L2/01-227

 

Title:  WG2 Consent Docket for UTC #87

From:   Ken Whistler

Date:   May 22, 2001

Action: For Decision by the UTC

 

The following items requiring decision by the UTC have been

pulled out of the WG2 #40 Meeting Summary (Mountain View),

L2-01-168, that I sent around on April 9. This is just a

convenience listing, to make it easier to see those items which

require a formal decision by the UTC to consent to some change

in the standard, resulting from decisions taken by WG2 regarding

10646.

 

 

ITEM 1

 

Characters added to the BMP, already approved by the UTC,

with the same code point, but with different names. The

UTC needs to revisit these, to update their approval to the

new names. (Cf. L2/01-145, L2/01-146)

 

10F7  GEORGIAN LETTER YN 

      (UTC approved GEORGIAN LETTER IRRATIONAL VOWEL)

10F8  GEORGIAN LETTER ELIFI

      (UTC approved GEORGIAN LETTER AINI)

267C  RECYCLED PAPER SYMBOL

      (UTC approved RECYCLED PAPER)

267D  PARTIALLY-RECYCLED PAPER SYMBOL

      (UTC approved PARTIALLY RECYCLED PAPER)

 

ITEM 2

 

Math characters added to the BMP, considered, but not yet

approved by the UTC. There are 74 of these, documented in

WG2 N2356. That was based on WG2 N2336 (L2/01-142) "Additional Mathematical

Symbols", which superseded WG2 N2318, the document that

resulted from the discussion of these at the last UTC meeting.

[I don't see that WG2 N2356 was ever given an L2 number.]

 

The most problematical of the characters in the earlier

documents were omitted, in favor of progressing those which

seemed less controversial and of higher priority. The UTC

will need to review WG2 N2336, N2356, N2343 (L2/01-147) and

N2341R (L2/01-164) (the draft

charts for the FPDAM, which includes these 74) and decide either

to approve them, or ask for modifications or removals from

the FPDAM. I won't type up the entire list of 74 here, as it

is available in those other documents.

 

ITEM 3

 

Character whose code point was moved from that shown in the

PDAM. This will need to be reviewed and approved by the UTC:

 

27D0  WHITE DIAMOND WITH CENTRED DOT (moved from 255F)

 

ITEM 4

 

Characters that the U.S. ballot comments requested be removed

from the PDAM, but which were not. These are the four extra

radicals in the Japanese compatibility ideograph set. At this

point, since the removal was refused by WG2, the UTC will need

to reconfirm the four characters in question to ensure that

the two standards are synchronized.

 

FA4A  CJK COMPATIBLITY CHARACTER-FA4A

FA5E  CJK COMPATIBLITY CHARACTER-FA5E

FA5F  CJK COMPATIBLITY CHARACTER-FA5F

FA67  CJK COMPATIBLITY CHARACTER-FA67

 

ITEM 5

 

Characters whose names were changed from those printed in the

PDAM text.

 

2144  TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL Y

      (changed "INVERTED" to "TURNED")

23BE  DENTISTRY SYMBOL LIGHT VERTICAL AND TOP RIGHT

23BF..23CC (comparable change of "DENTIST" to "DENTISTRY" in each name)

 

ITEM 6

 

"Pre-approved" name changes. These name changes were covered by

the blanket decision to change FILLED to BLACK in a number

of math character names.

 

29D1  LEFT BLACK BOWTIE

29D2  RIGHT BLACK BOWTIE

29D3  BLACK BOWTIE

29D4  LEFT BLACK TIMES

29D5  RIGHT BLACK TIMES

 

These 5 name changes create what I think are misnomers, and in my

opinion should be reverted to FILLED, even though they were generically

approved by the UTC already. If the UTC decides to change these

names back the way they were, that would require a new ballot

comment on the FPDAM.

 

OTHER ISSUE

 

Dis-unification of Brackets for CJK and Math (see Resolution M40.7)

 

This is treated by the UTC as a separate agenda item, and so is not

included among the items in the Consent Docket.