The UTC will be conducted as a hybrid online/in-person meeting. See the meeting logistics page for details.
Most topics are organized into categories according to 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 Standard time (UTC-08:00).
Scheduled Activities
The following individual topics are scheduled for discussion at specific times.
| Agenda item / Topic | Document | Day and Time |
|---|---|---|
| F.4 Text terminal support | See F.4.1, F.4.2 | Tuesday, 1:30 pm |
| D.4 Mongolian | -- | Thursday, 3:30 pm |
See the meeting logistics page for a schedule summary.
A. Administrative Topics
Schedule: Tuesday, 10:30 am; Wednesday 9:30 am; Thursday 9:30 am & later afternoon
A.1 Consortium membership; meeting quorum and proxies
A.2 Agenda review
A.3 Approval of minutes of prior meeting [L2/23-076]
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
Schedule: Tuesday morning & afternoon; Wednesday morning & afternoon
B.1 JTC 1/SC 2
B.1.1 ISO/IEC 10646
Topics / documents:
- ISO/IEC 10646:2020 Amendment 1: FDIS ballot (closed April 28)
- ISO/IEC 10646:2020 Amendment 2: CDAM2.x
Documents:
- SC2 document N4869: Disposition of Comments on ISO/IEC 10646:2020 (Ed.6)/CDAM 2.2
- Additional draft repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2020 Amendment 2 and Unicode 16.0 [Michel Suignard, L2/23-146]
- Recommendations from WG 2 meeting 70 (WG2 N5234) [JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2, L2/23-145]
- SC2 Consent Docket [Deborah Anderson, L2/23-151]
- IR Report from SC2 #28, June 2023 [Deborah Anderson, L2/23-152]
- Additional draft repertoire for provisionally accepted code points [Michel Suignard, L2/23-147]
B.1.2 Maintenance of ISO/IEC 14651
B.2 IRG (see also IRG topics under E.1)
B.3 ICU
B.4 CLDR
PRI #476: UTS #35 (LDML) Part 7: Keyboards [Steven Loomis, L2/23-180]
B.5 TC 37/SC 2
B.5.1 ISO 12199 forward (ISO/TC 37/SC2 N 1071) [TC 37/SC 2, L2/23-125]
B.6 IETF / ICANN
B.7 SEI Liaison Report [Anderson, L2/23-165]
B.8 INFITT
B.9 LSA
B.10 JTC 1/SC 22
B.10.1 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 liaison report to UTC #175 [Robin Leroy, L2/23-132]
B.11 TC 46
C. Editorial Committee
Schedule: Tuesday morning
Discussion led by EdComm acting chair, Ken Whistler
C.1 Editorial Committee Report and Recommendations for UTC #176 Meeting [EDC/Ken Whistler, L2/23-161]
C.2 PRI #464 Proposed Update UAX #41, Common References for Unicode Standard Annexes
Documents:
- PRI #464 Proposed Update UAX #41, Common References for Unicode Standard Annexes
- Proposed Update UAX #41, Common References for Unicode Standard Annexes (snapshot) [Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, L2/23-175]
D. Scripts
Schedule: Wednesday afternoon; Thursday morning & afternoon
D.1 Recommendations to UTC #176 July 2023 on Script Proposals [Anderson, et al, L2/23-164]
Discussion led by Script Ad-Hoc chair, Debbie Anderson, and vice-chair, Roozbeh Pournader
D.1.1 Proposals requiring UTC action
Topics requring UTC action:
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs [Michel Suignard et al, L2/23-181]
- Latin: lambda characters [Robyn Humchitt et al, L2/23-191]
- Latin: capital letters double wynn, double thorn [Michael Everson, L2/23-135]
- Arabic: Quranic thin noon [Khaled Hosny, Mostafa Jbire, L2/23-121]
- PRI #479: Proposed Update UTR #53, Unicode Arabic Mark Rendering — see D.2
- Arabic: Yeh with hamza above dot behavior [Lorna Evans, L2/23-120]
- Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform ligatures [Robin Leroy, L2/23-186]
- Tangut: components and ideographs
- Sharada: Kashmiri Sharada characters [Vinodh Rajan, L2/23-122]
- Compound tone diacritics [Kirk Miller, L2/23-188]
- Hungarian Forint sign [Vacek Nules, L2/23-131]
- Arrows for Egyptology [Michel Suignard, L2/23-185]
- Public review feedback (April 5 - July 4, 2023) routed to Script Ad-Hoc [Rick McGowan, L2/23-159]
D.1.2 Documents not requiring UTC action
Other script documents
- Preliminary proposal for encoding the Aiha script [Michael Everson, L2/23-136]
- Handling of the Heh in Sindhi Text [Kamal Mansour, L2/23-117]
- Preliminary proposal for encoding Blissymbols [Michael Everson, L2/23-138]
- Unicode request for IPA compound tone diacritic [Kirk Miller, L2/23-189]
- Revised proposal to add the combining overcurl [Michael Everson, L2/23-137]
- Proposal to encode dashed-box symbols in Plane 14 [Michael Everson, L2/23-090]
- Revised proposal for the addition of LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED W [Michael Everson, L2/23-134]
- Addition of eighteen Latin characters for Somali [Omer Aden, WG2 N5220]
- Revised proposal to encode Proto-Cuneiform in Unicode [Anshuman Pandey, L2/23-190]
- Seal: Glyph Image Chart to Review L2/22-279 Mapping (size: 76MB) [Toshiya Suzuki, L2/23-166]
- Tangut: glyph corrections
- Proposal for ARABIC BIBLICAL END OF VERSE [Lorna Evans, L2/23-103R]
- Proposal for missing Kana-Ligatures [Gen Kojitani, L2/23-112] (see also E.1)
- Core Spec note on click letters [Kirk Miller, L2/23-119]
D.2 PRI #479: Proposed Update UTR #53, Unicode Arabic Mark Rendering
Documents:
D.3 PRI #482: Proposed Draft UTR #56, Unicode Cuneiform Sign Lists
Documents:
D.4 Mongolian
Schedule: Thursday, 3:30 pm
D.5 Other work in progress
D.5.1 Do Not Emit data (Roozbeh Pournader)
D.5.2 ScriptExemplars (Roozbeh Pournader)
D.5.3 Orthographic syllable structures (Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin et al)
E. CJK and Unihan
Schedule: Tuesday afternoon
Discussion led by CJK and Unihan Group chair, Ken Lunde
E.1 CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #176 Meeting [Ken Lunde, L2/23-163]
Topics:
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I — see E.4
- Unihan Database status
- Public review feedback: PRI #467 Proposed Update UAX #38 (see E.2)
- Public review feedback: PRI #468 Proposed Update UAX #45 (see E.3)
- Public review feedback: PRI #480 Unicode 15.1 Beta (see H.2.1)
- Public review feedback (April 5 - July 4, 2023) routed to CJK and Unihan Group [Rick McGowan, L2/23-159]
- UAX #38 Unicode Han Database (Unihan) (see also E.2)
Documents:
- Request for consideration to update kSBGY property in Unihan DB [Eiso Chan, L2/23-128]
- Proposal to add kFanqie to Unihan Database [Eiso Chan, L2/23-002R]
- Revised 3 G-Source Glyphs [China NB, L2/23-133]
- Adding a self-referencing source reference "KU-03E02" to U+3E02 (WG2 N5198) [Korea NB, L2/23-143]
- Request for Horizontal Extension in the J-column of ISO/IEC 10646 (WG2 N5221) [Japan NB, L2/23-144]
- UAX #45, U-source Ideographs (see also E.3)
Documents:
- Proposal to encode a Chinese character from Xiao Lin Guan Ji [Zhiyu Yuan, L2/23-110]
- Proposal to add one common character used for Duanxi inkstone to UAX #45 [Eiso Chan, L2/23-124]
- Proposal about adding 10 complex Hongmen related ideographs to UAX#45 [Xieyang Wang, L2/23-126]
- Proposal to add 36 ideographs for Japanese place names to UAX #45 [Tsukada Masaki, L2/23-130]
- Proposal to Encode Abbreviated Ideographs(Kanjis) in Japanese [Gen Kojitani, L2/23-139]
- Other topics / documents
Documents:
- Proposal for missing Kana-Ligatures [Gen Kojitani, L2/23-112]
- Proposal for superscript katakana letters for Ryukyuan languages [Gen Kojitani, L2/23-118]
- Feedback on L2/23-118 (Proposal for superscript katakana letters for Ryukyuan languages) [Eiso Chan, L2/23-123]
- Introduction on two unencoded Katakana letters [Eiso Chan, L2/23-127]
E.2 PRI #467 Proposed Update UAX #38, Unicode Han Database (Unihan)
Documents:
- PRI #467 Proposed Update UAX #38, Unicode Han Database (Unihan)
- Proposed Update UAX #38, Unicode Han Database (snapshot) [Ken Lunde, Richard Cook, L2/23-173]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #467
E.3 PRI #468 Proposed Update UAX #45, U-source Ideographs
Documents:
- PRI #468 Proposed Update UAX #45, U-source Ideographs
- Proposed Update UAX #45, U-Source Ideographs (snapshot) [Ken Lunde, L2/23-177]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #468
E.4 GB 18030-2022 / CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I
- GB 18030-2022 Amendment, Draft 1 [China NB, L2/23-113]
- Proposal to encode 622 urgently needed ideographs in UCS (revised) (WG2 N5214R2) [Ken Lunde, L2/23-114]
- USNB Comments on Draft 2 of GB 18030-2020 Amendment 1 and recommendation for ISO/IEC 10646:2022 Amendment 2 [Peter Constable, L2/23-115]
- Revision of 622 UNCs of China (Feedback on WG2 N5214) (WG2 N5238) [China NB, L2/23-154]
- See also B.1.1
F. Properties and Algorithms
Schedule (except F.4): Wednesday morning & afternoon
F.1 PAG: UTC #176 properties feedback & recommendations [Markus Scherer, et al, L2/23-160]
Topics / documents:
- Core spec: Is « The [three] Unicode encoding forms » well-defined? (SC22 liaison feedback)
- Core spec: Where is locale-independent simple case folding of strings defined? (SC22 liaison feedback)
- UCD: Katakana middle dots in XID_Continue (SC22 liaison feedback)
- UCD: specify more non-default case mapping behavior (ICU4X feedback)
- UCD: Changes for new characters in 16.0
- Review of new scripts & characters
- Segmentation: WB4 rule for Prepend characters (see also F.2.4)
- Segmentation: scripts affected by GB9c (see also F.2.4)
- Linebreak: Edge cases of « quotation marks » (see also F.2.2)
- Required conjunct forms in extended grapheme clusters [Norbert Lindenberg, L2/23-141] (see also F.2.4)
- UTS #46: mapping of capital sharp s
- UTS #46: Processing.Map should not record an error (ICU-TC feedback)
- Collation: ISO 12199 Quo vadis? (see also B.5.1)
- Public review feedback: PRI #461 (PU UAX #14) — see F.2.2
- Public review feedback: PRI #469 (PU UAX #29) — see F.2.4
- Public review feedback: PRI #463 (PU UTS #39) — see F.3.3
- Public review feedback: PRI #474 (DUTS #55) — see F.3.5
- Public review feedback (January 5 - April 5, 2023) routed to Properties and Algorithms Group [Rick McGowan, L2/23-078]
- Public review feedback (April 5 - July 4, 2023) routed to Properties and Algorithms Group [Rick McGowan, L2/23-159]
- Source Code Working Group update — see also F.3.5
F.2 Proposed updates to Unicode Standard Annexes
Topics:
F.2.1 PRI #460 Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
Documents:
- PRI #460 Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
- Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (snapshot) [Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, L2/23-168]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #460 (no new feedback)
F.2.2 PRI #461 Proposed Update UAX #14, Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm
Documents:
- PRI #461 Proposed Update UAX #14, Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm
- Proposed Update UAX #14, Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm (snapshot) [Robin Leroy, L2/23-170]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #461
F.2.3 PRI #470 Proposed Update UAX #24, Unicode Script Property
Documents:
- PRI #470 Proposed Update UAX #24, Unicode Script Property
- Proposed Update UAX #24, Unicode Script Property (snapshot) [Ken Whistler, L2/23-044]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #470 (no new feedback)
F.2.4 PRI #469 Proposed Update UAX #29, Unicode Text Segmentation
Documents:
- PRI #469 Proposed Update UAX #29, Unicode Text Segmentation
- Proposed Update UAX #29, Unicode Text Segmentation (snapshot) [Christopher Chapman, L2/23-172]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #469
- Setting expectations for grapheme clusters [Norbert Lindenberg, L2/23-140]
F.2.5 PRI #462 Proposed Update UAX #31, Unicode Identifiers and Syntax
Documents:
- PRI #462 Proposed Update UAX #31, Unicode Identifiers and Syntax
- Proposed Update UAX #31, Unicode Identifiers and Syntax (snapshot) [Mark Davis, Robin Leroy, L2/23-182]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #462 (no new feedback)
F.2.6 PRI #481 Proposed Update UAX #42, Unicode Character Database in XML
Documents:
- PRI #481 Proposed Update UAX #42, Unicode Character Database in XML
- Proposed Update UAX #42, Unicode Character Database in XML (snapshot) [Eric Muller, Laurentiu Iancu, L2/23-183]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #481 (no new feedback)
F.2.7 PRI #465 Proposed Update UAX #44, Unicode Character Database
Documents:
- PRI #465 Proposed Update UAX #44, Unicode Character Database
- Proposed Update UAX #44, Unicode Character Database (snapshot) [Ken Whistler, L2/23-176]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #465 (no new feedback)
F.3 Proposed updates to Unicode Technical Standards
Topics:
F.3.1 PRI #477 Proposed Update UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm
Documents:
- PRI #477 Proposed Update UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm
- Proposed Update UTS #477 Proposed Update UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm (snapshot) [Ken Whistler, Markus Scherer, L2/23-169]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #477 (no new feedback)
F.3.2 PRI #475 Proposed Update UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions
Documents:
- PRI #475 Proposed Update UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions
- Proposed Update UTS #475 Proposed Update UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions (snapshot) [Mark Davis, L2/23-171]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #475 (no new feedback)
F.3.3 PRI #463 Proposed Update UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms
Documents:
- PRI #463 Proposed Update UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms
- Proposed Update UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms (snapshot) [Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, L2/23-174]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #463
F.3.4 PRI #478 Proposed Update UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing
Documents:
- PRI #478 Proposed Update UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing
- Proposed Update UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing (snapshot) [Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, L2/23-184]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #478 (no new feedback)
F.3.5 PRI #474 Draft UTS #55, Unicode Source Code Handling
Documents:
- PRI #474 Draft UTS #55, Unicode Source Code Handling
- Proposed Draft UTS #55, Unicode Source Code Handling (snapshot) [Robin Leroy, Mark Davis, L2/23-179]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #474
F.4 Text terminal support
Schedule: Tuesday 1:30 pm
F.4.1 Text Terminal Working Group report [Dustin Howett]
F.4.2 Opposition to and Comment on L2/23-107 [Fredrick R. Brennan, L2/23-153]
F.5 Unicode Conformance Model House Cleaning [Asmus Freytag, L2/23-192]
G. Emoji
Schedule: Tuesday afternoon
Discussion led by Emoji Subcommittee chair, Jennifer Daniel
G.1 Emoji Subcommittee Report for UTC #176 (2023Q3) [ESC/Jennifer Daniel, L2/23-162]
Topics:
G.2 PRI #471 Proposed Update UTS #51, Unicode Emoji
Documents:
- PRI #471 Proposed Update UTS #51, Unicode Emoji
- Proposed Update UTS #51, Unicode Emoji (snapshot) [Mark Davis, Ned Holbrook, L2/23-178]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #471
G.3 Variation sequences for legacy computing symbols unified with emoji [Charlotte Buff, L2/23-142]
H. Unicode Release Management
Schedule: Tuesday morning; Thursday later afternoon
H.1 Release Management Group Report to UTC #176 [RMG/Peter Constable, L2/23-187]
H.2 Unicode 15.1
H.2.1 PRI #480 Unicode 15.1 Beta
H.2.2 Unicode 15.1 Release
I. Other business
I.1 Other feedback
Schedule: Thursday, later afternoon
Documents:
- Public review feedback (April 5 - July 4, 2023) [Rick McGowan, L2/23-159]