L2/11-353

DRAFT Minutes of the UTC 129/L2 226 Joint Meeting
Cupertino, CA — Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2011
Hosted by Apple

UTC #129 Agenda
Revision date: November 30, 2011


Day 1 - Monday, October 31, 2011

Joint meeting opened at 10:45.

Introductions

Present: Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, MS, Rearden, SAP, Yahoo, UCB
9 members present. Quorum is 5.5.

Discussion of meeting priorities:
Uni 6.1.
PRI advancement.

Schedule PRI #207 for UTR #50. Thursday a.m.

Document update.

A.5.2.1 - action item review

A.6 Calendar review

Scheduling Q4 2012 meeting

UTC #133, Nov 5-9, 2012. Host: probably Apple.

Lunch 11:45 - 12:45

A.5.1 Review of minutes
A.5.1.1 Joint Meeting UTC 128/L2/225 [L2/11-261R]

[129-C1] Consensus: Approve the minutes documented in L2/11-261R.

B.11.2 Issue 185: Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs
B.11.2.1.1 Moderated feedback [Davis]
B.11.2.1.2 Feedback on PRI 185: Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs [Rosenne, L2/11-299]
B.11.2.1.3 BIDI handling of Structured Text [Mahlin, Allouche, L2/11-312R]
B.11.2.1.4 PRI #185 Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs [Dürst, L2/11-311]
B.11.2.2 Document for review [Davis, L2/11-382]

Discussion. Postponed much of the discussion to Wednesday.

B.11.4 Issue 189: Proposed Update UAX #11, East Asian Width
B.11.4.1.1 General feedback
B.11.4.2 Document for review [L2/11-384]

No feedback. No action required now.

B.11.5 Issue 190: Proposed Update UAX #14, Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm
B.11.5.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.5.2 Document for review [Henninger, L2/11-385]

[129-A1] Action Item for Andy Heninger: Update the example 7 in section 8.2 of UAX #14 as per feedback from Ikeda in L2/11-381.

[129-A2] Action Item for Andy Heninger: Remove the second review note in UAX #14, which is under "HL: Hebrew Letter".

[129-A3] Action Item for Andy Heninger: Update section 7 of UAX #14 as per discussion in the UTC.

[129-C2] Consensus: Add a new LB Property Value to UAX #14 for Unicode 6.1, according to the following, and make any other necessary changes to the document and data files. Names: Conditional Japanese Starter (CJ). Move into CJ the following characters:
Small hiragana: U+3041, U+3043, U+3045, U+3047, U+3049, U+3063, U+3083, U+3085, U+3087, U+308E, U+3095, U+3096
Small katakana: U+30A1, U+30A3, U+30A5, U+30A7, U+30A9, U+30C3, U+30E3, U+30E5, U+30E7, U+30EE, U+30F5, U+30F6, U+31F0-U+31FF
Prolonged Sound Mark: U+30FC
Halfwidth variants: U+FF70, U+FF67-U+FF6B, U+FF6F, U+FF6C-U+FF6E

[129-A4] Action Item for Andy Heninger: Update the NS section of UAX #14, add a CJ section, and update rule LB1 per consensus 129-C2 above. And ensure the rest of the doc is consistent with those actions.

[129-A5] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update Linebreak.txt per consensus 129-C2 above for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A6] Action Item for Mark Davis: Regenerate LineBreakTest.txt and associated doc files for Unicode 6.1, per consensus 129-C2. See L2/11-385

[129-A7] Action Item for Eric Muller: Update UAX #42 with new LineBreak property values for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A8] Action Item for Rick McGowan: When UAX #14 PRI closes, ensure that the resolution of the CSS non-starter tailoring is included in the resolution of the PRI.

B.11.6 Issue 191: Proposed Update UAX #15, Unicode Normalization Forms
B.11.6.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.6.2 Document for review [Davis, Whistler, L2/11-386]

[129-A9] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to V S Umamaheswaran re the Thai feedback from IBM on PRI #191: It cannot be changed due to stability policies. If there are any security issues, see UTR #39.

[129-A10] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Philippe Verdy re PRI #191 that implementers are free to produce optimized implementations.

B.11.7 Issue 192: Proposed Update UAX #24, Unicode Script Property
B.11.7.2 Document for review [Davis, Whistler, L2/11-387]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

B.11.8 Issue 193: Proposed Update UAX #29, Unicode Text Segmentation
B.11.8.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.8.1.2 Reaction to proposed change for Grapheme_Cluster_Break for version 6.1.0 [Karlsson, L2/11-339]
B.11.8.2 Document for review [Davis, L2/11-388]

[129-A11] Action Item for Peter Constable: Provide suggested text to Editorial Committee to contextualize the Hangul
breaking in Section 8 [in UAX #29] (and highlight the Old Korean treatment better). .

[129-A12] Action Item for Peter Edberg: Respond to feedback from V S Umamaheswaran on UAX #29 PRI #193 to say the concern has been addressed in more recent draft.

[129-A13] Action Item for Mark Davis: Italicize and subscript the "f" appropriately in section 8 Hangul Syllable Boundary Determination, of UAX #29, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A14] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Emmauel Vallois re PRI #193 that his feedback has been accepted and will appear in a subsequent draft, and thanks for the contribution. See L2/11-381.

[129-A15] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update Prepend and spacing mark per table 2 of UAX #29 for Unicode 6.1.

[129-C3] Consensus: In UAX #29 Table 2 change the line that says "GC=Cn" to "GC=Cn and DI=true", and make the corresponding change in the property values and add text explaining the handling of controls.

[129-A16] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make changes as in above consensus 129-A15 to UAX #29, for Unicode 6.1: in Table 2 change the line that says "GC=Cn" to "GC=Cn and DI=true", and make the corresponding change in the property values and add text explaining the handling of controls.

[129-A17] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update GraphemeBreakProperty.txt for Unicode 6.1. See consensus 129-C3

B.11.9 Issue 194: Proposed Update UAX #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax
B.11.9.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.9.2 Document for review [Davis, L2/11-389]

[129-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Include a paragraph on Kent Karlsson's feedback in L/11-381 in section 2.3 of UAX #31, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A19] Action Item for Peter Constable, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Draft text for a new section of UAX #31 discussing the difference between display form and comparison form of identifiers, including variation selectors as examples. (For post-6.1.)

[129-A20] Action Item for Mark Davis: Remove from DerivedCoreProperties.txt all notes which say Cf characters should be filtered out. For Unicode 6.1.

B.11.10 Issue 195: Proposed Update UAX #34, Unicode Named Character Sequences
B.11.10.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.10.2 Document for review [Whistler, L2/11-405]

[129-A21] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to A.R.Amaithi Anantham re named sequences in PRI #195.

B.11.11 Issue 196: Proposed Update UAX #38, Unicode Han Database (Unihan)
B.11.11.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.11.2 Document for review [Jenkins, Cook, L2/11-390]

[129-C4] Consensus: Issue a PRI on the topic of removing kCompatibilityVariant from the Unihan database.

[129-A22] Action Item for John Jenkins, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Draft a PRI on the topic of removing kCompatibilityVariant from the Unihan database.

[129-A23] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the PRI on the topic of removing kCompatibilityVariant from the Unihan database.

[129-C5] Consensus: Issue a PRI to change fields kHanyuPinlu data values to be accented Pinyin instead of Numeric Pinyin, to be consistent with other Pinyin fields.

[129-A24] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Draft a PRI on changing fields kHanyuPinlu data values to be accented Pinyin instead of Numeric Pinyin, to be consistent with other Pinyin fields.

[129-A25] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the PRI on changing fields kHanyuPinlu data values to be accented Pinyin instead of Numeric Pinyin, to be consistent with other Pinyin fields.

[129-C6] Consensus: For the kSemanticVaraint and kSpecializedSemanticVariant tags add "j" and "f" to the existing "t" "b" "z" values for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A26] Action Item for John Jenkins: Update UAX #38 for the kSemanticVaraint and kSpecializedSemanticVariant tags to add "j" and "f" to the existing "t" "b" "z" values, and update documentation and the regex as needed.

[129-A27] Action Item for Eric Muller: Update UAX #42 with kSemanticVariant and kSpecializedSemanticVariant tag changes. See 129-C6.

[129-A28] Action Item for John Jenkins: Make other changes to the text of UAX #38 as discussed in the meeting.

B.11.12 Issue 197: Proposed Update UAX #41, Common References for Unicode Standard Annexes
B.11.12.2 Document for review [Danish, , L2/11-391]

[129-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the "Editor" in the header of UAX #41, for Unicode 6.1.

B.11.13 Issue 198: Proposed Update UAX #42, Unicode Character Database in XML
B.11.13.2 Document for review [Muller, L2/11-392]

[129-A30] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Modify the text for UAX #42 to add the No-block value where missing, and fix other attributes as discussed in the meeting.

B.11.14 Issue 199: Proposed Update UAX #44, Unicode Character Database
B.11.14.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.14.2 Document for review [Davis, Whistler, L2/11-393]
B.11.15 Issue 202: Extensions to NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0

[129-A31] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add the "@missing" comment with a value of <code point> to BidiMirroring.txt, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-C7] Consensus: Make the current long names for Age, like "1.1", be short names, and add long names of the form "V1_1", for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A32] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update PropertyValueAliases.txt for Age, for Unicode 6.1. See consensus 129-C7.

[129-C8] Consensus: For CCC, add aliases of the form "CCC10" for all those numeric values that are not in PropertyValueAliases and that occur or have occurred as values of property value aliases in our data, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A33] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update CCC in PropertyValueAliases.txt and make sure DerivedCombiningClass.txt uses the correct updated aliases, for Unicode 6.1. See consensus 129-C7.

[129-A34] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the text of UAX #44, to reflect the addition of symbolic aliases for CCC, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-C9] Consensus: Make the short name for the joining groups in PropertyValueAliases.txt be the same as the long name, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A35] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update joining group aliases in PropertyValueAliases.txt, for Unicode 6.1. See consensus 129-C7.

[129-A36] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the text of UAX #44 to reflect removal of "n/a" for Age and Joining Group.

[129-C10] Consensus: Update the regex tables 20 and 21 in section 5.11 of UAX #44 based on L2/11-381 #199, as amended in discussion, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A37] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the regex tables 20 and 21 in section 5.11 of UAX #44 based on L2/11-381 #199, as amended in discussion, for Unicode 6.1.

Meeting adjourned for the day at 5:40.


Day 2 - Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Joint meeting opened at 9:35.

Present: Google, Rearden, Adobe, Apple, MS, Yahoo, UCB, IBM, SAP
9 members present. Quorum is 5.5.

D.2 Assamese
D.2.1 Letters regarding Assamese [Haque, Phukan, L2/11-388]
D.2.2 Assamese Writing System in the Unicode [Friends of Assam, L2/11-350]
D.2.3 Article in Assamese [Barua, L2/11-407]

[129-A38] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Create a FAQ regarding Assamese.

[129-A39] Action Item for Lisa Moore, Editorial Committee: Add information on the derivation/history of Assamese and Bengali to the block intro in the core specification, for Unicode 6.1.

C.8 Additional evidence for the Azerbaijan Manat symbol [Pentzlin, L2/11-366]
C.8.1 L2/11-366
C.8.2 L2/11-231R
C.8.3 L2/11-420

[129-M1] Accept U+20BA AZERBAIJANI MANAT SIGN for encoding in a future version of the standard.

Moved by Eric Muller, Seconded by Rick McGowan
4 for (Adobe, Apple, Yahoo, IBM)
0 against
5 abstain (Google, SAP, Rearden, Microsoft, UCB)
Motion fails.

B.16 ICANN

Oral/PPT presentation by ICANN.

Short break 11:30 - 11:45

B.2.2.3.6 PDTR 20007 Information technology - Cultural and Linguistic Interoperability - Definition and relationship between symbols, icons, animated icons, pictograms, characters and glyphs [WG5, L2/11-424]

Long discussion.

B.2.2.3.3 WD 30112.3 Specification methods for cultural conventions (SC35-N1686) [SC35, L2/11-333]

Long discussion.

Lunch 1:00 - 2:00

B.14.1 Parsing the UCD [Davis, L2/11-358]

Long discussion.

B.14.2 Uniform Long Property (Value) Names [Davis, L2/11-378]

Long discussion.

[129-M2] Motion: Have the short name for unassigned value of Age be "NA", for Unicode 6.1.

Moved by Mark Davis, Seconded by Ken Whistler.
8 for (IBM, Google, SAP, Rearden, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, UCB)
1 against (Adobe)
0 abstain
Motion carries.

[129-A40] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update PropertyValueAliases.txt to reflect "NA" as the short name for unassigned value of Age, for Unicode 6.1.

B.14.3 Proposal to assign the Extender property to U+180A MONGOLIAN NIRUGU [Iancu, L2/11-401]

[129-C11] Consensus: Add U+180A MONGOLIAN NIRUGU to the Extender property for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A41] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add U+180A MONGOLIAN NIRUGU to the Extender property in PropList.txt for Unicode 6.1.

B.14.4 Proposal to change the General_Category of Hangul tone marks U+302E and U+302F [Iancu, L2/11-402]

Long discussion. Will come back to this.

B.14.6 Script Extensions as a Unicode Property [Davis, L2/11-406]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time. (See below.)

B.11.15 Issue 202: Extensions to NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0
B.11.15.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.15.2 Document for review [L2/11-394]

[129-A42] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to feedback from A.R.Amaithi Anantham on PRI #202.

[129-A43] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to feedback from Philippe Verdy on PRI #202.

[129-A44] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to feedback from Ben Scarborough on PRI #202.

(This will be taken up later, and will have some other actions.)

Meeting adjourned for the day at 5:35.


Day 3 - Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Members meeting 9:30 - 10:00.

Joint meeting opened at 10:00.

Present: IBM, Google, Rearden, Adobe, Apple, MS, Yahoo, UCB, SAP(proxy)
9 members present. Quorum is 5.5.

B.14.4 Proposal to change the General_Category of Hangul tone marks U+302E and U+302F [Iancu, L2/11-402]

[129-C12] Consensus: Change the General Category of U+302E HANGUL SINGLE DOT TONE MARK and U+302F HANGUL DOUBLE DOT TONE MARK from Mn to Mc, and add both charaters to the OtherGraphemeExtend property, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A45] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Change in UnicodeData.txt the general category of U+302E HANGUL SINGLE DOT TONE MARK and U+302F HANGUL DOUBLE DOT TONE MARK from Mn to Mc, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A46] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add U+302E HANGUL SINGLE DOT TONE MARK and U+302F HANGUL DOUBLE DOT TONE MARK to the OtherGraphemeExtend in PropList.txt for Unicode 6.1.

C.12 Proposal to Encode Medieval East-Slavic Musical Notation in Unicode [Shardt, et. al., L2/11-376]

[129-A47] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Follow up with authors of L2/11-376 with questions.

C.6 Revised code chart for Anatolian Hieroglyphs (WG2 N4147) [SEI/Everson, L2/11-363]

Oral report by Debbie Anderson. UTC took no action at this time.

C.5 Proposal for encoding the Woleai script in the SMP (WG2 N4146) [SEI/Everson, L2/11-362]

Oral report by Debbie Anderson. UTC took no action at this time.

B.12.1 UTS #37, Unicode Ideographic Variation Database
B.12.1.1 Minor proposed change [Lunde, L2/11-404]

[129-A48] Action Item for Ken Lunde, Editorial Committee: Update UTS #37 as discussed in the meeting, and post as an approved UTS.

[129-A49] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Forward the final UTS #37 with a comment on the change(s) to SC2, WG2, and IRG.

B.15.1 Stabilizing CJK Compatibility Ideographs through the use of the IVD [Lunde, L2/11-361]

Long discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

Lunch at 11:30 - 12:30.

Rollcall adjustment: SAP arrives in person.

D.8 Proposal to encode U+1107F BRAHMI NUMBER JOINER [Glass, Sharma, L2/11-357]
D.8.1 Feedback [Cowan, L2/11-381]

Discussion. (Truncated due to scheduled discussion below at 1:00.)

C.18.1 Emoji variation sequences [Edberg, et. al., L2/11-414]

[129-A50] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make udpates to section 16.4 of the core specification to indicate the appropriate changes of appearance based on variation sequences, based on the discussion in the meeting, for Unicode 6.1.

Short break.

B.11.2 Issue 185: Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs
B.11.2.1.1 Moderated feedback [Davis L2/11-425]
B.11.2.1.2 Feedback on PRI 185: Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs [Rosenne, L2/11-299]
B.11.2.1.3 BIDI handling of Structured Text [Mahlin, Allouche, L2/11-312R]
B.11.2.1.4 PRI #185 Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs [Dürst, L2/11-311]
B.11.2.1.5 Accumulated Feedback on PRI #185 (separate files) [Davis, L2/11-425
B.11.2.2 Document for review [Davis, L2/11-382]

Long discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

D.8 Proposal to encode U+1107F BRAHMI NUMBER JOINER [Glass, Sharma, L2/11-357]
D.8.1 Feedback [Cowan, L2/11-381]

More discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

B.9 Unicode Locales Project (CLDR)
B.9.1 Liaison report [Davis, Edberg]

Oral report by Mark Davis and Peter Edberg.

Meeting adjourned for the day at 5:40.


Day 4 - Thursday, November 3, 2011

Joint meeting opened at 9:45.

Present: Google, Rearden, Adobe, Apple, MS, Yahoo, UCB, IBM, SAP
9 members present. Quorum is 5.5.

B.11.18 Issue 205: Proposed addition of AL MARK and LEVEL DIRECTION MARK
B.11.18.1.1 Moderated feedback [Edberg, L2/11-398]
B.11.18.1.2 Preliminary proposal for UBA V.2 [Karlsson, L2/11-377]
B.11.18.2 Document for review [Edberg, L2/11-397]

[129-C13] Consensus: Accept encoding U+061C ARABIC LETTER MARK (abbreviation ALM) in a future version of the standard.

[129-A51] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+061C ARABIC LETTER MARK.

[129-A52] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Work with Roozbeh Pournader and Mohamed Mohie to reate a new proposal L2/11-432, to replace L2/11-005 and L2/11-278 for Arabic Letter Mark.

[129-A53] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add Arabic Letter Mark to the document

[129-A54] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Make or get a font for ALM and forward to Michel Suignard.

B.11.2 Issue 185: Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs
B.11.2.1.1 Moderated feedback [Davis]
B.11.2.1.2 Feedback on PRI 185: Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs [Rosenne, L2/11-299]
B.11.2.1.3 BIDI handling of Structured Text [Mahlin, Allouche, L2/11-312R]
B.11.2.1.4 PRI #185 Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs [Dürst, L2/11-311]
B.11.2.1.5 Accumulated Feedback on PRI #185 (separate files) [Davis, L2/11-425
B.11.2.2 Document for review [Davis, L2/11-382]

[129-A55] Action Item for Mark Davis: Post to the forum a summary of the discussion of PRI #185, to be referenced in the resolution of the PRI.

[129-A56] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close PRI #185 with the resolution that UTC is considering different options.

B.11.18 Issue 205: Proposed addition of AL MARK and LEVEL DIRECTION MARK
B.11.18.1.1 Moderated feedback [Edberg, L2/11-398]
B.11.18.1.2 Preliminary proposal for UBA V.2 [Karlsson, L2/11-377]
B.11.18.2 Document for review [Edberg, L2/11-397]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

B.11.20 Issue 207: Proposed Draft UTR #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text Layout
B.11.20.1.1 Moderated feedback [Muller, L2/11-423]
B.11.20.1.2 Revising UTR #50 [Iancu, L2/11-431]
B.11.20.2 Document for review [Muller, L2/11-400]

Long discussion.

Lunch 1:00 - 2:00.

C.14 Revised proposal for encoding the Mende script (WG2 N4133R) [SEI/Everson, L2/11-301R]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

C.15 Proposal for encoding the Caucasian Albanian script [SEI/Everson, L2/11-296R]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

C.19 Proposal for the addition of six Latin characters (WG2 N4030R) [Everson, L2/11-134]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

B.15.1 Stabilizing CJK Compatibility Ideographs through the use of the IVD [Lunde, L2/11-361]

[129-A57] Action Item for Ken Lunde: Forward revised copy of L2/11-361R to WG2.

B.11.14.1.2 Short Block Names L2/11-433

[129-C14] Consensus: Use the names in document L2/11-433 for the short property value aliases for the Block property subject to final review and refinement by the editorial committee, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A58] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Review the names and make the changes in L2/11-433 to PropertyValueAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1; and update the documentation.

[129-A59] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update UAX #44 text to reflect consensus 129-C14 and updates.

C.18.5 Emoji variation sequences list [Edberg, L2/11-429]

[129-C15] Consensus: Accept the variation sequences for distinguishing emoji given in L2/11-429 for addition to StandardizedVariants.txt for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A60] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add to the pipeline the variation sequences for distinguishing emoji given in L2/11-429.

[129-A61] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update StandardizedVariants.txt to add the variation sequences for distinguishing emoji given in L2/11-429.

[129-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update StandardizedVariants.html to add the variation sequences for distinguishing emoji given in L2/11-429.

[129-A63] Action Item for Peter Edberg: Supply the images for emoji relevant to consensus 129-C15 to Mark Davis with appropriate names for incorporation into StandardizedVariants.html.

[129-A64] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the new 214 standardized variation sequences to to request for additions. See L2/11-429 and 129-C15.

[129-A65] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with Peter Edberg to revise L2/11-429 to show a single glyph and foward to WG2 as a liaison contribution, with new document number L2/11-438.

[129-A66] Action Item for Peter Constable: Add the new 214 new standardized variants to liaison report.

[129-A67] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Create a couple lines of explanation about the keycap issues related to emoji variation sequences for insertion in the appropriate places in the standard or UCD files. See L2/11-429 and 129-C15.

[129-A68] Action Item for Peter Edberg: Give Ken Whistler a text dump of the new standardized variants for 214 emoji.

B.12.4 Proposed Update UTR #25, Unicode Support for Mathematics [Sargent, L2/11-434]

[129-C16] Consensus: Approve the publication of new UTR #25 Unicode Support for Mathematics, based on L2/434.

[129-A69] Action Item for Murray Sargent, Editorial Committee: Update, review UTR #25 (version 13) L2/11-424.

[129-A70] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post TR25-13 UTR #25 with associated data file 13 as approved UTR.

B.11.15.1.2 Perl names aliases still missing [Pournader, L2/11-428R]

[129-C17] Consensus: Approve the contents of NameAliasesProv-6.1.0d2.txt (in PRI #202) with (1 addition of the name aliases in L2/11-428R; (2) changing 0099 SCGI to SGC; and (3) deletion of "BELL" entry from the list. For Unicode 6.1.

[129-A71] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update NameAliases.txt in the UCD based on content of NameAliasesProv-6.1.d2.txt as per the consensus 129-C17 above.

[129-A72] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the description of NameAliases.txt in UAX #44, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A73] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the description of NameAliases.txt in Chapter 3 and the use and display of NamedAliases in chapter 17, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A74] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Create and document an XML representation of the named alias property values. UAX #42, and associated data files.

[129-A75] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add text to UTS #18 regarding how to handle named aliases with regular expressions.

[129-A76] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Inform the Perl Foundation representative Karl Williamson of these changes to NameAliases.txt, and that UTC hopes this will resolve the problem with the encoding of BELL breaking Perl. We hope that this is now a complete and final set, not to be extended in the future without first requesting the addition to NameAliases.

[129-A77] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Compose a "health warning" about the use of arbitrary name aliases, for inclusion in UAX #44, subject to editorial approval.

[129-A78] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Compose a "health warning" about the use of arbitrary name aliases, for inclusion in UTS #18, subject to editorial approval.

[129-A79] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close PRI #202.

[129-A80] Action Item for Peter Edberg, Editorial Committee: Create and post a summary of PRI #205 in the forum.

[129-A81] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close PRI #205, with a link to Peter Edberg's summary.

Meeting adjourned for the day at 5:30.


Day 5 - Friday, November 4, 2011

Joint meeting opened at 9:45.

Present: Google, UCB, Rearden, Adobe, Apple, MS, Yahoo, IBM, SAP
9 members present. Quorum is 5.5.

D.3 Proposal to encode the Modi script (WG2 N4034) [Pandey, L2/11-212R2]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

D.12 Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script [Pandey, L2/11-412]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

D.9.1 Proposal to Encode the Sign Anji for Bengali [Pandey, L2/11-359]

[129-A82] Action Item for Anshuman Pandey: Update L2/11-359 based on discussion in meeting to provide more documentation of the behavior of the Anji sign for Bengali.

D.9.2 Request to Add Annotations for Bengali ISSHAR to the Names List [Pandey, L2/11-365]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

D.9.3 Revisions and Additional Annotations to the Names List for Bengali [Pandey, L2/11-413]

[129-A83] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, Editorial Committee: Review additional suggestions in L2/11-413.

[129-A84] Action Item for Anshuman Pandey: Update L2/11-359 based on discussion in meeting to provide more documentation of the behavior in related scripts.

D.8 Proposal to encode U+1107F BRAHMI NUMBER JOINER [Glass, Sharma, L2/11-357]

[129-C18] Consensus: Accept U+1107F BRAHMI NUMBER JOINER for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as defined in L2/11-357R.

[129-A85] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect encoding of U+1107F BRAHMI NUMBER JOINER in a future version of the standard.

[129-A86] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+1107F BRAHMI NUMBER JOINER to doc requesting new additions. See L2/11-357.

[129-A87] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Make or get a font for U+1107F and send to Michel Suignard.

[129-A88] Action Item for Andrew Glass: Forward the proposal to Mike Ksar for WG2 consideration as an expert contribution.

B.11.19.1.3 Feedback on Unicode Version 6.1 Beta [Scherer, L2/11-427]

[129-A89] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make changes to IDNA mapping table to fix the formatting as discussed in L2/11-427, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A90] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add a semicolon to the "@missing" line in SpecialCasing.txt for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A91] Action Item for Mark Davis: Fix the UCA 6.1 bug in FractionalUCA.txt as reported in L2/11-427.

[129-A92] Action Item for Mark Davis: Fix the errors in BidiTest.txt as reported in L2/11-427.

B.11.19.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]

[129-A93] Action Item for Mark Davis: Titlecase the long name for Font, None, Sub, and Wide, as reported in L2/11-381 in PropertyValueAliases.txt for 6.1.

[129-A94] Action Item for Mark Davis: Include Karl Williamson's comments on inconsistent "@missing" in a document combining info from L2/11-358 and L2/11-381, for consideration at the next UTC meeting.

[129-A95] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Karl Williamson on "@missing" and disposition of his other comments in L2/11-381.

[129-A96] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Shriramana Sharma that we aren't going to make the Tifinagh change suggested in his feedback in L2/11-381, and invite him to review the (updated) text of Tifinagh block intro.

[129-A97] Action Item for Mark Davis: Fix the Unicode 6.1 DerivedBidiClass.txt as reported by Markus Scherer in L2/11-381.

[129-A98] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Markus Scherer re his 6.1 beta feedback.

[129-A99] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to David Lasher re 6.1 Lao chart.

[129-C19] Consensus: Change the bidi category of U+1F48C LOVE LETTER and U+1F524 INPUT SYMBOL FOR LATIN LETTERS from "L" to "ON".

[129-A100] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Fix the bidi classes of U+1F48C LOVE LETTER and U+1F524 INPUT SYMBOL FOR LATIN LETTERS, from "L" to "ON", for Unicode 6.1.

B.11.19.1.2 Unicode 6.1 Beta feedback [Vallois, L2/11-383]

[129-A101] Action Item for John Jenkins: Look at UAX #38 feedback in L2/11-383 and make fixes if needed for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A102] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Emmanuel Vallois on (both parts of) L2/11-383.

[129-A103] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Add a line of text to UAX #44 stating that the regex could change from release to release, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A104] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Add a line of text to UAX #38 stating that the regex could change from release to release, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A105] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Add a line of text to UAX #42 stating that the regex could change from release to release, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A106] Action Item for Mark Davis: Produce a document with recommendations for the use and format of regex for validating UCD data, considering the feedback in L2/11-383.

B.14.6 Script Extensions as a Unicode Property [Davis, L2/11-406R]

[129-C20] Consensus: Create a new provisional property ScriptExtensions, and make the related changes to data files, annexes, and the core specification as per document L2/11-406R, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A107] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make the change in PropertyAliases.txt and ScriptExtensions.txt, to create a new provisional property ScriptExtensions, and add a comment to PropertyValuesAliases.txt, for Unicode 6.1. See L2/11-406R and consensus 129-C20.

[129-A108] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update UAX #44 for the new ScriptExtensions property, in Unicode 6.1.

[129-A108a] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update UAX #24 for the new ScriptExtensions property, in Unicode 6.1.

[129-A109] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update Section 3.5 of the core spec, for the new ScriptExtensions property, in Unicode 6.1.

[129-A110] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update UTS #18, for the new ScriptExtensions property, in Unicode 6.1.

[129-A111] Action Item for Eric Muller: Update UAX #42, for the new ScriptExtensions property, in Unicode 6.1.

B.11.16 Issue 203: Proposed Update UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm
B.11.16.1.1 General feedback [L2/11-381]
B.11.16.2 Document for review [Davis, Whistler, L2/11-395]

[129-A112] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the DUCET to change the sort order of U+2D66 to occur in primary order after U+2D3B, based on feedback in L2/11-381, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A113] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Provide an updated CTT table to the editor of ISO 14651. See L2/11-395.

[129-A114] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to David Gimeno i Ayuso re middle dot: UTC reviwed the suggestion, and decided it would cause too many problems to change the category of this character.

[129-A115] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Review Shriramana Sharma's comments on properties of PUA codepoints to evaluate making any possible documentation changes.

[129-A116] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Shriramana Sharma re PUA properties in L2/11-381.

[129-A117] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Review the feedback from Amaithi re ISC and IMC. Indic_Syllabic_Category and # Indic_Matra_Category provisional property and make any necessary updates for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A118] Action Item for John Jenkins: Consider feedback on Unihan from Didier Barbas and make any necessary changes for 6.1.

[129-A119] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Correct the Tifinagh info, page 434, based on feedback from Shriramana Sharma in L2/11-381, for Unicode 6.1.

[129-A120] Action Item for John Jenkins: Define "U-Source Ideographs" in the next version of UTR #45. See L2/11-381, feedback from Otto Stolz.

[129-A121] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Otto Stolz re UTR #45: this will be done in a subsequent version.

[129-A122] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with Shriramana Sharma to make a document on handling of reph in Telugu. See L2/11-381.

[129-A123] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Look into the issues with UTR #26 CESU as reported by Hans Mau in L2/11-381.

[129-A124] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Carry forward John Cowan's feedback on L2/11-373 to the next meeting. See L2/11-381.

Break for lunch at 12:55 - 2:05, with vertical text ad-hoc.

B.11.20 Issue 207: Proposed Draft UTR #50, Unicode Properties for Vertical Text Layout
B.11.20.1.1 Moderated feedback [Muller, L2/11-423]
B.11.20.1.2 Revising the Proposed Draft UTR #50 Unicode Properties for Vertical Text Layout [Iancu, Robinson, L2/11-431]
B.11.20.2 Document for review [Muller, L2/11-400]

[129-A125] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend the close date of PRI #207 for UTR #50 to January 30, 2012.

[129-A126] Action Item for Eric Muller: Update the proposed draft UTR #50, based on discussion at the meeting.

[129-A127] Action Item for Eric Muller: Post into the forum for PRI #207 a status update on PD UTR #50.

D.3 Proposal to encode the Modi script (WG2 N4034) [Pandey, L2/11-212R2]

[129-C21] Consensus: Accept 79 Modi characters at U+11600 - U+11659 with block "Modi" at U+11600 - U+1165F, for encoding in a future version of the standard. See L2/11-212R2.

[129-A128] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 79 Modi characters at U+11600 - U+11659 with block "Modi" at U+11600 - U+1165F.

[129-A129] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add 79 Modi characters at U+11600 - U+11659 with block "Modi" at U+11600 - U+1165F to document requesting new additions.

[129-A130] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Send Modi font to Michel Suignard.

[129-A131] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with Anshuman Pandey to update the proposal summary form in L2/11-212R2 to 79 characters, and forward to WG2. Make sure the block range is also updated in section 3.2.

B.11.3 Issue 188: Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
B.11.3.1.2 On the Stability and proposed Extensions for the Unicode Bidi Algorithm [Freytag, L2/11-418]
B.11.3.2 Document for review [Davis, L2/11-291]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

[129-A132] Action Item for Ken Whistler: In finalizing UTS #10 for 6.1, change the word "pending" in table 20 to the actual release date.

[129-A133] Action Item for Mark Davis: In UTS #10, fix the text of the "Script Reorder" spec in table 14, collation parameters. For 6.1.

[129-C22] Consensus: Approve UTS #10 UCA for publication.

[129-A134] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close PRI #203.

[129-A135] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make updates and prep UTS #10 for publication, for 6.1.

[129-A136] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post UTS #10 for final publication, for 6.1.

B.2.2.3.6 PDTR 20007 Information technology - Cultural and Linguistic Interoperability - Definition and relationship between symbols, icons, animated icons, pictograms, characters and glyphs [WG5, L2/11-424]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

B.2.2.3.3 WD 30112.3 Specification methods for cultural conventions (SC35-N1686) [SC35, L2/11-333]

[129-C23] Consensus: Approve ballot comments in documents L2/11-436 (on L2/11-424) and L2/11-437 (L2/11-333).

B.2.2.4.2 14651
B.2.2.4.2.3 Ballot comments [Anderson, L2/11-329]

[129-C24] Consensus: Approve ballot comments on ISO 14651, given in L2/11-329.

B.14.5 UCD in XML Property Issues [Davis, L2/11-435]

[129-A137] Action Item for Mark Davis, Eric Muller: Look over the default values for the UCD in XML and make sure they're correct, and fix if not.

[129-A138] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add InMC and InSC as short names for Indic Matra and Indic Syllabic categories as enumerated properties in PropertyAliases.txt, and a note that the enumerated values are not yet present in PropertyValueAliases.txt, for Unicode 6.1.

B.13.3 Approve Unicode 6.1 for release

[129-C25] Consensus: Approve Unicode 6.1 for release after making any outstanding fixes.

[129-A139] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Release Unicode 6.1 (data files, UAXes, code charts, UTS #10) planned for February 15, 2012.

[129-A140] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close all of the UAX PRIs for Unicode 6.1.

B.11.17 Issue 204: Proposed Update UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing
B.11.17.1.2 Action Item 123-A83a
B.11.17.1.3 ICANN TLD case studies
B.11.17.2 Document for review [Davis, Suignard, L2/11-396]

[129-A141] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update the UTS #46 data files to address any problems found by Markus Scherer and Patrik Fältström.

[129-C26] Consensus: Approve UTS #46 version 6.1 for release on or after the release date of Unicode 6.1.

[129-A142] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update and prepare approved UTS #46 for publication.

[129-A143] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the approved UTS #46.

[129-A144] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close PRI #204.

B.13.3 Approve Unicode 6.1 for release

[129-A145] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #9 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A146] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #11 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A147] Action Item for Andy Heninger, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #14 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A148] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #15 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A149] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #24 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A150] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #29 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A151] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #31 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A152] Action Item for Addison Phillips, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #34 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A153] Action Item for John Jenkins, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #38 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A154] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #41 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A155] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #42 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A156] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make required updates and prep UAX #44 final text for Unicode 6.1 release.

[129-A157] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post all of the 12 UAXes for Unicode 6.1.

[129-C27] Consensus: Approve the request for new additions in L2/11-330.

UTC adjourned at 4:12 pm.

L2 continued.


UTC Attendance

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Deborah Anderson UC Berkeley
Peter Constable Microsoft
Craig Cummings Rearden
John Daggett Mozilla
Mark Davis Google
Rabin Deka self
Joey Diab Apple
Peter Edberg Apple
Elika Etemad W3C
Andrew Glass Microsoft
Ned Holbrook Apple
Aki Inoue Apple
Koji Ishii W3C
John Jenkins Apple
Bassam Kachkouch Apple
Yasuo Kida Apple
Mike Ksar WG2
Chris Little LSA
Ken Lunde Adobe
Rick McGowan Unicode
Katsuhiko Momoi Google
Lisa Moore IBM
Eric Muller Adobe
Roozbeh Pournader Google
Alexey Proskuryakov Apple
Brent Ramerth Apple
Murray Sargent Microsoft
Markus Scherer Google
Michel Suignard Unicode
Linus Tanaka Yahoo
Tex Texin Rearden
Vivek V.C. self
Ken Whistler Sybase/SAP
Morgan Winer Apple
   
By Phone
Martin Dürst W3C
Naga Ganesan self
Laurentiu Iancu Microsoft
Patrick Jones ?
Mohamed Mohie self
Anshuman Pandey self
Naela Sarras ?
Shriramana Sharma self
Shawn Steele Microsoft
Andrew Sullivan ?

 


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1. Adobe Systems, Inc. yes yes yes yes yes
2. Andhra Pradesh, MIT  
       
3. Apple, Inc. yes yes yes yes yes
4. Google, Inc. yes yes yes yes yes
5. IBM Corporation yes yes yes yes yes
6. Microsoft Corporation yes yes yes yes yes
7. Oracle America, Inc.          
8. Rearden Commerce, Inc. yes yes yes  yes yes
9. SAP AG yes yes yes yes yes
10. Yahoo! yes yes yes yes yes
           
Institutional Member          
1. Bangladesh, MOSICT          
2. India, MIT          
3. UC Berkeley yes yes yes yes yes
4. W Bengal SNLTR          
           
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