L2/01-184R


Minutes of the UTC 87 / L2 184 Joint Meeting

Pleasanton, CA -- May 21 - 24, 2001

June 18, 2001


May 21, 2001

Number of members in good standing as of this meeting: 21, number of members in regular attendance: 18, Quorum: 9.

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer (by proxy); Basis Technology; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; PeopleSoft; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Compaq Computer; Government of India, MIT; HP Co.; Justsystem Corp.; Oracle Corp.; Progress Software; RLG; RWS Group LLC; Unisys Corporation.

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: Government of Pakistan, NLA; HP Co.; Reuters, Ltd.; SAP AG.

Total members represented: 9, Total not represented: 9

Calendar Review and Update

UTC 88/L2 185 - August 14 - 17, 2001, Seattle, host Microsoft
UTC 89/L2 186 - November 6 - 9, 2001, Baltimore, host Share (Annual Members Mtg)
UTC 90/L2 187 - February 11 - 14, 2002, Bay Area, host TBD (Sun or Microsoft Mtn View)
UTC 91/L2 188 - May 7 - 10, 2002, Pleasanton, host PeopleSoft
Calendar details posted at www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html

Action Item Review

[87-A1] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Update language and country code cross mappings on the Unicode website.

[87-A2] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Follow up with John Jenkins on AI 83-2 (have Cora Chang verify the collection of compatibility characters).

[87-A3] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Contact Patrick Ion about AI 83-30 (info for math annotations).

[87-A4] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Check the text of the Standard regarding the usage of radical characters as compatibility characters.

[87-A5] Action Item for Editorial Committee, Rick McGowan: Better document the Unicode patent policy.

[87-A6] Action Item for John O'Conner: Check if Sun can host the Feb 11-14 UTC.

Publicly Publishing UTC Minutes

[87-C1] Consensus: Publish approved UTC minutes (in the current format) publicly on the Unicode website.

[87-M1] Motion: The UTC supports the public publication of preliminary minutes after a prior review.

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by V.S. Umamheswaran

8 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft,  PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (NCR)

[87-A7] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Document the public availability of UTC minutes in the UTC procedures informational RFC.

[87-A8] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Include in the minutes the link to the publicly accessible location .

NCITS/H2 - SQL

[87-A9] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Ask Arnold Winkler to post on the L2 site the Sykes document SC32/WG3 PER-054R1, dated 4/18/01.

[87-A10] Action Item for Dave Birdsall: Initiate discussion of SQL character set issues and provide background information from L2/01-188 and the UTC discussion.

[87-A11] Action Item for Dave Birdsall: Get minutes from the Perth ISO DBL meeting for posting and discussion.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT:  SAP now present.
Total members represented: 10; Total not represented: 8

Updates to the Unicode Standard

[87-C2] Consensus: A Unicode 3.1.1 update is needed to incorporate file fixes and updates to the bidi source file. The Editorial Committee should assemble the data files for a timely beta so that the UTC can approve and release Unicode 3.1.1 at the latest by the next UTC.

[87-A12] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Update data files and bidi source, post and announce a public beta for Unicode 3.1.1.

Unicode 4.0 is targeted for March, 2003.

IETF

[87-A13] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Send a note to the unicore list soliciting review of the TC37 activities on language codes.

[87-A14] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Solicit feedback from unicore on the UTC Procedures informational RFC with a two week deadline for comments. [L2/01-211]

UTC 86/L2 183 Minutes

[87-M2] Motion: Approve the minutes of UTC 86/L2 183 as documented in L2/01-012R.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
3 abstain (Basis, NCR, SAP)

Restoring Canonical Equivalence

[87-C3] Consensus: The proposals on canonical equivalence given in documents L2/01-065 and 066 are inappropriate. It is also against Unicode policies to make such changes.

Scripts and New Characters - Klingon

[87-M3] Motion: The UTC rejects encoding the Klingon script. [L2/01-212]

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by Mark Davis

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (SAP)

[87-A15] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline page noting the formal rejection of  Klingon. [L2/01-212]

[87-A16] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: As Unicode liaison, inform WG2 that the UTC has formally rejected the encoding of  Klingon. [L2/01-212]

W3C

[87-A17] Action Item for Mark Davis: Reply to W3C that the UTC is receptive to documenting in a technical report the subject of internationalized white space collapsing, but needs a better problem description. [L2/01-175]

[87-A18] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Relay the UTC's request to Michel Suignard to please consider contributing to the discussion of internationalized white space collapsing. [L2/01-175]


May 22, 2001

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; PeopleSoft; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Compaq Computer; Government of India, MIT; HP Co.; Justsystem Corp.; Oracle Corp.; Progress Software; RLG; RWS Group LLC; Unisys Corporation.

Total members represented: 10, Total not represented: 9

Scripts and New Characters - Aegean

[87-M4] Motion: The UTC accepts the proposal to encode Aegean scripts given in document. L2/01-149, with a glyph correction at U+100CA and a change in character name for U+10090, from LINEAR B IDEOGRAM B122 OLIVE OIL to LINEAR B IDEOGRAM B122 OLIVE.

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

8 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (Basis)

[87-A19] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Inform Michael Everson of the UTC decisions on the Aegean scripts proposal and ensure that the proposal gets updated in time for the October WG2 meeting, to make amendment 1 for Part 2. [L2/01-149]

[87-A20] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline page with the accepted Agean scripts characters. [L2/01-149]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT:  PeopleSoft now present.
Total members represented: 10; Total not represented: 9

Scripts and New Characters - Limbu

[87-M5] Motion: The UTC accepts the proposal to encode the Limbu script with the character repertoire, names and glyphs as shown in L2/01-137, 138, and 139.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Rick McGowan

7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, PeopleSoft, Sybase)
0 against
3 abstain (Basis, SAP, Sun)

[87-A21] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Notify Mike Ksar that he needs to put the Limbu proposal on the WG2 agenda for the Singapore meeting, to consider for amendment 2 for part 1. [L2/01-137, 138, 139]

[87-A22] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline page with the accepted Limbu script characters. [L2/01-137, 138, 139]

[87-A23] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Get a Limbu font. [L2/01-137, 138, 139]

Scripts and New Characters - Arabic Ligature Rial

[87-M6] Motion: The UTC accepts the character ARABIC CURRENCY SIGN RIAL at U+FDFC, with the following properties: general category Sc, bidi AL, with the compatibility decomposition and glyph as given in L2/01-148R.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

8 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
3 abstain (PeopleSoft, SAP)

[87-A24] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Ask Roozbeh Pournader to update the proposal for ARABIC CURRENCY SIGN RIAL and forward it to Mike Ksar for the WG2 agenda for the Singapore meeting, to consider for amendment 2 for part 1. [L2/01-148R]

[87-A25] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline page with the ARABIC CURRENCY SIGN RIAL. [L2/01-148R]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
NOT PRESENT:  PeopleSoft no longer present.
Total members represented: 9; Total not represented: 10

Scripts and New Characters - Ugaritic

[87-M7] Motion: The UTC accepts the Ugaritic character repertoire and names as given in document L2/01-141, to be encoded as described in the Roadmap (103C00..103DF).

Moved by Rick McGowan, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (Basis,  SAP)

[87-A26] Action Itemfor Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline page with the Ugaritic script characters. [L2/01-141]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT:  Oracle and PeopleSoft now present.
Total members represented: 11; Total not represented: 8

WG20

[87-A27] Action Item for Arnold Winkler: Communicate with the US SC22 delegate that 15435 should be withdrawn.

Scripts and New Characters - Egyptian Hieroglyphs

[87-C4] Consensus: The UTC supports the development of a proposal for encoding Egyptian hieroglyphs consisting of the Gardiner subset while leaving hieroglyphic extensions and markup issues for later study.

INFITT

[87-C5] Consensus: The UTC has a general policy not to re-encode existing scripts. Thus the UTC will not re-encode Tamil. Based on the information available, the current encoding of Tamil is sufficient for Tamil text processing.  The UTC invites submission of information on characters that might be missing from the encoding. [L2/01-221]

GB 18030

[87-A28] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Cathy Wissink: Work with the Editorial Committee to update the GB 18030 FAQ and post. [L2/01-216]

[87-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post GB 18030 mapping table with explanatory text.

[87-A30] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Verify the mappings for GB 18030 with the Chinese committee.

Character Mapping Tables

[87-C6] Consensus: The UTC authorizes a draft update of UTR#22: Character Mapping Tables which incorporates the three items from L2/01-180 (for charset xml: subchar1, stateful (SI/SO) encoding - single xml mapping file, and also for charset xml: iso-2022) and takes into account the feedback received during the discussion.

[87-A31] Action Item for Markus Scherer: Prepare a draft update of UTR#22: Character Mapping Tables. [L2/01-180]

[87-M8] Motion: Archive the mappings/EastAsian files to an archive directory and add a readme to explain the issues with them. [L2/01-179, 192, 193]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

8 for (Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
2 against (Basis, NCR )
1 abstain (Adobe)

[87-A32] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Archive the mappings/EastAsian files, adding to the readme analysis from L2/01-179, 192.

[87-A33] Action Item for V.S. Umamaheswaran: Develop an FAQ on JIS X 0213.

Supporting UTF-16 in C and C++

[87-M9] Motion: Forward to the C and C++ committees a request for an unambiguous UTF-16 datatype and string literal support. [L2/01-195, 220]

Moved by Nobu Mori, seconded by Asmus Freytag
7 for (Basis, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun)
1 against (Sybase)
3 abstain (Adobe, Apple, IBM)

[87-A34] Action Item for Nobu Mori: Write up a document requesting that the C/C++ committees add a UTF-16 datatype and string literal support. Send to the UTC/L2 lists for review as a joint UTC/L2 proposal. [L2/01-195, 220]

[87-A35] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Contact Kent Karlsson for background information for proposal to C/C++ committees. [L2/01-220]

[87-A36] Action Item for Hideki Hiura: Inform Steve Clamagh (Chair of C++ committee) about the UTC proposal on supporting UTF-16 and ask to have it be considered. [L2/01-195, 220]

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
NOT PRESENT:  PeopleSoft no longer present.
Total members represented: 10; Total not represented: 9

Properties - Case Mappings

[87-M10] Motion: Make the change (given in L2/01-196) to SpecialCasing.txt to better handle Greek sigma.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Murray Sargent

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (SAP)

[87-A37] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update SpecialCasing.txt to better handle Greek sigma. [L2/01-196]

[87-M11] Motion: Incorporate UTR#21: Case Mappings into Unicode 4.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

8 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (SAP, Sun)

[87-A38] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Incorporate UTR#21: Case Mappings into Unicode 4.


May 23, 2001

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; Oracle Corp.; PeopleSoft; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Compaq Computer; Government of India, MIT; HP Co.; Justsystem Corp.; Progress Software; RLG; RWS Group LLC; Unisys Corporation.

Total members represented: 11, Total not represented: 8

PUA Descriptions

[87-C7] Consensus: The UTC supports development of an XML description of Unicode character properties. [L2/01-194]

[87-A39] Action Item for Mark Davis, Eric Muller: Produce a draft technical report for the next UTC and a sample file showing the Unicode Character Database in that format. [L2/01-194]

[87-A40] Action Item for Rick McGowan, John Jenkins: Set up a database for UTC members to use to contain information about variants.

[87-A41] Action Item for John Jenkins: Prepare a document on variation selectors for the next UTC.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT:  PeopleSoft now present.
Total members represented: 11; Total not represented: 8

IRG

[87-C8] Consensus: The UTC wishes to thank the IRG and its Rapporteur, Mr. Zhang, for their excellent work on Vertical Extension B.

[87-M12] Motion: The UTC asks the IRG to include the U-source in its publications and also to include EACC in that U-source.

Moved by John Jenkins, seconded by Ken Whistler

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (PeopleSoft, SAP)

[87-A42] Action Item for John Jenkins: Ask the IRG for mappings or pointers to mappings for their character sets.

Bidi

[87-A43] Action Item for Bidi Committee: Analyze the bidi issues raised in the Atkin/Stansifer documents and make recommendations on what actions to take. [L2/01-218, 219]

[87-A44] Action Item for Editorial Committee:  Take the recommendations from the bidi committee on the issues raised in the Atkin/Stansifer documents and see if documentation changes are required and how such changes should be managed. [L2/01-218, 219]

[87-A45] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Add Steve Atkin to the bidi e-mail list.

[87-A46] Action Item for Steve Atkin: Contact Mark Leisher and let him know about the bidi problems detected in his freeware.

Arabic Cursive Joining

[87-M13] Motion: The UTC approves fixing the inconsistency in joining behavior for U+06C0 when decomposed into U+06D5 U+0654 by changing the joining rules (item 1 of L2/01-214). It remands to the Editorial Committee to make the necessary fixes for items 1 and 6 (using the name LAM ALEF instead of ALEF.LAM). Items 2, 3, 4, and 5 should be considered by the Bidi Committee for its recommendation. [L2/01-214]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

7 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
4 abstain (Basis, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP)

[87-A47] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Make the updates to Arabic cursive joining necessary to correct items 1 and 6 of L2/01-214, based on motion 87-M13.

[87-A48] Action Item for Bidi Committee: Analyze the bidi issues raised in items 2, 3, 4, and 5 of document L2/01-214 and make recommendations to the UTC on what actions to take.

[87-A49] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Make a list of characters in the standard that have been deprecated.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT:  Justsystem now represented by proxy.
Total members represented: 12; Total not represented: 7

UTF-8S

[87-A50] Action Item for Members: Determine from company database engineers the need for UTF-8S.

[87-A51] Action Item for Toby Phipps, Nobu Mori, Jianping Yang: Update the UTF-8S proposal, including adding performance measurements. [L2/01-230]

Properties - Case Mappings

[87-A52] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Invite Kent Karlsson to participate in discussions on his proposal on changes to SpecialCasing.txt and soft dot above at the next UTC. [L2/01-202]

[87-A53] Action Item for Mark Davis: Relay to Kent Karlsson the feedback that the UTC does not wish to modify the normal case for casing i and j. [L2/01-191R]

Properties - Graphemes

[87-M14] Motion: Adopt the definition of locale-independent grapheme as given in L2/01-086, with the term locale-independent grapheme to be revised.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Rick McGowan

11 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (NCR)

[87-A54] Action Item for Mark Davis: Solicit a new name for locale-independent grapheme on unicore. [L2/01-086]

[87-A55] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update property files with the new  locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]

[87-A56] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update UTR#17: Character Encoding Model and UTR#18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines with the new  locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]

[87-A57] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Create appropriate erratum for the new  locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]

[87-A58] Action Item for Mark Davis: Notify the W3C of  the new  locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]

[87-A59] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add an agenda item for the next UTC to discuss the name of the new locale-independent grapheme property and its interactions with other properties. [L2/01-086]

Properties - Ideographic Description Property

[87-M15] Motion: Adopt the definition of  an ideographic description property as given in L2/01-085, with the change to split the IDS operand into CJK radical and unified CJK ideograph.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

11 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (Justsystem)

[87-A60] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate the new ideographic description property into the appropriate version of the Standard and database. [L2/01-085]

Properties - Combining Grapheme Joiner

[87-A61] Action Item for Mark Davis: Document the semantics of the combining grapheme joiner for discussion at the next UTC.

WG2 - Consent Docket

[87-M16] Motion: Accept items 1-6 of Consent Docket L2/01-227 with additional name changes to item 6:
ITEM 1: name changes to 10F7, 10F8, 267C, 267D
ITEM 2: additional 74 math characters added to the BMP
ITEM 3: moved character from 255F to 27D0
ITEM 4: reconfirm 4 characters the UTC had requested to be removed (FA4A, FA5E, FA5F, FA67)
ITEM 5: name changes to 2144, 23BE, 23BF..23CC
ITEM 6: 29D1 LEFT BLACK BOWTIE  => BOWTIE WITH LEFT HALF BLACK
              29D2 RIGHT BLACK BOWTIE => BOWTIE WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK
              29D4 LEFT BLACK TIMES => TIMES WITH LEFT HALF BLACK
              29D5 RIGHT BLACK TIMES => TIMES WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

11 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (SAP)

[87-A62] Action Item for Unicode L2 Liaison: Ensure that the name changes to 29D1, 29D2, 29D4, 29D5 given in motion 87-M15 are part of the US comments on the FDAM. [L2/01-227]

[87-A63] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline and database with the changes in the PDAM for Amendment 1 given in motion 87-M15 and document L2/01-227.



May 24, 2001

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer (by proxy); Basis Technology; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp. (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; NCR Corporation; Oracle Corp.; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Compaq Computer; Government of India, MIT; HP Co.; PeopleSoft; Progress Software; RWS Group LLC; SAP AG; Unisys Corporation.

Total members represented: 11, Total not represented: 8

Collation

[87-C9] Consensus: The UTC favors stabilization of the UCA table, targeting the repertoire of Unicode 3.1. Stabilization means stabilization of the weights under extension by the addition of future scripts, with a goal of maintaining backwards compatibility.

[87-A64] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Develop a stability proposal for the UCA collation weight table.

[87-M17] Motion: Give the unit separator the least non zero primary weight and also it must not be a variable weight.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (Oracle, RLG)

[87-M18] Motion: The UTC authorizes the posting of a draft UCA conformance test, with the eventual goal being an approved conformance test as part of UTS#10: Unicode Collation Algorithm.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

10 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Oracle, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (NCR)

[87-A65] Action Item for Mark Davis: Post the UCA conformance test and solicit feedback.

[87-C10] Consensus: The UTC authorizes the posting of a draft update of UTS#10: Unicode Collation Algorithm to update the table and incorporate other changes as discussed.

[87-A66] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Post a draft update of UTS#10: Unicode Collation Algorithm and solicit feedback.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT:  PeopleSoft now present, SAP now represented by proxy.
Total members represented: 13; Total not represented: 6

Math Technical Report

[87-A67] Action Item for V.S. Umamaheswaran: Inform Michel Suignard of the correct way to process the list of variation selectors for PDAM 1. [L2/01-226]

[87-A68] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Review the math technical report in detail and provide feedback to the authors by June 1.[L2/01-226]

[87-M19] Motion: The UTC authorizes progressing document L2/01-226 to Proposed Draft UTR#25: Unicode Support for Mathematics, after incorporating the feedback received during the meeting.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Murray Sargent

12 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (SAP)

[87-A69] Action Item for Murray Sargent, Asmus Freytag: Update Proposed Draft UTR#25: Unicode Support for Mathematics, have it reviewed by the Editorial Committee and then post. [L2/01-226]

[87-A70] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Notify Murray Sargent of the next Editorial Committee meeting date.

East Asian Width

[87-M20] Motion: Update the East Asian data files changing the list in L2/01-189, 00AE to 273D to A, and all Jamo to W, post, and include in Unicode 3.1.1.

Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Ken Whistler

13 for (unanimous)

[87-A71] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add the East Asian updates to the list of data file fixes for 3.1.1.[L2/01-189]

[87-A72] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Make updates to the East Asian width tables to reflect the changes agreed to in 87-M19. [L2/01-189]

 Citing the Unicode Standard

[87-A73] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Modify the enumerated versions page and the versions page to align with the method of citing the Unicode Standard specified in document L2/01-233.

Mapping of JIS X 0213 Character FA45

[87-A74] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Write up the problem with the mapping of FA45 by JIS X 0213 and distribute to Japan SC2, IRG, and WG2 (Sato-san, Kobayashi-san, John Jenkins, and Mike Ksar) L2/01-164, p.82.

[87-A75] Action Item for John Jenkins: Present the problem with the mapping of FA45 by JIS X 0213 at the June IRG meeting.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
NOT PRESENT:  Basis now represented by proxy.
Total members represented: 13; Total not represented: 6

Bracket Disunification

[87-M21] Motion: Reverse the decision made in motion 86-M6 not to disunify brackets.

Moved by Michel Suignard, seconded by Asmus Freytag (by proxy)

7 for (Adobe, Basis, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP)
4 against (Apple, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
2 abstain (IBM, Justsystem)

[87-A76] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Write a document answering the questions raised in L2/01-168.

[87-A77] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add the bracket disunification topic to the agenda of the next UTC.

W3C

[87-M22] Motion: The UTC authorizes a draft update to UAX#13: Unicode Newline Guidelines to add a section on collapsing white space.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

10 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NCR, Oracle, PeopleSoft, RLG, SAP, Sun)
1 against (Sybase)
2 abstain (Basis, Justsystem)

[87-A78] Action Item for Mark Davis, Michel Suignard: Produce an update to UAX#13: Unicode Newline Guidelines that adds a section on collapsing white space.

[87-A79] Action Item for Mark Davis: Convey to W3C the UTC action to update UAX#13: Unicode Newline Guidelines with a section on collapsing white space.



UTC Attendees
 

Attendees:

Representing:

Joan Aliprand

RLG

Deborah Anderson

UC Berkeley

Joe Becker

Xerox

Dave Birdsall

H2

Mark Davis

IBM

Asmus Freytag

Basis

Hideki Hiura

Sun 

John Jenkins

Apple

Michael Kaplan

Trigeminal

Mike Ksar 

 WG2

Rick McGowan

Unicode/Apple (proxy)

Lisa Moore

IBM

Nobu Mori

SAP

Eric Muller

Adobe

John O'Conner

Sun

Toby Phipps

PeopleSoft

Gary Roberts

NCR

Murray Sargent 

Microsoft

Markus Scherer

IBM

V.S. Umamaheswaran

IBM

Ken Whistler

Sybase

Cathy Wissink

Microsoft



UTC Full Member Attendance Roster
 

Member

5/21/01

5/22/01

5/23/01

5/24/01

1. Adobe Systems, Inc.

yes

yes

yes

yes

2. Apple Computer, Inc.

 yes (proxy)

yes

yes

yes (proxy)

3. Basis Technology

yes

yes

yes

yes

4. Compaq Computer Corporation 

 

 

 

 

5. Gov't of India, MIT

 

 

 

 

6. Gov't of Pakistan, NLA 

 

 

 

 

7. Hewlett-Packard Company

 

 

 

 

8. IBM Corporation

yes

yes

yes

yes

9. Justsystem Corporation

 

 

 yes (proxy)

yes (proxy)

10. Microsoft Corporation

yes

yes

yes

yes

11. NCR Corporation

yes

yes

yes

yes

12. Oracle 

 

yes

yes

yes

13. PeopleSoft

yes

yes

yes

yes

14. Progress Software

 

 

 

 

15. RLG, Inc.

 

 

 

yes

16. Reuters, Ltd.

 

 

 

 

17. RWS, Ltd.

 

 

 

 

18. SAP AG

yes

yes

yes

yes (proxy)

19. Sun Microsystems, Inc.

yes

yes

yes

yes

20. Sybase, Inc.

yes

yes

yes

yes

21. Unisys