The UTC will be conducted as a hybrid online/in-person meeting. See the meeting logistics page for details.
Many 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 general, the schedule for individual topics may be fluid. In certain cases, however, specific topics may be scheduled for a specific time: see Scheduled Activies below.
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 Daylight time (UTC-07:00).
Scheduled Activities
The following individual topics are scheduled for discussion at specific times.
| Agenda item / Topic | Document | Day and Time |
|---|---|---|
| -- | -- | -- |
See the meeting logistics page for a schedule summary.
Meeting Opening
Deferral to L2 chair to start L2 meeting and L2 topics.
A. Administrative Topics
Schedule: Tuesday, 10:30 am; Wednesday 9:30 am; Thursday 9:30 am & afternoon
A.1 Consortium membership; meeting quorum and proxies
A.2 Agenda review
A.3 Approval of minutes of prior meeting [L2/22-121]
A.4 Action item review
A.5 Calendar review [Calendar]
A.6 PRI closing dates [Public Review Issues]
A.7 L2 representatives
B. Liaison Reports & Technical Topics
B.1 JTC 1/SC 2
Schedule: Tuesday morning
SC2 topics:
- ISO/IEC 10646:2020 Amendment 1: DAM ballot (closes Nov. 28)
- ISO/IEC 10646:2020 Amendment 2: CDAM call for comments (closes Nov. 23)
Documents:
- Additional draft repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646 6th edition Amendment 2 (CDAM2) [Michel Suignard, L2/22-194]
- Call for project editor for ISO/IEC 14651
B.2 IRG
B.3 ICU
B.4 CLDR
B.5 TC 37/SC 2
B.6 IETF / ICANN
B.7 SEI [Anderson, L2/22-249]
B.8 INFITT
B.9 LSA
C. Editorial Committee Report
Schedule: Thursday morning
C.1 Editorial Committee Report and Recommendations for UTC #173 Meeting [Whistler, L2/22-245]
Discussion led by EdComm vice-chair, Ken Whistler
Editorial topics:
- Unicode 15.0 publication
- Unicode 15.1
- Core specification future
- Website
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) routed to Editorial Committee [Rick McGowan, L2/22-243]
C.2 Suggested improvements to the code chart annotations of many Latin extensions [Eduardo Marin Silva, L2/22-252]
D. Scripts
D.1 Recommendations to UTC #173 October 2022 on Script Proposals [Anderson, et al, L2/22-248]
Schedule: Thursday morning
Discussion led by Script Ad-Hoc chair, Debbie Anderson, and vice-chair, Roozbeh Pournader
Script topics:
- Latin: Capital letter f with stroke [Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, L2/22-196]
- Latin: Small letter y with short right leg [Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, L2/22-199]
- Latin: Small letter blackletter o with stroke [Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, L2/22-198]
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs: extensions [Michel Suignard, L2/22-265]
- Arabic: Kaf with dot below [Michel Suignard, L2/22-221]
- Malayalam and Sinhala: Ardhavisarga
- Ol Onal script
- Sharada: Fractions and rupee mark [Srinidhi A, Sridatta A, L2/22-213]
- Tulu-Tigalari: additional characters
Documents:
- Proposal to encode three characters in Tulu-Tigalari [Srinidhi A, Sridatta A, L2/22-260]
- Comments on encoding the Tigalari script (see section 5) [Srinidhi A, Sridatta A, L2/17-182]
- Updated proposal to encode the Tulu-Tigalari script in Unicode [Vaishnavi Murthy Yerkadithaya, Vinodh Rajan, L2/22-031]
- Kawi: Nukta
- Yo Lai Tay script [Viet Khoi Nguyen, et al, L2/22-208]
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) routed to Script Ad-Hoc Group [Rick McGowan, L2/22-243]
- Recommendations on 15.1 and 16.0
- Arabic: proposed extensions [Mohamed Naji, L2/22-261]
- Badugu script [Biswajit Mandal, L2/22-220]
- Bengali: Alterate BA [Vinodh Rajan, Deepro Chakraborty, L2/22-268]
- Brahmi: Minimizing virama [Srinidhi A, Sridatta A, L2/22-219]
- Chisoi script
Documents:
- Proposal to Encode Chisoi (revised) [Biswajit Mandal, L2/22-218R]
- Proposal to Encode Chisoi [Biswajit Mandal, L2/21-183]
- Cyrillic: Additional characters for old Uslar’s Caucasian alphabets [Nikita Manulov, L2/22-262]
- Cyrillic: Old Udmurt case pair [Nikita Manulov, L2/22-217]
- Kore Sebeli script [Mohamed Bentoura Bangoura, L2/22-222]
- Latin: Small letter turned o open-o, small letter turned o open-o with stroke [Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, L2/22-271]
- Latin: Ben Franklin's phonetic alphabet [Nikita Manulov, L2/22-215]
- Latin: Old Adyghian [Nikita Manulov, L2/22-216]
- Nüshu reference glyphs
- Proto-Cuneiform script [Anshuman Pandey, L2/22-239]
- Sidetic script [Anshuman Pandey, L2/22-235]
- Syloti Nagri numerals
- Symbol: Samban sign
- Symbol: Russian fire hydrant [Nikita Manulov, L2/22-211]
- Tai Don script
Documents:
- Final proposal to add 22 characters for Tai Don writing systems [Kushim Jiang, L2/22-210]
- Comments on the Tai Don or Tai Khao encoding [Eiso Chan, L2/22-272]
- Response to Eiso Chan's "Comments on the Tai Don or Tai Khao encoding" [Jim Brase, L2/22-2734]
- Wuyue Zhenxing Tu(Fu) pictograph [WEI Xitong, L2/22-209]
- Yi ideographs
- Arabic: characters for Quranic orthograpies [Salim Al Mandhari, L2/22-251]
- "Do Not Use" Datafile
Other script topics (in-progress or FYI)
D.2 Summary of SAH and PAG joint meetings [Deborah Anderson, L2/22-266]
Schedule: Thursday afternoon
D.3 Mongolian Encoding Ad Hoc Group Report [Liang Hai]
Schedule: Thursday afternoon
E. CJK and Unihan
Schedule: Wednesday afternoon
Discussion led by CJK and Unihan Group chair, Ken Lunde
E.1 CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #173 Meeting [Ken Lunde, L2/22-247]
CJK and Unihan topics:
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) routed to Script Ad-Hoc Group [Rick McGowan, L2/22-243]
- UAX #38 Unicode Han Database (Unihan)
Documents:
- Proposal for new provisional Unihan database property: kJapanese [Ken Lunde, L2/22-181]
- Proposal for new provisional Unihan database property: kMojiJoho [Ken Lunde, L2/22-187]
- Proposal to remove/improve provisional Unihan database properties [Ken Lunde, L2/22-188]
- Proposal to remove/improve provisional Unihan database properties [John H. Jenkins, L2/22-204R]
- Proposed Updates and Expansions of Unihan Numeric Fields [Wang Yifan, Eiso Chan, L2/22-223]
- Proposal to remove the kRSKangXi property from the Unihan database [Ken Lunde, L2/22-195]
- Proposal to Correct Several Kmandarin Readings For Japanese-made Kanji [Alexander Zapryagaev, L2/22-186]
- Proposal to enhance the kRSUnicode property for non-Chinese simplified radicals [Ken Lunde, L2/22-200]
- Proposal for kRSUnicode and kTotalStrokes changes [Ken Lunde, L2/22-193]
- Proposal for kStrange property value changes and additions [Ken Lunde, L2/22-190]
- Proposal for kSimplifiedVariant and kTraditionalVariant changes and additions [Ken Lunde, L2/22-192]
- Five consolidated public feedback items [Ken Lunde, L2/22-226]
- Response to Feedback Regarding kSimplifiedVariant/kTraditionalVariant [John H. Jenkins, L2/22-255]
- New kFourCornerCode values for 660 ideographs [Jaemin Chung, L2/22-182]
- Updates for Unihan kXHC1983 data [Andrew West, L2/22-184]
- Suggestions for Unihan [M, L2/22-203]
- Proposal to correct inconsistent total strokes data in the Unihan database [Ken Lunde, L2/22-201]
- An item WG2 N5194 requests a feedback from IRG [Toshiya Suzuki, L2/22-257]
- T-Source Glyph Correction and Horizontal Extension [TCA, L2/22-256]
- Changing glyphs and IDSs of 97 KR Hanja chars containing '叱 (U+53F1)' [SHIN SangHyun, KIM Kyongsok, L2/22-258]
- IRGN2556R2 V-Source Glyph and Codes Updates [Vietnam NB, L2/22-259]
- UAX #45 U-Source Ideographs
- Additional ideographic description characters
Documents:
- Proposal to encode five new Ideographic Description Characters [Ken Lunde, et al, L2/22-191]
- SAT Feedback to "Preliminary proposal to add a new provisional kIDS property (Unihan)" (IRGN2492) and "Proposal to encode five new Ideographic Description Characters" (IRGN2572) [SAT, L2/22-227]
- Feedback on IRGN2572 "Proposal to encode 5 new ideograph description characters" [FAN Ming, L2/22-228]
- Introduction to encode Yi Ideographs [Kushim Jiang, L2/22-183]
- Proposal to streamline U+96B9 隹 as a component in V-Source representative glyphs [Alexander Zapryagaev, L2/22-189]
- Reply L2/22-115 Annotations for CJK strokes used as Hangul strokes [Xuan Longyun, L2/22-205]
- Proposal to add back U+2E9A [CheonHyeong Sim, L2/22-224]
- Request to Update Glyph for U+31D5A [Henry Chan, Woo Chi Chung, L2/22-237]
- Proposal to consider adding CodeCharts support for kIRG_KPSource representative glyphs [Yi Bai, CheonHyeong Sim, L2/22-238]
- IRG
- title [name, L2/22-xxx]
E.2 Disruptive Changes in GB 18030-2022 [Peter Constable, L2/22-274]
F. Properties and Algorithms
F.1 PAG: UTC #173 properties feedback & recommendations [Markus Scherer, et al, L2/22-244]
Schedule: Tuesday afternoon
Documents:
- Stability policy (see: L2/22-244 section UCD1)
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) routed to Properties & Algorithms Group [Rick McGowan, L2/22-243]
- Script proposals (see: L2/22-244 sections Script1 – Script2)
- Feedback on text segementation (UAX #14, UAX #29 — see: L2/22-244 sections Seg1 – Seg7)
Documents:
- PRI #446, Proposed Update UAX #14: Accumulated Feedback
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) routed to Properties & Algorithms Group [Rick McGowan, L2/22-243]
- Collation (UTS #15 — see L2/22-244 section Coll1)
- Regex (UTS #18 — see L2/22-244 section Regex1)
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) routed to Properties & Algorithms Group [Rick McGowan, L2/22-243]
F.2 Other feedback routed to PAG
Schedule: Tuesday afternoon
Documents:
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) routed to Properties & Algorithms Group — Thu Sep 15 05:52:10 CDT 2022 [Rick McGowan, L2/22-243]
F.3 Source Code Security
Schedule: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings
Discussion led by Source Code Ad-Hoc chair, Mark Davis
F.3.1 Process report from the source code working group [Robin Leroy / Source Code WG, L2/22-233]
F.3.2 Recommendations of the source code working group for UTC #173 [Robin Leroy / Source Code WG, L2/22-234]
Documents:
- Proposed changes to Unicode properties and reports for source code handling (revised) [Robin Leroy, Mark Davis / Source Code WG, L2/22-229]
- Mathematical notation profile for default identifiers [Robin Leroy / Source Code WG, L2/22-230]
- Comments on L2/22-230 "Mathematical notation profile for default identifiers" [Kent Karlsson, L2/22-267]
- Mixed-script detection in identifier chunks (revised) [Robin Leroy / Source Code WG, L2/22-231]
- Unicode identifier styles [Robin Leroy / Source Code WG, L2/22-232]
F.4 Line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries
Schedule: Tuesday afternoon
Documents:
G. Emoji
Schedule: Tuesday afternoon
Discussion led by Emoji Subcommittee chair, Jennifer Daniel
G.1 Emoji Subcommittee Report for UTC #173 (2022Q4) [ESC/Jennifer Daniel, L2/22-246]
Emoji Subcommittee topics:
- Emoji intake process
- Progress on stated goals
- Exploring Emoji Directionality [ESC / Sean Stewart, Jennifer Daniel, L2/22-275]
- Guidelines for Family Emoji ZWJ Sequences that currently lack RGI tone support [ESC / Jennifer Daniel, L2/22-276]
- Inline emotes / stickers support
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) routed to Emoji Subcommittee [L2/22-243]
H. Unicode Release Management
H.1 2023 Unicode release plan and scope
Schedule: Tuesday morning
Documents:
- Release Management Group Recommendations for 2023-2024 Releases [Peter Constable, L2/22-270]
H.2 V.next-Q1 status and priorities
Schedule: Thursday later afternoon
Discussion led by Ken Whistler
I. Other business
I.1 Other feedback
Schedule: Thursday, later afternoon
Documents:
- Public review feedback (July 11 - October 27, 2022) [L2/22-243]