ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 
Coded Character Sets 
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 Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3003, Combined PDAM Registration and Consideration Ballot on Project JTC 1.02.18.01.22:  ISO/IEC 10646-1, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 22 
 
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 		 Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 
 
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 		 JTC 1.02.18.01.22 
 
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 1) PDAM registration: Approved.  2) PDAM consideration:  This document is forwarded to WG 2 for consideration.  WG 2 is requested to prepare a disposition of comments report, a revised text and a recommendation to SC 2 for further processing. 
 
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Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3003: Combined PDAM Registration and Consideration Ballot on Project JTC 1.02.18.01.22:  ISO/IEC 10646-1, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 22

1)  PDAM Registration
 
 
Approve
Approve 
Disapprove
Abstain
Comments
   
with Comments
      
P-Member (36)
          
ARMENIA          
AUSTRIA          
BELGIUM
 
        
BRAZIL
X
        
CANADA
X
        
CHINA
 
        
DENMARK
X
        
EGYPT
 
        
FINLAND
X
        
FRANCE
 
        
GERMANY
 
 
 
    
GREECE
 X
 
 
    
ICELAND
INDIA          
IRAN          
IRELAND
X
        
ISRAEL
X
        
ITALY
X
    
 
  
JAPAN
X
  
 
    
KOREA
X
        
MOROCCO          
NETHERLANDS
X
 
 
    
NORWAY
 X
        
POLAND
 X
        
ROMANIA
 
        
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
X
        
SINGAPORE          
SLOVENIA          
SWEDEN
 X
  
 
    
THAILAND          
TUNISIA          
TURKEY
X
        
UK
X
        
USA
X
  
 
    
VIET NAM
 
        
YUGOSLAVIA          
 
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0
0
  

2)  PDAM Consideration
 
 
Approve
Approve 
Disapprove
Abstain
Comments
   
with Comments
      
P-Member (36)
          
ARMENIA          
AUSTRIA          
BELGIUM
X
        
BRAZIL
X
        
CANADA
X
 
      
CHINA
 
        
DENMARK
X
        
EGYPT
 X
        
FINLAND
X
 
      
FRANCE
 
        
GERMANY
 
  
 X
    Attachment 1
GREECE
 X
  
 
    
ICELAND          
INDIA
IRAN          
IRELAND
 
 X
 
    Attachment 2
ISRAEL
X
 
    
ITALY
 X
 
  
 
  
JAPAN
 X
 
 
    
KOREA
 X
 
      
MOROCCO          
NETHERLANDS
 X
  
 
    
NORWAY
 X
        
POLAND
 X
        
ROMANIA
 
        
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
X
        
SINGAPORE          
SLOVENIA          
SWEDEN
X
  
 
    
THAILAND          
TUNISIA          
TURKEY
X
        
UK  
X
      Attachment 3
USA
 
  
 X
    Attachment 4
VIET NAM
 
        
YUGOSLAVIA          
 
 19
2 
 0
  

Attachment 1: Germany

With reference to your document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 N 3003, LB on ISO/IEC 10646-1/PDAM 22

Germany votes as follows:

Position of the German National Body (DIN) on the proposal to include in the UCS a number of graphic symbols, mainly from ISO/IEC 9995-7 but also from other sources.

Position:
The German National Body disapproves the proposal.

Justification:
The German Member Body objects to the inclusion of the symbol proposed to be coded in hex F8 of row 25 of table 46 on page 107. The symbol is intended to represent the decimal separator on the relevant key of a keyboard replacing the graphic character 'period' as used in the USA for example, or the graphic character 'comma', used in practically all countries
in Europe. To ensure general acceptance of the symbol it has to be as neutral and as independent as possible of the different customs in the world. Proposed was therefore an equiangular triangle.

The symbol now proposed for inclusion in ISO/IEC 10646 is not acceptable especially not in the USA, as its shape resembles too much that of a comma.
 


Attachment 2: Ireland

Q.1 Yes, Ireland approves the PDAM registration.

Q.2 Ireland approves the draft as presented, with the technical comment that the names of the following characters should be changed to reflect the use of the characters:

21F1 BEGIN SYMBOL
21F2 END SYMBOL
2380 INSERTION SYMBOL
2381 CONTINUOUS UNDERLINE SYMBOL
2382 DISCONTINUOUS UNDERLINE SYMBOL
2383 EMPHASIS SYMBOL
2384 COMPOSITION SYMBOL
2385 CENTRE SYMBOL
2386 ENTER SYMBOL
2387 ALTERNATIVE KEY SYMBOL
2388 CONTROL KEY SYMBOL
2389 PAUSE KEY SYMBOL
238A BREAK SYMBOL
238B ESCAPE SYMBOL
238C UNDO SYMBOL
25F8 DECIMAL SEPARATOR FUNCTION SYMBOL
2614 PRINT SCREEN SYMBOL

Editorial comment:
The white space surrounding the centre line in the glyph for 2385 should be increased to show more separation between the brackets and the vertical bar (though the brackets should still form a notional square).


Attachment 3: UK

UK COMMENTS ACCOMPANYING VOTE OF APPROVAL ON ISO/IEC 10646-1-FPDAM/22 - (ISO/JTC1/SC2 N 3003)

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The UK approves FPDAM 22 with the following comments:

Technical comments.

Ten of the new symbols proposed are already available in ISO/IEC10646 First Edition if the characters in BMP Row 20 (Table 37, combining diacritical marks for symbols) are used in conjuction with existing symbols in other tables, as shown below.

Also 2387 RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH SWITCH can be unified with the existing 2325 OPTION KEY.

There is thus no real need to add these eleven symbols, listed below, to 10646, unless the proposers have special reasons for wishing them to be distinct characters.
 
PDAM code posn Equivalent to: 

Combining symbol

 With symbol
2385 20D2 LONG VERT. LINE O/L  25A1 WHITE SQUARE
238A 20DD ENCLOSING CIRCLE  25BD WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
25F0 20DE ENCLOSING SQUARE  2518 BOX DRG. LIGHT UP & LEFT
25F1 20DE ENCLOSING SQUARE  2510 BOX DRG. LIGHT DOWN & LEFT
25F2 20DE ENCLOSING SQUARE  250C BOX DRG. LIGHT DOWN & RIGHT
25F3 20DE ENCLOSING SQUARE  2514 BOX DRG. LIGHT UP & RIGHT
25F4 20DD ENCLOSING CIRCLE  2518 BOX DRG. LIGHT UP & LEFT
25F5 20DD ENCLOSING CIRCLE  2510 BOX DRG. LIGHT DOWN & LEFT
25F6 20DD ENCLOSING CIRCLE  250C BOX DRG. LIGHT DOWN & RIGHT
25F7 20DD ENCLOSING CIRCLE  2514 BOX DRG. LIGHT UP & RIGHT
Editorial comments.

Clause 1.
- In the entry for Page 99, Table 42, the name for code position 8B should be amended so that NORTHWEST is replaced by NORTH WEST, for consistency with the name of 2196 in Table 39 of First Edition.
 


Attachment 4: USA

See separate PDF file: 02n30671.pdf