L2/11-261R2

Approved Minutes of the UTC 128/L2 225 Joint Meeting
Redmond, WA — August 1-5, 2011
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #128 Agenda
Revision date: November 1, 2011

Monday August 1, 2011

Administrative — Roll Call (A.1)

NOT PRESENT: Apple Computer, Inc, Bangladesh Computer Council, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc, Rearden Commerce, Inc., W. Bengal, SNLTR, Yahoo! Inc. 4 full members, 3 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 7.5 total votes

Administrative — Minutes Approval (A.5.1.1 )

[128-C1] Consensus: Approve the minutes of Joint Meeting UTC 127/L2/224. [L2/11-116R]

Administrative — Calendar review (A.6)

  UTC 129/L2 226 — October 31, November 1-4, 2011, Cupertino, host Apple, Annual Members Mtg
  UTC 130/L2 227 — February 6 - 10, 2012, Sunnyvale, host Yahoo!
  UTC 131/L2 228 — May 7-11, 2012, San Jose, host Adobe
  UTC 132/L2 229 — July 30-August 3, 2012, Redmond, WA, host Microsoft

Properties — Bidi Class (B.13.1)

[128-C2] Consensus: Change the default bidi class from "R" to "AL" for the two new Arabic-related blocks, Arabic Extended-A at U+08A0 - U+08FF and Arabic Mathematical Symbols at U+1EE00 - U+1EEFF. [L2/11-268]

[128-A1] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the derived bidi class to reflect the change of the default for U+08A0..U+08FF and U+1EE00..U+1EEFF to "AL". Update the associated text. [L2/11-268]

[128-A2] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update documentation in Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database to reflect the change of  the default bidi class of U+08A0..U+08FF and U+1EE00..U+1EEFF to "AL". [L2/11-268]

Properties — Name Aliases for Control Characters (B.13.2)

[128-C3] Consensus: Accept Ken Whistler's recommendations in L2/11-281 on name aliases for control characters with the addition of the abbreviations BEL and NUL.

[128-C4] Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue on updating NameAliases.txt with the addition of the abbreviations BEL and NUL. [L2/11-281]

[128-A3] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update ith the addition of the abbreviations BEL and NUL and post NameAliases.txt in the 6.1 beta. [L2/11-281]

[128-A4] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Write text for the Public Review Issue on NameAliases.txt, as in Consensus 128-C4.

[128-A5] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on NameAliases.txt to close October 24, 2011. See Consensus 128-C44.

Properties — Normalization Invariants (B.13.3)

[128-A6] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Review section 1 of L2/11-283 on canonical mappings to see if the text of Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database could be improved.

[128-C5] Consensus: The UTC asks the officers to establish a stability policy that the full compatibility and canonical decompositions of a single character cannot exceed eighteen characters. [L2/11-283]

[128-A7] Action Item for Mark Davis: Ensure the officers establish a stability policy that the full compatibility and canonical decompositions of a single character cannot exceed eighteen characters. [L2/11-283]

Properties — Collation and General Category (B.13.5)

[128-A8] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Standard #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm based on section 1 of document [L2/11-310] on aligning with CLDR changes.

[128-C6] Consensus: Change the general category from "So" to "Po" for these characters, for Unicode 6: [L2/11-310]

U+00A7 SECTION SIGN
U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN
U+0F14 TIBETAN MARK GTER TSHEG
U+1360 ETHIOPIC SECTION MARK
U+10102 AEGEAN CHECK MARK

[128-A9] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update UnicodeData.txt for these characters in Unicode 6.1 [L2/11-310]:

U+00A7 SECTION SIGN
U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN
U+0F14 TIBETAN MARK GTER TSHEG
U+1360 ETHIOPIC SECTION MARK
U+10102 AEGEAN CHECK MARK

[128-A10] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Add a mention of the property changes to the 5 characters U+0F14, U+1360, and U+10102, U+00A7 and U+00B6, to the 6.1 landing page. [L2/11-310]

[128-C7] Consensus: Make U+0F3E TIBETAN SIGN YAR TSHES and U+0F3F TIBETAN SIGN MAR TSHES ignorable in the UCA. [L2/11-310]

[128-A11] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the DUCET for UCA 6.1 to make U+0F3E TIBETAN SIGN YAR TSHES and U+0F3F TIBETAN SIGN MAR TSHES ignorable. [L2/11-310]

[128-C8] Consensus: Change the general category of the 8 characters U+3248..U+324F from "So" to "No". The numeric type goes to "Numeric" and assign a numeric value, in Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-310]

[128-A12] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Make the change of general category from "So" to "No" for the 8 characters U+3248..U+324F. The numeric type goes to "Numeric", and assign a numeric value for each. [L2/11-310]

[128-A13] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Note the change of general category for the 8 characters U+3248..U+324F on the 6.1 landing page. [L2/11-310]

[128-A14] Action Item for Mark Davis: Communicate with Patrik Faltstrom (IETF) the status of property changes in Unicode 6.1. The data are not final properties and there is one more meeting before being finalized. [L2/11-310]

[128-A15] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add comment about U+0F3E and U+0FEF to ballot comments on Amendment 1 of 14651. [L2/11-310]

Properties — Syriac Shaping (B.13.4)

[128-C9] Consensus: Accept all four items of L2/11-286 for Unicode 6.1.

[128-A16] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the Syriac section of the core specification with items 1-4 of document L2/11-286.

[128-A17] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make the change in section 4 of document L2/11-286 visible in the 6.1 beta.

[128-A18] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend Public Review Issue 177 to close October 24, 2011.

Public Review Issue 186 — Word-Joining Hyphen (B.10.6)

[128-C10] Consensus: To address the issue in Public Review Issue 186 add text in Unicode Standard Annex#29, Unicode Text Segmentation
to say that in those orthographies where hyphens are used interior to words, it is appropriate to tailor the hyphen to be a "MidLetter". [L2/11-289]

[128-A19] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Standard Annex#29, Unicode Text Segmentation
to include info from consensus 128C-10 regarding tailoring the hyphen. [L2/11-289]

[128-A20] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #186 and use the statement in consensus 128-C10 for the disposition. [L2/11-289]

Public Review Issue 193 — Control Characters in Text Segmentation (B.10.11.1.2)

[128-C11] Consensus: Add GC=Cn and GC=Cs to Grapheme Cluster Break Control. [L2/11-266]

[128-A21] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Change Unicode Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation to add "Cn" and "Cs" to the "Control" Value in Table 2. [L2/11-266]

[128-A22] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update by adding "Cn" and "Cs" to "Control" Value and re-generate GraphemeClusterBreak.txt, the test file, and the HTML file, for Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-266]

[128-A23] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Delete the two sentences in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation mentioning Old Korean. [L2/11-266]

[128-A24] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add new text explaining restrictions imposed by KS X 1026-1 and emphasize that Unicode text segmentation can be tailored to meet the requirements of KS 1026-1. [L2/11-266]

[128-A25] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Magda Danish, Editorial Committee: Add KS X 1026-1 to references in UAX #41. [L2/11-266]

[128-A26] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Philippe Verdy to thank him for his feedback and explain that UTC finds it inadvisable to split the spacing mark category in the way he suggested in his feedback on Unicode Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation. [ L2/11-289]

Public Review Issue 194 — Identifier and Pattern Syntax (B.10.12)

[128-A27] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: In Unicode Standard Annex #31: Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax, renumber the 5a, 5b, 5c tables; add a migraton section; and update internal references to the table(s). [L2/11-289, L2/11-294]

[128-A28] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Call out the change in the 5 tables for Unicode Standard Annex #31: Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax in the 6.1 landing page. [L2/11-289, L2/11-294]

Public Review Issue 199 — Unicode Character Database (B.10.15)

[128-C12] Consensus: Implement the proposal to correct the documentation of Grapheme_Base and Grapheme_Extend in Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database that is documented in L2/11-282 and as amended in discussion.

[128-A29] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database based on the consensus on L2/11-282. For Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-282]

[128-A30] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add text to Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database clarifying the relations between Grapheme_Base and Grapheme_Extend to Grapheme_Cluster_Break, for Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-282]

[128-A31] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Resolve the discrepencies betweenthe definitions D60 and D61 of Chapter 3 and the grapheme cluster types in Unicode Standard Annex #29, Unicode Text Segmentation. [L2/11-289, L2/11-295]

Tuesday August 2, 2011

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Rearden Commerce, Inc., SAP AG, UC Berkeley 7 full members and 1 institutional member present, 8 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Bangladesh Computer Council, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc, W. Bengal, SNLTR, Yahoo! Inc. 2 full members, 3 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 5.5 total votes

Scripts and Symbols — Azerbaijani Manat Sign (C.16 )

[128-A32] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Yevstifeyev re L2/11-231 Manat sign.

Scripts and Symbols — Six Punctuation Characters (C.17)

[128-A33] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Karl Pentzlin regarding the six punctuations characters from the work of Hervé Bazin.  [L2/11-232]

Scripts and Symbols — Playing and Tarot Card Characters (WG2 N4089) (C.15)

[128-M1] Motion: Accept 23 playing card characters at U+1F0BF and U+1F0E0..U+1F0E5, and 79 tarot card characters at U+1F900..1F955 with block "Tarot Cards" at U+1F900..U+1F95F for encoding in a future version of the standard with properties as documented in L2/11-216.

Moved by Eric Muller, Seconded by Tex Texin

4 for (Adobe, IBM, Rearden, Apple),
1 against (Google)
3 abstain (SAP, Microsoft, UCB)

Motion fails.

[128-M2] Motion: Accept 23 playing card characters at U+1F0BF and U+1F0E0..U+1F0E5 for encoding in a future version of the standard with properties as documented in L2/11-216.

Moved by Ken Whistler, Seconded by Eric Muller

5 for (Apple, Adobe, IBM, Rearden, SAP)
1 against (Google)
2 abstain (Microsoft, UCB)

Motion carries.

[128-A36] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include 23 playing cards: U+1F0BF PLAYING CARD RED JOKER and 22 trump cards in the range U+1F0E0..U+1F0F5. [L2/11-216]

[128-A37] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add 23 playing cards: U+1F0BF PLAYING CARD RED JOKER and 22 trump cards in the range U+1F0E0..U+1F0F5 to the document requesting new additions by WG2. [L2/11-216]

[128-A38] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide Michel Suignard with a font for the 23 playing cards: U+1F0BF PLAYING CARD RED JOKER and 22 trump cards in the range U+1F0E0..U+1F0F5. [L2/11-216]

Scripts and Symbols — Psalter Pahlavi Script (C.3)

[128-C14] Consensus: Accept 29 Psalter Pahlavi characters at U+10B80..U+10BAF and block Psalter Pahlavi, U+10B80..U+10BAF (not including the 7 punctuation marks in document L2/11-147 at U+10B92..U+10B98) for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-147]

[128-A39] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline for Psalter Pahlavi. [L2/11-147]

[128-A40] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add 29 Psalter Pahlavi characters at U+10B80..U+10BAF to the document requesting new additions by WG2. [L2/11-147]

[128-A41] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide Michel Suignard with a font for 29 Psalter Pahlavi characters at U+10B80..U+10BAF. [L2/11-147]

WG2 — Consent Docket (B.1.1.4 )

[128-C15] Consensus: Approve 504 symbols for Wingdings and Webdings from proposal L2/11-247, with corrections made by Michel Suignard in L2/11-316, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-253]

[128-A42] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline with 504 symbols for Wingdings and Webdings from proposal L2/11-247, with corrections made by Michel Suignard in L2/11-316. [L2/11-253]

Public Review Issue 179 — Regular Expression Guidelines (B.10.2 )

[128-A43] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #179 with the status that the issues have been folded into Public Review Issue #182. [L2/11-154, L2/11-289, L2/11-163]

Public Review Issue 182 — Regular Expressions (B.10.3)

[128-A44] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the proposed update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions and the text of Public Review Issue #182 based on discussion in the meeting. [L2/11-142]

[128-A45] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend Public Review Issue #182 to close October 24, 2011.

Editorial Committee — Unicode 6.1 Beta (B.12.4 )

[128-C16] Consensus: Authorize the issuance of a beta for version 6.1 of the Unicode Standard to close October 24, 2011.

[128-A46] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Prepare and issue a Unicode 6.1 beta.

[128-A47] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Unicode 6.1 beta Public Reveiw Issue to close October 24, 2011.

Properties — Selected Odd Characters (B.13.8)

[128-C17] Consensus: Add U+2071, U+207F, U+2095..U+209C to the contributory property Other_Lowercase for Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-320, L2/11-321]

[128-A49] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add U+2071, U+207F, U+2095..U+209C to Other_Lowercase in PropList.txt for Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-320, L2/11-321]

[128-A50] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add text to Proposed Update UAX #24, Unicode Script Property explaining the script properties given to "TM", "SM" (U+2120, U+2122) and similar script anomalies for symbols. [L2/11-321]

[128-A51] was a duplicate; deleted.

Properties — Symbol Categorization (B.13.6)

[128-A52] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Add a text to Proposed Update UAX #44, Unicode Character Database section 5.7.1 discussing the anomalous situations of the characters documented in L2/11-319 for Unicode 6.1.

Wednesday August 3, 2011

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Rearden Commerce, Inc., SAP AG, UC Berkeley 7 full members and 1 institutional member present, 8 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Bangladesh Computer Council, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc, W. Bengal, SNLTR, Yahoo! Inc. 2 full members, 3 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 5.5 total votes

Scripts and Symbols — Comic Style Symbols (C.12)

[128-A53] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Karl Pentzlin regarding L2/11-288 with the reasons that we did not encode these comic style symbols.

Scripts and Symbols — Additional Arabic Characters (C.10.1)

[128-A54] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Follow up with proposers of Arablic characters for the Adyghe and Chechen languages to understand the need for the characters, and make recommendations.[L2/11-277]

Public Review Issue 185 — Revision of UBA for URL/IRIs (B10.5)

[128-A55] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Public Review Issue #185 to establish the context for the problem of display of bidi text in URL/IRIs and incorporate the feedback received to date. [L2/11-311]

[128-A56] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend Public Review Issue #185 to October 24, 2011.

[128-A57] Action Item for Mark Davis, Shawn Steele: Engage with W3C and IETF on bidi issues involving URLs and IRIs. [L2/11-299, L2/11-311, L2/11-312R]

Scripts and Symbols — Embedding Level Mark (C.11.1)

[128-C18] Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue on the proposed ALM and ELM characters. [L2/11-183]

[128-A58] Action Item for Peter Edberg, Editorial Committee: Draft PRI document for ALM and ELM. [L2/11-183]

[128-A59] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on ALM and ELM to close October 24, 2011.

Public Review Issue 184 — Ideographic Variation Database (B.10.4)

[128-A60] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Nobuyoshi Mori regarding his Public Review Issue #184 feedback on Unicode Technical Standard #37, Ideographic Variation Database. Let him know that the example is hypothetical. [L2/11-289]

[128-C19] Consensus: Approve Unicode Technical Standard #37, Ideographic Variation Database as amended in discussion in the meeting. [L2/11-317]

[128-A61] Action Item for Ken Lunde, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Standard #37, Ideographic Variation Database and post as approved. [L2/11-317]

[128-A62] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #184 with disposition that a draft will be updated and published. [L2/11-317]

[128-A63] Action Item for Ken Lunde: Respond to authors of the feedback on Public Review Issue #184. [L2/11-289, L2/11-317]

[128-A64] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Produce a PDF version of the final Unicode Technical Standard #37, Ideographic Variation Database as published and forward to SC2 and WG2, for their information. [L2/11-289, L2/11-317]

CJK — Preserving Variant Glyphs (B.14.1)

[128-A65] Action Item for Ken Lunde: Prepare a document on the 91 IVS for the 89 Japanese compatibility ideographs, for review at the November UTC meeting. Ref L2/11-187.

Public Review Issue 201 — U-Source Ideographs (B.10.17)

[128-C20] Consensus: Approve Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #45, U-Source Ideographs and its associated data files, with changes to the data files as discussed. [L2/11-302]

[128-A66] Action Item for John Jenkins, Michel Suignard, Editorial Committee: Prepare the final document of Unicode Technical Report #45, U-Source Ideographs including updates to the data files. [L2/11-302]

[128-A67] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #201 with the status that Unicode Technical Report #45, U-Source Ideographs was approved and will be updated and posted. [L2/11-302]

Public Review Issues — Other Feedback (B.10.18)

Editorial Committee — Initiating Versions of Unicode (B.12.3.1)

[128-C21] Consensus: The UTC endorses the process for initiating new versions of the Unicode Standard documented in L2/11-325.

Public Review Issues — Other Feedback (B.10.18)

[128-A68] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to the author of L2/11-304 regarding feedback on Tamil.

[128-A69] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remove the word "lowercase" from the definition of LCTAG in NamesList.html for Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-289]

[128-A70] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Ran Ari-Gur on his comment about "noBreak", as per consensus 128-C22. [L2/11-289]

Thursday August 4, 2011

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Rearden Commerce, Inc., SAP AG, UC Berkeley 7 full members and 1 institutional member present, 8 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Bangladesh Computer Council, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc, W. Bengal, SNLTR, Yahoo! Inc. 2 full members, 3 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 5.5 total votes

[128-C23] Consensus: Accept 82 Grantha characters at U+11301..U+11374 with block "Grantha" U+11300..U+1137F, for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as documented in [L2/11-284]

[128-A71] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include 82 Grantha characters at U+11301..U+11374 with block "Grantha" U+11300..U+1137F. [L2/11-284]

[128-A72] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add 82 Grantha characters at U+11301..U+11374 to the document requesting new additions by WG2. [L2/11-284]

[128-A73] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Michael Everson: Verify the correctness of the Grantha font for the proposed repertoire [L2/11-284]

[128-C24] Consensus: Accept U+1135D GRANTHA SIGN PLUTA for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/10-331]

[128-A74] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+1135D GRANTHA SIGN PLUTA. [L2/10-331]

[128-A75] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+1135D GRANTHA SIGN PLUTA to the document requesting new additions by WG2. [L2/10-331

[128-A76] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Work with authors of Grantha proposals to assure they are forwarded to WG2 [L2/10-331 and L2/11-284]

South Asian Subcommittee — Svara Markers (D.10)

[128-C25] Consensus: Accept U+1CF8 VEDIC TONE RING ABOVE and U+1CF9 VEDIC TONE DOUBLE RING ABOVE for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-267]

[128-A77] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+1CF8 VEDIC TONE RING ABOVE and U+1CF9 VEDIC TONE DOUBLE RING ABOVE. [L2/11-267]

[128-A78] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+1CF8 VEDIC TONE RING ABOVE and U+1CF9 VEDIC TONE DOUBLE RING ABOVE to the document requesting new additions by WG2. [L2/11-267]

[128-A79] Action Item for Shriramana Sharma: Add properties to the proposal for U+1CF8 VEDIC TONE RING ABOVE and U+1CF9 VEDIC TONE DOUBLE RING ABOVE and forward to WG2. [L2/11-267]

[128-A80] Action Item for Shriramana Sharma: Forward the font for U+1CF8 VEDIC TONE RING ABOVE and U+1CF9 VEDIC TONE DOUBLE RING ABOVE to Michel Suignard. [L2/11-267]

South Asian Subcommittee — Om Characters (D.5)

[128-A81] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Sahu re Bengali Om, to provide evidence that Om is used separately from O + candrabindu. [L2/11-258, L2/11-275R, L2/11-308]

South Asian Subcommittee — Pau Cin Hau (D.9 )

[128-C26] Consensus: Change the names for six Pau Cin Hau characters to: [L2/11-287]

[128-A82] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add name changess for six Pau Cin Hau characters U+11AC5, U+11ACA, U+11AE7, U+11AEA, U+11AF0, U+11AF1 to the ballot comments on Amendment 1.2. [L2/11-287]

[128-A83] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to indicate name changes for 6 Pau Cin Hau letters based on document [L2/11-287].

South Asian Subcommittee — Mahajani (D.3)

[128-C27] Consensus: Accept 39 Mahajani characters at U+11150..U+11176, with block "Mahajani" U+11150..U+1117F in a future version of the standard, with properties as specified in L2/11-274.

[128-A84] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include 39 Mahajani characters. [L2/11-274]

[128-A85] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add Mahajani script to the document requesting new additions by WG2.[L2/11-274]

[128-A86] Action Item for Anshuman Pandey: Send a Mahajani font to Michel Suignard. [L2/11-274]

South Asian Subcommittee — Siyaq (D.4)

[128-A87] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Relay feedback to Anshuman Pandey on Siyaq number proposals and get revised proposals for the November meeting, including codepoint updates. [L2/11-269, L2/11-270, L2/11-271, L2/11-272]

WG2 — Unicode Liaison Report (B.1.1.2.2)

[128-A88] Action Item for Peter Constable: Respond to the SC2 request with a list of experts to participate in the discussions associated with ballot dispositions and related matters. [L2/11-254]

WG2 — Consent Docket (B.1.1.4 )

[128-A89] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add to ballot comments on Amendment 1.2  of 10646 third edition the request for the removal of the U+A78F LATIN LETTER MIDDLE DOT. [L2/11-253]

[128-C28] Consensus: Approve the revised codepoint for U+16AF5 BASSA VAH FULL STOP. [L2/11-253]

[128-C29] Consensus: Approve revised code points for the two Armenian eternity signs: U+058D RIGHT-FACING ARMENIAN ETERNITY SIGN and U+058E LEFT-FACING ARMENIAN ETERNITY SIGN, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-253]

[128-C30] Consensus: Approve the revised name U+1F545 SYMBOL FOR MARKS CHAPTER [L2/11-253]

[128-A90] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add to ballot comments on Amendment 1.2  of 10646 third edition the need to correct the name for U+1F545 to SYMBOL FOR MARKS CHAPTER. [L2/11-253]

[128-C31] Consensus: Reconfirm the approval of the 143 Duployan shorthand characters in the Duployan block (U+1BC00..U+1BC9F), with the revised ordering as documented in [L2/11-215]

[128-C32] Consensus: Accept U+2E40 DOUBLE HYPHEN for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-038]

[128-A91] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add U+2E40 DOUBLE HYPHEN to the list of confusables. [L2/11-038]

[128-A92] Action Item for Mark Davis: Contact Michel Suignard to get the list of documents for 6.1 to look for confusables. See also document L2/11-241 for post 6.1.

[128-C33] Consensus: Accept U+1F641 SLIGHTLY FROWNING FACE and U+1F642 SLIGHTLY SMILING FACE for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-037]

[128-C34] Consensus: Accept 5 combining characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/11-224]

U+FE27 COMBINING LIGATURE LEFT HALF BELOW
U+FE28 COMBINING LIGATURE RIGHT HALF BELOW
U+FE29 COMBINING TILDE LEFT HALF BELOW
U+FE2A COMBINING TILDE RIGHT HALF BELOW
U+FE2B COMBINING CONJOINING MACRON BELOW

[128-A93] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add to ballot comments on Amendment 1.2  of 10646 third edition to correct the names of U+FE29 and U+FE2A.

[128-C35] Consensus: Accept 82 characters for the Tirhuta script at U+11480..U+224D9, in a new block "Tirhuta", with range U+11480..U+114DF for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-175R]

[128-A94] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add to ballot comments on Amendment 1.2  of 10646 third edition a request to add U+1032F OLD ITALIC LETTER TTE.

[128-C36] Consensus: Accept U+2E41 REVERSED COMMA and U+2E42 DOUBLE LOW-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-242]

[128-C37] Consensus: Accept 109 characters of the Old Hungarian script at U+10C80..U+10CFF, in a new block "Old Hungarian", with range U+10C80..U+10CFF, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-242]

[128-C38] Consensus: Approve 85 characters for German dialectology documented in section 11 of [L2/11-240]:

for encoding in a future version of the standard, with name changes for U+AB5E and U+AB5D as documented in the PDAM 1.2 document, [L2/11-316]

[128-A95] Action Item for Mark Davis: Research  Teutonista repertoire for additions to confusables. [L2/11-240]

[128-A96] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline based on the decisions made on the WG2 consent docket, document [L2/11-253].

Public Review Issue 182 — Regular Expressions (B.10.3)

[128-A97] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Identify the document from the Spanish government on middle dot and forward to the officers for their response. [L2/11-142]

Public Review Issue 196 — Unicode Han Database (B.10.13)

[128-A98] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Keith Fenske regarding his feedback in L2/11-289 on Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #38: Unicode Han Database.

[128-A99] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Philippe Verdy regarding Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories that there will be some clarification added to the text to indicate that the categorization is neither phonological nor based on collation weighting schemes.

[128-A100] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Andrew West regarding his feedback on Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories.

[128-A101] Action Item for Mark Davis: Propose text on ideograph, ideogram, logograph, and logogram explaining the reason for the four terms.

[128-A102] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to two feedback items from A.R.Amaithi Anantham and Tamil Virtual Academy regarding DraftUnicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories.

[128-A103] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Behdad Esfahbod regarding Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories.

[128-A104] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Bob Hallissy regarding DraftUnicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories.

[128-A105] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Behnam Esfahbod regarding Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories

[128-A106] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Doug Ewell regarding Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories.

[128-A107] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Martin Hosken regarding Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories.

Public Review Issues — Other Feedback (B.10.18)

[128-A108] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to John Cowan regarding feedback on Tarot. [L2/11-289]

[128-A109] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Elika Etemad on her feedback regarding ScriptExtensions. [L2/11-289]

[128-A110] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, Mark Davis: Incorporate ScriptExtension data for North Indic fractions and Aegean numbers, for Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-289]

[128-A111] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Elena regarding right her comments on Russian quotation mark. [L2/11-289]

[128-A112] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to John Cowan regarding his feedback on svara. [L2/11-289]

[128-A113] Action Item for Mark Davis: Review the comments in "OtherReports" on collation from Sergiusz Wolicki regarding soft hyphen and make changes in Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm. [L2/11-289]

[128-A114] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Sergiusz Wolicki regarding his feedback on Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm feedback. [L2/11-289]

[128-A115] Action Item for Mark Davis: Review section 6.3.1 of Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm and remove it if it is no longer applicable. [L2/11-289]

[128-A116] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Henning Makholm regarding section 6.3.1 of Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm and collation order. [L2/11-289]

[128-A117] Action Item for Mark Davis: Look at the proposed collation for A/S U+214D AKTIESELSKAB in L2/11-289. Ask the CLDR list for input. See also L2/04-394.

[128-A118] Action Item for Murray Sargent: Remove the duplicate entry for U+0021 EXCLAMATION MARK in MathClass.txt of Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics for the next proposed update. [L2/11-289]

[128-A119] Action Item for Murray Sargent: Move the explicit character field to follow the comment at the end of each line in MathClassEx.txt, for the next proposed update. And evaluate other suggestions by Philippe Verdy. [L2/11-289]

[128-A120] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Philippe Verdy on his comments on MathClass12.txt. [L2/11-289]

Friday August 5, 2011

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc, Apple Computer, Inc, Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Rearden Commerce, Inc., SAP AG, UC Berkeley 7 full members and 1 institutional member present, 8 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Bangladesh Computer Council, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc, W. Bengal, SNLTR, Yahoo! Inc. 2 full members, 3 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 5.5 total votes

[128-C39] Consensus: Accept U+0528 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH LEFT HOOK and U+0529 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH LEFT HOOK for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/11-265]

[128-A121] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+0528 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH LEFT HOOK and U+0529 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH LEFT HOOK. [L2/11-265]

[128-A122] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+0528 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN WITH LEFT HOOK and U+0529 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN WITH LEFT HOOK to the document requesting new additions by WG2. [L2/11-265]

Scripts and Symbols — Playing Cards (C.15.1)

[128-C40] Consensus: Add text to the standard that explains the variation of glyphs for playing cards, including numbers, letters, suits, mundane versus esoteric, and add guidance for usage, in Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-322]

[128-A124] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update the text in Chapter 15 of the Unicode Standard on playing cards in accordance with consensus 128-C40 for Unicode 6.1. [L2/11-322]

[128-A125] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the nameslist to be in accord with updated Chapter 15 text on playing cards, for Unicode 6.1 [L2/11-322]

Public Review Issues — Other feedback (B.10.18.1)

[128-C41] Consensus: Change the sort order of U+214D AKTIESELSKAB so that it sorts equivalent to the sequence "A/S" at a primary level for UCA 6.1. [L2/11-289]

[128-A126] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Change the sort order of U+214D AKTIESELSKAB so that it sorts equivalent to the sequence "A/S" at a primary level for UCA 6.1. [L2/11-289]

[128-A127] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add aballot comments on Amendment 1 of 14651 about the sort order of U+214D AKTIESELSKAB. [L2/11-289]

Public Review Issue 200 — Unicode Character Categories (B.10.16)

[128-C42] Consensus: Withdraw Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories. [L2/11-318]

[128-A128] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Process the withdrawal of Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories. [L2/11-318]

[128-A129] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #200 with status that Draft Unicode Technical Report #49: Unicode Character Categories has been withdrawn [L2/11-318]

Public Review Issue 185 — Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs) (B.10.18.3)

[128-A130] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make changes in the form and contents of Public Review Issue #185 based on discussion to widen the public discussion of the PRI. [L2/11-311]

Properties — Japanese Text Layout (B.13.9)

[128-C43] Consensus: Authorize a proposed draft with the title Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text Layout. [L2/11-327]

[128-A131] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Create Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text Layout. [L2/11-327]

[128-A132] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text to close October 24, 2011. [L2/11-327]

[128-A133] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Create a sub-forum for discussion of Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text with Eric as moderator. [L2/11-327]

Public Review Issues — Unicode Standard Annexes (B.10)

[128-A134] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend all of the Unicode Standard Annex Public Review Issues to close October 24, 2011.

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