L2/04-003R

Approved Minutes of the UTC 98 / L2 195 Joint Meeting
Mountain View, CA -- February 2 - 5, 2004
Hosted by Microsoft
May 17, 2004

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Oracle Corporation; Peoplesoft; RLG; SAP; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Pakistan, NLA; Sun Microsystems

Total members represented: 12, Total not represented:  3

Calendar Review  (A.6)

UTC 99/L2 196 - June 15-18, 2004, Toronto, host IBM
UTC 100/L2 197 - August 10-13, 2004, Redmond, host Microsoft
UTC 101/L2 198 - November 15-18, 2004, Cupertino, host Apple, Annual Members Mtg
UTC 102/L2 199 - February 7-10, 2005, Mountain View, host Microsoft
Calendar details posted at www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html

Action Item Review  (A.5.2)

IRG Liaison Report (B.4.1)

[98-C1] Consensus: The UTC supports the correction of the glyph for U+21E45 in ISO/IEC 10646:2003 as documented in L2/04-008.

[98-A2a] Action Item for Eric Muller: Verify the correct source mappings for U+21E2D, U+21E45.

[98-A3] Action Item for John Jenkins: At the May 2004 IRG meeting, give a demo of variation selectors. [L2/04-037]

Unihan Database (B.13.2)

[98-A4] Action Item for John Jenkins: Remove the kAlternateMorohashi and kAlternateKangXi fields from the Unihan database after the release of Unicode 4.0.1.

[98-C3] Consensus: For Unicode 4.0.1, the UTC will amend the definition of provisional properties to say that they can be deleted in a future version of the standard, without prior notice.

[98-A5] Action Item for John Jenkins: Send to Mark Davis a description of the new 4.0.1 Unihan fields for incorporation into 4.0.1 UCD.html.

[98-A6] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: In Unicode 4.0.1, modify the definition of "provisional" properties to include language that they can be removed from the standard at any time. See [98-C3] above.

[98-A7] Action Item for John Jenkins: Update the kTang field of the Unihan database using the correct vowels and diacritical marks from Stimson, after Unicode 4.0.1.

[98-A8] Action Item for John Jenkins: Add data on Cantonese pronunciation from Cheung and Bauer to Unihan.txt after the release of Unicode 4.0.1.

[98-A9] Action Item for John Jenkins: Draft a Public Review Issue that the UTC is considering switching from the modified Yale to Linguistic Society of Hong Kong romanization in Unihan.txt. The issue should argue the case for this change. Also, this would change the Cantonese data in the whole file; specify which fields that would be affected (kCantonese).

[98-A10] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue [98-A9 ] on Cantonese data in Unihan.txt (the UTC is considering switching from the modified Yale to Linguistic Society of Hong Kong romanization in Unihan.txt.) The PRI to close June 8, 2004.

[98-A11] Action Item for John Jenkins: Give information to Mark Davis on how to produce Unihan sort keys for incorporation into UCD for Unicode 4.0.1.

[98-A12] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Document the properties in the Unihan database in an appropriate place after the release of 4.0.1.

[98-C4] Consensus: Add kIRGUSource field to Unihan.txt for 4.0.1.

 Properties: General Category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (B.15.6)

[98-M1] Motion: Change the general category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE from Zs to Cf in Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/03-389]

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Mark Davis

9 For (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Peoplesoft, RLG, SAP, Sybase)
0 Against
3 Abstain (HP, Oracle, Microsoft)

Motion 98-M1 carries

[98-A13] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Document the change in the general category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE from Zs to Cf as part of Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/03-389]

Unicode Technical Reports: UTRs that should be UTSs (B.12.1)

[98-C5] Consensus: Issue a working draft proposed update changing Unicode Technical Report #22: Character Mapping Markup Language to Unicode Technical Standard #22: Character Mapping Markup Language.

[98-A14] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Editorial Committee: Make an update to the boilerplate of Unicode Technical Report #22: Character Mapping Markup Language, add a section on conformance, then update and post as a working draft Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #22: Character Mapping Markup Language.

Properties: Line Break (B.15.3)

[98-A15] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Establish a way to handle multiple aliases for properties and property values.

Properties: DerivedAge (B.15.1)

[98-C6] Consensus: Document in DerivedAge.txt that if no code point is listed, the value is "unassigned", for Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/04-013]

[98-A16] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Document in DerivedAge.txt that if no code point is listed, the value is "unassigned", for Unicode 4.0.1. DerivedAge.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt need to be changed. [L2/04-013]

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

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Pakistan, NLA.

Total members represented: 13, Total not represented:  2

Proxies from Sun, RLG.

13 members present.

Public Review Issue 20: Review of DUTR #31 Identifier and Pattern Syntax (B.11.2)

[98-C7] Consensus: Retarget Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax to a UAX and post as Draft Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax with 2 corrections with two corrections to be done later. [L2/04-026, L2/03-079]

[98-A16a] Action Item  for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update and post Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax as Draft Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax for public review. [L2/04-026, L2/03-079]

[98-A16b] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post Draft Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax for public review.

Scripts and New Characters: Cuneiform (B.14.1)

[98-A17] Action Item for Steve Tinney, Rick McGowan: Document numeric and other properties for cuneiform. Take into account Ugaritic and Old Persian properties. Since this is the third cuneiform script coming into the standard, check to make sure there aren't gratuitous differences. [L2/03-036]

[98-C8] Consensus: The UTC accepts the repertoire of 984 Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform characters in the range 12000..123F3 with names as specified in document L2/04-036, with new block Cuneiform at 12000..123FF, for encoding in a future version of Unicode. 

[98-A18] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include acceptance of the 984 Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform characters with names and code points in the range 12000..123F3, as specified in document L2/04-036.

[98-A19] Action Item for Steve Tinney: Update the proposal L2/04-036 with comments received at the meeting and submit to WG2 and UTC in time for the June 2004 meetings. Please use the latest proposal summary form in the revision.

[98-A20] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Steve Tinney: Discuss "named sequences" listed as a possible appendix to the revised L2/04-036 document.

[98-A21] Action Item for Michael Kaplan, Editorial Committee: Add a section to the Indic FAQ on using Tamil digits.

[98-C9] Consensus: Accept U+0BE6 TAMIL DIGIT ZERO with properties as described in L2/04-073 for encoding in a future version of the standard.

[98-A22] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect addition of U+0BE6 TAMIL DIGIT ZERO. [L2/04-073]

[98-A23] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Update the proposal for Tamil digit zero L(2/04-073) and send to Rick McGowan and Mike Ksar for posting prior to the June 2004 WG2 meeting.

[98-A24] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include U+0BE6 TAMIL DIGIT ZERO in the provisional ballot comments on the current amendment to ISO/IEC 10646:2003. [L2/04-073]

[98-A25] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Provide a font to Asmus Freytag for printing U+0BE6 TAMIL DIGIT ZERO. [L2/04-073]

 Unicode Technical Reports: Compression (B.12.2)

[98-C10] Consensus: Create a proposed update to Unicode Technical Standard #6: A Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode as based on documents L2/04-419, L2/04-020 and committee discussion. 

[98-A26] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Prepare a proposed update to Unicode Technical Standard #6: A Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode based documents L2/04-419, L2/04-020 and committee discussion, and post for public review.

[98-A27] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the proposed update to Unicode Technical Standard #6: A Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode for public review to close June 8, 2004. [L2/04-419,L2/04-020]

Unicode Technical Reports: BOCU-1 (B.12.3)

[98-C11] Consensus: Issue Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #33: BOCU-1 based on L2/04-016 as modified by discussion during the meeting.

[98-A28] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Editorial Committee: Prepare a public review item for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #33: BOCU-1. [L2/04-016]

[98-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #33: BOCU-1 to close June 8, 2004. [L2/04-016]

Unicode Technical Reports: Character Mapping Markup Language (B.12.4)

[98-M2] Motion: Include the changes proposed in L2/04-018 as part of Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #22: Character Mapping Markup Language (98-C5).

Moved by V S Umamaheswaran, seconded by Eric Muller

10 For (Adobe, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, RLG, SAP, Sun, Sybase)
0 Against
3 Abstain (Apple, Oracle, Basis)

Motion 98-M2 carries

[98-A30] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Editorial Committee: Include the updates from L2/04-018 in Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #22: Character Mapping Markup Language.

Properties: Script Property Values (B.15.5)

[98-A31] Action Item for Eric Muller: Put updating script codes process on the agenda for next Editorial Committee meeting. [L2/03-427, L2/04-043]

IRG: Old Hanzi (B.4.3)

[98-C12] Consensus: UTC supports in principle the separate encoding of Chinese oracle bone and bronze inscription characters, but sees the need for further expert study prior to encoding them. The UTC sees this work as outside the main mission of the IRG. [L2/03-450,L2/03-452,L2/04-084]

[98-C13] Consensus: The UTC believes that whether or not the Chinese seal forms should be encoded separately is an issue that requires further study. [L2/03-450,L2/03-452,L2/04-084]

IRG: HKSCS (B.4.1)

[98-C14] Consensus: The UTC requests that the 113 missing HKSCS characters be encoded in amendment 1 of 10646:2003 as needed to ensure round trip mapping. [L2/04-037]

[98-A32] Action Item for Eric Muller, John Jenkins, Michel Suignard: Draft a proposal to encode the 113 missing HKSCS characters, dividing the proposal into appropriate segments (unified ideographs, compatibility, non-ideographs, etc.) by April 15th, forward to Mike Ksar for submission to WG2 in time for the June 2004 meeting. [L2/04-037]

[98-A33] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add to the ballot comments that the UTC requests that the 113 missing HKSCS characters be encoded in amendment 1 of 10646:2003. [L2/04-037]

[98-A34] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Send a font to Asmus Freytag for printing the 113 missing HKSCS characters. [L2/04-037]

WG2: Proposed Technical Corrigendum to 10646:2003 (B.1.7) 

[98-C15] Consensus: The UTC supports the corrections (missing cell entries in collection 340) to ISO/IEC 10646:2003.[L2/04-014]

WG2: Update Proposal Summary Form (B.1.5)

[98-C16] Consensus: UTC requests WG2 to update the proposal summary form to include a recommended default ordering and script value.

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Oracle Corporation; Peoplesoft; RLG; SAP; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Justsystem Corp; Pakistan, NLA; Sun Microsystems.

Total members represented: 11, Total not represented:  4

Scripts and New Characters: Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook (B.14.11) 

[98-C17] Consensus: Encode 15 phonetic symbols with palatal hook in the phonetic extension block at U+1D80..U+1D8E and request their addition to ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1: [L2/04-045]

U+1D80 LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D81 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D82 LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D83 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D84 LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D85 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D86 LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D87 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D88 LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D89 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D8A LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D8B LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D8C LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D8D LATIN SMALL LETTER X WITH PALATAL HOOK
U+1D8E LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH PALATAL HOOK

[98-A35] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include15 phonetic symbols with palatal hook at U+1D80..U+1D8E. [L2/04-045]

[98-A36] Action Item for Peter Constable: Forward document L2/04-045 to Mike Ksar for submission to WG2 for the June 2004 meeting; updated to use the latest proposal summary form.

[98-A37] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add the 15 phonetic symbols with palatal hook at U+1D80..U+1D8E to ballot comments for ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1. [L2/04-045]

Scripts and New Characters: Bangla Khanda-Ta (B.14.16)

[98-A38] Action Item for Peter Constable, Paul Nelson, Editorial Committee: Draft a Public Review Issue on encoding Bangla Khanda Ta with Ta+virama to close June 8, 2004. [L2/04-060, L2/04-062]

[98-A39] Action Item for Peter Constable, Paul Nelson: Invite review and participation from the Indic list in the Public Review Issue about encoding Bangla Khanda Ta with Ta+virama. [L2/04-060,L2/04-062]

[98-A40] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on ncoding Bangla Khanda Ta with Ta+virama. [L2/04-060,L2/04-062]

Scripts and New Characters: Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook (B.14.12)

[98-C19] Consensus: Accept for encoding the 12 phonetic symbols with retroflex hook at U+1D8F through U+1D9A: [L2/04-046]

U+1D8F LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D90 LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D91 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH HOOK AND TAIL
U+1D92 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D93 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D94 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D95 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D96 LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D97 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D98 LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D99 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
U+1D9A LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK

[98-A41] Action Item for Peter Constable: Supply information on the difference between schwa with rhotic hook and schwa with retroflex hook, and forward to Julie Allen for a future edition of the Unicode Standard. [L2/04-046]

[98-A42] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include 12 phonetic symbols with retroflex hook at U+1D8F through U+1D9A. [L2/04-046]

[98-A43] Action Item for Peter Constable: Send a font for 12 phonetic symbols with retroflex hook at U+1D8F through U+1D9A to Asmus Freytag for printing. [L2/04-046]

[98-A44] Action Item for Peter Constable: Update the proposal summary form for L2/04-046 with proposed encoding of the 12 phonetic symbols at U+1D8F through U+1D9A and forward to Mike Ksar for June 2004 WG2 meeting.

[98-A45] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add to the ballot comments for ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1, the UTC request for 12 phonetic symbols with retroflex hook at U+1D8F through U+1D9A . [L2/04-046]

Scripts and New Characters: Additional Phonetic Symbols (B.14.13)

[98-C20] Consensus: Accept for encoding 8 phonetic symbols at 0238..0239, 1D7B..1D7F, 1DC2, and tentatively accept for encoding C with stroke at U+023A, pending public review: [L2/04-047]

U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER DB DIGRAPH
U+0239 LATIN SMALL LETTER QP DIGRAPH
U+023A LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE
U+1D7B LATIN SMALL CAPITAL LETTER I WITH STROKE
U+1D7C LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH STROKE
U+1D7D LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH STROKE
U+1D7E LATIN SMALL CAPITAL LETTER U WITH STROKE
U+1D7F LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH STROKE
U+1DC2 COMBINING SNAKE BELOW

[98-A46] Action Item for Peter Constable, Editorial Committee: Create a Public Review Issue for LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE. [L2/04-047]

[98-A47] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE to close June 8, 2004.

[98-A48] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the encoding of 8 phonetic symbols at 0238..0239, 1D7B..1D7F, 1DC2, and tentatively accepting U+023A LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE, pending the outcome of public review.  [L2/04-047]

[98-A49] Action Item for Peter Constable: Update proposal summary form of L2/04-047 (proposing 9 phonetic symbols at 0238..023A, 1D7B..1D7F, 1DC2) and forward document to Mike Ksar for June 2004 WG2 meeting. 

[98-A50] Action Item for Peter Constable: Supply a font for the 9 phonetic symbols at 0238..023A, 1D7B..1D7F, 1DC2 to Asmus. [L2/04-047]

[98-A51] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include the 9 phonetic symbols at 0238..023A, 1D7B..1D7F, 1DC2 in the ballot comments for  ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1. [L2/04-047]

Scripts and New Characters: Phonetic Modifier Letters (B.14.10) 

[98-C21] Consensus: Encode 37 phonetic modifier letters at 1D9B..1DBF (not including the modifier letter small glottal stop), and request that they be added to ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1. [L2/04-044]

[98-A52] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update pipeline to reflect addition of 37 modifier letters at 1D9B..1DBF (not including the modifier letter small glottal stop). [L2/04-044]

[98-A53] Action Item for Peter Constable: Update proposal for 37 modifier letters at 1D9B..1DBF (not including the modifier letter small glottal stop) and forward to Mike Ksar for June WG2 meeting. [L2/04-044]

[98-A54] Action Item for Peter Constable: Forward the font for 37 modifier letters at 1D9B..1DBF (not including the modifier letter small glottal stop) to Asmus Freytag for printing. [L2/04-044]

[98-A54a] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include the 37 modifier letters at 1D9B..1DBF (not including the modifier letter small glottal stop) in the ballot comments for ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1. [L2/04-044]

Restructure Agenda: Script Subcommittee Meeting Day

[98-A55] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Restructure the UTC agenda for the first day of UTC meetings to be a script subcommittee meeting day. Publicize that proposals must be posted a week in advance. Documents not received by the deadline will be automatically deferred to the next UTC meeting.

Properties: Ignoring hyphens (B.15.2)

[98-C22] Consensus: Adopt rule R1, on ignoring case, whitespace, underbar, and medial hyphens in names, from document L2/04-012, with clarification, in Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/04-012]

[98-A56] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Document the change due to accepting rule R1, on ignoring case, whitespace, underbar, and medial hyphens in names, from L2/04-012 in Unicode 4.0.1.

[98-A57] Action Item for Mark Davis: Communicate to WG2 the change due to accepting rule R1, on ignoring case, whitespace, underbar, and medial hyphens in names, from L2/04-012 in Unicode 4.0.1.

[98-A58] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include in ballot comments for ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1, the change due to accepting rule R1, on ignoring case, whitespace, underbar, and medial hyphens in names, from L2/04-012 in Unicode 4.0.1.

Scripts and New Characters: Coptic (B.14.6)

[98-C23] Consensus: Remove characters U+2C99 and U+2C9A from ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1 unless they are attested, and change the name of U+2CBD to COPTIC SYMBOL STAUROS. [L2/04-053]

[98-A59] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include in ballot comments consensus 98-C23 to remove characters U+2C99 and U+2C9A from ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1 unless they are attested; and change the name of U+2CBD to COPTIC SYMBOL STAUROS. [L2/04-053]

[98-A60] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline with consensus 98-C23 to remove characters U+2C99 and U+2C9A from ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1 unless they are attested; and change the name of U+2CBD to COPTIC SYMBOL STAUROS. [L2/04-053]

[98-A61] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Reply to Dr. Emmel giving him the results of the UTC decisions regarding Coptic and ask that he re-submit the rest of the characters as a well-formed proposal for additional Coptic characters. [L2/04-053]

Scripts and New Characters: Glagolitic (B.14.14)

[98-C24] Consensus: Change the names of 5 Glagolitic characters to the following: [L2/04-051,L2/04-052]

U+2C0C GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER DJERVI
U+2C23 GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER YU
U+2C2D GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER TROKUSTASTI A
U+2C3C GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER DJERVI
U+2C5D GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER TROKUSTASTI A

[98-A62] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add the 5 Glagolitic name changes to ballot comments on ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1. [L2/04-051,L2/04-052]

[98-A63] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Respond to Ralph Cleminson requesting more information about the proposed Glagolitic Suspension Marker. [L2/04-051,L2/04-052]

Scripts and New Characters: Greek Zero (B.14.15)

[98-C25] Consensus: Accept U+1018A GREEK ZERO SIGN for encoding with the general category "No", and request that it be added to amendment 1. [L2/04-054]

[98-A64] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include "U+1018A GREEK ZERO SIGN. [L2/04-054]

[98-A65] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include the request to add U+1018A GREEK ZERO SIGN in ballot comments for ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1. [L2/04-054]

[98-A66] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Send a font to Asmus for printing U+1018A GREEK ZERO SIGN.[L2/04-054]

[98-A67] Action Item for Raymond Mercier, Debbie Anderson: Update the proposal for U+1018A GREEK ZERO SIGN and submit to WG2 in time for June meeting. Assign general category "No" and explicitly name the other properties.  [L2/04-054]

Scripts and New Characters: Additional Math Characters (B.14.19)

[98-C26] Consensus: Accept the four math characters for encoding with the properties following the current model for supersets and delimiters, and request that they be added to amendment 1: [L2/03-410]

U+27C3 OPEN SUPERSET
U+27C4 OPEN SUBSET
U+27C5 LEFT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER
U+27C6 RIGHT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER

[98-A68] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect encoding the four math characters U+27C3 OPEN SUPERSET, U+27C4 OPEN SUBSET, U+27C5 LEFT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER, U+27C6 RIGHT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER. [L2/03-410].

[98-A69] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include the request to add four math characters U+27C3 OPEN SUPERSET, U+27C4 OPEN SUBSET, U+27C5 LEFT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER, U+27C6 RIGHT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER to the ballot comments for ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1. [L2/03-410]

[98-A70] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update proposal for the four math characters U+27C3 OPEN SUPERSET, U+27C4 OPEN SUBSET, U+27C5 LEFT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER, U+27C6 RIGHT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER using the latest proposal summary form and forward to WG2 for the June 2004 meeting.

Scripts and New Characters: Proposal to encode five Arabic characters (B.14.2)

[98-C27] Consensus: Accept 5 Arabic characters for encoding, and request that they be added to amendment 1:  [L2/04-025]

U+065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA
U+065E ARABIC FATHA WITH TWO DOTS
U+076B ARABIC LETTER REH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE
U+076C ARABIC LETTER REH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
U+076D ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE

[98-A71] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect encoding the 5 Arabic characters U+065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA, U+065E ARABIC FATHA WITH TWO DOTS, U+076B ARABIC LETTER REH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE, U+076C ARABIC LETTER REH WITH HAMZA ABOVE, U+076D ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE. [L2/04-025]

[98-A72] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add the 5 Arabic characters U+065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA, U+065E ARABIC FATHA WITH TWO DOTS, U+076B ARABIC LETTER REH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE, U+076C ARABIC LETTER REH WITH HAMZA ABOVE, U+076D ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE to the ballot comments for ISO/IEC 10646:2003 amendment 1. [L2/04-025]

[98-A73] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Send a font to Asmus for the 5 Arabic characters U+065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA, U+065E ARABIC FATHA WITH TWO DOTS, U+076B ARABIC LETTER REH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE, U+076C ARABIC LETTER REH WITH HAMZA ABOVE, U+076D ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE. [L2/04-025]

[98-A74] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Submit L2/04-025 proposing 5 Arabic characters U+065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA, U+065E ARABIC FATHA WITH TWO DOTS, U+076B ARABIC LETTER REH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE, U+076C ARABIC LETTER REH WITH HAMZA ABOVE, U+076D ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE to WG2 for the June 2004 meeting.

Public Review Issue 26: Ethiopic and Tamil Non-decimal Digits (B.11.4)

[98-A75] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the resolution of the Tamil part of Puplic Review Issue #26 as "Added Tamil digit 0 as "Nd" and the other digits will remain "Nd" reflecting current practice." [L2/04-026]

[98-C28] Consensus: Change the numeric property of the Ethiopic digits 1369..1371 from "Nd" to "No" and change the numeric type to synchronize, in Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/04-026]

[98-A76] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Update the Ethiopic digits 1369..1371 general category to "No" and the numeric type to synchronize in the UCD for 4.0.1. [L2/04-026]

[98-A77] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Ethiopic part of the Puplic Review Issue #26 with the resolution of changing the general category and  numeric type. [L2/04-026]

 Public Review Issue 28: (B.11.8)

[98-C29] Consensus: Change the bidi properties of the following for Unicode 4.0.1:

U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN from ON to BN
All noncharacters from L to BN
All unassigned code points with the Default_Ignorable_Code_Point property from L to BN
     (U+2064..U+2069, U+FFF0..U+FFF8, U+E0000, U+E0002..U+E001F, U+E0080..U+E00FF, U+E01F0..U+E0FFF)
Annotation characters U+FFF9..U+FFFB from BN to ON

Note: The change for the annotation characters was already covered by a separate consensus from Meeting 97.

[98-A78] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Update the data files to reflect consensus 98-C29 to change bidi properties of U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN, noncharacters, unassigned characters and DICP (2060 and block on plane 14) to boundary neutral (BN), and change FFF9..FFFB from BN to ON for 4.0.1. Also update UCD.html.

[98-A79] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #28 with the results of consensus 98-C29 to change bidi properties.

 Unicode Technical Reports: Normalization (B.12.7)

[98-C30] Consensus: Create a Public Review Issue to close on June 8, 2004, for a corrigendum to Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms to correct a problem with the language in definition D2. [L2/04-094]

[98-A80] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Draft a Public Review Issue for a corrigendum to Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms to correct a problem with the language in definition D2. [L2/04-094]

[98-A81] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue for a corrigendum to Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms. This needs a higher-level notification as well to all of our liaison organizations. [L2/04-094]

[98-A82] Action Item for UTC Liaisons to other organizations: Contact their liaison organizations by phone regarding this Public Review Issue on corrigendum to  Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms. [L2/04-094]

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Peoplesoft; RLG; SAP; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Justsystem Corporation; Oracle Corporation; Pakistan, NLA; Sun Microsystems.

Total members represented: 10, Total not represented:  5

Unicode Technical Reports: Collation (B.12.5.2, B.12.5.3) 

[98-A83] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Put agenda items B.12.5.2 [L2/04-034] and B.12.5.3 [L2/04-030, L2/04-055] onto the agenda for next meeting.

WG2: Alternate Format Characters (B.1.8)

[98-A84] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Michel Suignard, Asmus Freytag, V S Umamaheswaran: Review L2/03-336 (alternate format characters) and draft UTC feedback before the next UTC meeting.

 Minutes Approval (A.5.1)

[98-C31] Consensus: Approve the minutes of meeting UTC 97/L2 194 as amended by discussion and documented in L2/03-356R2.

Properties: Script Property Values (B.15.5)

[98-C32] Consensus: Adopt the script property changes recommended in L2/04-096, as modified in discussion, for Unicode 4.0.1.

[98-A85] Action Item for Benson Margulies: Produce a proposal for a model for a characterization of multi-valued script properties. [L2/03-427, L2/04-043;L2/04-083]

[98-A86] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the Scripts.txt file including documentation based on L2/04-096 for Unicode 4.0.1.

[98-A87] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Produce a proposed update to Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names that captures the changes in L2/04-096, for a post 4.0.1 release.

[98-A88] Action Item for Mark Davis: Provide to Rick McGowan an "R" version of L2/04-096 with updates as discussed in the meeting, for posting to the document register.

Public Review Issue 13: Bidi (B.11.1.1) 

[98-M3] Motion: Change bidi classes of the following four characters: [L2/04-049R]

U+002B PLUS SIGN from ET to ES
U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS from ET to ES
U+002F SOLIDUS (slash) from ES to CS
U+2044 FRACTION SLASH from ON to CS

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

9 for (Adobe, Basis, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, RLG, SAP, Sybase)
0 against
1 abstain (Apple)

Motion 98-M3 carries

[98-A89] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Make the required changes in the data file to change bidi class of fraction slash U+2044 fraction slash from ON to CS and change the following 3 characters: U+002B PLUS SIGN to ES, U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS to ES, U+002F SOLIDUS to CS respectively; for Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/04-049R]

[98-A90] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: As part of Unicode 4.0.1, document the bidi property changes in Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm, section 4.3 (see motion 98M3), which may involve restructuring the clauses while keeping the implications for conformance constant. [L2/04-049R]

Public Review Issue 27: Joiner/Nonjoiner (B.11.5)

[98-C33] Consensus: Allow U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER and U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER in combining character sequences. The interpretation of a joiner or a nonjoiner between two combining marks is not yet defined. [L2/04-026, L2/04-097]

[98-M4] Motion: Keep the general category of U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER and U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER as Cf and undertake the actions specified by option B of document L2/04-097.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by V S Umamaheswaran

5 for (Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, Sybase)
0 against
5 abstain (Basis, Apple, RLG, HP, SAP)

Motion 98-M4 fails

[98-M5] Motion: Change the general category of ZWJ and ZWNJ to Mn. [L2/04-097]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Rick McGowan

0 for
5 against (Adobe, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, RLG, Sybase)
5 abstain (Basis, Apple, HP, IBM, SAP)

Motion 98-M5 fails

[98-A91] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make the minimal change to add "or joiner characters" to definitions D14 and D17 of the standard (with other minor edits allowed) for Unicode 4.0.1, to reflect consensus 98-C33 that allows ZWJ and ZWNJ in combining character sequences. [L2/04-097]

[98-A92] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: For Unicode 4.0.1, change the script property of ZWJ and ZWNJ to inherited and change Grapheme_Extend to include ZWJ and ZWNJ. [L2/04-097]

[98-C34] Consensus: Issue a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines that makes the fixes described in document L2/04-097, and incorporates other feedback. (See consensus 98-C33 allowing ZWJ/ZWNJ in combining character sequences - R.14.)

[98-A93] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Issue a proposed update to Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines that makes the fixes described in dcument L2/04-097, and incorporates other feedback. (See consensus 98-C33 allowing ZWJ/ZWNJ in combining character sequences - R.14.)

[98-A94] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #27 on ZWJ/ZWNJ and post the results of the consensus 98-C33 and 98-C34 above.

 Editorial Committee: Changes to Unihan (B.13.2)

[98-C35] Consensus: Release Unicode 4.0.1 without making further changes to Unihan.txt. [L2/04-038, L2/04-039]

[98-A95] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Release 4.0.1 after incorporating the updates decided at this meeting.

[98-A96] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Prepare an erratum documenting the known errors in the Unihan database for Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/04-038,L2/04-039]

 WG2: 10646 PDAM 1 Ballot (B.1.4) 

[98-A97] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Provide a code chart for ISO/IEC 10646:2003/Amendment1:2004 that matches the PDAM plus US comments. [L2/04-021]

[98-C36] Consensus: The UTC recommends a YES vote with comments on the ballot for ISO/IEC 10646:2003/Amendment1:2004. [L2/04-021]

SC2: 14651 Ballot (B.3.2)

[98-C37] Consensus: The UTC recommends a YES vote with comments on ISO/IEC 14651/PDAM 2. [L2/03-441,L2/03-442,L2/04-027]

[98-A98] Action Item for Rick McGowan: From WG2, send letter of appreciation to the people who contributed the ancient Greek proposals (Pantelia, Peevers, Nicholas).

Members not in regular attendance: India, MIT; Pakistan, NLA

Total members in regular attendance: 13

Quorum: 7