UTC 172 Minutes

L2/22-121

Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 172
Redmond, WA — July 26-28, 2022
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #172 Agenda
Revision date: November 1, 2022

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Meeting opened at 10:33am. Peter opened the meeting. Craig opened L2.

A.1 Consortium membership; meeting quorum and proxies

7.5 members in regular attendance. Quorum is 3.75

6 members represented: Adobe, Apple, ETCO, Google, Microsoft, UCB.

A.2 Agenda review

A.4 Action Item Review

Documents:
Open Action Items [L2/SD2 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L-SD2.htm ]
Recently Closed Action Items [L2/22-122]

B.1 JTC 1/SC 2
B.1 SC2 Liaison Report from SC2 #27 [Peter Constable, L2/22-145]
B.1 Resolutions of the 27th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Plenary Meeting [SC2 Secretariat, L2/22-144]

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

F. Properties and Algorithms

F.1 Todhri vowel encoding model
F.1 UTC #172 properties feedback & recommendations [Scherer et al, L2/22-124] (section: UCD1)
F.1 Todhri encoding options [Roozbeh Pournader, L2/22-074]

Long discussion.

[172-A1] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Markus Scherer, PAG: Implement in the UCA sifter code the ability to assign a primary weight in a script sort sequence that is assigned to a sequence of characters, for a future version of the Unicode Standard.

D. Scripts
D. 1 Recommendations to UTC #172 July 2022 on Script Proposals [Anderson, et al, L2/22-128]

D.1.4a Document L2/22-104 Fixing the name and glyph for U+0616

Discussed fixing the name and glyph for U+0616.

[172-C1] Consensus: UTC accepts the glyph change for U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH as documented in L2/22-104, for Unicode version 15.0.

[172-C2] Consensus: Create a formal name alias type correction for U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH, with the value ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH YEH BARREE. (Reference: L2/22-104)

[172-A2] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, EDC: Create a glyph erratum for U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH, based on L2/22-104. (Reference: section 4a of L2/22-128)

[172-A3] Action Item for Lorna Evans: Provide Michel Suignard with a font which includes the corrected glyph for U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH (Reference: L2/22-104)

[172-A4] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add a formal name alias type correction for U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH with the value ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH YEH BARREE to NameAliases.txt for 15.0. (Reference: L2/22-104)

[172-A5] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Recommend to L2 that a request for the glyph change for U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH and a formal name alias type correction for U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH with the value ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH YEH BARREE be added to the DAM ballot comments for ISO/IEC 10646 Amendment 1 based on L2/22-104. (Reference: section 4a of L2/22-128).

D.1.4b Four Arabic Pegon Characters

[172-C3] Consensus: Accept the following four characters for a future version of the standard, with property values as given in L2/22-116:

 	U+0897 ARABIC PEPET
	U+10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
	U+10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
	U+10EC4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW

(Reference: L2/22-116 and section 4b of L2/22-128)

[172-A6] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Correct the annotation to U+06AE ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH THREE DOTS BELOW, referring to U+08B4 instead of U+068A. (Reference: Section 4b of L2/22-128 and L2/22-116)

[172-A7] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the Pipeline with the four characters:

	U+0897 ARABIC PEPET
	U+10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
	U+10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
	U+10EC4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW

(Reference: L2/22-116)

[172-A8] Action Item for Lorna Evans: Provide a font to Michel Suignard with glyphs for

	U+0897 ARABIC PEPET
	U+10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
	U+10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
	U+10EC4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW

(Reference: L2/22-116)

[172-A9] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader, Lorna Evans: Review whether U+0897 ARABIC PEPET should be added to a future version UTR #53.

D.1.1b Cyrillic Letters for Bashkir

The UTC notes this feedback but takes no further action.

Lunch break 12:30 - 1:45. Emoji charts ad-hoc.

D.1.2a Latin: Capital and small letter I with bowl [Nikita Manulov, L2/22-118]

The UTC notes this feedback but takes no further action.

D.1. I. EUROPEAN SCRIPTS
D.1. 1 Cyrillic
D.1.1a Khanty Cyrillic Letter

[172-C4] Consensus: The UTC accepts U+1C89 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE and U+1C8A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE, with property values as given in L2/22-119, for a future version of the standard. (Reference: L2/22-119)

[172-A10] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Provide Michel Suignard with a font with glyphs for U+1C89 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE and U+1C8A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE. (Reference: L2/22-119)

D.1.2b Latin Letter S with Diagonal Stroke

[172-C5] Consensus: UTC accepts the following two characters, with properties as given in L2/22-113R, for a future version of the standard: U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE, U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE (Reference: L2/22-113)

[172-A11] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the Pipeline to include U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE and U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE (Reference: L2/22-113)

D.1.4c Three Quranic Arabic Characters

[172-A12] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, Roozbeh Pournader: Relay the comments in Section 4c of L2/22-128 to Rikza F. Sh., the author of L2/22-153.

D.1 III. SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN SCRIPTS
D.1. 5 Gurung Khema

[172-M1] Motion: UTC accepts 58 Gurung Khema characters at U+16100..U+16139, with names and glyphs as given in L2/22-157, and with property values given in L2/22-157 as amended in section 5 of L2/22-128, in a new Gurung Khema block that extends from U+16100..U+1613F for a future version of the standard. (Reference: section 5 of L2/22-128)

Moved by Roozbeh Pournader (Unicode), Seconded by Deborah Anderson (UCB).
4 for (Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, UCB)
0 against
1 abstain (Google)
Motion passes.

[172-A13] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the Pipeline to include 58 Gurung Khema characters in a new Gurung Khema block that extends from U+16100..U+1613F. (Reference: L2/22-157 and section 5 of L2/22-128)

D.1 23 Egyptian Hieroglyphs

[172-A14] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, Andrew Glass: Take into consideration comments from David Corbett [Apr 27 22:09:17 CDT 2022] in drafting the block intro for 11.4 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, in the “Complex Clusters” section of Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls for version 15.0 (Reference: Section 23 of L2/22-128).

D.1.24 Kannada (beta feedback)

[172-A15] Action Item for Ken Whistler, EDC: Change the annotation to U+0CF3 KANNADA SIGN COMBINING ANUSVARA ABOVE RIGHT from “Sanskrit” to “Konkani, Havyaka Kannada (Havigannada) and Awadhi” for Unicode Version 15.0, based on feedback [Tue May 31 14:11:31 CDT 2022] in L2/22-123. (Reference: Section 24 of L2/22-128)

D.1.25 Miao (beta feedback)

[172-A16] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Relay the comments in section 25 of L2/22-128 to David Corbett, in response to his feedback [Wed Jun 1 14:55:37 CDT 2022] in L2/22-123.

D.1.27 Nonalphabetic bindus (beta feedback)

[172-C6] Consensus: Change the following five bindu characters to Alphabetic=Yes by adding them to Other_Alphabetic in PropList.txt: U+0C04 TELUGU SIGN COMBINING ANUSVARA ABOVE, U+0F82 TIBETAN SIGN NYI ZLA NAA DA, U+0F83 TIBETAN SIGN SNA LDAN, U+11080 KAITHI SIGN CANDRABINDU, U+11081 KAITHI SIGN ANUSVARA, for Unicode Version 15.0. (Reference: Section 27 of L2/22-128)

[172-A17] Action Item for Markus Scherer, PAG: Change the following five bindu characters to Alphabetic=Yes by adding them to Other_Alphabetic in PropList.txt: U+0C04 TELUGU SIGN COMBINING ANUSVARA ABOVE, U+0F82 TIBETAN SIGN NYI ZLA NAA DA, U+0F83 TIBETAN SIGN SNA LDAN, U+11080 KAITHI SIGN CANDRABINDU, U+11081 KAITHI SIGN ANUSVARA. (Reference: Section 27 of L2/22-128)

[172-C7] Consensus: For UCA 15.0, change collation weighting of 0F82/0F83 from totally ignored, to instead be given a secondary weight equivalent to other candrabindus.

[172-A18] Action Item for Ken Whistler, PAG: For UCA 15.0, change collation weighting of 0F82/0F83 from totally ignored, to instead be given a secondary weight equivalent to other candrabindus.

D.1.29 Sunuwar

[172-C8] Consensus: Approve the glyphs for Sunuwar as shown in the Sunuwar code chart in L2/22-134 (which corrects and supersedes the glyphs shown in the original proposal and chart in L2/21-157R). (Reference: Section 29 of L2/22-128)

D.1 VIII. NATIONAL BODY FEEDBACK
D.1 34 China National Body

[172-A19] Action Item for Peter Constable, EDC: Add text to chapter 9, section “High Hamza,” about impact on IDNs of the Kazakh digraphs U+0675..U+0678 for a future version of the standard (Reference: Section 34 of L2/22-128).

[172-A20] Action Item for Ken Whistler: In the names list, add “compatibility” in the following sentence under “Digraphic letters for Kazakh” (above U+0675) for 15.0: “These code points were encoded for Kazakh digraphs, but their compatibility decompositions do not reflect the preferred order of representation.” (Reference: Section 34 of L2/22-128)

[172-A21] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Recommend to L2 that the US comments for the ISO/IEC Amendment 1 Draft DAM ballot add the word “compatibility” before “decompositions” in the sentence under “Digraphic letters for Kazakh” (above U+0675). (Reference: Section 34 of L2/22-128)

Short break 15:20 - 15:38.

E. 1 CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #172 Meeting [Lunde, L2/22-127]

E.1 01) 2022-05-06 23:32:11 CDT

[172-C9] Consensus: Accept the kRSUnicode property value change for U+6C77, based on feedback [Fri May 6 23:32:11 CDT 2022] in PRI #437, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A22] Action Item for Michel Suignard, CJK: Change the kRSUnicode property value of U+6C77, based on Section 01 of document L2/22-127, and provide to John Jenkins an updated Unihan15.txt data file, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A23] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Update the Unihan database to reflect the kRSUnicode and kRSKangXi property value changes for U+6C77, based on Section 01 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A24] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the feedback submitter the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 01 of document L2/22-127. See feedback [Fri May 6 23:32:11 CDT 2022] in PRI #437.

E.1 02) 2022-05-10 20:11:32 CDT

[172-A25] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Change MCSCS to MSCS in the Description of the kIRG_MSource property in Section 4.1 of UAX #38, based on Section 02 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A26] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the feedback submitter the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 02 of document L2/22-127. See feedback [Tue May 10 20:11:32 CDT 2022] in PRI #437.

E.1 03) 2022-05-26 11:04:49 CDT

[172-C10] Consensus: Accept the category change for the kCihaiT property, from “Dictionary-like Data” to “Dictionary Indices,” based on feedback [Thu May 26 11:04:49 CDT 2022] in PRI #437, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A27] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Change the category of the kCihaiT property from “Dictionary-like Data” to “Dictionary Indices,” which involves moving the property values from the Unihan_DictionaryLikeData.txt file to the Unihan_DictionaryIndices.txt file, along with making appropriate changes in Sections 4.1 and 4.3 of UAX #38 and in Section 7 of UAX #44, based on Section 03 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A28] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Reflect the change of category for kCihaiT property from “Dictionary-like Data” to “Dictionary Indices,” on the Unicode Version 15.0 beta page.

E.1 04) 2022-04-17 12:19:45 CDT

[172-A29] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Update the Unihan database to reflect the kZVariant property value additions for U+26C25, U+2CECB, U+31F4C, and U+31F68, based on Section 04 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A30] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the feedback submitter the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 04 of document L2/22-127. See feedback [Sun Apr 17 12:19:45 CDT 2022] in PRI #442.

E.1 05) 2022-05-15 08:16:57 CDT

[172-C11] Consensus: Accept the first and third suggested UAX #45 data file changes, based on feedback [Sun May 15 08:16:57 CDT 2022] in PRI #445 and Section 05 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A31] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Update the UAX #45 data file and UAX #45 proper to reflect the first and third suggested changes, based on Section 05 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

E.1 06) 2022-06-29 22:48:06 CDT

[172-C12] Consensus: Accept the eight kTotalStrokes property value changes, based on feedback [Wed Jun 29 22:48:06 CDT 2022] in PRI #453 and Section 06 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A32] Action Item for Michel Suignard, CJK: Apply the eight kTotalStrokes property value changes, based on Section 06 of document L2/22-127, and provide to John Jenkins an updated Unihan15.txt data file, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A33] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Update the Unihan database to reflect the eight kTotalStrokes property value changes, based on Section 06 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A34] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the feedback submitter the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 06 of document L2/22-127. See feedback [Wed Jun 29 22:48:06 CDT 2022] in PRI #453.

E.1 07) 2022-07-03 08:33:28 CDT

[172-A35] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Update the Unihan database to reflect the kDaeJaweon property value changes for U+66C3 and U+880A, based on Section 07 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A36] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the feedback submitter the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 07 of document L2/22-127. See feedback [Sun Jul 3 08:33:28 CDT 2022] in PRI #453.

E.1 08) 2022-07-03 10:50:44 CDT

[172-A37] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Update the Unihan database to remove kDaeJaweon (1), kKangXi (30), and kMorohashi (302) property values, based on Section 08 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A38] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the feedback submitter the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 08 of document L2/22-127. See feedback [Sun Jul 3 10:50:44 CDT 2022] in PRI #453.

E.1 09) 2022-05-04 02:13:35 CDT

[172-C13] Consensus: Accept the kRSUnicode property value changes for U+246FF, U+2A1FA, and U+2C4F8, based on feedback [Wed May 4 02:13:35 CDT 2022] in document L2/22-123 and as amended in Section 09 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A39] Action Item for Michel Suignard, CJK: Apply the three kRSUnicode property value changes, based on Section 09 of document L2/22-127, and provide to John Jenkins an updated Unihan15.txt data file, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A40] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Update the Unihan database to reflect the three kRSUnicode property value changes, based on Section 09 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A41] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the feedback submitter the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 09 of document L2/22-127. See feedback [Wed May 4 02:13:35 CDT 2022] in document L2/22-123.

E.1 10) L2/22-111: Unihan Numeric Fields Problems and Proposed Updates

[172-A42] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Revise the descriptions of the kAccountingNumeric, kOtherNumeric, and kPrimaryNumeric properties in UAX #38 to make their purposes clearer, based on document L2/22-111 and Section 10 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A43] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the author of document L2/22-111 the comments from the UTC about Section 10 of document L2/22-127.

E.1 11) L2/22-112: Proposed Changes to the Unihan Database’s kMandarin Field

[172-A44] Action Item for Peter Edberg, CJK: Ask the CLDR-TC to check the proposed kMandarin property value changes, then report back to the UTC. See document L2/22-112 and Section 11 of document L2/22-127.

E.1 12) L2/22-133: New candidates of Unihan kSpoofingVariant and kZVariant

[172-A45] Action Item for John Jenkins, CJK: Update the Unihan database to reflect the kSpoofingVariant and kZVariant property value additions, based on document L2/22-133 and as amended in Section 12 of document L2/22-127, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A46] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the author of document L2/22-133 the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 12 of document L2/22-127.

E.1 13) L2/22-135: Preliminary proposal to add kFanqie to Unihan Database

[172-A47] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the author of document L2/22-135 the comments from the UTC about Section 13 of document L2/22-127.

E.1 14) L2/22-115: Annotations for CJK strokes used as Hangul strokes L2/22-137: Feedback on Hangul Strokes

[172-A48] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Forward documents L2/22-115 and L2/22-137 to CHEN Zhuang (HOD, China National Body) for the purpose of soliciting feedback, in terms of confirming that the hangul strokes are used and needed for China.

[172-A49] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, SAH: Review the proposed Script_Extensions property value additions in L2/22-115, then report back to the UTC.

[172-A50] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the author of document L2/22-137 the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 14 of document L2/22-127.

[172-A51] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the author of document L2/22-115 the comments from the UTC about Section 14 of document L2/22-127.

E.1 15) L2/22-136: Feedback on Proposals to Encode New Ideographic Description Characters

[172-A52] Action Item for Ken Lunde, John Jenkins, Andrew West, CJK: Prepare and submit a final proposal for five new Ideographic Description Characters, based on Section 15 of document L2/22-127.

[172-A53] Action Item for Ken Lunde, CJK: Convey to the author of document L2/22-136 the CJK & Unihan Group comments in Section 15 of document L2/22-127.

E.1 16) L2/22-158: CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B UCS2003 Reference Glyphs Archival Code Charts

[172-A54] Action Item for Michel Suignard, EDC: Finalize the archival code charts for the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B UCS2003 reference glyphs, decide where to host it, and decide from what page or pages it should be referenced, based on Section 16 of document L2/22-127.

E.1 17) IRG Working Set 2021 (aka Extension I) Status

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

E.1 18) Unicode Version 16.0

Discussion. UTC took no action at this time.

B.6 IETF / ICANN

Oral report by Michel Suignard.

B.8 INFITT

Oral report by Jan Kučera.

B.7 SEI [Anderson, L2/22-129]

Oral report by Deborah Anderson.

B.5 TC 37/SC 2

Oral report by Peter Constable.

Meeting adjourned for the day at 17:35.

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Meeting opened at 9:35.

A.1 Quorum

6 members represented (Adobe, Apple, ETCO, Google, Microsoft, UCB)

A.3 Review of UTC #171 minutes

[172-C14] Consensus: Approve the draft minutes of UTC #171.

G.1 Emoji Subcommittee report [L2/22-126]

Oral report by Jennifer Daniel, Ned Holbrook.

[172-A55] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Thank the correspondent for their feedback of [Sat Jun 4 08:56:11 CDT 2022] in PRI #454, and relay the ESC response in Section 5.1 of this document [L2/22-126].

[172-A56] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Thank the correspondent for their feedback of [Tue Jun 7 09:12:10 CDT 2022] in PRI #453, and relay the ESC response in Section 6.1 of this document [L2/22-126].

F.3 UTC #172 properties feedback & recommendations [Scherer et al, L2/22-124]

[172-A57] Action Item for Markus Scherer, PAG: Give the Soft_Dotted property to U+1E04C and U+1E04D and U+1E068, for consistency with other modifier letters, and for consistency with the regular Cyrillic letters; for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD2.

[172-A58] Action Item for Markus Scherer, PAG: Give the Other_Lowercase property (and thus also Cased) to modifier letter U+1E06D, for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD3.

[172-A59] Action Item for Markus Scherer, PAG: Give the Other_Lowercase property (and thus also Cased) to the modifier letters U+10FC and U+A7F2..A7F4 and U+AB69, for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD4.

[172-A60] Action Item for Ken Whistler, PAG: Change the double diacritics U+1DCD and U+1DFC to Line_Break=Glue, for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD6.

[172-A61] Action Item for Mark Davis, PAG: Change the Identifier_Type of U+A7AE to Technical (and thus its Identifier_Status to Restricted), for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD7.

[172-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis, PAG: Change the Identifier_Type of U+A7B8 and U+A7B9 to Uncommon_Use (and thus their Identifier_Status to Restricted), for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD8.

[172-A63] Action Item for Mark Davis, PAG: In UTS# 39 Table 1 change the description of Uncommon_Use to not be limited to characters that have uncertain status, for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD8. For example, individual characters from scripts which are not "Limited_Use", but which are uncommon, limited in use, or otherwise uncertain in use.

[172-A64] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, PAG: For UTS #39, look at publicly available data from the ICANN root zone LGR project to look at adjustments to the Uncommon_Use property and further clarifications of its definition.

Short break until 11:30.

[172-A65] Action Item for Ken Whistler, PAG: Change the Kaktovik numerals to Bidi_Class=L (like Mayan numerals), for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD9.

[172-A66] Action Item for Ken Whistler, PAG: Consider Line_Break values for Creative Commons symbols; for a future version of the Unicode Standard. See L2/22-124 item UCD11.

[172-A67] Action Item for Mark Davis, PAG: Check Line_Break values of symbols (excluding Creative Commons) for inconsistencies with other similar characters; emoji should have lb=ID; for a future version of the Unicode Standard. See L2/22-124 item UCD11.

[172-A68] Action Item for Mark Davis, PAG: Check Extended_Pictographic values of non-emoji characters for inconsistencies with other similar characters; consider removing ExtPict from non-emoji characters; for a future version of the Unicode Standard. See L2/22-124 item UCD12.

[172-A69] Action Item for Ken Whistler, EDC: In the core spec, add text to the Pahawh Hmong block description explaining the difference between “used in some mathematical sense” and “part of the repertoire used in international mathematical notation”. See L2/22-124 item UCD13.

[172-C15] Consensus: Change the Line_Break value of U+2057 QUADRUPLE PRIME to Postfix_Numeric, for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD14.

[172-A70] Action Item for Ken Whistler, PAG: Change the Line_Break value of U+2057 QUADRUPLE PRIME to Postfix_Numeric, for Unicode Version 15.0. See L2/22-124 item UCD14.

[172-A71] Action Item for Markus Scherer, PAG: In PropertyValueAliases.txt remove the @missing lines for Equivalent_Unified_Ideograph, Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph and NFKC_Casefold and Script_Extensions; for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A72] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, EDC: Make changes to the core spec chapter 3, D26 “Default Property”, according to the feedback (additions & changes in blue) in L2/22-124 item UCD16, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-C16] Consensus: Remove @missing lines for binary properties where UCD syntax does not support them, and make other adjustments in UAX #44 and elsewhere for consistency; for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A73] Action Item for Ned Holbrook, Markus Scherer, PAG: In emoji-data.txt, remove the @missing lines; for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A74] Action Item for Ken Whistler, PAG: In UAX #44 (a) revert the changes to the paragraph that used to say that an @missing line is never provided for a binary property (so that it continues to say that for Unicode Version 15.0), and (b) change the example for multiple @missing lines from using Extended_Pictographic to using one of Bidi_Class, East_Asian_Width, Line_Break.

[172-A75] Action Item for Ken Whistler, PAG: In UAX #44 change text about @missing lines as per UCD17 in document L2/22-124, Section UCD17, item 3. For Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A76] Action Item for Markus Scherer, PAG: Propose a UCD file syntax for explicit “No” values for binary properties, and use it for multiple @missing lines for Extended_Pictographic in emoji-data.txt; for a future version of the Unicode Standard. See L2/22-124 item UCD17.

[172-A77] Action Item for Markus Scherer, PAG: For a future version of the Unicode Standard, change PropertyAliases.txt to list Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph and Equivalent_Unified_Ideograph under “String Properties”, and to list Bidi_Paired_Bracket under “Enumerated Properties”.

[172-A78] Action Item for Ken Whistler, PAG: For a future version of the Unicode Standard, in UAX #44 table 9 (Property Table), change the types of Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph and Equivalent_Unified_Ideograph to “S” (String-valued).

Lunch break 12:35 - 13:43. Ad hoc meeting.

F.3 Properties feedback & recommendations (continued)

[172-A79] Action Item for Mark Davis, Asmus Freytag, PAG: Continue the discussion of L2/22-026R (ExtraMirroring.txt) with Kent Karlsson and Karl Williamson.

[172-A80] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, PAG: Work with Ken Whistler, Rich Gillam, and Roozbeh Pournader to add explanation/motivation in UAX #9 for certain overall design decisions; see the feedback as modified in discussion in L2/22-124 item Bidi2; for a future version of the Unicode Standard.

[172-A81] Action Item for Chris Chapman, PAG: Change UAX #29 as suggested in L2/22-124 item Seg3, for Unicode Version 15.0.

Long discussion of confusables and L2/22-114.

[172-A82] Action Item for Markus Scherer, PAG: Form an email list and invite participants to join a group discussion of future directions for confusables.

[172-A83] Action Item for Robin Leroy, Asmus Freytag, PAG: Apply the changes in L2/22-110R to UAX #31, for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A84] Action Item for Robin Leroy: Notify the release manager of the completion of changes to UAX #31 for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A85] Action Item for Robin Leroy, PAG: Apply the changes to UAX #31 described in document L2/22-161, section I.2, for Unicode Version 15.0, as modified in discussion to clearly indicate two different alternatives.

Short break until 15:25.

[172-A86] Action Item for Mark Davis, PAG: For a future version of the Unicode Standard, prepare a working draft of a proposed update of UAX #29 with an improved conformance section according to document L2/22-124 item Seg7, taking into account the discussion in UTC #172.

[172-A87] Action Item for Mark Davis, PAG: Produce proposed updates of UTS #51 and UTS #18 that contain the changes outlined in document L2/22-160, for future versions of these standards (incl. UTS #51 version 15.1 or 16). See document L2/22-124 item Emoji1. Discuss the emoji-test.txt filename and the Overqualified_Emoji value name.

[172-A88] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post proposed updates of UTS #51 and UTS #18. See document L2/22-124 item Emoji1.

G.3 Inline Emotes (future emoji encoding) [L2/22-180]

Long discussion.

A.5 Calendar review

UTC #173 November 2022, definitely hosted by Apple. Pending confirmation of space.

UTC #174 tentatively hosted by Google, January 2023. (same dates)

UTC #175, scheduled for April 25-27, 2023. Tentatively hosted by Adobe.

UTC #176, scheduled for Tue July 25-27, 2023. Tentatively hosted by Microsoft.

[172-A89] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post updated calendar entries for UTC meetings.

Meeting adjourned for the day at 17:33.

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Meeting opened at 9:35.

A.1 Quorum

6 members represented (Adobe, Apple, ETCO, Google, Microsoft, UCB)

Brief discussion of new GB 18030 release.

C.1 Editorial Committee Report and Recommendations for UTC #172 Meeting [Whistler, L2/22-125]

[172-A90] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close the beta review PRI #453.

[172-A91] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close all open PRIs for 15.0 proposed updates of UAXes and UTSes: PRI #437 (UAX #38), PRI #438 (UAX #44), PRI #439 (UAX #50), PRI #440 (UTS #10), PRI #441 (UAX #29), PRI #444 (UAX #34), PRI #445 (UAX #45), PRI #446 (UAX #14), PRI #447 (UAX #24), PRI #448 (UAX #41), PRI #449 (UAX #9), PRI #450 (UAX #31), PRI #451 (UTS #39), PRI #452 (UAX #15), PRI #454 (UTS #51), PRI #455 (UTS #46), PRI #457 (UAX #42).

Oral report by Ken Whistler.

[172-A92] Action Item for Rick McGowan, UTC: Respond to David Corbett regarding his various feedback on PRI #453 [Tue May 31 21:05:09 CDT 2022, Wed Jun 1 15:57:33 CDT 2022, Wed Jun 1 17:04:19 CDT 2022, Wed Jun 1 17:43:26 CDT 2022, Wed Jun 1 18:43:52 CDT 2022] and noted in L2/22-123 [Fri Apr 22 20:39:14 CDT 2022].

[172-A93] Action Item for Michel Suignard, EDC: Revert the font change for the Alchemical Symbols block to the font used for Unicode Version 14.0.

[172-A94] Action Item for Ken Whistler, EDC: Update the delta charts index page for Unicode Version 15.0, to remove indication of font changes for the Alchemical Symbols.

[172-A95] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, SAH: Contact experts on chart glyphs for alchemical symbols and report.

[172-A96] Action Item for Michel Suignard, EDC: Add U+93AB, U+2A84E, U+2AF4F, U+2B15C, and U+30759 to the blue highlight file to mark those as significant glyph changes in the CJK code charts, when generating the final candidate code charts for Unicode Version 15.0.

[172-A97] Action Item for Ken Whistler, EDC: Clarify the annotations in the names list for U+204F and U+2E41, for Unicode Version 15.0.

I.2 Post Unicode 15 planning

Long discussion of release/project management. Oral reports from ad-hoc groups.

Short break 11:34 - 11:44.

Full Member	July 26	July 27	July 28
1. Adobe	yes	yes	yes
2. Amazon
3. Apple Inc.	yes	yes	yes
4. ETCO (Oman)	yes	yes	yes
6. Google, Inc.	yes	yes	yes
5. Meta
7. Microsoft Corporation	yes	yes	yes
8. Netflix
9. Salesforce
10. SAP AG
11. Yat Labs

Supporting Member
1. Bangladesh, MSICT
2. Emojipedia
3. Oman (MARA)	yes	yes	yes
4. Tamil Nadu, TVA
5. UCB	yes	yes	yes

Associate Member
Canva
SIL	yes		yes

Name	Representing
Salim Al Mandhari	ETCO
Julie Allen	Unicode
Debbie Anderson	UCB
Peter Constable	Microsoft
Toral Cowieson	Unicode
Craig Cummings	Unicode
Jennifer Daniel	Google
Mark Davis	Google
Kamile Demir	Adobe
Peter Edberg	Apple
Lorna Evans	SIL
Asmus Freytag	self
Richard Gillam	Apple
Joshua Hadley	Adobe
Ned Holbrook	Apple
John Jenkins	Apple
Marcel Krüger	self
Jan Kučera	self
Jennifer 8 Lee	Emojination
Robin Leroy	Google
Hai Liang	Unicode
Norbert Lindenberg	self
Ken Lunde	Apple
Sergey Malkin	Microsoft
Rick McGowan	Unicode
Sudip Iglesias Murmu	self
Roozbeh Pournader	Unicode
Judy Safran-Aasen	Microsoft
Murray Sargent	Microsoft
Markus Scherer	Google
Mark Shoulson	self
Sean Stewart	Apple
Lauren Stiger	self
Michel Suignard	Unicode
Evelyn Teo	self
Tex Texin	Xencraft
Ken Whistler	Unicode