L2/04-316R2

Approved Minutes of the UTC 100 / L2 197 Joint Meeting
Redmond, WA -- August 10-13, 2004
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #100 Agenda 
November 16, 2004

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc. 9 full members present

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems; Basis Technology Corporation. 6 full members not  present, 1 SMB not present

Voting members: 15 full, 1 SBM
Voting members in regular attendance: 13 full, 1 SBM
Quorum: 7

Calendar Review (A.6 )

Action Item Review (A.5.2)

[100-A1] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Remind Jonathan Kew of his actions. [ L2/04-337]

WG2 - Consent Docket (B.1.6.3)

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

U+023D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH BAR
U+0358 COMBINING DOT ABOVE RIGHT 
U+05BA HEBREW POINT QAMATS QATAN

[100-C2] Consensus: Accept the names changes to the twelve Tifinagh characters as documented in section A.2 of the WG2 consent docket: [L2/04-330]

U+2D32 ... SPIRANT YAB --> YABH
U+2D34 ... SPIRANT YAG --> YAGGH
U+2D35 ... ACADEMIE BERBERE YAJ --> KABYLE YAJ
U+2D38 ... SPIRANT YAD --> YADH
U+2D3A ... SPIRANT YADD --> YADDH
U+2D3F ... SPIRANT YAK --> YAKKH
U+2D41 ... ACADEMIE BERBERE YAH --> KABYLE YAH
U+2D46 ... TUAREG YAKH-YAQ --> TUAREG YAKH
U+2D4C ... TUAREG YAZH-YAZ-YAZZ --> TUAREG YAZH
U+2D53 ... YOU --> YU
U+2D5D ... SPIRANT YAT --> YATH
U+2D6F ... LABIOVELARISATION --> LABIALIZATION

[100-C3] Consensus: Approve code point assignments (1200.127F, 1280..129F, 2D80..2DDF) and one name change for Ethiopic extensions: [L2/04-287]

U+2DXX ETHIOPIC ALTERNATE PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR ==>: U+1260 ETHIOPIC SECTION MARK

[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 (abbreviated below): [L2/04-330]

U+1989 ... CA --> TSA
U+19BC ... A --> VOWEL SHORTENER
U+19C1 ... EE --> E
U+19C2 ... E --> AE
U+19C3 ... OO --> O
U+19C4 ... O --> OA
U+19C9 ... OOY --> OY
U+19CA ... OY --> OAY

[100-C5] Consensus: Approve re-ordering of the 38 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 U+27C3 OPEN SUBSET, U+27C4 OPEN SUPERSET. [L2/04-330]

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

[100-C8] Consensus: Restrict block names and script names to current 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 and ask that these restrictions be documented in the WG2 Principles and Procedures.

[100-A3] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add "restriction of names in clause 18" as part of the ballot comments (see consensus100-C8).

[100-A4] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Put on the UTC agenda at the appropriate time an item to vote on the script and block name for the N'ko script (see consensus 100-C7).

[100-A5] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add to ballot comments a request to change the block name for "N'ko" to "Nko" -  to remove the apostrophe in the block name (see consensus 100-C8).

[100-C9] Consensus: Accept the two new generic bracket characters U+2E1C LEFT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET, U+2E1D RIGHT LOW PARAPHRASE BRACKET and support their inclusion in 10646 amendment 1. [L2/04-287,L2/04-330]

[100-C10] Consensus: Accept new names for the two characters U+2E0C LEFT RAISED OMISSION BRACKET and 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 the Korean Postal Mark, U+327E CIRCLED HANGUL IEUNG U, as documented in section E.1 of L2/04-330.

[100-C12] Consensus: Accept the addition of 106 DPRK compatibility ideographs at U+FA70..U+FAD9 for Unicode 4.1. [L2/04-287,L2/04-330]

[100-C13] Consensus: Postpone the encoding of Phags-pa to Unicode 5.0. [L2/04-330]

[100-C14] Consensus: Ask for the 18 Chinese counting rod numerals accepted at U+1D360..U+1D371 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 new bracket characters that were not in the consent docket. [L2/04-330]

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

[100-C14a] Consensus: Request that WG2 permanently reserve code points greater than 10FFFF in 10646, by making a change to the note in section 9.2.

[100-M0] Motion: Make the consensus to reserve code points greater than 10FFFF a ballot comment on 10646 PDAM2.

Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Michel Suignard

6  for ( Adobe, Apple, HP, Microsoft, RLG, Sybase)
0 against
3 abstain (IBM, Justsystem, Peoplesoft)

Motion 100-M0 carries

[100-A8a] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Write a ballot comment on reserving code points greater than 10FFFF for 10646 PDAM 2.

[100-C15] Consensus: Accept the following name changes (in reference to 10646 amendment 1): [l2/04-287]

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+0767 ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH TWO DOTS BELOW
U+0768 ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH SMALL TAH
U+097D DEVANAGARI LETTER GLOTTAL STOP

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

Properties - Requirements for adding and updating Unicode properties (B.15.8) 

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

Properties - Formal Properties of UAX#29 (B.15.17)

[100-M1] Motion: Make a machine readable form of the data file of boundary property values of Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries, link to the file from the document, and provisionally place the file in the UAX#29 directory, but with final disposition of location up to the Editorial Committee. [L2/04-152R]

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

7 for (Adobe, Apple, HP, IBM, Peoplesoft, RLG, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (Microsoft, Justsystem)

Motion 100-M1 carries

[100-A11] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make a machine readable form of the data file of boundary property values of Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries, link to the file from the document, and provisionally place the file in the UAX#29 directory, but with final disposition of location up to the Editorial Committee. [L2/04-152R]

PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Hewlett-Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc. 9 members present

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems; Basis Technology Corporation.  6 full members not present, 1 SBM not present

Scripts - Displaying Marks in Isolation (C.2)

[100-M2] Motion: In Unicode 4.1, U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE is the preferred base as opposed to U+0020 SPACE. For line breaking, U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE gets type AL, drop rule LB7a (rule which says a space with a combining mark acts like a symbol). Add U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE to "aletter" in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries. U+0020 SPACE is still a base character, but it does not change its properties. [L2/04-234]

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

7 for (Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, RLG, Sybase)
1 against (Adobe)
1 abstain (Justsystem)

Motion 100-M2 carries

[100-A12] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make updates to Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and 4.1 reflection motion 100-M2 to make U+00A0  NO-BREAK SPACE the preferred base character. [L2/04-234]

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

[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.

Scripts - Holam (C.4.1)

[100-M3] Motion: Accept U+05C7 HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV for encoding in Unicode 5.0, as documented in L2/04-310.

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

7 for (Adobe, Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, Sybase)
0 against
2 abstain (Justsystem, RLG)

Motion 100-M3 carries

[100-A15] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include acceptance of U+05C7 HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV for encoding in Unicode 5.0. [L2/04-310]

[100-A16] Action Item for Michael Everson, Editorial Committee: Draft text for Unicode 5.0 discussing the code point U+05C7 HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV. [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 U+05C7 HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAVV in ballot comments for 10646 PDAM 2.

[100-A19] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Inform Hebrew list of the UTC decision to encode U+05C7 HEBREW POINT HOLAM HASER FOR VAV.

Scripts - Hebrew Mark Meteg (C.4.2) 

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

Scripts - Babylonian Pointing (C.5) 

[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. [L2/04-162R]

Scripts - Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters (C.6) 

[100-A22] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Prepare and post a Public Review Issue on encoding Latin small and large letter "At". Draft by August 30, posted by September15, to close November 8. [L2/04-246R]

Scripts - Mathematical Horizontal Bracket Characters (C.7) 

[100-C16] Consensus: Accept five mathematical horizontal bracket characters for encoding:[L2/04-329]

U+23DC  TOP PARENTHESIS
U+23DD  BOTTOM PARENTHESIS
U+23DE  TOP CURLY BRACKET
U+23DF  BOTTOM CURLY BRACKET
U+23F0  TOP TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET

[100-A23] Action Item for Murray Sargent: Update the proposal for five mathematical horizontal bracket characters and submit to Mike Ksar for WG2 consideration. [L2/04-329]

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

[100-A24a] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add the five mathematical horizontal bracket characters from L2/04-329 to the pipeline.

[100-A25] Action Item for Murray Sargent, Asmus Freytag: Determine the properties for the five mathematical horizontal bracket characters from L2/04-329.

[100-A26] Action Item for Murray Sargent: Send Asmus Freytag a font for the five mathematical horizontal bracket characters from L2/04-329 by August 30.

Scripts - Bangla Ya-phalaa (C.8) 

[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. 

Scripts - Hebrew Mark Meteg (C.4.2) 

[100-A28] Action Item for Peter Constable, Editorial Committee: Draft a public review issue for representing combinations of meteg, by August 30. [L2/04-194]

[100-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post the 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.

Properties - U+A015 YI SYLLABLE WU (B.15.2)

[100-C17] Consensus: Change the general category of U+A015 YI SYLLABLE WU from Letter Other (Lo) to Letter Modifier (Lm) and give it the property of extender. [L2/04-293]

[100-A31] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Change the general category of U+A015 YI SYLLABLE WU from Letter Other (Lo) to Letter Modifier (Lm) and give it the property of extender. [L2/04-293]

[100-A32] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Change the extender property of U+A015 YI SYLLABLE WU from Letter Other (Lo) to Letter Modifier (Lm) and give it the property of extender. [L2/04-293]

[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.

Properties - Arabic Shaping (B.15.3.1)

[100-A35] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Document the short names in ArabicShaping.txt and add character names as comments if possible (see item 1 of document L2/04-290).

[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 (see item 2 of document ).

[100-A37] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to Kent Karlsson on joining classification of Cf graphic characters (see item 3 of document L2/04-290).

[100-A37a] Action Item for Mark Davis: Get feedback from the bidi list on Kent Karlsson's proposal to create a new medial joining type(see item 5 of document L2/04-290).

[100-M4] Motion: Change general category "Me" to be transparent in joining behavior. [L2/04-290]

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

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

Motion 100-M4 carries

[100-A38] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the data file ArabicShaping.txt to give " Me" transparent joining behavior. [L2/04-290]

Scripts - Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters (C.6) 

[100-C18] Consensus: Accept 21 Latin phonetic and orthographic letters: [L2/04-246R ]

U+0242 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B WITH STROKE
U+0243 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U BAR
U+0244 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED V
U+0245 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH STROKE
U+0246 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH STROKE
U+0247 LATIN CAPITALSMALL LETTER J WITH STROKE
U+0248 LATIN SMALL LETTER J WITH STROKE
U+0249 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q WITH HOOK TAIL
U+024A LATIN SMALL LETTER SMALL Q WITH HOOK TAIL
U+024B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH STROKE
U+024C LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH STROKE
U+024D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH STROKE
U+024E LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH STROKE
U+024F LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH CURL
U+1DC4 COMBINING MACRON-ACUTE
U+1DC5 COMBINING GRAVE-MACRON
U+1DC6 COMBINING MACRON-GRAVE
U+1DC7 COMBINING ACUTE-MACRON
U+1DC8 COMBINING GRAVE-ACUTE-GRAVE
U+1DC9 COMBINING ACUTE-GRAVE-ACUTE
U+1DCA COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER R BELOW

[100-A39] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Lorna Priest: Split the proposal for additional Latin phonetic and orthographic characters into two documents. Have the one with the 21 accepted characters sent 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. [L2/04-246R]

[100-A40] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 21 letters from L2/04-246R (See 100-C18).

Properties - Bidi Mirroring Problems (B.15.3.2) 

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

Properties - Unihan Database (B.15.5.2) 

[100-A42] Action Item for John Jenkins, Erick Muller: Update Unihan.txt for 4.1. [L2/04-186]

[100-C19] Consensus: Add kHDZRadBreak field to Unihan.txt for Unicode 4.1.  [L2/04-186]

[100-A43] Action Item for John Jenkins, Richard Cook: Add kHDZRadBreak field to Unihan.txt and make sure the field is documented for Unicode 4.1.  [L2/04-186]

Properties - Final_Cased Condition (B.15.6) 

[100-C20] Consensus: Remove the Final_Cased condition from the standard and replace with final sigma as defined in UTR #21-5. [L2/04-148]

[100-A44] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update page 89 table 3-13 of the Unicode Standard 4.0 replacing "Final_Cased" with final sigma. [L2/04-148]

[100-A45] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Document the change (to remove the Final_Cased condition from the standard and replace with final sigma as defined in superseded Unicode Standard Annex #21: Case Mappings - UTR #21-5), in the header of SpecialCasing.txt. [L2/04-148]

Unicode Security Considerations (B.18)

[100-C21] Consensus: Approve public posting (as a Public Review Issue) of a Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #XX: Unicode Security Considerations. [L2/04-305]

[100-A46] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Create Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #XX: Unicode Security Considerations. [L2/04-305]

[100-A47] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post Public Review Issue on Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #XX: Unicode Security Considerations by October 1, to close November 8. Upon posting, contact Paul Hoffman for announcement on appropriate security mail list. [L2/04-305]

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. 10 members present

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; Sun Microsystems; Basis Technology Corporation.  5 full members not present, 1 SBM not present

Public Review Issue 37 - Use of ZWJ in Indic Scripts (B.12.5)

[100-C22] Consensus: The UTC agrees to establish an Indic conjoining behavior model consisting of the following hierarchy: [L2/04-279,L2/04-320,L2/04-324,L2/04-328]

A. no joiner -- "full conjunct form"
B. [C|V|ZWJ] Consonant Virama ZWJ -- "alternate form for leading consonant"
C. [ZWJ|V|C] ZWJ Virama Consonant -- "alternate form for trailing consonant"
D. [C|V|ZWJ|C] Consonant Virama ZWNJ Consonant -- "fully expanded form with explicit virama"

[100-A47a] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Document the Indic conjoining behavior model in Unicode 4.1, including fall back behavior. Also examine behavior with multiple consonants. See 100-C22. [L2/04-279]

[100-A48] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Review the Indic FAQ to ensure consistency with the Indic conjoining behavior model. See 100-C22. [L2/04-279]

[100-A49] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #37 with the resolution that the UTC accepts the proposal and will create an Indic conjoining behavior model. [L2/04-279]

[100-A50] Action Item for Eric Muller: Review Indic scripts for inconsistencies with new Indic conjoining behavior model. See 100-C22. [L2/04-279]

[100-A51] Action Item for Eric Muller: Review the Sinhalese document with regard to ZWJ/NJ usage consistency. [L2/04-279]

Properties - Kannada Vowel signs e and i (B.15.9)

[100-A52] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Ernest Cline, the author of L2/04-188., that 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: Make an FAQ entry about this issue for Kannada vowels with the answer (100-A52). Review UAX #9 with regard to whether or not nonspacing marks are described as being coextensive with the union of Me and Mn. If so, file a bug with Mark Davis. [L2/04-188]

[100-A54] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add the Kannada vowel situation to his invariants document. [L2/04-188]

Properties - XML Representation of the UCD (B.15.10)

[100-C23] Consensus: UTC will make available XML versions of the UCD. In case of conflict, the original non-XML version is authoritative. [L2/04-220]

[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. [L2/04-220]

Properties - Distribution Format for the UCD (B.19)

[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. [L2/04-333]

Properties - Other Alphabetic (B.15.12)

[100-A57] Action Item for Mark Davis: Correct the derivation of default ignorable code point by explicitly listing the annotation characters. [L2/04-230]

Properties - Musical Symbol Property Errors (B.15.14)

[100-C25] Consensus: Give the "Other_Grapheme_Extend" property to: [L2/04-258]
U+1D170 MUSICAL SYMBOL COMBINING FLAG-3
U+1D171 MUSICAL SYMBOL COMBINING FLAG-4
U+1D172 MUSICAL SYMBOL COMBINING FLAG-5

[100-A58] Action Item for Mark Davis: Give U+1D170..U+1D172 the "Other_Grapheme_Extend" property in PropList.txt unless, after review, it is found not to be necessary. [L2/04-258]

Properties - Problems in Thai Rendering (B.15.16)

[100-C26] Consensus: Clarify the relationship between stacking behavior and fixed-position classes in the standard, and in the Thai block 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 consensus (100-C26) on the relationship between stacking behavior and fixed-position classes regarding Thai.[L2/04-332]

Properties - Alignment of Newline (B.15.15)

[100-C27] Consensus: Add vertical tab (VT) to the definition of line boundaries in Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions. [L2/04-331]

[100-A60] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Issue a  Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions to add vertical tab to the definition of line boundaries. [L2/04-331]

[100-A61] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Find out about CR NEL from an EBCDIC point of view: will there be files containing CR NEL and why did XML add it? [L2/04-331]

Properties - Text Boundaries (B.15.17)

[100-C28] Consensus: Retract the "Katakana_or_Hiragana" category and give the characters currently in that category the script value "Inherited" instead. [L2/04-152R]

[100-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Eliminate the "Katakana_or_Hiragana" script value in Scripts.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt, and give those characters the "inherited" or common property instead. [L2/04-152R]

[100-A63] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Reflect the elimination of the "Katakana_or_Hiragana" script value in a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names. [L2/04-152R]

Public Review Issue 25: Review of Proposed Update UTR #17: Character Encoding Model (B.12.1)

[100-C29] Consensus: Advance Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #17: Character Encoding Model to UTR #17 to Unicode Technical Report #17: Character Encoding Model to UTR #17 after review by the editorial committee. [L2/04-288]

[100-A64] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Review and post the approved update to Unicode Technical Report #17: Character Encoding Model. [L2/04-288]

[100-A65] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #25. [L2/04-288]

Public Review Issue 31: Cantonese Romanization (B.12.2)

[100-A66] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #31on Cantonese romanization and inform John Jenkins that we will make the change. [L2/04-039]

Public Review Issue 33: UTF Conversion Code Update (B.12.3)

[100-A67] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close the Public Review Issue #33. Make the changes to the UTF conversion code based on feedback, pass them by the Editorial Committee before posting. [L2/04-320]

Public Review Issue 38: Review of Draft UTR #30: Character Foldings (B.12.6)

[100-C30] Consensus: Advance Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings to Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings after review by the Editorial Committee. [L2/04-312, L2/04-320, L2/04-322, L2/04-325]

[100-A68] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings and post as Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings. [L2/04-312, L2/04-320, L2/04-322, L2/04-325]

[100-A69] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #38 reviewing Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings [L2/04-312, L2/04-320, L2/04-322, L2/04-325]

Public Review Issue 39: Review of Draft Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax (B.12.7)

[100-A70] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare an update of Draft Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax closer to final wording, per discussion in UTC and post the update for review. [L2/04-320,L2/04-323]

[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 version of Draft Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax becomes available. [L2/04-320,L2/04-323]

[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.See 100-A70. [L2/04-320,L2/04-323]

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. 10 members present

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; Sun Microsystems; Basis Technology Corporation.  5 full members not present, 1 SBM not present

Properties - Turkic Case Folding Exceptions (B.15.18)

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

UTRs - Collation (B.13.1)

[100-C31] Consensus: Change the collation algorithm so that:  [L2/04-311,L2/04-277,L2/04-319]

A. All completely ignorable characters interrupt contractions.
B. U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN and U+2062 INVISIBLE TIMES and like characters (U+0600..U+0603, U+06DD, U+2061..U+2063) are not completely ignorable.h
C. Document in the UCA the general use of combining grapheme joiner to break contractions or in tailoring to have special effects.

[100-A74] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the Unicode collation algorithm and data for consensus 100-C31 (handling ignorable characters, invisible characters, and the use of combining grapheme joiner to break contractions or to have special effects). and review the description of combining grapheme joiner in the standard.

[100-A75] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Make new document on collation upper and lower bounds for the November UTC. [L2/04-319]

[100-C32] Consensus: Adopt recommendations on collation 1-5 and 7, excluding 6 (stability, logical order exceptions, jamo decomposition, trailing Hangul weights, other languages, small Thai changes) of document L2/04-277.

[100-A76] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Make changes for UCA 4.1 from consensus100-C32, to adopt recommendations on collation 1-5 and 7, excluding 6 (stability, logical order exceptions, jamo decomposition, trailing Hangul weights, other languages, small Thai changes) 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 document L2/04-277.

[100-M5] Motion: Issue a public review issue on the ten most required Unicode Collation Algorithm 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 V.S. Umamaheswaran

6 for (Apple, HP, IBM, Peoplesoft, Justsystem, RLG)
2 against (Microsoft, 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 the ten most required Unicode Collation Algorithm 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 on the ten most required Unicode Collation Algorithm Latin recommendations from L2/04-311. To close November 8, 2004.

[100-C33] Consensus: Issue a proposed update of the Unicode Collation Algorithm with a draft 4.1 beta table of AllKeys.txt. [L2/04-311]

[100-A80] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Issue a proposed update to the Unicode Collation Algorithm 4.1 beta table. [L2/04-311]

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

[100-A82] Action Item for Mark Davis: Formally solicit feedback from the CLDR Technical Committee on consensus (100-C33) on recommendations for Latin updates to UCA and the public review issue for collation.

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

UTRs - Script Names (B.13.2)

[100-C34] Consensus: Issue Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names based on L2/04-289 after edits as discussed in meeting. 

[100-A84] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Issue Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names by September 30, 2004. [L2/04-289]

[100-A85] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names by October 1, and post the associated public review issue to close November 8. [L2/04-289]

UTRs - Conformance Model (B.13.3)

[100-C35] Consensus: Advance Working Draft Unicode Technical Report #33: Unicode Conformance Model to Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #33: Unicode Conformance Model. [L2/04-166R]

[100-A86] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update, review and post Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #33: Unicode Conformance Model. [L2/04-166R]

[100-A87] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post the Public Review Issue for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #33: Unicode Conformance Model by October 1, to close November 8. [L2/04-166R]

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

UTRs - Named Unicode Sequences (B.13.6)

[100-C37] Consensus: Advance Working Draft Unicode Technical Report #34: Named Unicode Sequences to Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #34: Named Unicode Sequences. [L2/04-339]

[100-A88] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update, review and post Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #34: Named Unicode Sequences by September 30. [L2/04-339]

[100-A89] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the public review issue for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #34: Named Unicode Sequences by October 1, to close on November 8. [L2/04-339]

[100-A90] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remove Khanda Ta from the data file for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #34: Named Unicode Sequences. [L2/04-339]

UTRs - Line Break (B.13.7)

[100-A91] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties based on changes discussed in the meeting, by September 30.

[100-A92] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties by October 1, to close November 8.

[100-A92a] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the LineBreak.txt data file for Unicode 4.1.

UTRs - TR Recommendations (B.13.5)

[100-C38] Consensus: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms, based on the modifications proposed in L2/04-308.

[100-A93] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update and post Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms by September 30. [L2/04-308]

[100-A94] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post a public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms by October 1, to close November 8. [L2/04-308]

[100-C39] Consensus: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries, based on modifications proposed in item 1 of the UAX#29 section of document L2/04-308.

[100-C40] Consensus: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties, based on modifications proposed in items 4, 5, and 6 of the UAX #14 section of document L2/04-308.

[100-A95] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update and post Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries by September 30. [L2/04-308]

[100-A96] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post a public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries by October 1, to close November 8.

[100-A97] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Include items 4, 5, and 6 from doc L2/04-308 and the posted erratum in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties.

[100-C41] Consensus: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #18: Unicode Regular Expressions, based on modifications proposed in  the UAX#18 section of document L2/04-308.

[100-A98] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update and post Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #18: Unicode Regular Expressions by Sept 30. [L2/04-308]

[100-A99] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post a public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #18: Unicode Regular Expressions by October 1, to close November 8. [L2/04-308]

[100-C42] Consensus: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model, based on modifications proposed in the UTR#23 section of document L2/04-308.

[100-A100] Action Item for Asmus Freytag. Editorial Committee: Update and post Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model by September 30. [L2/04-308]

[100-A101] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Post a public review issue for Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model by October 1, to close November 8. [L2/04-308]

[100-C43] Consensus: Make the property changes proposed in "Related Items" first two bullets of document L2/04-308.

[100-A102] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Draft and post a public review issue for the first two bullets of the section "Related Items" of document L2/04-308 by September 30, to close November 8.

[100-A103] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Take section "Related Items", bullet 3 of document L2/04-308 into account in Unicode 4.1.

CJK - Registration Procedures (B.17.6)

[100-A104] Action Item for Eric Muller, Deborah Goldsmith, Michel Suignard, Rick McGowan: Continue the work to define registration procedures for ideographic variation sequences, and have a concrete proposal by the November 2004 UTC meeting. [L2/04-219,L2/04-336]

Scripts - Holam (C.4.1)

[100-C44] Consensus: For the acceptance of U+05C7 HEBREW POINT 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 due consideration of alternative proposals.

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

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

Total full members in regular attendance: 13, total SBM in regular attendance: 1