INCITS/L2 Open Action Items

L2/04-337

Open Action Items
before UTC #100, L2 #197

last modification: July 26, 2004

From UTC #99 and L2 #196, June 15 - 18, 2004, Toronto, Ontario (IBM)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
99-A1	Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Review the description of versions on the versions page.
99-A2	Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee	Further discuss the design of UCD tags (L2/04-167).
99-A3	Rick McGowan	Draft a letter of commendation for the Sri Lanka national body, for Mark's signature.	Done
99-A4	Mark Davis	Add Other_ID_Continue property and document that Other_ID_Continue plus the derivation of ID_Continue.
99-A5	Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Complete the change of properties for Ethiopic digits as previous decision [from the outcome of the public review issue].
99-A6	Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee	Update the linebreaking property for Ethiopic digits.
99-A7	Lisa Moore	Add Turkic Case Folding Exceptions to the agenda for the next UTC meeting, document L2/04-123.
99-A8	Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee	Update the linebreak class of CGJ from CM to GL in the UTR #14 data file.
99-A9	Mark Davis	Give U+1D96, U+1DA4, U+1DA8 the soft dotted property, as in L2/04-144.
99-A10	Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Write an public review issue on use of the term "directional run" in UAX #9.
99-A11	Rick McGowan	Post Public Review Issue on "directional run", in UAX #9 to close August 3, 2004.
99-A12	Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Remove the values for unassigned code points in UCD.html and add a note instead to UAX #9 about the location of this data. and add information to derived core properties for the next version of the Unicode Standard.
99-A13	Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 27 Phoenician characters as documented in L2/04-141R2.	Done
99-A14	Michael Everson	Send the Phoenician font to Asmus Freytag for printing the standard.	Done
99-A15	Asmus Freytag	Recommend to WG2 that Phoenician be included in PDAM 2, to enable extended review.	Done
99-A16	John Jenkins	Add the kIICore field to Unihan.txt for the next release. Mark it as provisional until the IICore collection becomes stable.
99-A16a	V S Umamaheswaran	Pursuant to the above consensus, request an update to the WG2 Principles and Procedures document that for these kinds of collections (IICore) stability must be guaranteed.
99-A19	V S Umamaheswaran	Forward document L2/04-212 to Mike Ksar for WG2 consideration.
99-A20	Cathy Wissink	Get more information on the correct ordering for U+0CBD from the author of L2/04-102.
99-A21	Lisa Moore	Schedule a 2-hour collation ad hoc for UTC 100.
99-A22	Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Cathy Wissink, Editorial Committee	Establish a procedure for tracking and managing changes to the UCA table (DUCET).
99-A23	Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline to include the 48 symbols, unified ideographs, and vertical forms documented in L2/04-263.	Done
99-A24	Michel Suignard	Forward L2/04-263 to Mike Ksar for consideration at the WG2 meeting in June 2004.	Done
99-A25	Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee	Consider public feedback on 4.0.1 beta in L2/04-173.
99-A26	void	void
99-A27	Michael Everson, Eric Muller, Mark Davis	Review the TDIL input for potential new character proposals.
99-A28	Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline to include acceptance of "Bengali Letter Khanda Ta" at U+09CE.	Done
99-A29	Cathy Wissink	Determine the collation order of "Bengali Letter Khanda Ta".
99-A30	Peter Constable	Prepare WG2 proposal summary form and submit to WG2 for June 2004 meeting.	Done
99-A31	Asmus Freytag	As liaison to WG2, support adding "Bengali Letter Khanda Ta" to amendment 1 if possible.	Done
99-A32	Rick McGowan, Peter Constable, Editorial Committee	Update the Indic FAQ with appropriate information regarding Khanda Ta.
99-A33	Rick McGowan	Prepare a response for the Indic list and a letter to Om Vikas for Mark's signature. (Needs to be done soon.)	Done
99-A34	Rick McGowan	Close the public review issue #30 on Khanda Ta.	Done
99-A35	Rick McGowan	Close public review issue #35. The character LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH STROKE will be encoded. Is already accepted for encoding; will not re-consider.	Done
99-A36	Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Implement the recommendation in PRI #29, taking into account the need for clarification resulting from feedback.
99-A37	Rick McGowan	Close PRI #29.	Done
99-A38	Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Prepare and post a proposed update to UAX #15 that incorporates the recommendation of PRI #29. Add new test cases to NormalizationTest.txt in the UCD. Also prepare and post a corrigendum.
99-A39	Asmus Freytag	Advance draft UTR #23 to UTR #23 after incorporating the editorial feedback in PRI #32 (L2/04-251), update and post as UTR #23.
99-A40	Rick McGowan	Close PRI #32.	Done
99-A41	Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee	Update and post as draft UTR #30.
99-A42	Rick McGowan	Close PRI #36.	Done
99-A43	Asmus Freytag	UTC instructs the liaison to WG2 to not object to putting N'ko into PDAM 2 if WG2 so decides.
99-A44	Asmus Freytag	Support all UTC resolutions at the WG2 meeting.	Done
99-A45	Michael Everson, Rick McGowan, Francois Yergeau	Respond to the government of Morocco.
99-A46	Ken Whistler	Put the rejection of A.11, L2/04-137 in the Pipeline.	Done
99-A47	Asmus Freytag	Do not oppose the encoding of the DPRK 106 compatibility characters, unless contrary evidence is brought forward.	Done
99-A48	Ken Whistler	Respond to DIN with the UTC recommendation for distinction between umlaut and trema for sorting.
99-A49	Mark Davis	Take to the CLDR-TC the issue of distinction between umlaut and trema for sorting. (Done)	Done
99-A50	Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee	Post a FAQ about trema/umlaut distinction.
99-A51	Rick McGowan	Write a response to Sri Lanka re the subcommittee recommendation.	Done
99-A52	Peter Constable	Write a document on consistency of left and right-side conjunct forms in Indic scripts and request an agenda item for the August meeting.
99-A53	Ken Whistler	Document the rejection of two proposed CJK characters. Annotate the names list for these two chars.	Done
99-A54	Deborah Goldsmith	Inform John Jenkins that the UTC made no decision on unification of negative number sign.	Done
99-A55	Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline for all the character acceptances under agenda item C.16.1, subcommittee recommendations.	Done
99-A56	Asmus Freytag	Liaison to WG2 not to oppose the addition of the Korean Postal Symbol (N2815, L2/04-267).	Done
99-A57	Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Update UAX #29.
99-A58	Rick McGowan	Draft and post a public review issue discussing "Unicode has received a request to change general category of U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT and U+FF65 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT from Connector Punctuation to Other Punctuation and wishes to know if this is a significant improvement" from L2/04-152R section E.2.
99-A59	Lisa Moore	Put L2/04-152R section D onto the August agenda.

From UTC #98 and L2 #195, February 2 - 5, 2004, Mountain View, CA (Microsoft)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
98-A1	John Jenkins	Determine the frequency of usage of the supplementary Hong Kong characters.	In Progress
98-A2	John Jenkins	Ask Tom Bishop if he is willing to have CDL data used internally by the IRG. [L2/04-037]	In Progress
98-A8	John Jenkins	Add data on Cantonese pronunciation from Cheung and Bauer to Unihan.txt after the release of Unicode 4.0.1.	In Progress
98-A17	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]	In progress
98-A20	Rick McGowan, Steve Tinney	Discuss "named sequences" listed as a possible appendix to the revised L2/04-036 document.	In progress
98-A21	Michael Kaplan, Editorial Committee	Add a section to the Indic FAQ on using Tamil digits.	In progress
98-A70	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.	In Progress
98-A84	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.	In Progress
98-A85	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-A98	Rick McGowan	From WG2, send letter of appreciation to the people who contributed the ancient Greek proposals (Pantelia, Peevers, Nicholas).

From UTC #97 and L2 #194, November 4 - 7, 2003, Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins Univ)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
97-A16	Michael Everson	Write a tech note on phonetic notation (Insular G and related IPA & Latin characters).	In progress
97-A17	Michael Everson	Write a tech note on the double oblique hyphen.	In progress
97-A53	Asmus Freytag	Come up with suggested improvements in the documentation of file formats (post Unicode 4.0.1), with regard to the proposal to add a header to UnicodeData.txt.

From UTC #96 and L2 #193, August 25 - 27, 2003, Pleasanton, CA (PeopleSoft)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
96-A5	Rick McGowan	Determine the line breaking properties for Saurashtra. Also look at other property aliases, word-break properties, etc. in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries. Punctuation characters are particularly crucial..
96-A7	John Jenkins	Report to the IRG that the Unicode Standard has corrected a glyph error at code point U+3D0A. See 94-A44
96-A71	Richard Cook	Work with Ken Whistler, Mike Ksar, Michel Suignard, Rick McGowan, and Tatsuo Kobayashi, on a proposal for WG2 on Han variant issues raised in document L2/03-286.	In Progress
96-A102	Rick McGowan	Get line break properties for the three Glagolitic punctuation characters, including the description and narrative. [L2/03-282]

From UTC #95 and L2 #192, June 10 - 13, 2003, San Jose, CA (Adobe)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
95-A11	Rick McGowan	Take over action item 91-A5 from Lisa Moore (response to the proposer of the Arabic Kaf character).
95-A12	Rick McGowan	Take over action item 91-A82 from Asmus Freytag. Point to W3C documentation and prepare a web document on the known discrepencies in E. Asian mapping tables. Also get data from Mark Davis and the ICU team.
95-A14	Rick McGowan	Prepare a proposal on "Maintaining Han Variant information" for the next meeting. Work with Richard Cook regarding how to use the Wenlin database for information on variants, and propose a model for UTC for maintaining a database of variant information.	In Progress
95-A37	Debbie Anderson, Asmus Freytag, Rick McGowan	Create a proposal for how to meet the user requirements for use of the Pipeline and Pending web pages.	In Progress
95-A58	Kamal Mansour	Communicate to the author of L2/03-166 that the committee would prefer to encode a single precomposed character for Syriac Alaph Wasla.
95-A62	Jonathan Kew	Write text for a Technical Note that explains of usage of Kaf and Gaf characters for different languages. Suggest additional annotations for these characters.

From UTC #94 and L2 #191, March 4 - 7, 2003, Mountain View, CA (Microsoft)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
94-A2	Asmus Freytag	Work with the Mongolian experts to have a description of Mongolian shaping by end of 2003.	In Progress
94-A37	Rick McGowan	Get properties, joining groups, and shaping behavior information for Manichaean. Send message to bidi committee also to inform them of the proposal.	Done

From UTC #90 and L2 #187, February 11-14, 2002 in Mountain View (Microsoft)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
90-A84	John Jenkins	Contact other organizations (Basis, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Xerox) with traditional and simplified mappings, asking them to make those mappings available for inclusion in Unihan.txt. Do this after Unicode 3.2 has been published.	In Progress