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.
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).
Meeting Timeline and Scheduled Activities
A tentative meeting timeline is provided below. The following individual topics are scheduled for discussion at specific times.
| Agenda item / Topic | Document | Day and Time |
|---|---|---|
| G. Emoji | L2/25-008 | Wednesday, 11:00 am |
| E. CJK & Unihan | L2/25-009 | Thursday, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
| F.3 East Asian Spacing | L2/25-046 | Thursday, 4:15 pm |
Timeline
The following is a tentative timeline for the meeting (expand to see daily details):
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
|
Admin: A.1 Quorum A.2 Agenda A.3 Review of prior meeting minutes A.4 Review of UTC action items |
10:30 am |
| G. Emoji | 11:00 am |
| C.1 Editorial Working Group report | morning |
| C.2 Charts Working Group report | morning |
| H.1 Release Management Group report | morning |
|
Liaisons: B.3.2 ICU4X-TC B.7 SEI B.8 INFITT B.9 LSA B.11 ISO TC 46 B.12 ECMA TC 39 |
morning |
| Lunch | 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm |
| D. Scripts | afternoon |
Thursday, January 23, 2025
| Admin: A.1 Quorum A.5 Calendar review |
9:30 am |
|
Liaisons: B.5 ISO TC 37/SC 2 B.10 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 |
morning |
| I.2 PRI #512 Unicode Conformance Model | morning |
| F.5 Text Terminal Working Group report | morning |
| Break | around 11:00 am |
|
F. Properties & algorithms F.1 PAG report F.2 PRI #509 Link detection/serialization F.4 PRI #511 UCA F.6 Other P&A documents |
morning |
| Lunch | 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm |
| F. Properties (cont’d) | afternoon |
|
Liaisons: B.3.1 ICU-TC B.4 CLDR B.6 IETF / ICANN |
afternoon |
| E. CJK & Unihan | 3:00 pm |
| Break | around 4:00 pm |
| F.3 PRI #510 East Asian Spacing | 4:15 pm |
| E. CJK & Unihan (cont’d) | afternoon |
|
Liaisons: B.2 IRG |
afternoon |
Friday, January 24, 2025
|
Admin: A.1 Quorum |
9:30 am |
|
Liaisons: B.13 Unicode Administration, Infrastructure Team |
morning |
|
Liaisons: B.1 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 |
morning |
| As needed: B. Liaisons D. Scripts F. Properties |
morning |
| Lunch | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |
| I.1 Other feedback | afternoon |
| H.1 Release Management Group report (cont’d) | afternoon |
| Admin: A.6 Closing dates for PRIs A.7 L2 representatives |
afternoon |
| INCITS/L2 meeting | 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm |
A. Administrative Topics
Schedule: Wednesday, 10:30 am; Thursday 9:30 am; Friday 9:30 am & afternoon
Details:
A.1 Consortium membership; meeting quorum and proxies
A.2 Agenda review
A.3 Approval of minutes of prior meeting [L2/24-221]
A.4 Action item review
A.5 Calendar review [Calendar]
A.6 PRI closing dates [Public Review Issues]
A.7 INCITS/CS&I representatives
B. Liaison Reports & Technical Topics
Schedule: various times—see meeting timeline
Details:
B.1 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
Schedule: Friday morning
Details:
B.1.1 Amd2 to ISO/IEC 10646 6th edition (SC2/N4930)
Documents:
B.1.2 ISO/IEC 10646 7th edition CD1 (SC2/4940)
Documents:
- ISO/IEC 10646 Committee Draft [SC2, L2/24-265]
- Summary of CD Consultation [SC2/N4951]
- Additional Draft Repertoire for Characters Approved for Publication in Unicode Version 17.0 and the 7th edition of ISO/IEC 10646 (WG2 N5290) [Michel Suignard, L2/24-267]
- Additional draft repertoire for provisionally assigned code points for Unicode (post 17.0) and possibly ISO/IEC 10646 7th edition (WG2 N5291) [Michel Suignard, L2/24-268]
B.1.3 ISO/IEC DIS 14651 (Ed.7) (SC2/N4939)
Documents:
- Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC DIS 14651 (Ed. 7) [SC2/N4956]
B.1.4 Maintenance of UCS Repertoire via a Maintenance Agency
B.1.5 Request for SC2 member comments on proposal to encode Ruble sign with double vertical stem [Unicode, L2/24-271 (= SC2/N4952)]
(See also D.1.7)
B.2 IRG (see also IRG topics under E.1)
B.3 ICU
B.3.1 ICU-TC
B.3.2 ICU4X-TC
B.4 CLDR
B.5 ISO TC 37/SC 2
B.6 IETF / ICANN
B.7 SEI Liaison Report [Anderson, Hossain, L2/25-014]
B.8 INFITT
B.9 LSA
B.10 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22
B.11 ISO TC 46
B.12 ECMA TC 39
B.13 Unicode Administration, Infrastructure Group
C. Editorial & Charts Working Groups
Schedule: Wednesday morning
Details:
C.1 Editorial Working Group Report and Recommendations for UTC #182 Meeting [EDC, L2/25-007]
Topics:
- Unicode 17.0
- Website
- Editorial Working Group processes
- Comments on Public Review Issues (October 24, 2024 – January 2, 2025) routed to Editorial Working Group [Michelle Perham, L2/25-005]
C.2 Charts Working Group Report for UTC #182 [CHARTS, L2/25-011]
D. Scripts
Schedule: Wednesday afternoon
Details:
D.1 Recommendations to UTC #182 (January 2025) on Script Proposals [Kučera, et al, L2/25-010]
Discussion led by Script Ad-Hoc chair, Jan Kučera, and vice-chairs, Debbie Anderson and Roozbeh Pournader
D.1.1 New Scripts
D.1.2 New Characters
Details:
- Twelve cuneiform tenû numerals [Robin Leroy, L2/24-270] (see also F.1)
- Hebrew Point Sheva Na' [Jonathan Mosesson, L2/24-274]
- Devanagari letter Sindhi DDDA [Biswajit Mandal, L2/25-022]
- Devanagari Sign AAO
[Biswajit Mandal, L2/25-021]
(See also D.1.6)
- Character additions for Initial Teaching Alphabet [Kirk Miller, L2/24-273]
- English Phonotypic Alphabet [Karl Pentzlin, L2/24-277]
- Revista de Filología Española (RFE) letters [Kirk Miller, L2/25-016]
- Phonetic: lezh with curl [Kirk Miller, L2/24-272]
D.1.3 New Symbols
D.1.4 Changes to Characters
D.1.5 Other recommendations for UTC action
Details:
- Arabic: DoNotEmit for Arabic tashkil [Roozbeh Pournader, L2/25-025]
D.1.6 Public Feedback
- Comments on Public Review Issues (October 24, 2024 – January 2, 2025) routed to Script Encoding Working Group [Michelle Perham, L2/25-005]
D.1.7 No Action Required
Details:
- Arabic: yeh barree with small v [Roozbeh Pournader, L2/25-023]
- Mongolian: Proposal to encode one Manchu letter [CheonHyeong Sim, et al, L2/24-025]
- Tulu-Tigalari numerals [Biswajit Mandal, L2/25-020]
- Symbols: false unifications of legacy box drawing characters [Piotr Grochowski, L2/25-037]
- Ruble sign with double vertical stem
- Sitelen Pona [Rebecca Bettencourt, et al, L2/24-275]
- Sibe quotation marks
[CheonHyeong Sim, L2/25-028]
(See also ...)
- Katakana digraph yori [CheonHyeong Sim, L2/24-279]
D.1.8 Proposals In-Progress
Details:
D.2 Other script-related documents
Documents:
D.3 Update to UAX #57 Unikemet
Documents:
- Proposed Update Unicode® Standard Annex #57 Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyph Database (Unikemet) [Michel Suignard, L2/25-051]
D.4 Proposal to create UAX for non-Han ideographs
Documents:
- Proposed Draft Unicode® Standard Annex #60 Sources and Other Ancillary Data for Non Han Ideographic scripts [Michel Suignard, L2/25-052]
D.5 Small Seal
Documents:
- Considerations concerning the Small Seal encoding initiative [Michel Suignard, L2/25-049]
E. CJK and Unihan
Schedule: Thursday, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Details:
Discussion led by CJK and Unihan Group chair, Ken Lunde
E.1 CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #182 Meeting [Ken Lunde, L2/25-009]
Details:
- Public review feedback: PRI #508 Proposed Update UAX #38 (see E.2)
- Comments on Public Review Issues (October 24, 2024 – January 2, 2025) routed to CJK and Unihan Group [Michelle Perham, L2/25-005]
- UAX #38 Unicode Han Database (Unihan) (see also E.2)
Documents:
- One update to document L2/23-269 and feedback on year-2023 proposed kMandarin changes/additions for 102 characters (per two UTC actions) [Sharon Chen / CLDR-TC, L2/25-029]
- UAX #45, U-source Ideographs
Documents:
- Proposal to add one ideograph used in Japanese ancient books [Lin Anning, L2/24-263]
- Proposal to add two abbreviated Japanese ideographs to UAX #45 [Gen Kojitani, L2/24-266]
- Proposal to add two characters used in Chinese rime tables to UAX #45 [Judith Chen, L2/24-269]
- Proposal to add 8 ideographs used in Japanese shrines, manga, game, geba, game and food [Lin Anning, L2/24-276]
- Proposal to add three characters used for foods in Xiapu County and Yilan County to UAX #45 (revised) [Eiso Chan, L2/24-278R]
- Other topics / documents
Documents / topics:
- Proposal to Encode One Kana Ligature [CheonHyeong Sim, L2/24-279]
- Proposed Updates and Expansions of Unihan Numeric Fields [Wang Yifan, Eiso Chan, L2/22-223]
- Proposal to Add VS3 for Sibe Quotation Marks [CheonHyeong Sim, L2/25-028]
- IRG document migration status
- Updated provisional Unihan database properties
- IRG Documents
E.2 PRI #508 Proposed Update UAX #38, Unicode Han Database (Unihan)
Documents:
- PRI #508 Proposed Update UAX #38, Unicode Han Database (Unihan)
- Proposed Update UAX #38, Unicode Han Database (snapshot) [Ken Lunde, Richard Cook, L2/25-044]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #508
E.3 Other CJK-related documents
F. Properties and Algorithms
Schedule: Thursday morning & afternoon
Details:
F.1 PAG: UTC #182 properties feedback & recommendations [Markus Scherer, et al, L2/25-006]
Details:
- Comments on Public Review Issues (Oct 24, 2024 – January 2, 2025) routed to Properties and Algorithms Group [Michelle Perham, L2/25-005]
- UCD: Defective decision on names of Tolong Siki letters
- UCD: UCD 17 draft Blocks bugs
-
Properties for character proposals
Documents:
- Proposal to Encode the Jurchen Script [Andrew West, et al, L2/24-139]
- Proposal to Encode Radicals for the Jurchen Script [Andrew West, et al, L2/24-140]
- Proposal for two geometric shapes for Japanese traditional calendars [Gen Kojitani, L2/24-151]
- Twelve cuneiform tenû numerals [Robin Leroy, L2/24-270] (see also D.1.2)
- Collation: UCA implicit weights for Tangut blocks (see also F.4)
- Security: Rare Han characters and identifiers
Documents:
- Common-Use Han Character Subset for Default Identifiers [Asmus Freytag, L2/25-031]
- Emoji: Extended_Pictographic assignments for non-Emoji characters
- Proposed updates for Unicode 17.0
F.2 PRI #509 Proposed Draft UTS #58, Unicode Link Detection and Serialization
- PRI #509 Proposed Draft UTS #58, Unicode Link Detection and Serialization
- Proposed Draft UTS #58, Unicode Link Detection and Serialization (snapshot) [Mark Davis, L2/25-045]
- Accumulated Feedback on PRI #509
F.3 PRI #510 Proposed Draft UTR #59, East Asian Spacing
Schedule: Thursday, 4:15 pm
- PRI #510 Proposed Draft UTR #59, East Asian Spacing
- Proposed Draft UTR #59, East Asian Spacing (snapshot) [Koji Ishii 石井宏治, L2/25-046]
F.4 PRI #511 Proposed Update UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm
- PRI #511 Proposed Draft UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm
- Proposed Draft UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm (snapshot) [Ken Whistler, Markus Scherer, L2/25-047]
F.5 Text Terminal Working Group
F.6 Other documents related to properties and algorithms
Documents:
- Alphabetic Characters not recommended in UTS#39 but part of the DNS Root Zone or Second-Level Reference LGR (revised) [Asmus Freytag, L2/25-032]
- Characters excluded from both MSR and Reference LGR but allowed in UTS#39 [Asmus Freytag, L2/25-033]
- Characters recommended in both UTS#39 and MSR but excluded from the Root Zone or Reference LGR [Asmus Freytag, L2/25-034]
G. Emoji
Schedule: Wednesday, 11:00 am
Details:
Discussion led by Emoji Working Group chair, Jennifer Daniel
G.1 Emoji Standard and Research Working Group Report for UTC #182 (2025Q1) [ESC/Jennifer Daniel, L2/25-008]
H. Unicode Release Management
Schedule: Wednesday morning & Friday afternoon
Details:
H.1 Release Management Group Report to UTC #182 [RMG/Peter Constable, RMG L2/25-012]
Topics:
- Unicode 17.0
- Release tasks previously assigned to Rick McGowan
- UCD build and deployment
- Reorganization of /Public/ data files for UCD and synchronized UTSes
I. Other business
Details:
I.1 Other feedback
Schedule: Friday afternoon
Documents:
- Comments on Public Review Issues (October 24, 2024 – January 2, 2025) [Michelle Perham, L2/25-005]
I.2 PRI #512 Proposed Update UTR #33, Unicode Conformance Model
Schedule: Thursday morning
Documents:
- PRI #512 Proposed Update UTR #33, Unicode Conformance Model
- Proposed Update UTR #33, Unicode Conformance Model (snapshot) [Ken Whistler, Asmus Freytag, L2/25-048]