ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3191
DATE: 1998-10-22
 
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 
Coded Character Sets 
Secretariat: Japan (JISC)
 
 
DOC TYPE:   Disposition of Comments 
 
TITLE:  
 
Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N 3003, ISO/IEC 10646-1/PDAM 22, Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols 
 
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2
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JTC 1.02.18.01.22
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In accordance with Resolution M35.03 adopted at the 35th meeting held in London, UK, 1998-09-21/25, SC 2/WG 2 approved this document. The revised text for FPDAM has been prepared by Project Editor and is contained in N 3192. 
 
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1998-10-12
Note: This file includes Disposition of Comments on PDAM.22. It is taken from SC2/WG2 N 1816R.
Report on JTC1/SC2 letter ballot on PDAM.22
to ISO/IEC 10646-1: 1993 (E)
(Keyboard symbols)
 

Disposition of Comments

The PDAM appears in JTC1/SC2 N 3003 (also SC2/WG2 N1682).
Responses to the letter ballot appear in JTC1/SC2 N 3067 (also SC2/WG2 N 1766).

The ballot results are:
-YES 19 (with comments from Ireland and U.K.),
- NO 2 (Germany and U.S.A.)

National bodies that submitted comments are listed below. Where a national body has submitted a negative vote the indication (N) appears after its name in the list.

Germany (N). Accepted in principle.
The symbol at position 25F8 which represents the decimal separator will be adjusted, by reducing the size of the glyph and moving it down towards the baseline.

Ireland.
Technical comment: Accepted in part.

Eleven names will be changed. Four of them are shown below. The remaining seven accepted changes were also requested by USA and are shown under the heading “USA” below.
 
PDAM 22 names
Revised names
2380 INSERT 2380 INSERTION SYMBOL
2381 CONTINUOUS UNDERLINE SIGN 2381 CONTINUOUS UNDERLINE SYMBOL
2382 DISCONTINUOUS UNDERLINE SIGN 2382 DISCONTINUOUS UNDERLINE SYMBOL
2383 EMPHASIZE 2383 EMPHASIS SYMBOL
The following character names will not be changed. These names were deliberately chosen to describe the shapes of the symbols in general terms, for consistency with existing names in the First Edition of the standard, rather than for their specific usage on keyboards:

21F1 NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER
21F2 SOUTH EAST ARROW TO CORNER
2385 WHITE SQUARE WITH CENTRE VERTICAL LINE
2389 CIRCLED HORIZONTAL BAR WITH NOTCH
238A CIRCLED TRIANGLE DOWN
238B BROKEN CIRCLE WITH NORTH WEST ARROW
 

Editorial comment: Accepted.
 

UK. Not accepted.
The combining diacritical marks for symbols would not generate the glyphs for the new symbols with sufficient accuracy.

USA (N). Accepted
The following amendments will be made.
(The notation “nc” in the 3rd column indicates “no change of code position”.)
 
PDAM 22 code position and names
Revised code position and names
21F1  NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER (begin) nc NORTH WEST ARROW TO CORNER
21F2 SOUTH EAST ARROW TO CORNER (end) nc SOUTH EAST ARROW TO CORNER
2384 SQUARE BISECTING CIRCLE (compose) nc COMPOSITION SYMBOL
2386 RIGHTWARDS ARROW IN WHITE DIAMOND (enter) nc ENTER SYMBOL
2387 RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH SWITCH (alternate) nc ALTERNATIVE KEY SYMBOL
2388 WHITE CIRCLE WITH SIX SPOKES (control) nc HELM SYMBOL
238C U-TURN ARROW WITH BEADS (undo) nc UNDO SYMBOL
25F8 BLACK UPPER LEFT NARROW TRIANGLE 2396 DECIMAL SEPARATOR KEY SYMBOL
2615 PREVIOUS PAGE 2397 no change
2616 NEXT PAGE 2398 no change
2614 DOCUMENT ON WINDOW (screen print) 2399 PRINT SCREEN SYMBOL
----- [new character requested] 239A CLEAR SCREEN SYMBOL
 

[End of Disposition of Comments]