UTC 95, L2 192 Minutes (original) (raw)

L2/03-136

Approved Minutes of the UTC 95 / L2 192 Joint Meeting
San Jose, CA -- June 10 - 13, 2003
August 18, 2003

June 10, 2003

Number of members in good standing as of this meeting: 15, number of members in regular attendance: 14, Quorum: 7.

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Oracle Corp; PeopleSoft; RLG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Justsystem Corp.; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: SAP AG.

Total members represented: 10, Total not represented: 5

Calendar Review and Update

UTC 96/L2 193 - August 25-28, 2003_,Pleasanton, host PeopleSoft
UTC 97/L2 194 - November 4-7, 2003,_ Baltimore, host Johns Hopkins, Annual Members Mtg.
UTC 98/L2 195 - February 2-5, 2004_,_ Mountain View, host Microsoft
UTC 99/L2 196 - June 15-18, 2004, Toronto, host IBM
Calendar details posted at www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html

WG2

[95-A1] Action Item for Mike Ksar: Follow up on the status of 10646 FDAM 2 of part 1, and FDAM 1 of part 2. These ballots must close before the merged version of 10646 can be completed.

[95-A2] Action Item for Mike Ksar: Follow up with Michel Suignard on the readiness to print the entire merged 10646 document. Michel needs to sync up with Asmus on the code charts.

Action Item Review

[95-A3] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update action 94-A6 to reference document L2/03-029, in action item list L2/03-173.

[95-A4] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Add Michael Everson to action item 94-A36.

[95-A5] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Get fonts for Gurani and Austral signs from Michael Everson and forward to Asmus Freytag. Check for other new characters from the November meeting to see if we need additional fonts.

[95-A6] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Move action items 93-A79, 93-A80,93-A81 and 89-A27 to the Editorial Committee action item list.

[95-A7] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Review recently approved script proposals and check to see that fonts are available and get sent to Asmus Freytag, along with pointer to the proposal in which they were approved.

[95-A8] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Assume responsibility for action item 94-A77 to update FAQ.

[95-A9] Action Item for John Jenkins: Document questions on the Han characters from GB18030, HKSCS, BIG5E, that require disposition by the IRG and forward to IRG. See action item 93-A97.

[95-A10] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Write a position paper covering the UTC position on Indic in preparation for the upcoming September, 2003, meeting in India.

[95-A11] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Take over action item 91-A5 from Lisa Moore (response to the proposer of the Arabic Kaf character).

[95-A12] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Take over action item 91-A82 from Asmus Freytag. Point to W3C documentation and prepare a web document on the known discrepancies in E. Asian mapping tables. Also get data from Mark Davis and the ICU team.

[95-A13] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add an agenda item on "Maintaining Han Variant Information" for the next meeting.

[95-A14] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Prepare a proposal on "Maintaining Han Variant Information" for the next meeting. Work with Richard Cook regarding how to use the Wenlin database for information on variants, and propose a model for UTC for maintaining a database of variant information.

Unicode Technical Reports - Compression

[95-C1] Consensus: Accept the update to Unicode Technical Standard #6: A Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode as documented in L2/03-178, and modified during discussion.

[95-A15] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Modify the wording of the approved update to Unicode Technical Standard #6: A StandardCompression Scheme for Unicode as discussed and post. [L2/03-178]

[95-A16] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Review the policy on version numbering for technical reports and technical standards and develop a consistent policy for version numbers.

Unicode Technical Reports - Collation

[95-A16a] Action Item for Mark Davis: Add a glossary to Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm. [L2/03-177]

Properties - Pattern

[95-C2] Consensus: Create Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax, including information from the Unicode Standard 4.0, section 5.15, as well as the items given in L2/03-172. Post for public review.

[95-A17] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Make a Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax, including information from the Unicode Standard 4.0, section 5.15, as well as the items given in L2/03-172. Post for public review.

[95-A18] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Send a public notification when Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntaxbecomes available for review. [L2/03-172]

Properties - POSIX-Style

[95-A19] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate information from L2/03-139on POSIX-style properties and input received during the meeting into Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines.

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Oracle no longer present.
Total members represented: 9; Total not represented: 6

Properties - Property Containment Relationships

[95-A20] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add diffing the property containment relationships across versions of Unicode to the list of things to do for releases. [L2/03-140]

Properties - Property Alias Groupings

[95-C3] Consensus: Implement a clean-up of PropertyAliases.txt as given in document L2/03-144in the next appropriate version of the standard.

[95-A21] Action Item for Mark Davis: Clean up the PropertyAliases.txt file and deliver to Ken Whistler for staging in the next appropriate version of the standard. [L2/03-144]

Properties - Sentence_Terminal

[95-C4] Consensus: Issue Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries to 1) add the new informative property Sentence_Terminal (short name STerm) in PropList.txt with the contents as given in document L2/03-145and modified by discussion, and 2) modify the definition of the "Term" property in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries to reflect point "2" of L2/03-145, and updates discussed during the meeting.

[95-A22] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Issue Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries which reflects consensus 95-C4 to add the STerm property. [L2/03-145]

[95-A23] Action Item for Mark Davis: Provide a document to Rick distilling the lists in L2/03-145(Sentence_Terminal, Term, Punctuation, Other_Punctuation) for posting as a Public Review Issue with specific questions.

[95-A24] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the lists distilled from L2/03-145(received from Mark Davis) as a Public Review Issue to close on August 18, 2003.

June 11, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Oracle Corp; RLG (by proxy); Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Justsystem Corp.; Pakistan, NLA; PeopleSoft; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems

Total members represented: 9, Total not represented: 6

Scripts and New Characters - Reph in Bengali

[95-C5] Consensus: Remove the last two lines of the Bengali example in Section 9.2 of the Unicode Standard 4.0 (page 235). Post a Public Review Issue which describes the two approaches (shown in L2/03-192), closing August 18, 2003. The final decision is to be taken at the August UTC.

[95-A25] Action Item for Paul Nelson: Produce a document on the issue of reph and ya-phalaa interaction in Bengali, and send to the Editorial Committee for posting as a Public Review Issue. [L2/03-192]

[95-A26] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Review and post Paul Nelson's document on reph and ya-phalaa interaction as a Public Review Issue, to close on August 18, 2003. [L2/03-192]

[95-A27] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remove the two offending examples given in L2/03-192from the text of section 9.2 of the Unicode Standard 4.0 (page 235).

[95-A28] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the Indic FAQ to remove the last two Bengali reph/yaphalaa examples when they are removed from the Unicode Standard 4.0.

[95-A29] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Verify that all pertinent subcommittee mail lists are on the Notification list.

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: PeopleSoft now present.
Total members represented: 10; Total not represented: 5Unicode Technical Reports - Math

[95-C6] Consensus: Align the math property with the list of strongly mathematical characters as specified by the criteria in 3.1.1 of document L2/03-165. Remove the first table from the Other_math property. Add the second table to the Other_math property. The full-width tilde will be struck from the list. The general category is not touched.

[95-A30] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Give Mark Davis the two updated math property files, the list to subtract from Other_math and the list to add to the Other_math property, in machine readable form. [L2/03-165]

[95-A31] Action Item for Mark Davis: Deliver a PropList.txt updated with the changes to the math property to Ken Whistler for staging for the next appropriate version of the standard. [L2/03-165]

[95-C7] Consensus: Advance Draft Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics to Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics with the following changes: align the descriptions in section 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 with the revisions of the Other_math property such that the weak math property (Other_math) does not contain any characters that have the math property, and with additional text modifications raised during discussion, including responding to comments raised in document L2/03-182. [L2/03-165]

[95-A32] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Make updates agreed to in consensus 95-C7 and post the document as Unicode Technical Report #25: Unicode Support for Mathematics. [L2/03-165]

Unicode Technical Reports - Collation

L2/03-185and Thai/Lao ordering.

[95-C8] Consensus: There should not be an extensive table change to 14651 to handle Thai and Lao, rather, the UTC suggests that those interested in approaches to collating Thai and Lao add example methodologies to appendix C2 of 14651. [L2/03-185]

[95-A33] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ken Whistler: Respond to Kent Karlsson with the UTC position taken in consensus 95-C8regarding L2/03-185.

[95-C9] Consensus: Withhold making the change for sharp-s as required by UTC action item 94-A54in UCA 4.0, and update action item 94-A54to say "post 4.0".

[95-A34] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Update action item 94-A54 to specify the action to be done post-4.0.

[95-A35] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Asmus Freytag, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis: Work with Marc Kuster in advance of the October WG20 meeting on action 94-A54(changing the collation weight for sharp-s).

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Apple, Oracle no longer present.
Total members represented: 8; Total not represented: 7

Pipeline

[95-A36] Action Item for Debbie Anderson: Document the user requirements that are not met by the current UTC process of publishing of documents and the roadmap.

[95-A37] Action Item for Debbie Anderson, Asmus Freytag, Rick McGowan: Create a proposal for how to meet the user requirements for use of the Pipeline and Pending web pages.

Scripts and New Characters - TLG

[95-C10] Consensus: Accept the 13 New Testament Editorial characters for encoding at locations U+2E00..U+2E0C with names as given in L2/03-074R2.

[95-C11] Consensus: Accept 53 characters, the 52 Greek Acrophonic characters in proposal L2/03-075R2and the one character ACROPHONIC TWO DOT PUNCTUATIONas shown in L2/03-193for encoding at locations U+10140..U+10174 with the structure of the names changed as discussed in the meeting.

[95-A38] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update proposals L2/03-074R2and L2/03-075R2with the suggested encoding locations, name changes, and supporting documentation (for 53 Greek Acrophonic and 13 New Testament Editorial characters). Forward to Mike Ksar to be included in October WG2 meeting agenda. See 95-C10 and 95-C11. Make sure that the document includes the UTC as a submitter.

[95-A39] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect the encoding of 53 Greek Acrophonic and 13 New Testament Editorial characters as given in documents L2/03-074R2and L2/03-075R2, with the two-dot punctuation as in L2/03-193.

[95-A40] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Send to Asmus Freytag a names list with code points and suggested annotations for the 53 Greek Acrophonic and 13 New Testament Editorial characters. [L2/03-074R2, L2/03-075R2,L2/03-193]

[95-C12] Consensus: Accept the 21 Greek Papyrological Numerical characters documented in proposal L2/03-158Rfor encoding at location U+10175..U+1018A.

[95-A41] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Communicate with Michael Everson that Linear A needs to be moved in the roadmap because the 21 Greek Papyrological Numerical Characters documented in proposal L2/03-158Rhave run over U+10189.

[95-A42] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update the proposal L2/03-158Rwith suggested code points (for 21 Greek Papyrological Numerical characters) and forward to Mike Ksar to be included in October WG2 meeting agenda. See 95-C12.. Make sure that the document includes the UTC as a submitter.

[95-A43] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect the encoding of 21 Greek Papyrological Numerical Characters documented in proposal L2/03-158Rat U+10175..U+1018A.

[95-C13] Consensus: Accept GREEK RHO WITH STROKE SYMBOL at U+03FC, as documented in L2/03-188.

[95-A44] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update L2/03-188with the new name and code location (U+03FC GREEK RHO WITH STROKE SYMBOL) and forward to Mike Ksar to be considered at the October WG2 meeting. Make sure that the document includes the UTC as a submitter.

[95-A45] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+03FC GREEK RHO WITH STROKE SYMBOL. [L2/03-188]

[95-C14] Consensus: Accept the three general punctuation characters: [L2/03-193]
U+2E0D TWO DOT PUNCTUATION
U+2E0E FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION
U+2E0F DOTTED CROSS

[95-A46] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update the proposal for three general punctuation characters using latest Proposal Summary Form and forward to Mike Ksar to be considered at the October WG2 meeting. See 95-C14. Make sure that the document includes the UTC as a submitter.

[95-A47] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+2E0D TWO DOT PUNCTUATION, U+2E0E FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION, U+2E0F DOTTED CROSS. [L2/03-193].

[95-C15] Consensus: Accept COMBINING ASTERISK BELOW at U+0359. [L2/03-186]

[95-A48] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update the proposal L2/03-186for U+0359 COMBINING ASTERISK BELOW and forward to Mike Ksar for consideration at the October WG2 meeting. See 95-C15. Make sure that the document includes the UTC as a submitter.

[95-A49] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+0359 COMBINING ASTERISK BELOW. [L2/03-186]

[95-C16] Consensus: Accept THREE DIMENSIONAL ANGLE at U+27C0 and TRIANGLE ENCLOSED WITHIN TRIANGLE at U+27C1. [L2/03-187]

[95-A50] Action Item for Maria Pantelia: Update L2/03-187for U+27C0 THREE DIMENSIONAL ANGLE and U+27C1 TRIANGLE ENCLOSED WITHIN TRIANGLE and forward to Mike Ksar for consideration at the October WG2 meeting. See 95-C16. Make sure that the document includes the UTC as a submitter

[95-A51] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+27C0 THREE DIMENSIONAL ANGLE and U+27C1 TRIANGLE ENCLOSED WITHIN TRIANGLE. L2/03-187

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Basis no longer present.
Total members represented: 7; Total not represented: 8

Scripts and New Characters - Arabic

[95-M1] Failed Motion: In principle the UTC is in favor of encoding additional diacritic combining characters for productive extension of the Arabic script. [L2/03-154]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Eric Muller

1 for (IBM)
3 against (Sybase, Adobe, Microsoft)
3 abstain (Peoplesoft, HP, RLG)

Motion 95-M1fails

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Apple, Basis now present.
Total members represented: 9; Total not represented: 6

[95-C17] Consensus: Accept the 23 characters in L2/03-168with names as modified in discussion and with code points as indicated in L2/03-210: three vowels at 065A..065C, and the other 20 letters at 0750..0758; 075A..075B; 075D..0761; 0764..0767

[95-A52] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Update proposal L2/03-168for 23 Arabic characters, correcting the names, removing section IV, and explaining "table XI" of the document. Forward to Mike Ksar for inclusion in the October WG2 meeting.

[95-A53] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 23 Arabic characters proposed in L2/03-168, L2/03-210,as in Consensus 95-C17.

[95-A54] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Transmit a font and draft names list for the 23 Arabic characters in L2/03-168, L2/03-210to Asmus Freytag.

[95-A55] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the document submission procedures to mention the problems with A4 versus 8.5x11 paper size and warn people to keep margins within something that can be printed on either paper without losing information, especially headers and footers.

[95-C18] Consensus: Accept ARABIC TRIPLE DOT PUNCTUATION MARKat U+061E. [L2/03-159]

[95-A56] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Forward proposal L2/03-159for U+061E ARABIC TRIPLE DOT PUNCTUATION MARK to Mike Ksar for consideration at the October WG2 meeting.

[95-A57] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+061E ARABIC TRIPLE DOT PUNCTUATION MARK. L2/03-159

[95-A58] Action Item for Kamal Mansour: Communicate to the author of L2/03-166that the committee would prefer to encode a single precomposed character for Syriac Alaph Wasla.

[95-C19] Consensus: Accept the four characters proposed in with the following names and code point assignments: [L2/02-274, L2/03-210]
U+0759 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW AND SMALL TAH
U+075C ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH FOUR DOTS ABOVE
U+0768 ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH DOT ABOVE AND SMALL TAH
U+0769 ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH SMALL V

[95-A59] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Update proposal for four Arabic characters given in L2/02- 274, L2/03-210, and forward to Mike Ksar for consideration at the October WG2 meeting.

[95-A60] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect encoding of the four Arabic characters from L2/02-274, L2/03-210] at locations U+0759, U+075C, U+0768, and U+0769.

[95-C20] Consensus: Accept U+0762 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH DOT ABOVE and U+0763 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE. [L2/03-176]

[95-A61] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Update the proposal L2/03-176for U+0762 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH DOT ABOVE and U+0763 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE.Forward to Mike Ksar for consideration at the October WG2 meeting.

[95-A62] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Write text for a Technical Note that explains of usage of Kaf and Gaf characters for different languages. Suggest additional annotations for these characters.

[95-A63] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+0762 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH DOT ABOVE and U+0763 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE. [L2/03-176]

[95-A64] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Send font and names list for U+0762 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH DOT ABOVE and U+0763 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE to Asmus Freytag. [L2/03-176]

[95-C21] Consensus: Start a new Arabic block at U+0750 and call it "Arabic Supplementary".

[95-A64a] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Remind the committee to include in WG2 ballot comments naming the new Arabic block starting at U+0750 "Arabic Supplementary".

June 12, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft (by proxy); RLG; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Justsystem Corp.; Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems.

Total members represented: 9, Total not represented: 6

Scripts and New Characters - Phonetic Symbols and Modifier Letters

[95-A65] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Follow up with Peter Constable with questions on proposal L2/03-180for additional phonetic modifier letters.

[95-A66] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Give feedback from UTC to Peter Constable on his proposal for phonetic symbols with palatal hook. The committee would like to see more evidence for usage of three characters in particular, and follow up with a new proposal on phonetic symbols with palatal hook for the August UTC meeting. [L2/03-169R]

[95-A67] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Give feedback on L2/03-170from UTC to Peter Constable. Ask for more information on the schwa character; also include any other retroflex hook characters from other proposals in one proposal, and resubmit for the August meeting.

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Basis no longer present.
Total members represented: 8; Total not represented: 7

[95-M2] Motion: Accept the repertoire of 11 phonetic symbols with middle tilde as documented in L2/03-174R; code points to be determined later.

Moved by Lisa Moore, seconded by Ken Whistler

5 for (Adobe, HP, IBM, MS, Sybase)
2 against (Apple, RLG)
1 abstain (Peoplesoft)

Motion 95-M2 passes

[95-A68] Action Item for Peter Constable: Forward proposal L2/03-174on 11 phonetic symbols with middle tilde to WG2 once code point assignments are made (not before).

[95-A69] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of L2/03-174, once code point assignments are made.

[95-A70] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Make an agenda item for August UTC to assign code points for the 11 characters accepted in 95-M2. L2/03-174.

Membership Roll Call Adjustment:
PRESENT: Basis now present.
Total members represented: 9; Total not represented: 6

[95-A71] Action Item for Jonathan Kew: Ask Peter Constable to move the three instances of retroflex hook from L2/03-190to the other proposal, L2/03-170. Better evidence would strengthen the proposal.

Scripts and New Characters - Symbols for Genealogy and Gender Studies

[95-A72] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Relay committee feedback on symbols for genealogy and gender studies to Michael Everson, and ask him to resubmit his proposal for the August UTC meeting. [L2/03-164]

Scripts and New Characters - Five Miscellaneous Symbols

[95-C22] Consensus: Accept the five miscellaneous symbols as given below: [ L2/03-163]
267E PERMANENT PAPER SIGN
267F HANDICAPPED SIGN
2692 ATOM SYMBOL
2618 SHAMROCK
2693 FLEUR-DE-LIS

[95-A73] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the five miscellaneous symbols in L2/03-163, as in Consensus 95-C22.

[95-A74] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Asmus to notify Everson that the five miscellaneous symbols proposed in L2/03-163were accepted.

[95-A75] Action Item for Michael Everson: Supply Asmus Freytag with draft names list and fonts for the five miscellaneous symbols proposed in L2/03-163.

Scripts and New Characters - Syloti Nagri Script

[95-C23] Consensus: The UTC accepts the Syloti Nagri Script for encoding at A800..A82B with names as amended in discussion. Syloti Nagari Sign Ful (U+xx28 in the document) is renamed "Eight Pointed Asterisk", and is placed at U+2055. (Note: the name of the above character was changed by consensus 95-C27to "Flower Punctuation Mark", as the glyph is not always 8-pointed.)

[95-A76] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect the acceptance of Syloti Nagri at A800..A82B, including FLOWER PUNCTUATION MARK at U+2055. L2/03-151R

[95-A77] Action Item for Jonathan Kew, Peter Constable: Submit an updated proposal on Syloti Nagri to Mike Ksar for WG2 meeting in October. Include name changes, background, and justification for moving the Flower Punctuation Mark (Sign Ful). [L2/03-151R]

[95-A78] Action Item for Jonathan Kew, Peter Constable: Send Asmus Freytag a draft names list and a font for Syloti Nagri as per consensus 95-C23. L2/03-151R

Scripts and New Characters - Additional Mathematical and Other Letterlike Characters

[95-C24] Consensus: Accept 7 additional mathematical and other letterlike characters: L2/03-194, L2/03-201
0237 SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J
0358 COMBINING LONG DOUBLE SOLIDUS OVERLAY
27C2 PERPENDICULAR
213C DOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL PI
214C PER SIGN
1D6A4 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC DOTLESS I
1D6A5 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC DOTLESS J

[95-A79] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 7 additional mathematical and other letterlike characters in 95-C24. [L2/03-194, L2/03-201]

[95-A80] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Update proposal L2/03-194for 7 additional mathematical and other letterlike characters and forward to Mike Ksar for consideration at the October WG2 meeting.

Scripts and New Characters - Arabic

[95-C25] Consensus: The UTC accepts ARABIC ZWARAKAY at U+0659, with a combining class of 30. [L2/03-133]

[95-A81] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+0659 ARABIC ZWARAKAY.

Properties - Soft_Dotted Property

[95-A82] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Send Rick McGowan text so that he can draft a Public Review Issue on the Soft_Dotted property. [L2/03-184]

[95-A83] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Draft a Public Review Issue on the Soft_Dotted property and post with a closing date of August 18, 2003. Make sure the math community is notified by sending a note to the Math W3C list & David Carlisle. [L2/03-184]

Properties - Soft Hyphen Behavior Breaks 8859-1 Compatibility

[95-A84] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Document in a FAQ that in a terminal emulation environment, one could display a soft hyphen as a hyphen in all circumstances (this response should take into account Ken's response to Markus Kuhn on the Unicore list). [L2/03-155]

Properties - Variation Selector Property

[95-C26] Consensus: Introduce a normative variation selector property, Variation_Selector, abbreviated as VS. [L2/03-033]

[95-A85] Action Item for Mark Davis: Create the machine readable list of the code points that have the variation selector property, Variation_Selector, and give to Ken Whistler for staging into the next appropriate version of Unicode. The file UCD.html needs to be updated as well as PropList.txt. [L2/03-033]

Locale Description Markup Language

[95-A86] Action Item for Mark Davis, Cathy Wissink: Draft a locale ID, data, and metadata requirements document that addresses the concerns raised in committee with regard to L2/03-199.

Unicode Technical Reports - Character Properties

[95-A87] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update Draft Unicode Technical Report #23: Character Properties with comments received during the meeting and post as a new draft version. [L2/03-134,L2/03-200]

Base Character Definition D13

[95-A88] Action Item for Mark Davis: Produce a new draft of L2/03-041Ron the base character definition D13 for the August UTC meeting..

June 13, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; PeopleSoft; RLG ; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Justsystem Corp. (by proxy); Oracle; Pakistan, NLA; SAP AG; Sun Microsystems.

Total members represented: 9, Total not represented: 6

Scripts and New Characters - Syloti Nagri Script

[95-C27] Consensus: Change the name of the code point U+2055 to FLOWER PUNCTUATION MARK. (U+2055 was accepted in Consensus 95-C23 as part of the Syloti Nagri script proposal.) [L2/03-151R]

Scripts and New Characters - Arabic

[95-C28] Consensus: Use the code point assignments for the newly accepted Arabic characters as given in document L2/03-210. Note: this decision has been reflected back into the prior motions, so that these minutes reflect the final disposition of code points for Arabic proposals accepted at this meeting.

Public Review Issues - Object Replacement Character

[95-A89] Action Item for Mark Davis: Write a position paper on why U+FFF9..U+FFFB should have general category "Po" rather than "Cf" (they should not be invisible if they are not supported) and post as a Public Review Issue to close on August 18, 2003.

Public Review Issues - Tailored Normalization Forms

[95-M3] Motion: In view of the many problems which turned up when attempting to design a tailoring mechanism for normalization, the UTC now rescinds consensus 93-C22, and will not add a mechanism for tailored normalizations.) [L2/03-047, L2/03-058]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler

8 for (Adobe, Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, RLG, Sybase)
1 against (Basis)
0abstain

Motion95-M3passes
NOTE: the above motion rescinds 93-C22C_onsensus: Add a mechanism to Unicode Standard Annex #15 Unicode Normalization Forms that allows people to make conformance claims to certain tailorings of normalization, including a syntax for that tailoring, and a small number of named tailorings._ [L2/02-345]

[95-A90] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the resolution of Public Review Issue #7 on Tailored Normalization Forms, that is, the UTC will not provide tailorings, see 95-M3.

Public Review Issues - Variant Normalization Forms

[95-A91] Action Item for Eric Muller: Prepare a proposal for using Variation Selectors with certain CJK ideographs to represent the graphic distinctions exemplified by certain CJK compatibility ideographs. See document L2/02-389.

Public Review Issues - Math Digits

[95-C29] Consensus: Close Public Review Issue #8 (Math Digits). The UTC sees no reason to change the numeric values assigned to the Math Digits 1D7C9..1D7FF.

[95-A92] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the resolution of Public Review Issue #8 as closed; no change.

Unicode Technical Reports - Regular Expressions

[95-A93] Action Item for Mark Davis: Incorporate into theProposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelinesthe feedback received in the meeting and post as another proposed update. Insert in the status that this is expected to be discussed at the August UTC meeting. [L2/03-179]

Unicode Technical Reports - Collation SOFT HYPHEN and Stability

[95-A94] Action Item for Mark Davis: Incorporate feedback received in the meeting and post a new Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm synchronized with the release of the 4.0 collation table. [L2/03-177,L2/03-196]

Unicode Technical Reports - Assessing Unicode Support

[95-A95] Action Item for Mark Davis, Ed Committee: Update Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #32: Assessing Unicode Support based on feedback received during the meeting and post as a proposed draft again. [L2/03-196]

Base Character Definition D13

[95-M4] Failed Motion: Add the three bullets from L2/03-041Rbelow the definitions D13 and D14 as specified below, in the next appropriate version.

To add below D13:

• In terms of General Category values (see Chapter 4), a base character is any code point that has one of the categories Letter (L), Number (N), Punctuation (P), Symbol (S), Space Separator (Zs). (In other words, it excludes the values Cn, Cs, Cc, Cf, Zl, Zp, Mc, Mn, and Me).
• The interpretation of Private Use characters (Co) as base characters or not is determined by the implementation.

To add below D14:

• Combining characters consist of all characters with the General Category values of Spacing Combining Mark (Mc), Non-Spacing Mark (Mn), and Enclosing Mark (Me). The interpretation of Private Use characters (Co) as combining characters or not is determined by the implementation.

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Eric Muller

3 for (Peoplesoft, Adobe, IBM)
3 against (Sybase, Basis, Microsoft)
3 abstain (Apple, HP, RLG)

Motion 95-M4 fails

[95-M5] Motion: Create a derived core property, Base_Character with abbreviation, Base, which defines base characters for the next appropriate version of the standard, post 4.0.1.

Moved by Asmus Freytag, seconded by Ken Whistler

5 for (Apple, Basis, IBM, RLG, Sybase)
0 against
4 abstain (Adobe, HP, Peoplesoft, Microsoft)

Motion 95-M5 passes

[95-A96] Action Item for Mark Davis: Generate the derived core property, Base_Character, and give to Ken Whistler for staging, post 4.0.1.

UTC 94/L2 191 Minutes

[95-A97] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Ask Magda to always link the pre-preliminary minutes on the UTC-Meetings page http://www.unicode.org/L2/meetings/utc-meetings.htmlso that members can easily get to them.

[95-C30] Consensus: Approve the minutes of the meeting UTC 94/L2 191 as documented in L2/03-039.

Minutes posted publicly at www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/utc-minutes.html

Unicode Technical Reports - Character Foldings

[95-C31] Consensus: Advance Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings to Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings after incorporating feedback received during the meeting and review by the Editorial Committee. [L2/03-207]

[95-A98] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update and post Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings as Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings. [L2/03-207]

Editorial Committee - Unicode 4.0.1

[95-C32] Consensus: UTC authorizes the initiation of a Unicode 4.0.1 beta with a new Unihan.txt file and other changes approved by UTC.

[95-A99] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Initiate a 4.0.1 beta once the Unihan.txt file is ready.

Scripts and New Characters - Buginese

[95-C33] Consensus: Accept the 32 Buginese characters documented in L2/03-191for encoding at U+1A00..U+1A1F.

[95-A100] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the Buginese script at U+1A00..U+1A1F [L2/03-191]

[95-A101] Action Item for Michael Everson: Send the font and names list for Buginese to Asmus Freytag. [L2/03-191]

Scripts and New Characters - Horizontal arrows with tips vertical

[95-A102] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to the author of the proposal for horizontal arrows with tips vertical, L2/03-119(tvs@hawaii.edu), that the UTC would like a crisper proposal, but in principle, the UTC is open to completing the set. The UTC would welcome an updated proposal for the August UTC meeting.

Scripts and New Characters - Double Combining Stroke

[95-C34] Consensus: Add LATIN SMALL LETTER TH WITH STRIKETHROUGH at U+0238. [L2/02-361]

[95-A103] Action Item for Mark Davis: Prepare the Proposal Summary form for U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER TH WITH STRIKETHROUGH, including property definitions, and forward to Mike Ksar for consideration at the October WG2 meeting. [L2/02-361]

[95-A104] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the Pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER TH WITH STRIKETHROUGH. [L2/02-361]

[95-A105] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Create a font for U+0238 LATIN SMALL LETTER TH WITH STRIKETHROUGH. [L2/02-361]

Scripts and New Characters - Combining Double Breve Below

[95-C35] Consensus: Accept COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW at U+035C. [L2/03-142]

[95-A106] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Update the proposal to encode U+035C COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW L2/03-142to spell out "The Unicode Standard" instead of using the abbreviation. In item #10 of the summary form reference U+032E COMBINING BREVE BELOW as a similar character; the rationale for encoding is the difference in combining behavior, since this is a double diacritic. In item #10 also mention similarity to the character U+2323. After updating, forward the new proposal to Mike Ksar for consideration at the October WG2 meeting.

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