll, Nd as appropriate, and give them compatibility equivalents using the <font> tag, consistent with the existing letterlike symbols. [L2/00-240, 250, 251, 271]
    Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Ken Whistler

    8 for (Basis, HP, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Progress, Sybase, Unisys)
    1 against (Apple)
    3 abstain (Compaq, IBM, Peoplesoft) 

[84-M15] Motion: Add to the identifier syntax in V3.0.1 the following note: A useful set of characters to consider for exclusion from identifiers consists of all characters whose compatibility mappings have a <font> tag.
    Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Ken Whistler

    12 for (unanimous)

Komi Cyrillic
[84-C3] Consensus: The UTC agrees in principle with adding new characters to support Komi Cyrillic, but thinks there needs to be further opportunity for review.  The UTC also would like to see the three columns at 0500, 0510, and 0520 used for encoding additional Cyrillic characters. [L2/00-182]
W3C Liaison Report
[84-M16] Motion: Communicate to the W3C that math alphanumerics encoded in Plane 1 can be used as data in markup languages; there is no consensus at UTC as to whether the math alphanumerics should be used in tags and attributes. Furthermore, NL, LS, and PS should all be treated the same as CR and LF in parsing documents.
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

    9 for (Basis, Compaq, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Peoplesoft, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (Apple)

Script Names
[84-M17] Motion: Advance Proposed Draft UTR#24: Script Names to Draft UTR#24: Script Names. [L2/00-275]
    Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Murray Sargent

    11 for (Apple, Basis, Compaq, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, Progress, Sybase, Unisys)
    0 against
    1 abstain (NCR)