Approved Minutes of the UTC 103 / L2 200 JointMeeting
Mountain View, CA -- May 10 - 13 2005
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #103 Agenda
August 26, 2005
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; AppleComputer, Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); IBM Corporation;Justsystem; Microsoft Corporation; Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.;VeriSign; UC Berkeley.8 full members present, 1 institutionalmember present, 1 supporting member present, 9.5 total
NOT PRESENT: AgenceIntergouvernementale de la Francophonie; Hewlitt Packard; MonotypeImaging Corporation; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; RLG; SAP AG.7 fullmembers not present
Voting members: 15 full, 1institutional, 1 supporting
Voting members in regular attendance: 13 full, 1 institutional,1 supporting
Quorum: 7.5
UTC 104/L2 201 - August 16-19, 2005,Redmond, host Microsoft
UTC 105/L2 202 - November 1-4, 2005, San Jose, host Adobe,AnnualMembers Mtg
UTC 106/L2 203 - February 6-9, 2006, Mountain View, host Unicode
UTC 107/L2 204 - May 16-19, 2006, Cupertino, host Apple
Action Item Review (A.5.2)
Country Codes(B.17)[103-A1] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Remindthosemembers not in regular attendance of their open action items byJuly 15, 2005.
[103-C1] Consensus: The UTC and L2 request thatthe maintenance agency for ISO 3166 add two special codes forundetermined and multiple regions, with suggested values ZX and ZY,following the pattern of ISO 639. Communicate this to LTRU workinggroup and ask them to consider the implications for language tags andlanguage tag matching. [L2/05-092]
[103-A2] Action Item for Mark Davis, CathyWissink: Request the two new country codes ZX and ZY from LTRU (similarto the actions with currency codes). [L2/05-092]
[103-C2]Consensus: Moot,replaced by103-C3 .
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; AppleComputer, Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); IBM Corporation;Justsystem; Microsoft Corporation; Oracle; Sun Microsystems; Sybase,Inc.; VeriSign; U C Berkeley.9 full members present, 1institutional member present, 1 supporting member present,10.5 total
[103-C3] Consensus: Add Tamil KSSA and SHRII toNamedSequences.txt:
<U+0B95, U+0BCD, U+0BB7> TAMIL LETTER KSSA
<U+0BB6, U+0BCD, U+0BB0, U+0BC0> TAMIL LETTER SHRIIas documented inL2/05-129.
[103-A3] Action Item for Ken Whistler, EditorialCommittee: Update NamedSequences.txt for the next release of thestandard, to reflect addition of two sequences, KSSA and SHRII forTamil. [L2/05-129]
[103-A4] Action Item for Eric Muller, EditorialCommittee: Put up a FAQ about the status of Tamil SHRII mapping.[L2/05-129]
[103-A5] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add thetwo new Tamil named sequences to ballot comments on FPDAM2. [L2/05-129]
[103-A6] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, RickMcGowan, Editorial Committee: Create a chart for Named Sequences forthe "charts/" section of the Unicode web site, for review by UTC.
Public Review Issue 64 - UTR #36: Security (B.11.3)
[103-C4] Consensus: Request the Unicode officersto provide for a public domain last resort font and description of itsusage, the proposed location and composition of which is to be decidedby the Editorial Committee. Authorize an update ofUnicode Standard Annex #24: Script Nameswith material of Appendix D ofDraftUnicode Technical Report #36: Security Considerations for theImplementation of Unicode and Related Technology draft 3.[L2/05-110R]
[103-A7] Action Item for Mark Davis, Officers:Procure a last resort font (free of IP or for unrestricted use).
[103-A8] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Provide documentation for the last resort font of theprevious action item103-A7.
[103-A9] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, EditorialCommittee: Incorporate Appendix D fromL2/05-110Rinto a proposed update ofUnicodeStandard Annex #24: Script Names by June 15, 2005.
[103-A10] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post aPublic Review Issue forProposedUpdate Unicode Standard Annex #24: Script Names to close August9, 2005.
[103-A11] Action Item for Michel Suignard: GiveMark input on bidi forDraft UnicodeTechnical Report #36: Security Considerations for the Implementation ofUnicode and Related Technology.[L2/05-110R]
UTC Membership Roll Call Adjustment
PRESENT: SAP (by proxy)
10 full memberspresent, 1 institutional member, 1 supporting member present,11.5 total
[103-M1] Motion: AdvanceDraft Unicode Technical Report #36:Security Considerations for the Implementation of Unicode and RelatedTechnologytoUnicode Technical Report #36:Security Considerations for the Implementation of Unicode and RelatedTechnology, subject to revision by the Editorial Committee, withthe notice that the UTC is considering making it a Unicode TechnicalStandard.[L2/05-110R]
Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Michel Suignard
10 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft,Oracle, Sun, Sybase, UC Berkeley, VeriSign)
0against
1.5 abstain (Basis, SAP)
Motion103-M1 carries[103-A12] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Update and postUnicodeTechnical Report #36: Security Considerations for the Implementation ofUnicode and Related Technology by the end of June, 2005.
[103-A13] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePublic Review Issue #64 onDraftUnicode Technical Report #36: Security Considerations for theImplementation of Unicode and Related Technology, stating thatit was advanced to a Unicode Technical Report.
[103-C5] Consensus: Create a Securitysubcommittee, with Mark Davis as chair, to decide on the constitutionof the identifier and confusables list.
[103-A14] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Make aSecurity Subcommittee mail list for security issues includingdiscussion ofUnicode TechnicalReport #36: Security Considerations for the Implementation of Unicodeand Related Technology and add the following people to the list:Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, Asmus Freytag, Ken Whistler, Mike VanRiper, Deborah Goldsmith, Lisa Moore.
[103-A15] Action Item for Mark Davis, SecuritySubcommittee: Create the identifier and confusables lists forUnicode Technical Report #36: SecurityConsiderations for the Implementation of Unicode and Related Technologyby June 30, 2005.
[103-A16] Action Item for Mark Davis: Create aworking draft Unicode Technical Standard as the next version ofUnicode Technical Report #36: SecurityConsiderations for the Implementation of Unicode and Related Technologyin time for the August, 2005 UTC meeting.
[103-A17] Action Item for Mark Davis, Securitysubcommittee: Gather feedback on the effect of removing defaultignorable codepoints from identifiers described in UTR #36.
[103-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis: Considerany feedback from public review in the update of UTR #36.
Stability of Case Folding(B.14.2)
[103-A19] Action Item for Lisa Moore: PutdocumentL2/05-083on the August 2005 UTC agenda. [.L2/05-076]
[103-M2] Motion: Approve the addition of six newcharacters, the lowercase versions of characters inL2/05-076:
U+2C65 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITHSTROKE
U+037B GREEK SMALL REVERSED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL
U+037C GREEK SMALL DOTTED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL
U+037D GREEK SMALL REVERSED DOTTED LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL
U+04CF CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PALOCHKA
Moved by Mark Davis, Seconded by Lisa Moore7.5 for (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft,Oracle, Sun)
1 against (UC Berkeley)
2 abstain (Sybase, Verisign)Motion103-M2carries.
After themeeting it was discovered that LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE andLATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH DIAGONAL STROKE at codepoints U+2C65 andU+2C66 overlap with two characters approved in February (U+2C65 LATINCAPITAL LETTER H WITH DESCENDER and U+2C66 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITHDESCENDER as per Consensus102-C10). These two characters should thus beencoded elsewhere. Ken Whistler has recommended U+2C6B for LATIN SMALLLETTER A WITH STROKE and U+2C6C for LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH DIAGONAL
[103-C6] Consensus: As soon as the six lowercasecharacters (103-M2) are included, the UTC will adopt D1 of documentL2/05-076as a stability policy. The effect of this stability policy is thatwhenever we add uppercase characters in cased scripts, we need to addthe corresponding lowercase characters.
D1. For all strings S containing characters only from UnicodeVersions A and B toCasefold(toNFKC(x)) under version A is identical totoCasefold(toNFKC(x)) under version B.
Public Review Issue 53 -ConformanceModel (B.11.1)[103-A20] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Presentthe new casing stability policy in the WG2 liaison statement, andrequest that the casing stability policy be added to the WG2 Principles& Procedures.
[103-A21] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline with the six new lowercase characters from motion103-M2.
[103-A22] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Addsix Latin small letters from motion103-M2to FPDAM2 ballot comments.
[103-A23] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Update the character stability policy, regarding the abovemotion103-M2.
[103-A23a] Action Item forDebbie Anderson: Inform the archaic Greek community about the additionof the six lowercase characters.
[103-A24] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Createa proposal summary form for the six new characters in motion103-M2,and submit to Mike Ksar for WG2 consideration by August 15, 2005.Include information fromL2/05-076.
[103-A25] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: AskMichael Everson to provide a font for the six lowercase charactersaccepted in motion103-M2.
[103-A26] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePublic Review Issue #53, for follow on action, an update will beposted. [L2/05-111]
Unicode Technical Reports - Character Mapping (B.12.2)
[103-A27] Action Item for Markus Scherer, MartinHosken, Jonathan Kew, Mark Davis: Come up with a consensus proposal fordealing with charsets having contextual mapping.
Character Names
[103-C7] Consensus: Create a "Normative NameAlias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with namesfrom the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from documentL2/05-137.
[103-A28] Action Item for Asmus Freytag,Editorial Committee: Create a file for normative name alias anddocument the property in the next version of Unicode. Add the canonicalname as a comment. See103-C7.[L2/05-096,L2/05-137]
[103-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan,Editorial Committee: Document on the Unicode web site the known nameerror issues.[L2/05-137,L2/05-096]
[103-A30] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Create a draft of an "en_us" NamesList.txt andpost for internal review.
[103-A31] Action Item for Asmus Freytag,Editorial Committee: Consider Peter Kirk's request in documentL2/05-103to clarify the usage of character names in the Unicode Standard.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; AppleComputer, Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); IBM Corporation;Justsystem; Microsoft Corporation; Oracle;Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.; VeriSign (proxy); U C Berkeley.10full members present, 1 institutional member present, 1 supportingmember present,11.5 totalScripts - Dotted Square (C.18)
Scripts - Cuneiform(C.17)[103-C8] Consensus: Accept with the sameproperties as the U+25CC DOTTED CIRCLE. [L2/05-140]
[103-A32] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline page to include U+2B1A DOTTED SQUARE. [L2/05-140]
[103-A33] Action Item for Murray Sargent: Updatethe proposal summary form for U+2B1A DOTTED SQUARE and forward to MikeKsar by end of July 2005. [L2/05-140]
[103-A34] Action Item for Michel Suignard: AddU+2B1A DOTTED SQUARE to the ballot comments on FPDAM 2. [L2/05-140]
[103-C9] Consensus: Accept all of the recommendedchanges to Cuneiform documented inL2/05-135:remove five characters, move one character, change three glyphs, andmake certain name changes.
[103-A35] Action Item for Steve Tinney: Send toAsmus Freytag an updated Cuneiform names list and correspondingCuneiform fonts by end of June 2005 . [L2/05-135]
[103-A36] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline with the changes to Cuneiform. [L2/05-135]
[103-A37] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Addthe recommended changes to Cuneiform given inL2/05-135to FPDAM 2 ballot comments.
Scripts -Balinese(C.1)
[103-C10] Consensus: Accept for encoding inUnicode 5.0, 121 Balinese characters at 1B00..1B7C, with blockname "Balinese" at U+1B00..U+1B7F, and with ordering and properties asgiven inL2/05-008,L2/05-090,andL2/05-091.
[103-A38] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline with 121 Balinese characters at 1B00..1B7C.L2/05-141.
Scripts -Additional Cyrillic Characters (C.2 )
[103-A39] Action Item for Lorna Priest: Updatethe proposal with information on question 8 and further research on thecharacters with hook. [L2/05-080]
[103-A40] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Askthe Department of Linguistics, UCB to further research the characterswith hook inL2/05-080.
Scripts -Additional Sindhi Characters (C.3 )
[103-C11] Consensus: Accept four Devanagaricharacters for Sindhi for Unicode 5.0,with properties as documented inL2/05-082:
U+097B DEVANAGARI LETTER GGA
U+097C DEVANAGARI LETTER JJA
U+097E DEVANAGARI LETTER DDDA
U+097F DEVANAGARI LETTER BBA[103-A41] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline with four Devanagari characters at 097B..097F. [L2/05-082]
[103-A42] Action Item for Michael Everson:Provide a font to Asmus Freytag for the four Devanagari Sindhiimplosive characters inL2/05-082.
[103-A43] Action Item for Eric Muller, EditorialCommittee: Document in Unicode Version 5 that using anudatta onunadorned characters is not the way to represent these implosives.Create an FAQ on this issue. [L2/05-082]
Scripts -Inverted Interrobang (C.4 )
[103-A44] Action Item for Michael Everson:Provide further usage information and documentation on invertedinterrobang from the Spanish user community. [L2/05-086]
Scripts -Carian,Lycian, Lydian(C.11, C.12, C.13)
[103-A45] Action Item for Michael Everson,Debbie Anderson: Discuss the encoding model of Carian, Lycian, andLydian with experts. Explore a unified Western Anatolian script usingOld Italic as the encoding model, instead of encoding the variousalphabets separately. [L2/05-100,L2/05-101,L2/05-102]
Scripts - Malayalam (C.5)
[103-C12] Consensus: Make a Public Review Issueout of the requested change to the glyph for Malayalam digit 0 and therequest to add three numeric characters.[L2/05-087]
[103-A46] Action Item for Rick McGowan,Editorial Committee: Draft and post a Public Review Issue for theMalayalam digit 0 glyph change and numerics, to close August 9, 2005.Add the question of encoding the "half" character as part of of thePublic Review Issue. [L2/05-087]
[103-A47] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Send ane-mail to Om Vikas and Manoj Jain requesting that the Governmentt ofIndia review and contribute their input on Malayalam issues. [L2/05-087]
Scripts -Gurmukhi (C.6)
[103-A48] Action Item for Eric Muller:Communicate back to the author ofL2/05-088on all of the issues discussed.
[103-A49] Action Item for Eric Muller, EditorialCommittee: Draft a proposal to document a list of recommended orderingsfor independent vowels plus dependent vowel combinations. Includediscussion of the Gurmukhi cases. [L2/05-088]
Scripts -Combining Grapheme Joiner (C.7)
Scripts -Ligatures of r, ri and rii (C.16)[103-A50] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Update the text of the standard for version 5 onthe use of combining grapheme joiner in Latin script diacriticsassuggested inL2/05-094.
[103-C13] Consensus: Make the change regardingthe shaping of "ra" in Tamil based on documentL2/05-120and update the text of the standard. Post as a text erratum.
[103-A51] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Make the change regarding the shaping of "ra" inTamil based on documentL2/05-120and update the text of the standard. Post as a text erratum by the endof July 2005.
Scripts - Syloti Nagri (C.15)
[103-C14] Consensus: The UTC accepts theproposal on Syloti Nagri conjoining behavior as documented inL2/05-130such that: "... use virama whereappropriate but using other means for controlling ligation where thevirama is not appropriate."
[103-A52] Action Item for Peter Constable,Editorial Committee: Prepare text for Unicode 5.0 for the Syloti Nagriblock description, with regard to consensus103-C14 on conjoining behavior.[L2/05-130]
Scripts -Greek Epigraphical Letters (C.10)
[103-C15] Consensus: Accept six Greekepigraphic characters from documentL2/05-098for a future version of the Unicode Standard:
U+0370 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER HETA
U+0371 GREEK SMALL LETTER HETA
U+0372 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ARCHAIC SAMPI
U+0373 GREEK SMALL LETTER ARCHAIC SAMPI
U+0376 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA
U+0377 GREEK SMALL LETTER PAMPHYLIAN DIGAMMA[103-A53] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to reflect acceptance of 6 Greek epigraphic charactersat U+0370..U+0377. See documentL2/05-098.
[103-A54] Action Item for Deborah Anderson:Reply to Nick Nicholas with the resolution of his documentL2/05-098.Ask for an updated proposal summary form and forward to Mike Ksar forconsideration at the next WG2 meeting. Also obtain a font for thesix Greek epigraphical letters inL2/05-098.
Scripts -Byzantine Musical Notation (C.14)
[103-C16] Consensus: Swap the glyphs for U+1D09CBYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL AGOGI ARGI and U+1D09F BYZANTINE MUSICALSYMBOL AGOGI GORGI. [L2/05-106]
[103-A55] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Createan erratum on swapping the glyphs for U+1D09CBYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL AGOGI ARGI and U+1D09F BYZANTINE MUSICALSYMBOL AGOGI GORGI. See consensus103-C16. [L2/05-106]
[103-A56] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Addglyph errata/swap for +1D09CBYZANTINE MUSICAL SYMBOL AGOGI ARGI and U+1D09F BYZANTINE MUSICALSYMBOL AGOGI GORGI to the ballotcomments on FPDAM 2 of 10646. [L2/05-106]
[103-A57] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Reviewthe Byzantine music notation proposal inL2/05-106and document suggested recommendations for the next UTC meeting.
Public Review Issue 59 -Disunificationof Dandas (B.11.2)
[103-C17] Consensus: The UTC has not seenpervasiveproblems caused by the unification of dandas in the core scripts ofIndia. Therefore, based on concerns for stability, the UTC re-affirmsits position that dandas are unified across these scripts. [L2/05-114]
[103-A58] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePublic Review Issue #59 on disunifications of dandas with theresolution in consensus103-C17.
[103-A59] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Add a subheader in the nameslist for each Indicscript pointing to the generic dandas. [L2/05-114]
[103-A60] Action Item for Rick McGowan, KenWhistler, Editorial Committee: Document known issues with the names ofdanda and double danda. [L2/05-114]
[103-A61] Action Item for Eric Muller: Reviewthe script properties of all the dandas and make recommendations forthenext UTC.
Unicode Technical Reports -RegularExpressions (B.12.5.1)
[103-C18] Consensus: The UTC authorizes aproposed update toUnicode TechnicalStandard #18: Unicode RegularExpressions that addresses the new line handling issue raised inL2/05-121by relaxing the requirement to match CRLF to the "." (dot)metacharacter in multi-line mode for level 1.
[103-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Issue aProposed UpdateUnicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode RegularExpressions (document revision 12)that addresses the issue inL2/05-121ASAP.
[103-A63] Action Item for Rick McGowan: AfterProposed Update Unicode Technical Standard#18: Unicode RegularExpressions is ready, post a Public Review Issue to closeAugust 9.
Public Review Issue 65 - Devanagari Eyelash Ra(B.11.4)
[103-C19] Consensus: The UTC has not seenpervasiveproblems with the representation of eyelash ra. Therefore, based onconcerns for stability, the UTC re-affirms its position that eyelash rais represented as indicated in Rule R5 in Section 9.1 Devanagari of TheUnicode Standard 4.0. [L2/05-111]
[103-A64] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePublic Review Issue #65 with the resolution - no change to the standard.
Public Review Issue 66 -Malayalam ChilluForms (B.11.5)
[103-C20] Consensus: The UTC accepts the fiveMalayalamchillu forms for encoding in Unicode 5.0. [L2/05-114]
<>U+0D7A MALAYALAM LETTER NN
U+0D7B MALAYALAM LETTER N
U+0D7C MALAYALAM LETTER RR
U+0D7D MALAYALAM LETTER L
U+0D7E MALAYALAM LETTER LL[103-A65] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to reflect encoding five Malayalam chillu letters atU+0D7A..U+0D7E. [L2/05-114]
[103-A66] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Addthe five Malayalam chillu letters at U+0D7A..U+0D7E to ballot commentson FPDAM 2 of 10646. [L2/05-114]
[103-A67] Action Item for Eric Muller: Preparethe proposal summary form for five Malayalam chillu letters atU+0D7A..U+0D7E. [L2/05-114]
[103-A68] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePublic Review Issue #66 and note that the UTC accepted the five chilluformsfor Malayalam. [L2/05-114]
Unicode Technical Reports - Identifier and PatternSyntax (B.12.7.1)
[103-A69] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Writeto John Benito to suggest referencingUnicodeStandard Annex #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax instead ofTR10176 anddetermine any roadblocks to referencing it with a goal of determininghow to move forward.
CJK - Unihan (B.20.1 )
[103-A70] Action Item for John Jenkins, RichardCook: Create aProposed DraftUnicode TechnicalReport #38: A User’s Guide to the Unihan Database from the draftUnihan database user's guide in time for the next UTC meeting. [L2/05-123,L2/05-149]
CJK - Variation Selectors (B.20.2)
[103-A71] Action Item for Eric Muller, HidekiHiura: Prepare a submission to WG2 for a proposal regarding the use ofHan variation selectors that would modify clause 20.4 VariationSelectors in 10646 to bring it in line with suggested usage inProposed DraftUnicode Technical Standard #37: Registration of Ideographic VariationSequences.
[103-A72] Action Item for John Jenkins: Ask theIRGto reviewProposed DraftUnicode Technical Standard #37: Registration of Ideographic VariationSequences once it is posted for public review.
CJK - IICore (B.20.3)
[103-C21] Consensus: Make the IICore field inUnihan.txt a normative property in the next version of the Unicodestandard.
[103-A73] Action Item for John Jenkins, RichardCook, Editorial Committee: Update Unihan.html to make the IICore fieldnormative in the next version of the Unicode standard.
Arabic Glyph Errata (B.21)
[103-C22] Consensus: Create a Public ReviewIssue for correcting the glyphs for U+06DF ARABIC SMALL HIGH ROUNDEDZERO, U+06E0 ARABIC SMALL HIGH UPRIGHT RECTNGULAR ZERO, U+06E1 ARABICSMALL DOTLESS HEAD OF KHAH, andpossibly U+06E9 ARABICPLACE OF SAJDAH. [L2/05-150]
[103-A74] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, RickMcGowan, Editorial Committee: Draft A Public Review Issue forcorrecting the glyphs for U+06DF ARABIC SMALL HIGH ROUNDED ZERO, U+06E0ARABIC SMALL HIGH UPRIGHT RECTNGULAR ZERO, U+06E1 ARABIC SMALL DOTLESSHEAD OF KHAH, andpossibly U+06E9 ARABICPLACE OF SAJDAH, include asbackground pages 6 and 7 of documentL2/05-151.
[103-A75] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post thePublic Review Issue on the Arabic glyph errata to close August 9, 2005.
Friday, May 13, 2005
PRESENT: Adobe System, Inc; AppleComputer, Inc; Basis Technology Corporation (proxy); IBM Corporation;Microsoft Corporation; ;Sybase, Inc.; VeriSign (proxy); U C Berkeley.7full members present, 1 institutional member present, 1 supportingmember present,8.5 totalJustsystem;OracleSun MicrosystemsCombining Characters (B.19)
[103-A76] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Take into account the feedback on the proposedrevision of text regarding combining characters andincorporate into ongoing updates of chapter 3 of the Unicode Standard .[L2/05-127]
Minutes Approval (A.5.1 )
Public Review Issue 66 -Malayalam Chillu Ka (B.11.5.1.4)[103-C23] Consensus: Approve the minutes ofJoint Meeting UTC 102/L2 199,as amended in the meeting. [L2/05-026]
[103-A77] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Update andpost the approved UTC 102/L2 199 minutes. [L2/05-026]
[103-C24] Consensus: The UTC accepts U+0D7FMALAYALAM LETTER K for encoding in Unicode 5.0. [L2/05-154]
[103-A78] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to reflect encoding U+0D7F MALAYALAM LETTER K. [L2/05-154]
[103-A79] Action Item for Michel Suignard: AddU+0D7F MALAYALAM LETTER K to the ballot comments on FPDAM 2 of 10646.[L2/05-154]
WG2 - Ballots (B.1.4.2)
[103-A80] Action Item for Ken Whistler: PrepareaProposed Update Unicode StandardAnnex #34: Unicode Named Character Sequences saying thatadditional "with" and"and" are allowed in Named Sequences. [L2/05-132]
[103-A81] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Addsupport of the current N'ko proposal to the ballot comments on FPDAM 2of 10646.
Properties - Linebreak (B.14.3.2)
[103-C25] Consensus: Change the linebreakcategory of seven characters: U+1735 and U+1736 from AL to BA; U+17D9from NS toAL; and U+203D, U+2047..U+2049 from AL to NS to match U+203C, for thenextversion of the standard. See documentL2/05-155.
[103-A82] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe linebreak properties of seven characters (consensus103-C25) forthe next version of the standard. [L2/05-155]
[103-A83] Action Item for Asmus Freytag,Editorial Committee: Generate an erratum report regarding the change inlinebreakcategory of U+1735 and U+1736. [L2/05-155]
[103-C26] Consensus: Issue a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex#14: Line Breaking Propertiesto add a note into the text that U+00A1 INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK andU+00BF INVERTED QUESTION MARK could betailored to "OP" for their use in Spanish. [L2/05-155]
[103-A84] Action Item for Asmus Freytag,Editorial Committee: Prepare aProposedUpdate Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties toincorporate a note that U+00A1 INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK and U+00BFINVERTED QUESTION MARK could betailored to "OP" for their use in Spanish. [L2/05-155]
[103-A85] Action Item for Mark Davis:Investigate the general category and linebreak values of the charactersU+3164 HANGUL FILLER and U+FFA0 HALFWIDTH HANGUL FILLERin the context of the claims made inL2/05-093.
[103-C27] Consensus: Publish a Public ReviewIssue regarding the possibility of creating a formal stability policyfor the Bidi_Mirrored property. For the background, use examplematerialtaken fromL2/05-093.
[103-A86] Action Item for Asmus Freytag,Editorial Committee: Prepare the text andbackground document for a Public Review Issue on the Bidi_Mirroredproperty using information from documentL2/05-093.
[103-A87] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post thePublic Review Issue on Bidi_Mirrored property, to close August 9, 2005.
[103-A88] Action Item for Mark Davis, BidiSubcommittee: Give clear implementation guidelines on the use of U+00ADSOFT HYPHEN in the context of Bidi and linebreaking. SeeL2/05-093,L2/05-155.
SC2 - 14651 (B.2.3)
[103-C28] Consensus: Approve amendment 3 of ISO14651 with three comments:[L2/05-116,L2/05-117]
- Update the common template table to match the UCA 4.1 table.
- Remove Thai and Lao from example 5.
- Reword section C.2.2.
[103-A89] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Draftballot comments on 14651 to reflect consensus103-C28 by May 28, 2005.
[103-C29] Consensus: Vote yes on the new workitem for ISO/IEC 14651 given inL2/05-115.
UTC Attendees
| Attendees: | Representing: | |
| Deborah Anderson | UC Berkeley | |
| Joe Becker | Unicode, Inc. | |
| Peter Constable | Microsoft | |
| Mark Davis | IBM | |
| Asmus Freytag | Basis | |
| Deborah Goldsmith | Apple | |
| Hideki Hiura | Sun | |
| John Jenkins | Apple | |
| Michael Kaplan | Microsoft | |
| Tatsuo Kobayashi | JustSystem | |
| Mike Ksar | Microsoft | |
| Peter Linsley | Oracle | |
| Jim Mason | Rosetta | |
| Unicode, Inc. | |
| Lisa Moore | IBM | |
| Eric Muller | Adobe | |
| Lorna Priest | SIL | |
| Murray Sargent | Microsoft | |
| Markus Scherer | IBM | |
| Michel Suignard | Microsoft | |
| Tex Texin | Yahoo | |
| Mike Van Riper | Verisign | |
| Ken Whistler | Sybase | |
| Cathy Wissink | Microsoft | |
| Jianping Yang | Oracle |
Member Attendance Roster
| Full Member | 05/10/05 | 05/11/05 | 05/12/05 | 05/13/05 |
| 1. Adobe Systems, Inc. | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 2. Agencie Fracophonie | ||||
| 3. Apple Computer, Inc. | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 4. Hewlett Packard | ||||
| 5. IBM Corporation | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 6. Justsystem Corporation | yes | yes | yes | |
| 7. Microsoft Corporation | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 8. Monotype Imaging | ||||
| 9. Oracle | yes | yes | ||
| 10. Pakistan, NLA | ||||
| 11. RLG, Inc. | ||||
| 12. SAP AG | yes (proxy) | yes (proxy) | yes (proxy) | |
| 13. Sun Microsystems, Inc. | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 14. Sybase, Inc. | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 15. Verisign | yes | yes | yes (proxy) | yes (proxy) |
| Institutional Member | ||||
| 1. UC Berkeley | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Supporting Member | ||||
| 1. Basis Technology Corporation | yes (proxy) | yes (proxy) | yes (proxy) | yes (proxy) |
Members not in regular attendance: Agencie Francophonie, PakistanNLA.
Total full members in regular attendance: 13
Total institutional members in regular attendance: 1
Total supporting members in regular attendance: 1
Quorum: 7.5