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L2/09-225R

Preliminary Minutes of the UTC 120 / L2 217 JointMeeting
Redmond, WA -- August 10-14, 2009
Hosted by Microsoft
UTC #120 Agenda
Revision date: October 20, 2009

Monday, August 10, 2009

Administrative—Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc., Google, Inc. (proxy), IBM Corporation,Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc. (proxy), Sybase Inc., UCBerkeley, W. Bengal SNLTR, Yahoo! Inc.7 full members and 2institutional members present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Apple Computer, Inc., Denic e.G., India MIT, MonotypeImaging Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Tamil Nadu.3 fullmembers, 2 institutional members, and 1 supporting member notpresent, 5.5 total votes

Voting members: 10 full, 4 institutional, 1 supporting
Voting members in regular attendance: 8 full, 3 institutional, 0supporting
Quorum: 6

(A decision to approve prior meeting minutes was not correctly recorded.)

Note: The incorrectly recorded decision was removed from these minutes on 2025-02-18 according to a decision taken by the UTC at its 181st meeting in November 2024.

Administrative —  Calendar review (A.6)

South Asian Subcommittee — Kaithi Decompositions (E.3.1)

[120-C1]Consensus: Add 3 Kaithi canonical decompositions: 1109A => 11099110BA, 1109C => 1109B 110BA, 110AB =>110A5 110BA. Also add textto the standard that U+110A8 KAITHI LETTER YA can be displayed with orwithout the nukta (dot) and does not have a decomposition. Both are forUnicode 5.2. [L2/09-270]

[120-A1]ActionItem for Ken Whistler: Update the UnicodeData.txt file with3 canonical decompositions for Kaithi (109A => 11099 110BA, 1109C=> 1109B 110BA, 110AB =>110A5 110BA) for Unicode 5.2. [L2/09-270]

[120-A2]ActionItem for Deborah Anderson, Editorial Committee: Review thetext of 5.2 to make sure it's in line with consensus120-C1 regardingKaithi decompositions. [L2/09-270]

[120-A3]ActionItem for Ken Whistler: Regenerate the names list for Unicode5.2, including new Kaithi decompositions and any other changes comingout of this meeting. [L2/09-270]

[120-A4]ActionItem for Eric Muller, Ken Whistler: Include in the nameslist an annotation on U+110A8 KAITHI LETTER YA. See sus120-C1. [L2/09-270]

[120-A5]ActionItem for Rick McGowan, Michel Suignard: Regenerate thecharts for Unicode 5.2, taking into account changes that are neededfrom UTC #120.

[120-A6]ActionItem for Deborah Anderson: Add to the ballot comments arequest for editorial update to Kaithi decompositions in FDAM 6, and inthe 10646 CD.

South Asian Subcommittee — Bengali (E.1.2 )

[120-A7]ActionItem for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Update thedocumentation for the coded character U+09D7 to the effect that it isnot used independently to write the Bangla language for Unicode 5.2.[L2/09-294]

[120-A8]ActionItem for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Add discussion ofhistorical "ri" and "li" characters for Sanskrit in Bengali blockintroduction; 098C (li), 09C4 (Double ri-kar), 09E0 (Double ri), 09E1(Double li), 09E2 (li-kar), 09E3. See documentL2/09-294section C. For Unicode 5.2.

[120-A9]ActionItem for Mark Davis: Add the historic "ri" and "li"characters for Sanskrit toUnicode Technical Standard #39:Unicode Security Mechanisms, for the next version. 098C (li),09C4 (Double ri-kar), 09E0 (Double ri), 09E1 (Double li), 09E2(li-kar), 09E3. See documentL2/09-294section C.

[120-A10] Action Item for Eric Muller, EditorialCommittee: Add text to the 0980 Bengali block description (near the oldbottom of page 313) to say that joiners/non-joiners are typically notused and should not be depended upon outside of particular fonts. ForUnicode 5.2.[L2/09-294]

[120-A11] Action Item for Eric Muller: Reviewthe use of ZWJ and ZWNJ in the text of the standard, in light of issuesraised in documentL2/09-294.

[120-A12] Action Item for Eric Muller, EditorialCommittee: Add a note in the text that the sequence <0995 09CD09B7> should be treated as having a unique identity for users of thescript. For Unicode 5.2.[L2/09-294]

[120-C2]Consensus: Add sequence <0995 09CD 09B7> with the nameBENGALI LETTER KHINYA to provisional named sequences for Unicode 5.2.[L2/09-294]

[120-A13] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Add<0995 09CD 09B7> to provisional named sequences data file.[L2/09-294]

Tuesday August 11, 2009

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., IBM Corporation,Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc. (proxy), Sybase Inc., UCBerkeley, W. Bengal SNLTR,  Yahoo! Inc.7 full members and 2institutional members present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Denic e.G., Google, Inc. (proxy), India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Tamil Nadu.3 full members, 2 institutional members, and 1 supporting member not present, 5.5 total votes

Administrative — Calendar review (A.6)

UTC 121/L2 218 - November 2-6, 2009,Cupertino, host Apple,AnnualMembers Mtg
UTC 122/L2 219 -February 1-5, 2010, Mountain View, host Unicode
UTC 123/L2 220 - May 10-14, 2010, San Jose, host Adobe
UTC 124/L2 221 - August 9-13, 2010, Redmond, host Microsoft

[120-A15] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respondto Shriramana Sharma's documentL2/09-258re Grantha proposal and assure contact between him and Naga Ganesan.

Public Review Issue — Unicode 5.2 Beta (B.10.18.1.4)

[120-A16] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Update annotations in Nameslist.txt withsuggestions from parts 2 and 3 of documentL2/09-254.

[120-C3]Consensus: Accept 11 new emoji compatibility symbols with names andcode positions as listed inL2/09-272:U+1F565- U+1F56F EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-6..16 in a futureversion of the standard.

[120-A17] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline. [L2/09-272]

[120-A18] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Adda request to encode 11 emoji compat symbols in PDAM 8 to US comments. [L2/09-272]

[120-C4]Consensus: Approve a name change to U+1F4AA from FLEXED BICEP toFLEXED BICEPS. [L2/09-272]

[120-A19] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline with the emoji name and code point changes. [L2/09-272]

[120-A20] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Addname change to ballot comments to PDAM 8. [L2/09-272]

[120-C5]Consensus: Approve a name change of U+1F69A from TRUCK to DELIVERYTRUCK. [L2/09-272]

[120-A21] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to record name change of U+1F69A from TRUCK to DELIVERYTRUCK. [L2/09-272]

[120-A22] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Addname change of U+1F69A from TRUCK to DELIVERY TRUCK to ballot commentsPDAM 8. [L2/09-272]

[120-A23] Action Item for Deborah Anderson:Request three glyph changes for U+1F3A5 MOVIES, U+1F420 CAMEL, U+1F526BOOKMARK in ballot comments on PDAM 8. [L2/09-272]

[120-C6]Consensus: Approve changing name of U+1F3A5 from MOVIES to MOVIECAMERA; and change the annotation to "film, movies". [L2/09-272]

[120-A24] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to record changing name of U+1F3A5 from MOVIES to MOVIECAMERA; and change the annotation to "film, movies". [L2/09-272]

[120-A25] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Addthe name and annotation change for U+1F3A5 from MOVIES to MOVIE CAMERAto ballot comments on PDAM 8. [L2/09-272]

[120-A26] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Addto ballot comments a request to include emoji sources in PDAM 8. [L2/09-272]

Public Review Issue 127 —Unicode Character Database (B.10.1)

[120-A28] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add acaution about the use of the "Age" property in DerivedAge.txt file inUCD for Unicode 5.2. SeeL2/09-230,L2/09-266.

[120-A29] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Add a caution about the use of the "Age" propertyinUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character DatabaseL2/09-124for Unicode 5.2. SeeL2/09-230,L2/09-266.

[120-A30] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respondto Robert Muir on his UCD comments: Strong agreement in UTC not to makeany changes. What he describes is a common situation.L2/09-230.

[120-A31] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respondto Leo Broukhis regarding DECIMAL EXPONENT SYMBOL that UTC does notconsider it a core math symbol, so it won't be given the category Sm.

[120-A32] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respondto Karl Williamson regarding his feedback inL2/09-230.ConsultKen Whistler with some dispositions. About NaN, this is asdesigned, not a bug in the file. We only list the enumerated values inthe PropertyValueAliases.txt. SeeL2/09-230,Not_A_Number.

[120-A33] Action Item for Lisa Moore, EditorialCommittee: Highlight in "what's new" for Unicode 5.2 that the ISOcomment property is "null".

[120-A34] Action Item for Mark Davis: Raiseissue whether the ISO comment property should be stabilized ordeprecated or both.

[120-A35] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Communicate to Carl Oehlander re his feedback inL2/09-230that there is a topic on the agenda for the next UTC meeting to dealwith linebreak issues associated with East Asian Width. Ask for moreinformation from him.

[120-A36] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add theproperty to missing tags to DerivedNormalizationProps.txt as perL2/09-230comment from Asmus Freytag re Defective "@missing" directive.

[120-A37] Action Item for Ken Whistler: InArabicShaping.txt 200D comes before 200C; change them to be incodepoint order. For Unicode 5.2. Respond also to Karl Williamson.

[120-A38] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe ZWSP annotation that it is not just for linebreak control. ForUnicode 5.2. SeeL2/09-230.

[120-A39] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Reply toJavier Sola re ZWSP annotation that this will be fixed/changed in 5.2.SeeL2/09-230.

[120-A40] Action Item for Mark Davis: AddName_Alias to PropertyAliases.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt forUnicode 5.2.

[120-A41] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Use feedback from Asmus Freytag inL2/09-266re validation of the text for updatingUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database.

[120-C7]Consensus: Advance PUUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database to approvedUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database for Unicode 5.2.

[120-A42] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Update and post final approved version ofUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database for Unicode 5.2.

[120-A43] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #127.

Editorial Committee — A typology of Unicode Characters (B.13.1)

[120-C8]Consensus: Create a working draft proposed draft UTR on charactercategories.[L2/09-280]

[120-A44] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Produceworking draft PD UTR on character categories for the next UTC.[L2/09-280]

Wednesday August 12, 2009

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Google, Inc. (proxy), IBM Corporation,Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems Inc. (proxy), Sybase Inc., UCBerkeley, W. Bengal SNLTR, Yahoo! Inc.7 full members and 2institutional members present, 9 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Apple Computer, Inc., Denic e.G., India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Tamil Nadu.3 full members, 2 institutional members, and 1 supporting member notpresent, 5.5 total votes

Public Review Issue 133 — Unicode IDNA Compatible Preprocessing (B.10.3 )

[120-A45] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close PRI #133 with disposition that the draft was superseded by a new proposed draft. [L2/09-024]and [L2/09-230]

[120-C9] Consensus: Revise the working draftUnicode Technical Standard #46: Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing in accordance wth the discussion, having a single compatibility mapping and simplified terminology, and exteding the discussion of tactics and compatibility,and advance to draft status. [L2/09-293]

[120-A46] Action Item for Mark Davis, MichelSuignard, Editorial Committee: Update the draft ofUnicode Technical Standard #46: Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing, and post. [L2/09-293]

[120-A47] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post aPRI forUnicode Technical Standard #46: Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing, to close October 26, 2009.

Unicode Technical Reports — Updated Confusable Data (B.11.3.1)

[120-A48] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Update and post a proposed update toUnicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations for publicreview. [L2/09-275]

[120-A49] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post aPRI forUnicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations, to close October 26, 2009.

PEP 383 — Security and interoperability problems (B.15.1)

[120-C10] Consensus: Add a section toUnicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations based uponL2/09-236as modified in discussion, with pointers to it from other relevantdocuments.

[120-A50] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Add a section toUnicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations based uponL2/09-236as modified in discussion.

[120-A51] Action Item for Markus Scherer,Editorial Committee: Add a pointer fromUnicode Technical Standard #22: Character Mapping Markup Language to new content ofUnicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations for security issues. [L2/09-236]

[120-A52] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Add pointers from Chapter 3 and Chapter 5 of The Unicode Standard toUnicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations for character conversion security issues. This is for Unicode 6.0.

[120-A53] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Beef up the security FAQ with more discussion of characterconversion issues. SeeL2/09-236,Unicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations.

Public Review Issue 136 — Unicode LineBreaking Algorithm (B.10.6)

[120-M1]Motion: Add the property value "CP" Close_Parenthesis with thecontents U+0029 and U+005D, and make the rule changes for CP and CL asperL2/09-128R(UAX #14-23, draft 2) in Unicode 5.2.[L2/09-230]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by PeterEdberg

6 for (IBM, Sybase, Apple,Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft)
1 against (Adobe)
3 abstain (UCB, Sun, SNLTR)

Motion carries.

[120-A54] Action Item for Ken Whistler: UpdateLinebreak.txt for 5.2 to include the property value "CP"Close_Parenthesis with the contents U+0029 and U+005D.

[120-A55] Action Item for Andy Heninger,Editorial Committee: Update the text ofUnicode Standard Annex #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm for Unicode 5.2, andpost final approved document.

[120-A56] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add longand short aliases for lb=CP to PropertyValueAliases.txt, for Unicode5.2.

[120-A57] Action Item for Mark Davis: Regeneratethe linebreak test data file LinebreakTest.txt for 5.2, taking intoaccount the addition of "CP", etc.

[120-A58] Action Item for Laurentiu Iancu:Supply additional test cases for CP and CL to Mark Davis for inclusionin LinebreakTest.txt. For 5.2.

[120-A59] Action Item for Eric Muller: Add theproperty value "CP" Close_Parenthesis with the contents U+0029 andU+005D toUnicode Standard Annex #42: Unicode Character Database in XML. See motion120-M1above.

[120-A60] Action Item for Lisa Moore: AdddocumentL2/09-276to the agenda of the next UTC.

Public Review Issue — Allowing line break in "abc .def"or "abc.123" (B.10.6.1.2)

[120-C11] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm for Unicode5.2, with changes previously discussed in this meeting [L2/09-263]

[120-A61] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #136 with resolution that the document will be published s part ofthe Unicode 5.2 release.

Properties — Normalization (B.13.5)

[120-A62] Action Item for Mark Davis: Modify thecomment for NFKC_CF in DerivedNormalizationProps.txt to caution aboutusage and point toUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database.L2/09-233.ForUnicode 5.2.

[120-A63] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Add text toUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database to clarify derivation and usage ofNFKC_CF. For Unicode 5.2.

[120-A63a] Action Item for Mark Davis,Editorial Committee: Add text toUnicode Standard Annex #31: Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax to clarify derivation andusage of NFKC_CF. For Unicode 5.2. 

Properties — Rumi numerals (B.13.7)

[120-C12] Consensus: Change the bidi property ofRumi numerals from "R" to "AN" for Unicode 5.2.L2/09-271

[120-A64] Action Item for Ken Whistler: UpdateUnicodeData.txt changing the bidi property of Rumi numerals from "R" to"AN" for Unicode 5.2.

Public Review Issue — General feedback (B.10.4.1.1)

[120-A65] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Incorporate changes toUnicode Standard Annex #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm from public feedback indocumentL2/09-230,andmake changes suggested in HL6, and post final version for Unicode5.2.

[120-C13] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm with updatesfrom feedback documentL2/09-230,forUnicode 5.2.

[120-A66] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #134 with resolution thatUnicode Standard Annex #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm will be updated based on feedbackand published with Unicode 5.2.

[120-A67] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Check the links in section 5.1 ofUnicode Standard Annex #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm prior to releasefor Unicode 5.2.

Public Review Issue 135 — EastAsianWidth (B.10.5)

[120-C14] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #11: East Asian Width for Unicode5.2. [L2/09-230],[L2/09-127]

[120-A68] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #135.

[120-A69] Action Item for Eric Muller, EditorialCommittee: UpdateUnicode Standard Annex #11: East Asian Width and post final approved version for Unicode5.2.

Public Review Issue — Unicode Script Property (B.10.7.1.2)

[120-C15] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #24: Unicode Script Property for Unicode5.2 after final edits [L2/09-255]

[120-A70] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #137.

[120-A71] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Incorporate edits fromL2/09-255and post the final approved version ofUnicode Standard Annex #24: Unicode Script Property for Unicode 5.2.

Public Review Issue — Grapheme break changes: Thaiand Lao (B.10.8.1.2 )

[120-C16] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation for Unicode5.2. [L2/09-265]

[120-A72] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #138.

[120-A73] Action Item for Mark Davis, EditorialCommittee: Edit and post the approved version ofUnicode Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation for Unicode5.2.

Day 4, Thursday August 13, 2009

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Apple, Inc. Google, Inc., IBM, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems (proxy), W. Bengal (SNLTR), Yahoo!Inc. 9 members present.

NOT PRESENT: India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Tamil Nadu.2 full members, 2 institutional members, and 1 supporting member notpresent, 4.5 total votes

Scripts — Meroitic Hieroglyphic and Meroitic Cursive (WG2 N3665) (C.6)

[120-C17] Consensus: Approve two Meroitichieroglyphic symbols U+1099E MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC SYMBOL VIDJ andU+1099F MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC SYMBOL VIDJ-2. Change the name of theMeroitic block to Meroitic Cursive and update the repertoire ofcharacters and character names for Meroitic characters, 66 charactersat U+109A0 - U+109F0, with names and glyphs as shown in document [L2/09-250]

[120-A74] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to include two Meroitic hieroglyphic symbols U+1099EMEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC SYMBOL VIDJ and U+1099F MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHICSYMBOL VIDJ-2, and name changes for Meroitic as per consensus120-C17.

Symbols Subcommittee — Two MathematicalSymbols (D.2.2)

[120-C18] Consensus: Accept U+27CE SQUAREDLOGICAL AND and U+27CF SQUARED LOGICAL OR for encoding in a futureversion of the standard. [L2/09-273]

[120-A75] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe Pipeline to include U+27CE SQUARED LOGICAL AND and U+27CF SQUAREDLOGICAL OR as per consensus120-C18.

[120-A76] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: AddU+27CE SQUARED LOGICAL AND and U+27CF SQUARED LOGICAL OR to thedocument requesting additions for future encoding in WG2 as perconsensus120-C18.

[120-A77] Action Item for Laurentiu Iancu:Follow up with Barbara Beeton re any existing mappings for U+27CE andU+27CF [L2/09-273]

[120-A78] Action Item for Laurentiu Iancu,Murray Sargent, Editorial Committee: Add the 2 characters U+27CESQUARED LOGICAL AND and U+27CF SQUARED LOGICAL OR to the Math propertytable inUnicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics, when they are approved [L2/09-273]

Scripts — Chakma (revised; WG2N3645R) (C.12)

[120-C19] Consensus: Accept 67 Chakma charactersU+11100 - U+11143 and block Chamka U+11100 - U+1114F for encoding in afuture version of the standard. Canonical combining class forcharacters U+11127 - U+1112D and U+11130 - U+11132 to be zero. [L2/09-187R]

[120-A79] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to include 67 Chakma characters U+11100 - U+11143 as perconsensus120-C19.

[120-A80] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add67 Chakma characters U+11100 - U+11143 as per consensus120-C19 to the document requesting additions forfuture encoding in WG2.

Scripts — OldSundanese (WG2 N3666) (C.7)

[120-C20] Consensus: Accept 9 Sundanesecharacters at U+1BAB - U+1BAD, U+1BBA - U+1BBF; and 8 Sundanesecharacters U+1CC0 - U+1CC7 in block Sundanese Supplement U+1CC0 -U+1CCF for encoding in a future version of the standard. Take the namesfrom page 8 of document [L2/09-251]

[120-A81] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to include 9 Sundanese characters at U+1BAB - U+1BAD,U+1BBA - U+1BBF; and 8 Sundanese characters U+1CC0 - U+1CC7 in blockSundanese Supplement U+1CC0 - U+1CCF [L2/09-251]

[120-A82] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add9 Sundanese characters at U+1BAB - U+1BAD, U+1BBA - U+1BBF; and 8Sundanese characters U+1CC0 - U+1CC7 in block Sundanese SupplementU+1CC0 - U+1CCF to the document requesting additions for futureencoding in WG2 [L2/09-251]

[120-A83] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Updatethe Sundanese font for Unicode 5.2, in the next chart production.

[120-A84] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Adda request to update the Sundanese font to the ballot comments on 10646CD.

Scripts — Proposal for encoding the Warang Citi script (WG2 N3668) (C.13)

[120-A85] Action Item for Michael Everson:Updatethe roadmap name of Warang Citi (previously Varang Kshiti) [L2/09-291]

Scripts — Phags-pa(C.2.1)

[120-A86] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Addto ballot comments on Amendment 8 the request to remove U+A78F LATINLETTER MIDDLE DOT [L2/09-031R], [L2/09-278]

Scripts — COMBINING TRIPLE INVERTED BREVE (C.14)

[120-A87] Action Item for Peter Constable (UTC Liaison to WG2): Triple marks should be handled by the mechanism associated with two part diacritics in the Combining Half Marks blockat U+FE20 [L2/09-281]

Amendments & Ballots — Reallocate eight phoneticsubscripts (B.1.4.4.2)

[120-C21] Consensus: Move the eight phoneticsubscripts A7F2-A7F9 to 2095-209C in Amendment 8 [L2/09-195]

[120-A88] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to reflect moving eight phonetic subscripts A7F2-A7F9 to2095-209C [L2/09-195]

[120-A89] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Addmoving eight phonetic subscripts A7F2-A7F9 to 2095-209C in Amendment 8to ballot comments on amendment 8 [L2/09-195]

Amendments & Ballots — Comments on ISO/IEC CD 10646 (SC2N4079) (B.1.4.5.2)

[120-A90] Action Item for Deborah Anderson:Include information fromL2/09-282as amended in discussion in ballot comments on 10646 CD.

Properties — Manichaean Aleph(B.13.8 )

[120-A91] Action Item for Deborah Anderson,Roozbeh Pournader:Give feedback to Michael Everson that Manichaeanaleph be left joining and beth/bheth be dual joining [L2/09-284]

Symbols Subcommittee — STIXPUA collection, Part 1 & 2 (D.2.1.1)

[120-C22] Consensus: Encode U+26E2 ASTRONOMICALSYMBOL FOR URANUS. [L2/09-261], [L2/09-262]

[120-A92] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to include U+26E2 ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOL FOR URANUS as perconsensus120-C22.

[120-A93] Action Item for Deborah Anderson:Request addition of U+26E2 ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOL FOR URANUS as perconsensus120-C22 to Amd 8.

[120-A94] Action Item for Laurentiu Iancu:Create a new proposal summary form and complete proposal for U+26E2ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOL FOR URANUS as per consensus120-C22.

Properties — Unihan property names (B.13.6)

[120-C23] Consensus: For the Unihan propertieswe have agreed to add, use the Unihan tag with the letters "cj"prefixed to the tag as the short name and the long name, and add theUnihan tag itself as an alias. Adjust the existing kRSUnicode aliasesto fit this pattern [L2/09-237]

[120-A95] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add theCJK properties with their names to PropertyAliases.txt andPropertyValueAliases.txt. Also add the "M" source. For Unicode 5.2.

[120-A96] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Create an FAQ on the meaning of "Ideograph" and"Unified_Ideograph" properties.

[120-A97] Action Item for John Jenkins: Add thedocumentation of kIRG_MSource toUnicode Standard Annex #38: Unicode Han Database for Unicode 5.2.

[120-A98] Action Item for Eric Muller: AddkIRG_MSource toUnicode Standard Annex #42: Unicode Character Database in XML for Unicode 5.2.

Properties — Unihan organization (B.13.3 )

[120-A99] Action Item for John Jenkins: Move theproperties among the Unihan data files so they are strictly inaccordance with their categorization inUnicode Standard Annex #38: Unicode Han Database. And renameUnihan_NormativeProperties.txt to Unihan_IRGSources.txt. RenameUnihan_OtherMappings.txt to Unihan_Mappings.txt [L2/09-223]

[120-A100] Action Item for Lisa Moore: PutB.11.2 Formalized invariants onthe agenda for next meeting [L2/09-222]

Public Review Issue 141 — Unicode HanDatabase (B.10.11)

[120-M2]Motion: Release the component files of Unihan.zip in NormalizationForm D [L2/09-133], [L2/09-230], [L2/09-257]

Moved by Eric Muller, seconded by RickMcGowan

1 for (Adobe)
2against (Google, Sybase)
6 abstain (UCB, Sun, Apple, Yahoo!, MS, SNLTR)

Motion fails.

[120-C24] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #38: Unicode Han Database withupdates for Unicode 5.2. [L2/09-257]

[120-A101] Action Item for John Jenkins,Editorial Committee: UpdateUnicode Standard Annex #38: Unicode Han Database and post final for 5.2. [L2/09-257]

[120-A102] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #141.

Public Review Issue — Beta DerivedCoreProperties (B.10.18.1.2.1)

[120-C25] Consensus: Change the names of 4properties:
IsLowerCase to Changes_When_Lowercased
IsUpperCase to Changes_When_Uppercased
IsTitleCase to Changes_When_Titlecased
IsCaseFolded to Changes_When_Casefolded
with short names CWL, CWU, CWT, CWCF. [L2/09-248]

[120-A103] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Make the appropriate adjustments in the text ofthe standard section 3.13 to clarify that the function names used inthe definitions are string functions, and update and clarify thepointers to the related properties [L2/09-248]

[120-C26] Consensus: Change: Is_NFKC_CaseFoldedto Changes_When_NFKC_Casefolded (short name: CWKCF) and invert themeaning; and change: Is_Cased to Changes_When_Casemapped (short name:CWCM) as per consensus120-C25. [L2/09-248]

[120-A104] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: UpdateUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database with 6 new property names as perconsensus120-C25 and120-C26 [L2/09-248]

[120-A105] Action Item for Mark Davis: UpdatePropertyAliases.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt to reflect the 6updated property names (and short aliases). RegenerateDerivedCoreProperties.txt with the 5 updated derived casing properties(with new names). Regenerate DerivedNormalizationProps.txt with theupdated derived normalization property (with new name). All as perconsensus120-C25 and120-C26. [L2/09-248]

[120-A106] Action Item for Mark Davis: Requestthat the officers add a stability policy that Property Aliases will notcollide even if the letters "Is" are removed from the start of thealias.

Public Review Issue — General feedback (B.10.18.1.1)

[120-A107] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Respond to Shriramana Sharma on hisUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database feedback ("Make 0903DEVANAGARI SIGN VISARGA independent") that the problem he describes ispart of the general updates needed to make rendering engines deal withthe new Vedic characters correctly; i.e., part of a larger issue withVedic interactions, and shouldn't be dealt with by changing this oneproperty. [L2/09-230]

Public Review Issue — Removing noncharacter code points (B.10.18.1.3 )

[120-C27] Consensus: Delete the words "or thedeletion of non-character codepoints" from conformance clause C7.

[120-A108] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Update C7 and associated text in the standard andelsewhere regarding non-characters, for Unicode 5.2. See120-C27. [L2/09-241]

[120-A109] Action Item for Mark Davis: Addadditional text on non-characters, if needed, toUnicode Technical Report #36: Unicode Security Considerations. See120-C27. [L2/09-241]

[120-A110] Action Item for Rick McGowan,Editorial Committee: Highlight change to C7 on the beta page as soon asavailable. See120-C27. [L2/09-241]

Day 5, Friday, August 14, 2009

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Apple, Inc. Google, Inc., IBM, Microsoft Corporation, Sun Microsystems (proxy), W. Bengal (SNLTR), Yahoo!Inc. 9 members present.

NOT PRESENT: India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Tamil Nadu.2 full members, 2 institutional members, and 1 supporting member not present, 4.5 total votes

Public Review Issue — VEDIC SIGN NIHSHVASA(B.10.18.1.6)

[120-A111] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Respond to Shriramana Sharma that it is too late to change the name ofVEDIC SIGN NIHSHVASA in Unicode 5.2. Forward the note to Peter Scharfand ask for his feedback, e.g., if an annotation is appropriate.

Public Review Issue 142 — CommonReferences for Unicode Standard Annexes (B.10.12)

[120-C28] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #41: Common References for Unicode Standard Annexes for Unicode5.2.[L2/09-134]

[120-A112] Action Item for Magda Danish,Editorial Committee: Edit and post finalUnicode Standard Annex #41: Common References for Unicode Standard Annexes, with addition ofcorrigendum 6.[L2/09-134]

[120-A113] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #142.

Public Review Issue 143 — UnicodeCollation Algorithm (B.10.13)

[120-A114] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Takethe feedback inL2/09-247into account when defining the default sort order for Lisu. [L2/09-135]

[120-A115] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Issue aletter ballot to approveUnicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm as soon as feasible. [L2/09-135]

[120-A116] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extendthe PRI #143 forUnicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm to October 26, 2009.

[120-A117] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Oncethe letter ballot forUnicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm is decided, close PRI #143.

Public Review Issue 139 — UnicodeIdentifier and Pattern Syntax (B.10.9)

[120-A118] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Respond to John Cowan on his feedback onUnicode Standard Annex #31: Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax, Mark Davis willaccept the feedback and incorporate it. [L2/09-131R]

[120-A119] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Respond to Gihan Dias re change of Sinhalese to Sinhala that it isbeing done in the text for 5.2. [L2/09-131R]

[120-A120] Action Item for Mark Davis: Clarifythe use of ZWJ and ZWNJ inUnicode Standard Annex #31: Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax section 2.3, based upon thediscussion of feedback from Gihan Dias inL2/09-230, [L2/09-131R]

CLDR — Filtered Languages/Scripts (B.9.3)

[120-A121] Action Item for Bidyut Chaudhuri: Provide information with examples of minimal pairs with ya-phala andinformation as to their frequencies. (ra + ya-phala vs ya + reph) [L2/09-286]

Public Review Issue 140 — UnicodeNamed Character Sequences (B.10.10)

[120-C29] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #34: Unicode Named Character Sequences for Unicode5.2. [L2/09-132], [L2/09-230]

[120-A122] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Edit and post final version ofUnicode Standard Annex #34: Unicode Named Character Sequences for Unicode5.2. [L2/09-132]

[120-A123] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #140.

Public Review Issue 144 — UnicodeCharacter Database in XML (B.10.14)

[120-C30] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #42: Unicode Character Database in XML for Unicode5.2. [L2/09-136], [L2/09-230]

[120-A124] Action Item for Eric Muller,Editorial Committee: EditUnicode Standard Annex #42: Unicode Character Database in XML, including aligning the regexes withUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database, and post the final version for Unicode 5.2. [L2/09-136]

[120-A125] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #144.

Public Review Issue 145 — UnicodeNormalization Forms (B.10.15)

[120-C31] Consensus: ApproveUnicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms for Unicode5.2 [L2/09-137], [L2/09-230]

[120-A126] Action Item for Ken Whistler,Editorial Committee: Make final edits toUnicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms and post for Unicode5.2. [L2/09-137]

[120-A127] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #145.

[120-A127a] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Close PRI #146.

Public Review Issue 146 — Clarification of Unicode Normalization (B.10.16)

[120-C32] Consensus: Approve the restructuredtext for Chapter 3 for Unicode 5.2. [L2/09-138], [L2/09-230], [L2/09-267]

Public Review Issue 128 — Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (B.10.2)

[120-A128] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Respond to John Knightley re his feedback inL2/09-023Rthat his feedback was addressed. [L2/08-394]

[120-C33] Consensus: Advance PUUnicode Technical Standard #37: Ideographic Variation Database toapproved. [L2/08-394]

[120-A129] Action Item for Eric Muller,Editorial Committee: Make final edits and postUnicode Technical Standard #37: Ideographic Variation Database. [L2/08-394]

[120-A130] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #128.

Public Review Issue 147 — Proposed deprecation of U+0673 ARABICLETTERALEF WITH WAVY HAMZA BELOW (B.10.17)

[120-A131] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remove"Balochi" annotation on U+0673 for Unicode 5.2. [L2/09-230]

[120-A132] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ExtendPRI #147 to close October 26, 2009.

[120-A133] Action Item for Deborah Anderson:Respond to Elena Bashir re feedback on wavy hamza.

Public Review Issue 149 — UnicodeCharacter Mapping Markup Language (CharMapML) (B.10.19)

[120-A134] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Respond to Geoffrey Sneddon re his feedback inL2/09-230,thathis comments are addressed in text and data in the update forUnicode 5.2. [L2/09-268]

[120-C34] Consensus: Advance PUUnicode Technical Standard #22: Character Mapping Markup Language toapproved [L2/09-268]

[120-A135] Action Item for Markus Scherer,Editorial Committee: Make final edits and postUnicode Technical Standard #22: Character Mapping Markup Language [L2/09-268]

[120-A136] Action Item for Rick McGowan: ClosePRI #149.

Public Review Issue — B.10.20 Other feedback

[120-A137] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Respond to Leo Broukhis that we are looking into the zodiac annotationshe mentioned.

[120-A138] Action Item for Rick McGowan:Respond to Karl Williamson re his feedback inL2/09-230on clarifying stability policy: There is no guarantee that a propertyvalue for a property does not have the empty set. A clarification willbe written intoUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database.

[120-A139] Action Item for Ken Whistler:Clarify in the text ofUnicode Standard Annex #44: Unicode Character Database that the set of characters with a givenproperty value may be empty, or may be changed to be empty in a futureversion of the standard. For Unicode 5.2. Mention ISO comment field asa recent example.

Properties — Personal name validation characters (B.13.4)

[120-A140] Action Item for Mark Davis: UpdateUnicode Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation andUnicode Standard Annex #31: Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax based on items 1-3 in the "Proposal" section ofdocument [L2/09-232R]

[120-A141] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add aconsistency check to the invariant test based on item 4 of the"Proposal" section of [L2/09-232R]

Editorial Committee — Approve Unicode 5.2 (B.12.3.1)

[120-C35] Consensus: Approve Unicode 5.2 forrelease.

Amendments/Ballots(B.1.4)

[120-C36] Consensus: UTC supports the positions given in documentsL2/09-302, 303,304, 305; and the recommendations in 301.

Proposed Additions to Principles and Procedures document (B.1.7)

[120-A142] Action Item for Peter Constable:Include in liaison report to WG2 a request to update Unicode referencesto Unicode 5.2. [L2/09-246]

Scripts — Latvianorthography (C.15)

[120-C37] Consensus: Approve 10 Latin charactersat U+A7A0 - U+A7A9 as documented in [L2/09-112]

[120-A143] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Updatethe pipeline to include 10 Latin characters at U+A7A0 - U+A7A9 asdocumented in [L2/09-112]

[120-A144] Action Item for Deborah Anderson:Add to the document requesting new additions, the 10 Latin charactersat U+A7A0 - U+A7A9 as documented in[L2/09-112]

[120-C38] Consensus: Approve the updated versionofL2/09-301that includes the 10 Latin additions from [L2/09-112]

Scripts — Manichaean Aleph(B.13.8)

[120-C39] Consensus: Revise rule R7 in section8.2 of the Unicode Standard to allow correct joining behavior forexceptional conditions in cursive scripts, for a future version of thestandard [L2/09-264], [L2/09-284]

[120-A145] Action Item for Eric Muller,Editorial Committee: Revise rule R7 section 8.2 for Unicode 6.0 toallow for exceptional conditions in cursive scripts. See consistency120-C39 and [L2/09-264]

UTC Attendance

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