L2/06-228

Source: Rick McGowan
Date: June 27, 2006
Subject: Status of Pending WG2 Documents from L2/06-088

At UTC Meeting #107, I was directed in action 107-A62:

Investigate status of the older proposal documents listed in L2/06-088, page 56, item "e". Propose for the August UTC agenda as appropriate.

The relevant WG2 document is:
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06088-02n3837.pdf

In WG2 N2953 (L2/06-088), page 56, item "e", there are several documents listed for which WG2 has not taken action. This list follows with comments regarding the UTC dispositions.

l. Manichaean script - document N2544
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2544.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03099-n2544-manichaean.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04292-manichaean.html
Proposal for Manichaean is L2/03-099 and joining types paper is L2/04-292
Apparently never discussed by UTC; can't find in any minutes..
Author directed at WG2 mtg 45 to revise and resubmit.

m. Avestan and Pahlavi - document N2556
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2556.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03072-n2556-avestan.pdf
(see also http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02449-n2556-avestan.pdf)
Apparently never discussed by UTC; can't find in any minutes.
On the SEI list for potential 2007 funding.

n. Myanmar Additions - documents N2768, N2827, N2966
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2768r.pdf
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2827.pdf
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2966.pdf
Everson indicated that at least most of the 3 Myanmar docs are covered by recent changes. Those that are not covered, for Shan, need revised documents.

o. Dictionary Symbols - document N2655
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2655.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03354-n2655.pdf
Apparently never discussed by UTC; can't find in any minutes.

p. Invisible Letter - document N2822
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2822.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04268-invisible.pdf
see http://www.unicode.org/consortium/utc-minutes/UTC-101-200411.html
UTC voted not to encode: Motion 101-M2.

q. Palestinian Pointing characters - document N2838
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2838.pdf
Apparently never submitted to UTC; no L2 number.
Proposal not actionable as-is; needs further work. Doc contains no glyphs.

r. Babylonian Pointing characters - document N2759
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2759.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04162r-keown-bavelpro.pdf
Proposal explicitly claims more info to follow and isn't complete. Not actionable as-is.

s. Bantu Phonetic Click characters - document N2790
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2790.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04232-bantu-click.pdf
(= http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2790.pdf)
Apprently never discussed by UTC; can't find in any minutes.

t. Samaritan Pointing - 12 Hebrew characters - document N2758
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2758.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04159-keown-samarpro.pdf
Proposal explicitly claims more info to follow and isn't complete. Not actionable as-is.

u. Domino Tiles and other Game symbols - N2760
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2760.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04163-n2760-dominoes.pdf
Apparently never discussed by UTC; can't find in any minutes.

v. Four Tibetan characters for Balti -- document N2985
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2985.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05244-n2985-balti.pdf
Andrew West comments: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/N3010.pdf
and http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05338-n3010.pdf
Apparently never discussed by UTC; can't find in any minutes.

w. Mahjong Symbols -- document N2975
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2975.doc
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/L2005/05256-n2975-mahjong.pdf
Apparently never discussed by UTC; can't find in any minutes.

x. Medievalist characters -- document N2957
Prelim was L2/05-183 N2957, revised is N3027.
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/sc2/WG2/docs/n2759.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06027-n3027-medieval.pdf
Feedback: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06074r-medievalist.pdf
Accepted May 2006. CLOSED ISSUE FOR UTC.

y. Carian, Lycian and Lydian scripts -- documents N2938, N2939 and N2940
N2938 = L2/05-100, N2939 = L2/05-101, N2940 = L2/05-102 replaced by:
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06050-n3019r2-lydian-lycian.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05386-n3020-carian.pdf
All 3 accepted in Feb 2006 (106-C7, 106-C8, 106-C9). CLOSED ISSUE FOR UTC.