L2/04-316

Pre-Preliminary Minutes of the UTC 100 / L2 197 Joint Meeting
Redmond, WA -- August 10-13, 2004
Hosted by Microsoft
August 19, 2004


UTC #100 Agenda 

August 10, 2004

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems; Basis Technology Corporation

15 full members, 1 small business member; 14 in regular attendance. Quorum is 7. 9 members present (7 in person, RLG and Justsystem by proxy)

Agenda item update.

Scheduling discussions
Collation 4-6 Tuesday
Security - Wednesday

B.13.6 is WD Unicode Tech Report "Named Unicode Sequences"
B.13.6.1 draft for review L2/04-339

A.6 Calendar Review

Added: May 10-13 2005, UTC #103 hosted by Peoplesoft, Pleasanton, CA.

A.5.2 Review of open action items [L2/SD2, L2/04-337]

[100-A1] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Remind Jonathan Kew of his actions. DONE.

B.1.2 Liaison report [Freytag]

Discussed. No actions.

B.1.6.3 Consent docket [Whistler, L2/04-330]

[100-C1] Consensus: Accept the 3 name changes in section A.1of L2/04-330 (WG2 consent docket).

[100-C2] Consensus: Accept the names changes to the 12 Tifinagh characters as documented in L2/04-330 (WG2 consent docket).

[100-C3] Consensus: Approve codepoint assignments and one name change for Ethiopic extensions 1200.127F, 1280..129F, 2D80..2DDF as in document L2/04-287.

[100-C4] Consensus: Change name of script, block, and every character from "Tai Lue" to "New Tai Lue" and approve revised order as given in L2/04-287 with 8 additional documented name changes.

[100-C5] Consensus: Approve re-ordering of the CJK additions in 31C0..31EF and 9FA6..9FBC as documented in L2/04-287 and L2/04-330.

[100-C6] Consensus: Switch the order of open superset and open subset to 27C3 open subset, 27C4 open superset, as documented in L2/04-287.

[100-C7] Consensus: Accept the 59 N'ko script characters, as documented in L2/04-287, at U+07C0..U+07FA with block name "N'ko" U+07C0..U+07FF, for Unicode 5.0.

[100-C8] Consensus: Restrict block names and script names to character naming conventions plus Latin lowercase letters.

[100-A2] Action Item for V. S. Umamaheswaran: Forward to WG2 the UTC consensus (100-C8) on restricting block and script names.

[100-A3] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add "restriction of names in clause 18" as part of our ballot comments (see consensus 100-C8).

[100-A4] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Put on the agenda at the appropriate time an item to vote on the script and block name for N'ko script.

[100-A5] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Change the block name for "N'ko" to "Nko", to remove apostrophe in the block name.

[100-C9] Consensus: Accept the two new generic bracket characters U+2E1C LEFT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET, U+2E1D RIGHT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET in 10646 amendment 1, as documented in L2/04-287.

[100-C10] Consensus: Accept the name changes for U+2E0C Left Raised Omission Bracket, U+2E0D Right Raised Omission Bracket, as documented in L2/04-287.

[100-A6] Action Item for Michel Suignard: The names of U+2E1C and U+2E1D do not correctly reflect the WG2 resolution and need to be fixed.

[100-C11] Consensus: Accept Korean Postal Mark, U+327E CIRCLED HANGUL IEUNG U, as documented in L2/04-287.

[100-C12] Consensus: Accept the addition of 106 DPRK compatibility ideographs at U+FA70..U+FAD9 for Unicode 4.1.

[100-C13] Consensus: Postpone the encoding of Phags-pa to Unicode 5.0.

[100-C14] Consensus: Ask for 18 Chinese counting rod numerals to be added to 10646 PDAM 2.

[100-A7] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline based on acceptance of the WG2 consent docket, plus the two characters that were not in the consent docket.

[100-A8] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Peter Constable: Review the Chinese proposal on Phags-pa and prepare comments for the next UTC.

[100-C15] Consensus: Accept the following name changes (in reference to 10646 amendment 1):

U+097D Devanagari Letter Glottal Stop
U+03FD Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol
U+03FE Greek Capital Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
U+03FF Greek Capital Reversed Dotted Lunate Sigma Symbol
U+07B7 Arabic Letter Noon with Two Dots Below
U+0768 Arabic Letter Noon with Small Tah

[100-A9] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include acceptance of 6 name changes as specified in consensus 100-C15.

B.15.1 CGJ in German [Davis, L2/04-304]

Discussed. No action taken.

B.15.8 Requirements for adding and updating Unicode properties [Freytag, L2/04-183]

[100-A10] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Incorporate feedback into L2/04-183 and bring back to the next UTC meeting in November 2004.

[100-M1] Motion: Make machine-readable form of the boundary property values in UTR #29 and link it from the document, provisionally placing the file in the UTR #29 directory but with final disposition to be up to the Editorial Committee.

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

7 for
0 against
2 (MS, Justsystem)

Motion 100-M1 carries

[100-A11] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make the UTR #29 data file of boundary property values and decide where it should be and update the technical report.

Adjourned at 5:15.

August 11, 2004

Opened at 9:20.

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems; Basis Technology Corporation

15 full members, 1 small business member; 14 in regular attendance. Quorum is 7. 9 members present (7 in person, RLG and Justsystem by proxy)

C.2.1 Using space as a base character [Muller, L2/04-234]
C.2.2 Proposal to add invisible letter [Everson, et al, L2/04-268]

[100-M2] Motion: In Unicode 4.1 NBSP is the preferred base as opposed to SPACE. Drop rule LB7a (rule which says a space with a combining mark acts like a symbol). Add NBSP to "aletter" in UTR  #29.

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

7 for
1 against (Adobe)
1 abstain (Justsystem)

Motion 100-M2 carries

[100-A12] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make updates to UAX #29 and 4.1.

[100-A13] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Drop rule LB7a from UAX #14 and document the change in behavior.

Space is still a base character but it does not change its properties.

[100-A14] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Draft and post text for a public review issue regarding invisible letter. In the summary say that this may also be used to correspond to "INV" in ISCII but isn't exactly the same. Solicit review from other of L2/04-268 authors including Peter Constable to cover concerns about correspondence, or not, with ISCII. Post by Sept 15 at latest. Point to the current proposal, including WG2 document number. Make sure the posted paper has the correct number 2822 on it. Draft by Aug 30 for posting by Sept 15, to close on Nov 8.

C.4.1 Holam
C.4.1.1 Proposal to add vowel holam [Kirk, et al, L2/04-307]
C.4.1.2 Background on holam [Kirk, L2/04-306]
C.4.1.3 Comments [Rosenne, L2/04-326]
C.4.1.4 Proposal to add Hebrew point holam haser for vav [Everson, Shoulson, L2/04-310; Kirk, L2/04-313]
C.4.1.5 Distinction of Vav Haluma and Holam Male [Hudson, L2/04-327]

Documents L2/04-307, L2/04-306, L2/04-326, L2/04-313, and L2/04-327 were discussed. No actions taken.

[100-M3] Motion: Accept Hebrew point Holam Haser for Vav at codepoint U+05C7 for encoding in Unicode 5.0, as documented in L2/04-310.

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

7 for
0 against
2 abstain (Justsystem, RLG)

Motion 100-M3 carries

[100-A15] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include acceptance of Hebrew point Holam Haser for Vav at codepoint U+05C7 for encoding in Unicode 5.0. See L2/04-310.

[100-A16] Action Item for Michael Everson, Editorial Committee: Draft text for Unicode 5.0 discussing the codepoint U+05C7 Holam Haser for Vav. See L2/04-310.

[100-A17] Action Item for Michael Everson, Editorial Committee: Review text on ZWJ / ZWNJ and their use with combining marks, for Unicode 4.1.

[100-A18] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include Hebrew point Holam Haser for Vav at codepoint U+05C7 in ballot comments for 10646 PDAM 2.

[100-A19] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Inform Hebrew list of the UTC decision re Holam. DONE.

C.4.2 Hebrew Mark Meteg [Kirk, L2/04-194]

[100-A20] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Elaine Keown on doc L2/04-303. UTC recognizes that there is an issue, but doesn't have enough info now to change the roadmap for this. DONE.

C.5 Babylonian pointing [Keown, L2/04-162R]

[100-A21] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Elaine Keown re doc L2/04-162R that once the proposal is complete UTC will take it up. DONE.

C.6 Revised proposal for additional Latin phonetic and orthographic characters [Priest, L2/04-246R]

[100-A22] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Prepare and post a Public Review Issue on encoding Latin small and large letter "At" from L2/04-246R. Draft by Aug 30, posted by Sept 15, to close November 8.

C.7 Mathematical Horizontal Bracket Characters [Sargent, L2/04-329]

[100-C16] Consensus: Accept 5 mathematical horizontal bracket characters for encoding at U+23DC..U+23E0 with names as given in L2/04-329.

[100-A23] Action Item for Murray Sargent: Update the proposal L2/04-329 and submit to Mike Ksar for forwading to WG2.

[100-A24] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add 5 mathematical horizontal bracket characters from L2/04-329 to the comments on ballot for PDAM 2.

[100-A25] Action Item for Murray Sargent, Asmus Freytag: Determine the properties for the 5 math brackets of L2/04-329.

[100-A26] Action Item for Murray Sargent: Send Asmus Freytag a font for the 5 math brackets of L2/04-329 by August 30.

C.8 Proposal for encoding Bangla Ya-phalaa [Sengupta, L2/04-335]

[100-A27] Action Item for Eric Muller: Include the input from L2/04-335 to his review of the Indic issues and TDIL proposals and engage the Indic list in a dialog.

C.4.2 Hebrew mark meteg [Kirk, L2/04-194]

[100-A28] Action Item for Peter Constable, Editorial Committee: Draft a public review issue for representing combinations of meteg, by August 30.

[100-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post public review issue for representing combinations of meteg by Sept 15 to close Nov 8.

[100-A30] Action Item for Peter Constable: Explain the use of CGJ to prevent re-ordering of Hebrew combining marks, in Unicode 4.1.

B.15.2 C.4 Clarifications on the usage of U+A015 YI SYLLABLE WU [West, L2/04-293]

[100-C17] Consensus: Change the general category of YI SYLLABLE WU U+A015 from Letter Other to Letter Modifier (Lm) and give it the property of extender.

[100-A31] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Change the general category of YI SYLLABLE WU U+A015 from Letter Other to Letter Modifier (Lm) and give it the property of extender.

[100-A32] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Change the extender property of YI SYLLABLE WU U+A015 from Letter Other to Letter Modifier (Lm) and give it the property of extender.

[100-A33] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Review document L2/04-293 and incorporate text into the Yi block as appropriate.

[100-A34] Action Item for Mark Davis: Look at tailoring of collation for Yi. See L2/04-293.

B.15.3.1 Updating the Arabic Shaping normative data [Karlsson, L2/04-290]

[100-A35] Action Item for Mark Davis: Document the short names in ArabicShaping.txt and add character names as comments if possible.

[100-A36] Action Item for Mark Davis: See if there are any Arabic shaping differences between canonically equivalent sequences; if so, propose remedies and post to bidi list.

[100-A37] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to Kent Karlsson on item 3 of L2/04-290.

[100-M4] Motion: Change general category "Me" to be transparent in joining behavior.

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

5 for
0 against
4 abstain (MS, Sybase, Justsystem, RLG)

Motion 100-M4 carries

[100-A38] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the data file ArabicShaping.txt to give " Me" transparent joining behavior.

C.6 Revised proposal for additional Latin phonetic and orthographic characters [Priest, L2/04-246R]

[100-C18] Consensus: Accept 21 letters from L2/04-246R (other than Chinantec tone marks and at signs):

xx00-xx06 encode at 1DC4-1DCA
xx10-xx12 encode at 0242-0244
xx15-xx1F encode at 0245-024F but reverse so capitals preceed smalls

[100-A39] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Lorna Priest: Split the proposal into two documents. Have the one with the 21 accepted chars and send to Mike Ksar for WG2 posting. In the second document, present a better case for the tone marks. The two At signs will be posted as a public review issue.

[100-A40] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 21 letters from L2/04-246R (other than Chinantec tone marks and "at" signs).

B.15.3.2 Bidi mirroring problems [Karlsson, L2/04-291]

[100-A41] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to Kent Karlsson re L2/04-291. Items 1 and 2: UTC encourages the formation of a group to examine RTL math and make recommendations. Items 3 and 4 are a misunderstanding of the data file.

B.15.5.2 Status of the Unihan database [Jenkins, L2/04-186]

[100-A42] Action Item for John Jenkins: Update Unihan.txt for 4.1.

[100-C19] Consensus: Add kHDZRadBreak field to Unihan.txt for Unicode 4.1.

[100-A43] Action Item for John Jenkins, Richard Cook: Add kHDZRadBreak to Unihan.txt and make sure the field is documented for Unicode 4.1.

B.15.6 Change in Final_Cased condition [Davis, Scherer, L2/04-148]

[100-C20] Consensus: Remove the Final_Cased condition from the standard and replace with final sigma as defined in UTR #21-5.

[100-A44] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update page 89 table 3-13 of TUS 4.0 replacing "Final_Cased" with final sigma.

[100-A45] Action Item for Mark Davis: Document the change to remove the Final_Cased condition from the standard and replace with final sigma as defined in UTR #21-5, in SpecialCasing.txt.

Security discussion B.18

[100-C21] Consensus: Approve public posting (as Public Review Issue) of a proposed draft UTR on Unicode Security considerations.

[100-A46] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Create proposed draft UTR on Unicode Security considerations for posting by October 1.

[100-A47] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post Public Review Issue on draft UTR on Unicode Security considerations. Post by Oct 1, to close Nov 8. Upon posting, contact Paul Hoffman for announcement on appropriate security mail list.

Adjourned at 5:10.

August 12, 2004

Opened at 9:25.

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); SAP AG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; Sun Microsystems; Basis Technology Corporation.

15 full members, 1 small business member; 14 in regular attendance. Quorum is 7. 10 members present (7 in person, RLG, SAP, and Justsystem by proxy)

B.12.5 Issue 37: Clarification of the use of ZWJ in Indic Scripts [Constable, L2/04-279]
B.12.5.1 Feedback [L2/04-320]
B.12.5.2 Use of ZWJ and ZWNJ in Kannada [Sastry, L2/04-324]
B.12.5.3 Response to Public Review Issue #37 [Leca, L2/04-328]

[100-C22] Consensus: The UTC agrees to establish an Indic conjoining behavior model consisting of the following hierarchy:

A. no joiner -- "full conjunct form"
B. Cons virama ZWJ -- "alternate form for leading consonant"
C. ZWJ virama Cons -- "alternate form for trailing consonant"
D. Cons virama ZWNJ Cons -- "fully expanded form with explicit virama"

[100-A48] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Review FAQ to ensure consistency with Indic conjoining behavior model.

[100-A49] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #37 with the resolution that UTC accepts the proposal and will create an Indic conjoining behavior model.

[100-A50] Action Item for Eric Muller: Review Indic scripts for inconsistencies with new Indic Combining Behavior model.

[100-A51] Action Item for Eric Muller: Review Sinhalese document with regard to ZWJ/NJ usage consistency.

B.15.7 Unicode property invariants [Davis, L2/04-151]

Discussed L2/04-151. No action taken.

B.15.9 Properties of Kannada vowel signs e and i [Cline, L2/04-188]

[100-A52] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Ernest Cline re L2/04-188. This was an explicit decision by UTC for these characters. To preserve canonical equivalence under bidi for two vowels involving these as parts of decompositions.

[100-A53] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Also, make an FAQ entry about this issue for Kannada vowels with the answer. Review UAX #9 with regard to whether or not NSM is described as being coextensive with the union of Me and Mn. If so, file a bug with Mark Davis.

[100-A54] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add the above Kannada vowel situation to his invariants document.

B.15.10 XML represention for the UCD [Muller, L2/04-220]

[100-C23] Consensus: UTC will make available XML versions of the UCD. In case of conflict, the original non-XML version is authoritative.

[100-A55] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Make an XML version of the UCD available. Part of the plan for roll-out includes public review of the schema.

B.19 Proposed distribution format for the UCD [Muller, L2/04-333]

[100-C24] Consensus: The UTC asks the Editorial Committee to prepare a plan for implementing a new distribution format for the UCD as documented in L2/04-333 for review at the next UTC meeting.

[100-A56] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Prepare a plan for new distribution format for UCD in time for next UTC.

B.15.12 Other alphabetic [L2/04-230]

[100-A57] Action Item for Mark Davis: Correct the derivation of default ignorable codepoint by explicitly listing the annotation characters.

B.15.14 Musical symbol property errors [Cline, L2/04-258]

[100-C25] Consensus: Give U+1D170 through U+1D172 the "Other_Grapheme_Extend" property.

[100-A58] Action Item for Mark Davis: Give U+1D170 through U+1D172 the "Other_Grapheme_Extend" property in PropList.txt unless, after review, it is found not to be necessary.

B.15.16 Two problems in Thai rendering [Muller, L2/04-332]

[100-C26] Consensus: Clarify a relationship of stacking behavior and fixed-position classes and document the expected encoding for the Thai examples given in L2/04-332.

[100-A59] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Document in Unicode 4.1 the above consensus (100-C26) re Thai L2/04-332.

B.15.15 Alignment of newline between XML, TUS, Regex [Davis, L2/04-331]

[100-C27] Consensus: Add vertical tab to the definition of line boundaries in Regex UTS #18.

[100-A60] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update UTS #18 to add vertical tab to the definition of line boundaries.

[100-A61] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Find out about CR NEL from an EBCDIC point of view: will there be feral files containing CR NEL and why did XML add it?

B.15.17 Formal Properties of Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries [Davis, L2/04-152R]

[100-C28] Consensus: Retract the "Katakana_or_Hiragana" category and give the characters currentlyh in that category the script value "Inherited" instead.

[100-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Eliminate the 'kata-or-hi' property and give those characters the inherited or common property instead. (affects Scripts.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt)

[100-A63] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Reflect the change in proposed update for UAX #24.

B.12.1 Issue 25: Review of Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #17: Character Encoding Model
B.12.3.1 Feedback [L2/04-320]
B.12.3.2 Types of charsets [Davis, L2/04-228]
B.12.3.3 Working draft for review [Freytag, L2/04-288]

[100-C29] Consensus: Advance proposed update UTR #17 (L2/04-288) to UTR #17 after review by the editorial committee.

[100-A64] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Review and post UTR #17.

[100-A65] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close the public review issue #25.

B.12.2 Issue 31: Cantonese Romanization [Jenkins, L2/04-039]

[100-A66] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close the Public Review Issue #31 and inform John Jenkins. (We will go ahead and make the change.)

B.12.3 Issue 33: UTF conversion code update

[100-A67] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close the Public Review Issue #33. Make changes based on feedback, pass them by the Editorial Committee before posting.

B.12.6 Issue 38: Review of Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings [Freytag, L2/04-322]
B.12.6.1 Feedback [L2/04-320]
B.12.6.2 Diacritic folding [Spielmann, L2/04-312]
B.12.6.3 Yi syllable foldings [West, L2/04-325]
B.12.6.4 Turkic case folding exceptions [L2/04-123]

New agenda item B.15.18 Turkic Case Folding Exceptions (moved from other item).

[100-C30] Consensus: Progress DUTR #30 after review by the Editorial Committee to UTR #30.

[100-A68] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update DUTR #30 and post as UTR #30.

[100-A69] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #38. (progressed to UTR final.)

B.12.7 Issue 39: Review of Draft Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax
B.12.7.1 Feedback [L2/04-320]
B.12.7.2 Working draft for review [Davis, L2/04-323]

[100-A70] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare an update of Draft UAX #31 closer to final wording, per discussion in UTC and post the update for review.

[100-A71] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Keep Public Review Issue #39 open until the November 2004 UTC meeting and renew notification when the next draft of UAX #31 becomes available.

[100-A72] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add "Pattern Whitespace" and "Pattern Syntax" properties to PropList.txt for the 4.1 beta, and update UCD.html, PropertyValueAliases.txt and PropertyAliases.txt.

Adjourned at 4:55 pm.

August 13, 2004

Opened around 9:15.

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); SAP AG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; Sun Microsystems; Basis Technology Corporation.

15 full members, 1 small business member; 14 in regular attendance. Quorum is 7. 10 members present (7 in person, RLG, SAP, and Justsystem by proxy)

B.15.18 Turkic Case Folding Exceptions

[100-A73] Action Item for Mark Davis: Develop a proposal on properties and casing. (See L2/04-123.

B.13.1 Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm
B.13.1.1 UCA Latin recommendations [Davis, L2/04-311]
B.13.1.2 Assessment of Collation Proposals [Davis, L2/04-277]
B.13.1.3 Collation Upper and Lower Bounds [Davis, L2/04-319]
B.13.1.4 Collation of CGJ

[100-C31] Consensus:

A. Change the collation algorithm so that all completely ignorable characters interrupt contractions.
B. Arabic Number Sign and Invisible Times and like characters (U+0600..U+0603, U+06DD, U+2061..U+2063) make not completely ignorable.
C. Document in the UCA the general use of CGJ to break contractions or in tailoring to have special effects.

[100-A74] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update UCA and data for the above consensus (100-C31) and review the description of CGJ in the standard.

B.13.1.3 Collation Upper and Lower Bounds [Davis, L2/04-319]

[100-A75] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Make new document for November meeting re LB/UB for collation. See L2/04-319.

B.13.1.2 Assessment of Collation Proposals [Davis, L2/04-277]

[100-C32] Consensus: Adopt recommendations on collation 1-7 (1-5 and 7, excluding 6) of document L2/04-277.

[100-A76] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Make changes for UCA 4.1 from the above consensus (100-C32). [[Adopt recommendations on collation 1-7 (1-5 and 7, excluding 6) of document L2/04-277]]

[100-A77] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Draft a proposal for criteria for the default UCA table, based on discussion of L2/04-277.

B.13.1.1 UCA Latin recommendations [Davis, L2/04-311]

[100-M5] Motion: Issue a public review issue on the ten most required UCA Latin recommendations from L2/04-311; the characters in Section 1 and the first 7 chars in section 2.

Moved by Gabriel Plumlee, seconded by Cathy Wissink

6 for (incl RLG, JustSystem)
2 against (MS, Sybase)
2 abstain (Adobe, SAP)

Motion 100-M5 carries

[100-A78] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Draft the pro and con positions on the issue of ten most required UCA Latin recommendations from L2/04-311. Make sure the item elicits individual feedback on particular characters.

[100-A79] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post the Public Review Issue above on 10 UCA Latin characters from L2/04-311. To close before November UTC.

[100-C33] Consensus: Issue a proposed update of UCA with a draft 4.1 beta table of AllKeys.txt.

[100-A80] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Issue a proposed update to UCA 4.1 beta table.

[100-A81] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Consult with V. S. Umamaheswaran and Mike Ksar re notifications to SC2, since SC2 is the new home of 14651.

[100-A82] Action Item for Mark Davis: Formally solicit feedback from CLDR TC on above consensus (100-C33) and Public Review Issue for collation.

[100-A83] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Insure that CLDR mail list is on the list of notifications. DONE.

B.13.2 Working Draft Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names
B.13.2.1 Draft for review [Freytag, L2/04-289]

[100-C34] Consensus: Issue a proposed update UAX #24 based on L2/04-289 after edits as discussed in meeting.

[100-A84] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Isuse a proposed update UAX #24 by September 30, 2004.

[100-A85] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post by October 1 2004 a draft UAX #24 and post public review issue associated with it to close November 8, 2004.

B.13.3 Working Draft Unicode Technical Report #XX: Unicode Conformance Model
B.13.3.1 Draft for review [Freytag, L2/04-166]

[100-C35] Consensus: Issue a proposed draft UTR #33 (Unicode Conformance Model).

[100-A86] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update and review and post proposed draft UTR #33 (Unicode Conformance Model).

[100-A87] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post the Public Review Issue for UTR #33 by October 1 to close November 8.

Lunch until 12:50.

[100-C36] Consensus: Approve the minutes of UTC #99 as documented in L2/04-156R with the update to action 99-A53.

B.13.6 Working Draft Unicode Technical Report #34: Named Unicode Sequences
B.13.6.1 Draft for review [Freytag, L2/04-339]

[100-C37] Consensus: Advance working draft L2/04-339 to proposed draft UAX #34 (Named Unicode Sequences).

[100-A88] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update review and post working draft L2/04-339 to proposed draft UAX #34 (Named Unicode Sequences) by September 30.

[100-A89] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post proposed draft UAX #34 by Oct 1 to close on Nov 8.

[100-A90] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remove Khanda Ta from the data file for UAX #34.

B.13.5 Technical Report recommendations [Davis, L2/04-308]

[100-A91] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Issue a proposed update to UAX #14 incorporating changes discussed in the meeting, by September 30.

[100-A92] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue for UAX #14 by October 1 to close November 8.

[100-C38] Consensus: Make modifications in UAX #15 and post as Proposed Update UAX #15.

[100-A93] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update and post UAX #15 by September 30.

[100-A94] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post Public Review Issue for UAX #15 by October 1 to close November 8.

[100-C39] Consensus: In reference to document L2/04-308, adopt #1 for UAX #29 and post as proposed update to UAX #29.

[100-C40] Consensus: From document L2/04-308, adopt points 4, 5, and 6 for UAX #14. Include in the proposed update UAX #14 and post.

[100-A95] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update UAX #29 and post as proposed update by September 30.

[100-A96] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post Public Review Issue for UAX #29 by October 1 to close November 8.

[100-A97] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Include #4, 5, and 6 from doc L2/040-308 and the posted erratum in proposed update UAX #14.

[100-C41] Consensus: Authorize proposed update to UTS #18 following the text in L2/04-308.

[100-A98] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update and post UTS #18 by Sept 30.

[100-A99] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post Public Review Issue of UTS #18 by October 1 to close November 8, 2004.

[100-C42] Consensus: Authorize a proposed update to UTR #23.

[100-A100] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update UTR #23 and post as proposed update UTR #23 by September 30, 2004.

[100-A101] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue for UTR #23 by October 1 to close November 8, 2004.

[100-C43] Consensus: Make the change in L2/04-308 under "Related Items" first two bullets.

[100-A102] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Draft Public Review Issue for first two bullets of L2/04-308 as above and post by September 30 to close on November 8.

[100-A103] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Remand bullet 3 of document L2/04-308 to Editorial Committee to take into account in Unicode 4.1.

[100-A104] Action Item for Eric Muller, Deborah Goldsmith, Michel Suignard, Rick McGowan: Continue the work on defining registration procedures for ideographic variation sequences, and have a concrete proposal by November 2004 UTC meeting.

[100-C44] Consensus: For the acceptance of Holam Haser for Vav, the procedures of the joint ad hoc meeting of L2 and the procedures of L2 and UTC have been followed, including the due consideration of alternative proposals.

[100-A105] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Vice Chair of UTC to invite Peter Kirk to the next joint meeting of UTC and L2.

Adjourned at 3:20.


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