L2/05-279R2

Approved Minutes of the UTC 105 / L2 202 Joint Meeting
San Jose, CA -- November 1 - 4, 2005
Hosted by Adobe
UTC #105 Agenda
February 7, 2006

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); Denic; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; UC Berkeley. 9 full members, 1 institutional member, and 1 supporting member present, 10.5 total

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Justsystem; Monotype Imaging Corporation; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; VeriSign, Inc.; Yahoo! Inc.. 8 full members and 1 institutional member not present, 9 total

Voting members: 17 full, 2 institutional, 1 supporting
Voting members in regular attendance: 14 full, 1 institutional, 1 supporting
Quorum: 7.5

Scripts - Arabic Math (C.8)

[105-A1] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Follow up with author of Arabic math proposals (Azzeddine Lazrek), and give him our feedback with the aim of having an actionable proposal for the February, 2006, UTC.  See also action [105-A56]. [L2/05-318]

[105-A2] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Draft text explaining the mirroring behavior of some symbols (for math) for  the standard, and for Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics. Issue a second update of the UTR.

Public Review Issue 75 - Unicode Support for Math (B.11.1)

[105-A3] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend the closing date on Public Review Issue #75 and post the second Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics. The new closing date is Jan 30, 2006. Update the public review issue text to include a pointer to the data file. [L2/05-325]

Public Review Issue 76 - Ideographic Variation Database (B.11.2)

[105-C1] Consensus: Advance Draft Unicode Technical Standard #37: Ideographic Variation Database to Unicode Technical Standard #37: Ideographic Variation Database. [L2/05-327]

[105-A4] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Update Draft Unicode Technical Standard #37: Ideographic Variation Database based on feedback and the discussion, and post as Unicode Technical Standard #37: Ideographic Variation Database. [L2/05-327]

[105-A5] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #76.

Properties - Cuneiform Inconsistencies (B.14.1) 

[105-C2] Consensus: Accept the property changes for Old Persian word divider and numerals documented in L2/05-289 for Unicode 5.0. 

[105-A6] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the properties for Old Persian word divider and numerals as documented in L2/05-289 for Unicode 5.0.

Public Review Issue 79 - Text Boundaries (B.11.4 )

[105-A7] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate items 1-5 of document L2/05-286 into Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and  post as a new public review issue.

[105-A8] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a new public review issue  for the new Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries to close January 30, 2006.

[105-A9] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #79.

[105-C4] Consensus: Accept the proposal in L2/05-294 to change the ALetter definition to tie it to the line break property.

[105-A10] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Include the change to the ALetter definition documented in L2/05-294 in the new Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries.

[105-A11] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax based on the discussion of the comments in L2/05-331. [L2/05-330]

Unicode Technical Reports - Collation (B.12.1)

[105-C5] Consensus: Adopt change management for the DUCET data table as documented L2/05-299, with the provision that the bug database might be separate.

[105-A12] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Post the DUCET data table change management guidelines in an appropriate place. [L2/05-299]

[105-A13] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Follow up with Nick Nicholas to suggest that he update his TUN on Byzantine Music to add these suggested tailorings, explanations, etc. The real info for many of them is a set of equivalences, and people may want to handle those in different ways, e.g., by collation, etc. [L2/05-341]

[105-A14] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Remand L2/05-301 on UCA default table criteria for new characters, with changes suggested in the meeting, to the Editorial Committee for posting in an appropriate place. on the website.

[105-A15] Action Item for Mark Davis: Gather requirements for upper- and lower-bound collating characters. [L2/05-302]

Unicode Technical Reports - Line Breaking (B.12.2)

[105-C6] Consensus: Accept items 7 and 8 from document L2/05-286 on line break defaults and line break numbers, changing 7 to be a bullet instead of part of the rule, with other editorial changes suggested in the meeting.

[105-A16] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Make the changes to the current working draft Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties.

[105-C7] Consensus: Accept the changes in sections A, B, and D of document L2/05-303 regarding "LineBreak=SA" characters, and update Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties.

[105-A17] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Make the changes to Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties given  in sections A, B, and D of document L2/05-303 and as modified by discussion in the meeting.

[105-A18] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update Linebreak.txt as per tconsensus 105-C7. [L2/05-303]

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Denic; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Oracle; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc. VeriSign, Inc. 11 full members present, 11 total

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); India, MIT; Justsystem; Monotype Imaging Corporation;  Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; UC Berkeley; Yahoo! Inc.. 6 full members, 2 institutional members, and 1 supporting member not present, 8.5 total

Currency and Country Codes (B.15)

[105-A19] Action Item for Mark Davis, Mike Ksar: Request TC46 to add new country codes. [L2/05-291]

[105-M1] Motion: Change the script type of U+1DBF MODIFIER LETTER SMALL THETA to Greek. [L2/05-276]

Moved by Ken Whistler, Seconded by Rick McGowan

9 for (Adobe, Apple, Denic, HP, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Sybase, UC Berkeley)
1 against (Microsoft)
2 abstain (RLG, VeriSign)

Motion 105-M1 carries

[105-A20] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Scripts.txt with the change of U+1DBF MODIFIER LETTER SMALL THETA to Greek. [L2/05-276]

Public Review Issue 77 - Security (B.11.3)

[105-C8] Consensus: Approve the approach in L2/05-277 (on the problems with a language-based security approach) with the addition that there is no need for an explicit script designator accompanying the registration, with reference to Point 1 in document L2/05-317. 

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Basis now represented.
13.5 members present

[105-C9] Consensus: The UTC asks the security subcommittee to develop a set of criteria for visual confusability to guide the development of the confusable data tables. See point 3 of L2/05-317.

[105-A21] Action Item for Mark Davis, Security Subcommittee: Develop a set of criteria for visual confusability to guide the development of the confusable data tables. See point 3 of L2/05-317.

[105-C10] Consensus: Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms should be enhanced to include a discussion of usage scenarios and other criteria that were used in the formation of the algorithm and data. 

[105-A22] Action Item for Michel Suignard, Security Subcommittee: Include a discussion of usage scenarios and other criteria that were used in the formation of the algorithm and data.

[105-C11] Consensus: Advance Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms to Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms after incorporating updates as per the meeting. [L2.05-329]

[105-A23] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Reword Public Review Issue #77 for Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms and extend the closing date to Jan 30, 2006.

[105-C12] Consensus: The Security subcommittee is directed to continue its work to enhance the confusable data tables.

[105-C13] Consensus: The UTC will recommend to ICANN and the IETF in liaison statements the use of security profiles for identifiers as documented in Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms.

[105-C14] Consensus: ICANN guideline 3 should be replaced with a requirement for registries to publish the restriction level by which they operate, as defined in Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations. [L2/05-363]

[105-C15] Consensus: ICANN guideline 4 should be replaced by language that restricts the permissible characters to those following the security profile for identifiers, currently restricted to the IDN security profile for identifiers. [L2/05-363]

[105-C16] Consensus: ICANN guideline 5 should say: "A registry will define an IDN registration in terms of both its nameprep-normalized Unicode representation and ACE-encoded representation." [L2/05-363]

[105-C17] Consensus: The last paragraph of ICANN guidelines under "Additional Remarks" should be dropped. [L2/05-363]

[105-A24] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Mark Davis: Forward to IETF information on security profiles and comments from the UTC resolutions 105-C13 through 105-C17.

[105-A25] Action Item for Michel Suignard, Mark Davis: Forward to ICANN info on security profiles and comments from the UTC resolutions 105-C13 through 105-C17.

[105-C18] Consensus: Update Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations with the recommendations from document L2/05-353 and as amended in discussion.

[105-C19] Consensus: Remove U+3003 DITTO MARK from IDMOD and IDNCHAR in Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms.

[105-A26] Action Item for Mark Davis, Security Subcommittee: Update Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations and Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms based on feedback in the meeting and post new versions.

[105-A27] Action Item for Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, Editorial Committee: Review the updated  Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms and post for public review.

[105-A28] Action Item for Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, Editorial Committee: Review the updated Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations and post for public review.

[105-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post updated Draft Unicode Technical Standard #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms for public review, to close January 30, 2006.

[105-A30] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post updated Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations for public review, to close January 30, 2006.

Editorial Committee - Review of Unicode Version 5.0, Chapter 3 (B.13.3.1) 

[105-C20] Consensus: The UTC approves the directions taken in the draft of Chapter 3 as documented in L2/05-290.

[105-A31] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Reflect items raised in discussion of Chapter 3 including the deletion of K15 and the re-numbering of definitions, rules, and clauses in the Unicode Standard for 5.0. [L2/05-290]

[105-A32] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update text on enclosing combining mark in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties and elsewhere int the standard as appropriate. [L2/05-290]

Friday, November 4, 2005

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc; Apple Computer, Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); Denic; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; RLG; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; UC Berkeley; VeriSign, Inc (proxy). 10 full members, 1 institutional member, and 1 supporting member present, 11.5 total

NOT PRESENT: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; India, MIT; Justsystem; Monotype Imaging Corporation; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; Yahoo! Inc.. 7 full members and 1 institutional member not present

Calendar Review (A.6)

Scripts - Malayalam (C.1)

[105-A33] Action Item for V.S. Umamaheswaran: Contact the authors of L2/05-249 regarding the open questions on Malayalam numbers and fractions. [L2/05-295]

[105-A34] Action Item for Eric Muller, Peter Constable: Document the behavior of Malayalam chillu characters, both "before" and "after" the proposed addition of chillu characters. Clear exposition of the text representation issues. Paper to be ready for the February 2006 meeting. (Original action was 103-A67; see L2/05-154, L2/05-156.) [L2/05-236, L2/05-246]

[105-C21] Consensus: Accept four Malayalam characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/05-309R]
U+0D44 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR
U+0D62 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L
U+0D3D MALAYALAM PRASLESHAM
U+0D79 MALAYALAM ORDINAL INDICATOR

[105-A35] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Ask authors of L2/05-309R to correct the glyph for  U+0D44 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR before submission to WG2 and re-submission to UTC - it needs a dotted circle. The date mark should be called "ordinal indicator" and needs to be moved to U+0D79. Rick to forward the proposal to WG2.

[105-A36] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect addition of four Malayalam characters: U+0D44 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR, U+0D62 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L, U+0D3D MALAYALAM PRASLESHAM, U+0D79 MALAYALAM ORDINAL INDICATOR. [L2/05-309R]

[105-A37] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add the four Malayalam characters (U+0D44 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR, U+0D62 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L, U+0D3D MALAYALAM PRASLESHAM, U+0D79 MALAYALAM ORDINAL INDICATOR) to the US ballot comments for PDAM 3 of 10646.

Scripts - Tibetan (C.7)

[105-A38] Action Item for Michael Everson, Andrew West, Chris Fynn: Revise the proposal on Tibetan characters for Balti, L2/05-244, taking into account canonical equivalence issues and text in the standard and comments in L2/05-338, plus the consideration of two characters (FA and VA) for Chinese.

[105-M2] Motion: Accept U+0FCE TIBETAN SIGN RDEL NAG RDEL DKAR for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-345]

Moved by by Eric Muller, seconded by Ken Whistler

9 for  (Adobe, Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, RLG, Sun, Sybase, UC Berkeley)
0 against
2.5 abstain (Basis, Denic,VeriSign)

Motion 105-M2 carries

[105-A40] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect the acceptance of  U+0FCE TIBETAN SIGN RDEL NAG RDEL DKAR. [L2/05-345]

[105-A41] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add U+0FCE TIBETAN SIGN RDEL NAG RDEL DKAR to US ballot comments for PDAM 3 of 10646. [L2/05-345]

[105-C22] Consensus: Accept U+0FD2 TIBETAN MARK NYIS TSHEG for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-346]

[105-A42] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Brief the Tibex list of the UTC actions on Tibetan characters.

[105-A43] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Follow up with the authors of the proposal to encode three archaic Tibetan characters. The proposal needs to be split into two pieces; forward the proposal for the one accepted character (U+0FD2 TIBETAN MARK NYIS TSHEG) to WG2. [L2/05-346]

[105-A44] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of  U+0FD2 TIBETAN MARK NYIS TSHEG in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-346]

[105-A45] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add U+0FD2 TIBETAN MARK NYIS TSHEG to US ballot comments for PDAM 3 of 10646. [L2/05-346]

Scripts - Kaithi (C.13) 

[105-A46] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Ask Anshu Pandey to revisit the proposal to encode the Kaithi script to fit it into 6 columns and other comments. Target to have a revision by the February, 2006 meeting. [L2/05-343]

Scripts - Egyptian Transliteration Characters (C.2.1)

[105-C23] Consensus: Encode the four Alef and Ayin characters for encoding in a future version of the standard at codepoints: [L2/00-293, L2/05-300]
U+A722 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF
U+A723 LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF
U+A724 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL AIN
U+A725 LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL AIN

[105-A47] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Follow up with authors to update the proposal on Egyptian transliteration characters and submit to WG2. L2/05-300]

[105-A48] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Follow up with user community of egyptological characters. L2/05-300]

[105-A49] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect inclusion of four Egyptological alef/ain characters as per consensus 105-C23. L2/05-300]

[105-A50] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add the four Egyptological to US ballot comments for PDAM 3 of 10646. [L2/05-300]

Scripts - Egyptian Hieroglyphs (C.2.2) 

[105-A51] Action Item for Richard Cook: Secure agreement from all authors on an updated proposal for Egyptian Hieroglyphs and create a publicly reviewable document. [L2/05-311, L2/05-312, L2/05-313]

Scripts - CYRILLIC OMEGA WITH TITLO 

[105-C24] Consensus: Create a Public Review Issue on correcting glyphs for Cyrillic Omega with Titlo (U+047C and U+047D). [L2/05-287]

[105-A52] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Create a Public Review Issue for correcting the glyphs for Cyrillic Omega with Titlo (U+047C and U+047D) saying that the UTC will update the glyph if we don't get information to the contrary. Post to close on January 30, 2006. [L2/05-287]

[105-A53] Action Item for Debbie Anderson, Michael Everson: Coordinate old Cyrillic encoding proposals. [L2/05-287]

Scripts - Byzantine Musical Notation (C.5.1) 

[105-A54] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Handle the recommendations on Byzantine music symbols in L2/05-106 by creating a mapping table for the large number of cross references and by adding annotations in the names list. 

[105-A55] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Follow up with the author to add collation information on Byzantine music symbols to the Unicode technical note. [L2/05-106]

[105-A56] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Follow up with the author of the Arabic math papers L2/05-318 L2/05-319 L2/05-320 L2/05-321 L2/05-322 with the results of the ad hoc meeting.

Scripts - Musical Multiple Rest (C.10) 

[105-C25] Consensus: Accept U+1D129 MUSICAL SYMBOL MULTIPLE MEASURE REST for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-258]

[105-A57] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add U+1D129 MUSICAL SYMBOL MULTIPLE MEASURE REST to the pipeline. [L2/05-258]

Scripts - Hamza (C.12)

[105-A58] Action Item for Mark Davis: Pursue the Sindhi hamza issues with the Arabic experts on the bidi committee. [L2/05-251]

Scripts - Gurmukhi (C.14) 

[105-A59] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Incorporate material on Gurmukhi from sections B and C of document L2/05-344 into documentation for Unicode Version 5.0.

[105-C26] Consensus: Create a Public Review Issue on the preferred order for double combining marks in Gurmukhi. [L2/05-344]

[105-A60] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Create a Public Review Issue on the preferred order for double combining marks in Gurmukhi. [L2/05-344]

[105-A61] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue for double combining marks in Gurmukhi to close January 30, 2006. [L2/05-344]

[105-C27] Consensus: Accept U+0A51 GURMUKHI SIGN UDAAT for encoding with properties as documented in L2/05-344, in a future version of the standard.

[105-A62] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include acceptance of U+0A51 GURMUKHI SIGN UDAAT with properties as documented in L2/05-344.

[105-A63] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Work with the author to create a WG2 proposal for U+0A51 GURMUKHI SIGN UDAAT and forward to WG2. [L2/05-344]

[105-A64] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add U+0A51 GURMUKHI SIGN UDAAT to US ballot comments for PDAM 3 of 10646. [L2/05-344]

Scripts - Lao Names (C.15) 

[105-C28] Consensus: Create four formal name aliases for Lao characters (U+0E9D, U+0E9F, U+0EA3, U+0EA5) as documented in section 4.2 of L2/05-357.

[105-A65] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Create four Lao name aliases (U+0E9D, U+0E9F, U+0EA3, U+0EA5). [L2/05-357]

[105-A66] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Request annotations on these four Lao names (U+0E9D, U+0E9F, U+0EA3, U+0EA5) in US ballot comments on PDAM 3 of 10646. See section 4.3 of  L2/05-357.

WG2 - Consent Docket  (B.1.5)

[105-C29] Consensus: Accept the additional characters, name changes, and code changes in code point assignment given in "Part I" of the consent docket (L2/05-270) for Unicode Version 5.0.

[105-A67] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Check pipeline for updates regarding the additional characters, name changes, and code changes in code point assignment given in "Part I" of L2/05-270 for Unicode Version 5.0.

[105-C30] Consensus: Accept U+2E18 INVERTED INTERROBANG for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-270]

[105-A68] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+2E18 INVERTED INTERROBANG. [L2/05-270]

[105-A69] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add to ballot comments for amendment 3 that further information on U+1D35 LEPCHA SIGN KANG is warranted. [L2/05-270]

[105-C31] Consensus: Accept the 48 Ol Chiki characters at U+1C50..U+1C7F, with block name Ol Chiki at U+1C50..U+1C7F, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-243]

[105-A70] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 48 Ol Chiki characters at U+1C50..U+1C7F, with block name Ol Chiki at U+1C50..U+1C7F. [L2/05-243, L2/05-270]

[105-C32] Consensus: Accept the 81 Saurashtra characters at U+A880..U+A8DF, with block name Saurashtra at U+A880..U+A8DF, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/05-222]

[105-A71] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the 81 Saurashtra characters at U+A880..U+A8DF, with block name Saurashtra U+A880..U+A8DF. [L2/05-222]

[105-M3] Motion: Include the four already-approved Sindhi characters (097B, 097C, 097E, 097F) in Version 5.0 of the Unicode Standard. 

Moved by Michel Suignard, seconded by Ken Whistler

7.5 for (Apple, Basis, HP, IBM, Microsoft, RLG, Sybase, UC Berkeley)
0 against
4 abstain (Sun, Adobe, Denic, VeriSign)

Motion 105-M3 carries

[105-A72] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the four already-approved Sindhi characters 097B, 097C, 097E, 097F in Version 5.0.

[105-A73] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add the four already-approved Sindhi characters 097B, 097C, 097E, 097F to the data files as required for Version 5.0.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Yahoo! now represented.
12.5 members present

[105-C33] Consensus: Designate Mark Davis as the alternate representative of UTC to L2.

Scripts - Kannada (C.16) 

[105-C34] Consensus: Accept the four Kannada characters U+0CE2, U+0CE3, U+0CF1, U+0CF2 for encoding in Unicode 5.0, as follows: [L2/04-364]
0CE2 KANNADA VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L
0CE3 KANNADA VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL
0CF1 KANNADA SIGN JIHVAMULIYA
0CF2 KANNADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA

Note: Consensus 105-C34 was taken pre-emptively pending a check of the relevant documents, and duplicates the decision in 102-C17, the approval of parts 1 and 2 of document L2/05-059.

Minutes Approval (A.5.1)

[105-C35] Consensus: Approve the minutes of UTC 104/L2 201. [L2/05-180R]

WG2 - Amendment 1 (B.1.4.3.1)

[105-A74] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Send source data correction for amendment 1 to John Jenkins for incorporation into the 5.0 version of the Unihan database.

 WG2 - ITU SG 17 requirements (B.1.8) 

[105-A75] Action Item for Lisa Moore, Magda Danish: Invite ITU to the next UTC meeting. Call to their attention the upcoming Unicode conference; they could use that opportunity to learn more about the Unicode Standard. [L2/05-355]

[105-A76] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Draft comments for PDAM 3 responding to items A to E raised by ITU SG17 in document L2/05-355.

Properties - Brackets (B.14.3) 

[105-C36] Consensus: Change general category to So and line break to AL for characters: [L2/05-238]

U+23B4 TOP SQUARE BRACKET
U+23B5 BOTTOM SQUARE BRACKET
U+23B6 TOP AND BOTTOM SQUARE BRACKET. 

[105-A77] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Make updates to data files for property changes for U+23B4 TOP SQUARE BRACKET, U+23B5 BOTTOM SQUARE BRACKET, U+23B6 TOP AND BOTTOM SQUARE BRACKET (GC=>So, LB=>AL). [L2/05-238]

Properties - PropertyValueAlias.txt (B.14.4)

[105-A78] Action Item for Mark Davis: Comment back to the 15924 JAC that Khutsuri is not an adequate description of Georgian Khutsuri. There needs to be an annotation in the 15924 table that Khutsuri is a type of Georgian. [L2/05-336]

[105-A79] Action Item for Mark Davis: Communicate with Michael Everson on action item [105-A78] and also that the current script assignment for Georgian is "geor". [L2/05-336]

Properties - Lithuanian Case Folding (B.14.5)

[105-A80] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Document that the default case folding algorithm doesn't handle atypical uses of Lithuanian correctly.  [L2/05-342]

Technical Reports - Line Break (B.12.2.2 ) 

[105-C37] Consensus: Make changes for items 2, 3, 5 from L2/05-292 as amended in discussion.

[105-A81] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Add changes to Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties, in accordance with items 2, 3, 5 of L2/05-292 as amended in discussion.

[105-A82] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the documentation in UCD.html in accordance with acceptance of items 2, 3, 5 of L2/05-292 as amended in discussion. Make the normative status consistent with Chapter 3 of the Unicode Standard..

Editorial Committee - Unicode 5.0 Beta (B.13.6)

[105-C38] Consensus: Authorize the beta of Unicode Version 5.0 to close on January 30, 2006.

[105-A83] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Issue the Unicode Version 5.0 beta to close on January 30, 2006.

Editorial Committee - Committee scope to issue updates (B.13.5)

[105-C39] Consensus: Give the Editorial Committee the authority to issue proposed updates of any Unicode Standard Annex, Unicode Technical Standard, or Unicode Technical Report or to issue public review issues if the changes are only editorial.

[105-C40] Consensus: Give the Editorial Committee the authority to refresh public drafts of Unicode Standard Annex, Unicode Technical Standard, or Unicode Technical Report as-needed for editorial changes or for those changes directed by the UTC.

[105-A84] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update the publication work flow document with the authorization to issue proposed updates for editorial changes and public review issues and the refreshing of drafts.

UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
NOT PRESENT: HP no longer represented.
11.5 members present

Public Review Issue 80 - SHY in bidi (B.11.5.4)

[105-A85] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Document in the description of soft hyphen that it works in cursive scripts as in other scripts, in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties and Chapter 16 of the Unicode Standard.

[105-A86] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add a pointer in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm to the description of the use of  soft hyphen in Arabic found in Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties. See 105-A85.

[105-M4] Motion: Revise and extend Public Review Issue #80, adding the "starred" characters from document L2/05-362 to the current bidi mirrored property and creating a background document of related characters. Also remove HL6 from Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm. Extend the Public Review Issue to close on January 30, 2006.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Eric Muller

7 for (Apple, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, RLG, Sun, UC Berkeley)
1.5 against (Basis, Yahoo)
3 abstain (Denic, Sybase, VeriSign)

Motion 105-M4 carries

[105-A87] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Revise and extend Public Review Issue #80, adding the "starred" characters from document L2/05-362 to the current bidi mirrored property and creating a background document of related characters. Also remove HL6 from Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm. Extend the Public Review Issue to close on January 30, 2006.

Properties - Stability of identifiers under normalization (B.14.6)

[105-A88] Action Item for Mark Davis: Create a proposal for identifier stability under normalization and casing, clarifying the text of Unicode Standard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax for the February 2006 meeting.

[105-A89] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add agenda item B.16 (Unicode Technical Note "Unicode, BOM, Signatures") to the agenda for the next meeting.

Miscellaneous - Thanking Cathy Wissink (D.1)

[105-C41] Consensus: The UTC/L2 joint committee expresses its great gratitude to Cathy Wissink for her years of excellent leadership and service.

UTC Attendees

Member Attendance Roster

Members not in regular attendance: Agence Francophonie, India, MIT, Monotype, Pakistan NLA.

Total full members in regular attendance: 14

Total institutional members in regular attendance: 1

Total supporting members in regular attendance: 1

Quorum: 8