L2/13-132R

Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 136
Redmond, WA -- July 29 - August 2, 2013
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #136 Agenda
Revision date: October 15, 2013

Monday, July 29, 2013

Administrative — Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Sultanate of Oman, MARA, UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Inc. 8 full members and 1 institutional member present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh MIT, Bangladesh MSICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu and Tamil Virtual University, West Bengal SNLTR 2 full members, 4 institutional members, and 1 supporting member not present, 6.5 total votes

  UTC 137 — November 4-8, 2013, Cupertino, host Apple, Annual Members Mtg
  UTC 138 — February 3-7, 2014, North San Jose, host IBM
  UTC 139 — May 5-9, 2014, San Jose, host Adobe
  UTC 140 — August 4-8, 2014, host Microsoft

Administrative — Minutes Approval (A.5.1)

[136-C0] Consensus: Approve the minutes of UTC Meeting 135 as documented in L2/13-058R and modified during discussion. 

[136-A1] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Chandan Misra regarding Akarmatrik music notation symbols. [L2/13-157]

Properties — Script and Script_Extensions Properties for KAYAH LI SIGN CWI (B.14.1)

[136-C1] Consensus: Change the script property of U+A92E KAYAH LI SIGN CWI to "Common" and add ScriptExtension properties of Latin, Kayah Li, and Myanmar for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-137]

[136-A2] Action Item for Mark Davis: Change the script property of U+A92E KAYAH LI SIGN CWI to "Common" and add ScriptExtension properties of Latin, Kayah Li, and Myanmar, for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-137]

Other  — Name Uniqueness Criteria (B.16.1) 

[136-A3] Action Item for Mark Davis: Look at disentangling the name space limitations from loose matching. [L2/13-142]

[136-C2] Consensus: Accept U+0AF9 GUJARATI LETTER ZHA for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/13-143]

[136-A4] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+0AF9 GUJARATI LETTER ZHA . [L2/13-143]

[136-A5] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+0AF9 GUJARATI LETTER ZHA to the document requesting new additions in 10646. [L2/13-143]

[136-C3] Consensus: Approve Unicode Technical Standard #18, Unicode Regular Expressions for publication. [L2/13-101]

[136-A6] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Review feedback on Unicode Technical Standard #18, Unicode Regular Expressions (Public Review Issue #252) and make any necessary editorial updates. [L2/13-134]

[136-A7] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #252.

[136-A8] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Publish the approved and updated Unicode Technical Standard #18, Unicode Regular Expressions.

[136-A9] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Review comments on Gabonese and Ivorian Latin characters and prepare ballot comments. [L2/13-163]

Scripts — Slavonic Punctuation Mark (C.5.3.1) 

[136-A10] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Discussthe proposal to encode a Slavonic punctuation mark with Jost Gippert. [L2/13-140]

Tuesday July 30, 2013

Administrative — Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Sultanate of Oman, MARA, UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Inc. 8 full members and 1 institutional member present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh MIT, Bangladesh MSICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu and Tamil Virtual University, West Bengal SNLTR 2 full members, 4 institutional members, and 1 supporting member not present, 6.5 total votes

Public Review Issue 254 — Testing the Bidirectional Algorithm (B.11.4)

[136-A11] Action Item for Mark Davis: Put up a notice in the Unicode bidi demo by the time Unicode 6.3 ships.

[136-A12] Action Item for Mark Davis: Switch over the implementation of the bidi demo to use the new reference code in 4Q 2013.

[136-A13] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Add regression tests to BidiTest.txt, for Unicode 6.3.

[136-A14] Action Item for Laurențiu Iancu: Add regression tests to BidiCharacterTest.txt, for Unicode 6.3.

[136-A15] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Post the C Bidi reference implementation to synchronize with Unicode 6.3, and the Java implementation once it's available.

[136-A16] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #254.

Properties — Inconsistencies between "@missing" directives (B.14.2)

[136-C4] Consensus: Remove the @missing line from BidiBrackets.txt; add @missing for Bidi_Paired_Bracket_Type to PropertyValueAliases.txt; and add documentation to Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database based on L2/13-169; for Unicode 6.3. [L2/13-169]

[136-A17] Action Item for Laurențiu Iancu: Remove @missing from BidiBrackets.txt for Unicode 6.3. [L2/13-169]

[136-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add the bidi Paired Bracket type @missing values to PropertyValuesAliases.txt for Unicode 6.3. [L2/13-169]

[136-A19] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Laurențiu Iancu, Editorial Committee: Upate Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database regarding inconsistencies between "@missing" directives for Unicode 6.3. [L2/13-169]

[136-A20] Action Item for Laurențiu Iancu: Produce a list of the duplicate and missing (non-binary) @missings. [L2/13-169]

Public Review Issue 249 — Unicode 6.3 Beta Review (B.11.1)

[136-A21] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader, Editorial Committee: Update the Arabic section of the core specification to say that lam-alef ligatures are not obligatory; for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-134]

[136-A22] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass: Clarify the exact behavior of U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE for Mongolian and report to the UTC. [L2/13-134]

[136-A23] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Andy Heninger and mail@badral.net error report in Public Review Issue #249 feedback: As of Version 6.3 the Mongolian Vowel Separator is not whitespace. The NNSP is and will remain a whitespace; it can't be changed. The issues around Mongolian are being investigated. [L2/13-134]

[136-A24] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader, Tom Milo, Editorial Committee: Consider feedback given in C.E.Whitehead's first two comments on Lam-Alef and Teh Marbuta in updating the Arabic section of the core specification for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-134]

[136-A25] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to C.E. Whitehead's first two comments (Lam-Alef and Teh Marbuta) and punctuation. [L2/13-134]

[136-A26] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Review C.E. Whiteheads comments regarding punctuation on page 252. [L2/13-134]

[136-A27] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Regenerate the UCD XML files, sorting lists in codepoint order when applicable, for Unicode 6.3.

[136-A28] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Document use of codepoint order in lists in Unicode Standard Annex #42, Unicode Character Database in XML for Unicode 6.3.

[136-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Andrew West on the XML-related issues reported in L2/13-134.

[136-A30] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Daniel Bünzli feedback on Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database. [L2/13-134]

[136-A31] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Fix the problems in the character range counts noted by Andrew West in his feed back on Indic Syllabic Category. [L2/13-134]

[136-A32] Action Item for Rick MGowan: Respond to Andrew West regarding his feedback on Indic Syllabic Category. [L2/13-134]

[136-A33] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Stephan Stiller regarding his feedback on apex/sicilicus. [L2/13-134]

[136-A34] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #249.

[136-A35] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to John Cowan on Leke, the author will review his feedback. [L2/13-134]

[136-A36] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Tim Larson regarding his feedback. [L2/13-134]

[136-A37] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Dave Thompson's error report on Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations. [L2/13-134]

[136-A38] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Review Dave Thompson's error report on Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations. [L2/13-134]

[136-C5] Consensus: Accept U+20BC MANAT SIGN for encoding in Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-154]

[136-C6] Consensus: Change the codepoint and names for the following two characters: [L2/13-154]

U+A7AE LATIN SMALL LETTER INVERTED ALPHA => U+AB64 LATIN SMALL LETTER INVERTED ALPHA
U+A7AF LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OMEGA => U+AB65 GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OMEGA

[136-C7] Consensus: Change the names of two Siddham punctuation marks: [L2/13-154]

U+115C4 SIDDHAM SEPARATOR-1 => U+115C4 SIDDHAM SEPARATOR DOT
U+115C5 SIDDHAM SEPARATOR-2 => U+115C5 SIDDHAM SEPARATOR BAR.

[136-C8] Consensus: Accept 19 Pahawh Hmong clan logographs at U+16B7D..U+16B8F for encoding in Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-150]

[136-C9] Consensus: Approve the change of script name, block name, and the names of all characters for Kikakui to Mende Kikakui (U+1E800..U+1E8DF), for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-154]

[136-C10] Consensus: Add "| U+FF1F" to the IDS syntax section of the core specification to bring it into alignment with 10646, for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-154]

[136-A39] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Add "| U+FF1F" to the IDS syntax section of the core specification to bring it into alignment with 10646, for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-154]

[136-C11] Consensus: Accept U+A78F LATIN LETTER SINOLOGICAL DOT for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/13-154]

[136-C12] Consensus: Approve the name change for U+AB60 LATIN SMALL LETTER SAKHA IOTIFIED A to U+AB60 LATIN SMALL LETTER SAKHA YAT. [L2/13-154]

[136-C13] Consensus: Change the script, block, and character names of "Hungarian" to "Old Hungarian". [L2/13-154]

[136-C14] Consensus: Move characters: [L2/13-154]

		U+111CE SHARADA CONTINUATION SIGN
		U+111DB SHARADA HEADSTROKE
		U+111DC SHARADA SIGN SIDDHAM
		U+111DD SHARADA SECTION MARK-1
		U+111DE SHARADA SECTION MARK-2

To:

		U+111DB SHARADA SIGN SIDDHAM
		U+111DC SHARADA HEADSTROKE
		U+111DD SHARADA CONTINUATION SIGN
		U+111DE SHARADA SECTION MARK-1
		U+111DF SHARADA SECTION MARK-2

[136-C15] Consensus: Approve the revised repertoire of 14 Siddham section marks from: [L2/13-151]

		U+115CB SIDDHAM SECTION MARK-2
		U+115CC SIDDHAM SECTION MARK-3
		U+115CE SIDDHAM SECTION MARK-5
		U+115CF SIDDHAM SECTION MARK-6
		U+115D0 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK-7
		U+115D1 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK-8
		U+115D4 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK-11

To:

		115CA SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH TRIDENT AND U-SHAPED ORNAMENTS
		115CB SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH TRIDENT AND DOTTED CRESCENTS
		115CC SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH RAYS AND DOTTED CRESCENTS
		115CD SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH RAYS AND DOTTED DOUBLE CRESCENTS
		115CE SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH RAYS AND DOTTED TRIPLE CRESCENTS
		115CF SIDDHAM SECTION MARK DOUBLE RING
		115D0 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK DOUBLE RING WITH RAYS
		115D1 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH DOUBLE CRESCENTS
		115D2 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH TRIPLE CRESCENTS
		115D3 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH QUADRUPLE CRESCENTS
		115D4 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH SEPTUPLE CRESCENTS
		115D5 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH CIRCLES AND RAYS
		115D6 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH CIRCLES AND TWO ENCLOSURES
		115D7 SIDDHAM SECTION MARK WITH CIRCLES AND FOUR ENCLOSURES

[136-C16] Consensus: Approve a change in range for Early Dynastic Cuneiform:

 U+124D3..U+12544 => U+124D2..U+12543

[136-C17] Consensus: Approve 26 Hatran characters with block Hatran at U+108E0..U+108FF, with code points, names, and glyphs as shown in L2/13-151 for a future version of the standard.

[136-C18] Consensus: Approve 583 Anatolian Hieroglyphs at U+14400..U+14646, with block Anatolian Hieroglyphs at U+14400..U+1467F, with code points, names, and glyphs as shown in L2/13-151 for encoding in a future version of the standard.

[136-C29] Consensus: Accept 5762 CJK characters at U+2B820..U+2CEA1 with block CJK Extension E at U+2B820..U+2CEAF, with code points and glyphs as shown in L2/13-151 for encoding in a future version of the standard.

[136-A40] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline based on decisions regarding the WG2 consent docket, document L2/13-154.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Administrative — Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Sultanate of Oman, MARA, UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Inc. 8 full members and 1 institutional member present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh MIT, Bangladesh MSICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu and Tamil Virtual University, West Bengal SNLTR 2 full members, 4 institutional members, and 1 supporting member not present, 6.5 total votes

[136-A41] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Relay feedback on Siddham digits to Anshuman Pandey. [L2/13-135]

[136-A42] Action Item for Andrew Glass, Deborah Anderson: Draft a document suggesting an alternative way of representing the required variants involving the Siddham sign "u" and "uu". [L2/13-136]

[136-A43] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to C. E. Whitehead to thank her for comments on Draft Unicode TR #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout; they are being remanded to the editorial committee for review. [L2/13-134]

WG2 — Presentation of vertical scripts (B.1.7 ) 

[136-C20] Consensus: The UTC supports the change in orientation for the Mongolian and Phags-pa scripts in the code charts, for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-146]

[136-C21] Consensus: The next publication of UTR #50 should reference the DIS 10646 Fourth Edition code charts for the orientation of Mongolian and Phags-pa. [L2/13-146]

[136-A44] Action Item for Koji Ishii, Editorial Committee: Include information on the orientation for Mongolian and Phags-pa in the next update of UTR #50. [L2/13-146]

WG2 — Extending 288 MULTILINGUAL LATIN SUBSET (B.1.9)

[136-A45] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add to the US ballot comments a comment supporting the position to extend the fixed collection 288 MULTILINGUAL LATIN SUBSET. [L2/13-171]

Administrative — Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG, Sultanate of Oman, MARA, UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Inc. 8 full members and 1 institutional member present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh MIT, Bangladesh MSICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu and Tamil Virtual University, West Bengal SNLTR 2 full members, 4 institutional members, and 1 supporting member not present, 6.5 total votes

Scripts — Arabic Characters for Arwi (C.4.1)

[136-C22] Consensus: Accept three characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/13-130]

U+08B3 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
U+08B4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW
U+08E3 ARABIC TURNED DAMMA BELOW

[136-A46] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add three new Arabic letters to pipeline. [L2/13-130]

U+08B3 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
U+08B4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW
U+08E3 ARABIC TURNED DAMMA BELOW

[136-A47] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the three new Arabic letters (U+08B3..U+08B4, U+08E3) to the document requesting new additions to 10646.  [L2/13-130]

[136-A48] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font for three new Arabic letters (U+08B3..U+08B4, U+08E3) to Michel Suignard. [L2/13-130]

[136-A49] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Update the proposal to encode three Arabic letters for Arwi per the discussion in he UTC and forward to WG2. [L2/13-130]

South Asian — Grantha Sub-base Vocalic Signs (D.2.1)

[136-A50] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Shriramana Sharma that after discussion, UTC declined to encode these signs. [L2/10-341, L2/11-351]

South Asian — Tamil Names in Tamil Fractions and Symbols (D.5.1) 

[136-A51] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Ask Shriramana Sharma to review the document on using Tamil names in Tamil fractions and symbols and submit his feedback to both WG2 and the UTC, before the November 2013 UTC meeting. [L2/13-161, L2/13-047]

[136-A52] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Respond to Tamil Virtual Academy that we will take up their proposal on using Tamil names at the November UTC meeting. [L2/13-161]

[136-A53] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add the document on using Tamil names in Tamil fractions and symbols and related documents to the agenda for November 2013 UTC meeting. [L2/13-161]

Scripts — Combining Half Marks for Cyrillic Supralineation (C.5.1) 

[136-C23] Consensus: Accept two Cyrillic characters for encoding in a future version of the standard: [L2/13-139]

		U+FE2E COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO LEFT HALF
		U+FE2F COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO RIGHT HALF

[136-A54] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add U+FE2E COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO LEFT HALF and U+FE2F COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO RIGHT HALF to the pipeline. [L2/13-139]

[136-A55] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+FE2E COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO LEFT HALF and U+FE2F COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO RIGHT HALF to the document requesting new additions to 10646. [L2/13-139]

[136-A56] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font to Michel Suignard for U+FE2E COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO LEFT HALF and U+FE2F COMBINING CYRILLIC TITLO RIGHT HALF. [L2/13-139]

[136-A57] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with authors of L2/13-139 to forward the document to WG2.

Scripts — Standardized Variation Sequences for Church Slavonic (C.5.3.2 ) 

[136-A58] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Reply to authors of L2/13-153 that the UTC does not support these variation sequences. If there is any need for some of them in plain text, there should be an encoding proposal. [L2/13-153]

[136-C24] Consensus: The UTC authorizes the Editorial Committee to make necessary editorial updates to the annexes without requiring public review for each annex.

[136-C25] Consensus: The UTC approves the release of Unicode 6.3.

[136-A59] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Release the Unicode Standard, Version 6.3.

Public Review Issue 253 — Vertical Text Layout (B.11.3)

[136-M1] Motion: Approve the publication of Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout as an approved technical report after updates based on the recommendations of the ad hoc committee and the change in orientation in the charts of Mongolian and Phags-pa. [L2/13-173]

Moved by Laurențiu Iancu, Seconded by Eric Muller
7 for (Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, UCB, Yahoo!)
0 against
2 abstain (Oman, SAP)

Motion passes.

[136-A60] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #253.

[136-A61] Action Item for Laurențiu Iancu: Regenerate and post the Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout data files.

[136-A61a] Action Item for Koji Ishii, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout and post as approved.

[136-A62] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Reflect WG2 resolution 61.05 in the text of the core specification, for Unicode 7.0. [L2/13-144]

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