L2/01-227 (original) (raw)

L2/01-227

Title:� WG2 Consent Docket for UTC #87

From:�� Ken Whistler

Date:�� May 22, 2001

Action: For Decision by the UTC

The following items requiring decision by the UTC have been

pulled out of the WG2 #40 Meeting Summary (Mountain View),

L2-01-168, that I sent around on April 9. This is just a

convenience listing, to make it easier to see those items which

require a formal decision by the UTC to consent to some change

in the standard, resulting from decisions taken by WG2 regarding

ITEM 1

Characters added to the BMP, already approved by the UTC,

with the same code point, but with different names. The

UTC needs to revisit these, to update their approval to the

new names. (Cf. L2/01-145, L2/01-146)

10F7� GEORGIAN LETTER YN�

����� (UTC approved GEORGIAN LETTER IRRATIONAL VOWEL)

10F8� GEORGIAN LETTER ELIFI

����� (UTC approved GEORGIAN LETTER AINI)

267C� RECYCLED PAPER SYMBOL

����� (UTC approved RECYCLED PAPER)

267D� PARTIALLY-RECYCLED PAPER SYMBOL

����� (UTC approved PARTIALLY RECYCLED PAPER)

ITEM 2

Math characters added to the BMP, considered, but not yet

approved by the UTC. There are 74 of these, documented in

WG2 N2356. That was based on WG2 N2336 (L2/01-142) "Additional Mathematical

Symbols", which superseded WG2 N2318, the document that

resulted from the discussion of these at the last UTC meeting.

[I don't see that WG2 N2356 was ever given an L2 number.]

The most problematical of the characters in the earlier

documents were omitted, in favor of progressing those which

seemed less controversial and of higher priority. The UTC

will need to review WG2 N2336, N2356, N2343 (L2/01-147) and

N2341R (L2/01-164) (the draft

charts for the FPDAM, which includes these 74) and decide either

to approve them, or ask for modifications or removals from

the FPDAM. I won't type up the entire list of 74 here, as it

is available in those other documents.

ITEM 3

Character whose code point was moved from that shown in the

PDAM. This will need to be reviewed and approved by the UTC:

27D0� WHITE DIAMOND WITH CENTRED DOT (moved from 255F)

ITEM 4

Characters that the U.S. ballot comments requested be removed

from the PDAM, but which were not. These are the four extra

radicals in the Japanese compatibility ideograph set. At this

point, since the removal was refused by WG2, the UTC will need

to reconfirm the four characters in question to ensure that

the two standards are synchronized.

FA4A� CJK COMPATIBLITY CHARACTER-FA4A

FA5E� CJK COMPATIBLITY CHARACTER-FA5E

FA5F� CJK COMPATIBLITY CHARACTER-FA5F

FA67� CJK COMPATIBLITY CHARACTER-FA67

ITEM 5

Characters whose names were changed from those printed in the

PDAM text.

2144� TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL Y

����� (changed "INVERTED" to "TURNED")

23BE� DENTISTRY SYMBOL LIGHT VERTICAL AND TOP RIGHT

23BF..23CC (comparable change of "DENTIST" to "DENTISTRY" in each name)

ITEM 6

"Pre-approved" name changes. These name changes were covered by

the blanket decision to change FILLED to BLACK in a number

of math character names.

29D1� LEFT BLACK BOWTIE

29D2� RIGHT BLACK BOWTIE

29D3� BLACK BOWTIE

29D4� LEFT BLACK TIMES

29D5� RIGHT BLACK TIMES

These 5 name changes create what I think are misnomers, and in my

opinion should be reverted to FILLED, even though they were generically

approved by the UTC already. If the UTC decides to change these

names back the way they were, that would require a new ballot

comment on the FPDAM.

OTHER ISSUE

Dis-unification of Brackets for CJK and Math (see Resolution M40.7)

This is treated by the UTC as a separate agenda item, and so is not

included among the items in the Consent Docket.