The UTC will be conducted via a two-day Zoom meeting. Most topics are organized into categories according to sub-committees or working groups that have discussed topics in advance and provided recommendations. UTC discussions for the topic categories are pre-scheduled. Specific topics within each category will be discussed within the scheduled time window. In certain cases, specific topics may be scheduled for a specific time.
See the meeting logistics page for a schedule summary.
Quorum will be verified each morning and throughout the meeting. All members need to make proxy designations in advance.
Dates and times shown are Pacific time (UTC-08:00).
Scheduled Activities
The following individual topics are scheduled for discussion at specific times.
| Agenda item / Topic | Document | Day and Time |
|---|---|---|
| “Trojan Source” Vulerabilities | L2/22-007 | Tuesday, 11:00 am |
| Property name / value alias stability | L2/22-029 | Tuesday, 12:00 pm |
Meeting Opening
Deferral to L2 chair to start L2 meeting and L2 topics.
A. Administrative Topics
Schedule: Tuesday, 9:30 am; Thursday 9:30 am, 11:15 am
A.1 Consortium membership; meeting quorum and proxies
A.2 Agenda review
A.3 Approval of minutes of prior meeting [L2/21-167]
A.4 Action item review
A.5 Calendar review [Calendar]
B. Liaison Reports
Schedule: Tuesday, 10:35 am, 12:45 pm, 2:00 pm; Thursday 4:15 pm
B.1 JTC 1/SC 2
B.2 IRG
B.3 ICU
B.4 CLDR
B.5 TC 37/SC 2
B.6 IETF / ICANN
B.7 SEI [Anderson, L2/22-024]
B.8 INFITT
C. Editorial Committee Report
Schedule: Tuesday, 9:55 am
Discussion led by EdComm vice-chair, Ken Whistler
C.1 Editorial Committee Report and Recommendations for UTC #170 Meeting [Whistler, L2/22-020]
D. Scripts
D. 1 Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals [Anderson, et al, L2/22-023]
Schedule: Tuesday, 2:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Discussion led by Script Ad Hoc chair, Debbie Anderson, and vice-chair, Roozbeh Pournader
Script topics:
- Cyrillic Letter Multiocular O [Everson, L2/22-002]
- Cyrillic Modifier Letters [Miller, L2/22-010]
- Latin: African Reference Alphabet
- Latin: Problematic casing pair used by some African orthographies [Silva, L2-21-229]
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Latin: Closed Insular G
Documents:
- Glyph Corrections for U+AD70 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CLOSED INSULAR G and U+AD71 LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED INSULAR G [Baker, L2/21-242]
- On the glyph of LATIN LETTER CLOSED INSULAR G [Everson and West, L2/22-004]
- Comment on “On the glyph of LATIN LETTER CLOSED INSULAR G” by M. Everson and A. West [Baker, L2/21-243]
- Adinkra: Response to Unicode Technical Committee [Korankye, L2/21-237]
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs: format control characters [Glass, et al, L2/21-248]
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs: variation sequences for rotations [Werning, L2/22-012]
- Garay [Rovenchak, et al, L2/22-030]
- Arabic: alef with right hamza [Lateef Sagar Shaikh, L2/22-035]
- Arabic: characters for Balochi [Qazi Rehan, L2/21-238]
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Arabic: Kazakh digraphs
Documents:
- China ballot comments to ISO/IEC 10646 CDAM 1 ballot
- Request for glyph changes and annotations for Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Uyghur [Evans, L2/20-289]
- Chinese comments on WG2 N5155 [Wushour Silamu and Eiso Chan, L2/21-050]
- Response to China NB comments on WG2 N5155 (UTC document L2/21- 050) [Unicode Consortium, L2/21-098]
- Arabic: lam-alef ligature for al-Dani [Evans, L2/22-025]
- Arabic: Quranic superscript Alef Motahafar
- Linear Elamite [Pandey, L2/21-233]
- Devanagari letter Rajasthani SA [L2/21-240]
- Kannada and Telugu ARCHAIC SHRII [Srinidhi and Sridatta, L2/22-006]
- Mongolian: four Ali Gali letters [Jiang, L2/21-244]
- Sunuwar [Pandey, L2/21-157R]
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Tulu / Tulu-Tigalari
Documents:
- Proposal to Encode Tulu Script in Unicode [Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, L2/22-034]
- Approving TULU UNICODE SCRIPTS by UNICODE CONSORTIUM [Sudarshana, L2/22-033]
- Updated proposal to encode the Tulu-Tigalari script in Unicode [Murthy and Rajan, L2/22-031]
- Further Response to Tulu Academy Documents [Murthy and Rajan, L2/22-032]
- Comments on differences between Tulu and Tigalari proposals [Kučera, L2/20-279]
- Proposal to encode Tulu [Pavanaja, L2/21-019]
- Tulu Documents [Jain, et alL2/21-188]
- ತುಳು %ಪಿ ಪ(ಚಯ (Tulu Lipi Parchaya) [Bellur (Ramakunja, trans.), L2/21-189]
- Comments on Public Review Issues (September 26, 2021 - January 18, 2022) [L2/22-018]
- Khmer Encoding Structure [Hosken, L2/21-241]
- Ideographic complex scripts [Chan, L2/21-165]
- Blissymbol radicals [Everson, L2/22-003]
- Dwarf planet symbols [Miller, L2/21-224]
- Symbols for legacy computing and teletext [Bettencourt, et al, L2/21-235]
- Lot of Fortune and Eclipse symbols [Miller, L2/22-005]
- Delete sign [Silva, L2/21-245]
- Smalltalk symbols [Bettencourt, et al, L2/21-234]
- Public Review feedback on script proposals
- Old Hungarian: Feedback on encoding proposal [Silva, L2/21-246]
- Bopomofo: vertical orientation property for tone marks [Whistler and Anderson, L2/22-037]
- Recommendations for Unicode 15.0 and future versions [Anderson, et al, L2/22-023]
D. 2 Mongolian Ad-hoc Report [Liang Hai]
Schedule: Thursday, 11:30 am
E. CJK and Unihan
Schedule: Thursday 2:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Discussion led by CJK and Unihan Group chair, Ken Lunde
E. 1 CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #170 Meeting [Lunde, L2/22-022]
CJK topics:
- Public feedback [L2/22-018]
- UAX #38: Proposed supplement to kTotalStrokes [Jenkins, L2/21-226]
- UAX #38: reference for UK=02830 [West, L2/21-228]
- UAX #38: horizontal extension or disunification of Khangxi characters [Sim, L2/21-236]
- UAX #38: proposal for various changes [Chung, L2/22-008]
- UAX #38: Incorrect radical for U+266B9 [Nelson, L2/22-014]
- UAX #38: Proposal to add derived kMandarin values [Lunde, L2/22-027]
- UAX #45: Adjustments for Extension H [Lunde, L2/22-022]
- UAX #45: Proposal to Add Three Ideographs with Radical 見 [Nelson, L2/22-009]
- UAX #45: Data Issues in Unicode 14.0 [Nelson, L2/22-011]
- UAX #50: Harmonization with Adobe Japan 1 [Kida, et al, L2/21-222]
- IRG Working Set 2021 Status
F. Properties and Algorithms
F.1 “Trojan source” Vulnerabilities
Schedule: Tuesday, 11:00 am
Document: Avoiding Source Code Spoofing (revised) [Davis, et al, L2/22-007]
F.2 UTC #170 properties feedback & recommendations [Scherer, et al, L2/22-019]
Schedule: Tuesday 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm; Thursday 11:45 am – 1:00 pm
Discussion led by Properties and Algorithms Group chair, Markus Scherer
P&A Topics:
- Public feedback [L2/22-018]
- Derived data file for the “IDNA_Property” [Freytag and Whistler, L2/21-227]
- Problematic casing pair used by some African orthographies [Silva, L2/21-229]
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Proprerty name / value alias stability
Schedule: Tuesday, 12:00 pm
Document: Proposal to guarantee stability of spelling of property names, values, and aliases in UCD [Ficarra, L2/22-029]
- Stability of C0, C1 semantics [KarlssonL2/22-013]
- PRI #427: Proposed Update UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions
G. Emoji
Schedule: 9:35 am – 11:00 am
Discussion led by Emoji Subcommittee chair, Jennifer Daniel
G.1 Emoji Subcommittee Report Q1, 2022 UTC [ESC/Daniel, L2/22-021]
Emoji topics:
G.2 Draft Emoji for Unicode Version 15.0
H. Other business
H.1 Closing dates for PRIs