L2/99-261

Motions of the UTC 81 / L2 178 Joint Meeting

Mission Viejo, CA -- October 26-29, 1999

November 5, 1999


UTC 80/L2 177 Minutes
[81-M1] Motion: Approve the minutes of UTC 80/L2 177 without modification. [L2/99-176] 
Moved by Mike Ksar, seconded by Arnold Winkler 

8 for, 0 against, 1 abstain (NCR) 

General Category Field
[81-M2] Motion: The UTC resolves that the general category field in the UnicodeData.txt file is limited to only those categories documented in UnicodeData.3.0.0.htm.
Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Mark Davis 

9 for, 0 against, 1 abstain (Apple)

Regular Expressions
[81-M3] Motion: Advance Draft Unicode Technical Report #18, Regular Expressions Guidelines, to Unicode Technical Report #18, Regular Expressions Guidelines, [UTC/1999-030] and:
  • Incorporate feedback received during the UTC
  • Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran 

    7 for, 1 against (Apple), 2 abstain (Compaq, Reuters)

    UTF-32
    [81-M4] Motion: Unicode and L2 to make a contribution to SC2/WG2 to re-examine and redefine the UCS-4 encoding space to include only the first seventeen planes of ISO/IEC 10646. 
    Moved by Mike Ksar, seconded by Mark Davis

    9 for, 0 against, 1 abstain (Reuters) 

    Unicode Mapping Tables
    [81-M5] Motion: Use [UTC/1999-034] as the basis for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #22 Unicode Character Mapping Formats and: 
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Murray Sargent 

    8 for, 0 against, 4 abstain (Apple, HP, Oracle, Xerox)

    Zero Width Word Joiner
    [81-M6] Motion: Add a zero width word joiner to Unicode at the suggested location of U+2060, with the suggested name of ZERO WIDTH WORD JOINER, with the semantics to be the same as currently defined for ZERO WIDTH NONBREAK SPACE minus the BOM properties, and make the recommendation to deprecate the use of the BOM (U+FEFF) as a ZERO WIDTH WORD JOINER. 
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Mike Ksar 

    8 for, 0 against, 4 abstain (Apple, Oracle, Reuters, Xerox)

    Case Mappings
    [81-M7] Motion: Advance Draft Unicode Technical Report #21, Case Mappings, to Unicode Technical Report #21, Case Mappings. [UTC/1999-028]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Ken Whistler7 for, 1 against (Apple), 4 abstain (HP, NCR, Reuters, Xerox) 
    SC22 Chair
    [81-M8] Motion: Joint vote on the chair of SC22, Roger Martin or Rex Jaeschke.
    Moved by  Ken Whistler, seconded by Mark Davis

    Roger Martin    4
    Rex Jaeschke      3
    Neither    5

    [81-M9] Motion: Acceptance vote on the chair of SC22, Roger or Rex.
    Moved by  Ken Whistler, seconded by Gary Roberts

    Roger Martin    5
    Rex Jaeschke       6
    Neither    4 (Apple, Oracle, Reuters, Xerox)

    Math Brace Characters
    [81-M10] Motion: Accept the twenty five Math brace pieces characters, as described in L2/99-346, with the recommended code positions: 239B..23B2.
    Moved by Mike Ksar, seconded by Murray Sargent

    8 for, 1 against (Apple), 3 abstain (Oracle, Reuters, Xerox)

    Math and Technical Symbols
    [81-M11] Motion: Do not encode the glyph variants of symbols and defer the question of the math variant tag to a unified discussion of glyph variant tags including CJK. [L2/99-244R]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Gary Roberts

    7 for, 0 against, 5 abstain (Apple, HP, Oracle, Reuters, Xerox)

    JCS Proposals
    [81-M13] Motion: Because the UTC had originally proposed the addition of the 56 Kanji compatibility characters during the development of the URO, the UTC now supports the addition of the 56 Kanji characters and will relay this position to the IRG.  We also support the proposed code positions given in L2/99-313. In addition, we request the submitter to supply the compatibility mappings that are required for the Unicode Standard.
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Murray Sargent

    8 for, 2 against (Sybase, Xerox), 2 abstain (Oracle, Reuters) 

    [81-M14] Motion: The UTC provisionally accepts the two small Hiragana forms at 3095..3096, and the sixteen small Katakana forms at 31F0..31FF. [L2/99-238]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

    8 for, 2 against (Sybase, Xerox), 2 abstain (Oracle, Reuters) 

    [81-M15] Motion: The UTC provisionally accepts the two shogi characters, the arrow, and the double question mark at the suggested locations and will communicate to the proposer our comments and questions on the remaining publishing characters in the proposal. [L2/99-238]
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by V.S. Umamaheswaran

    8 for, 2 against (Apple, Xerox), 2 abstain (Oracle, Reuters) 

    Instructions to L2 Liaison
    [81-M16] Motion: The UTC instructs its L2 Liaison to vote yes with no comments on all ballots except L2/99-308, which will be yes with comments that the code charts should reflect the FPDAM ballot.
    Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Mike Ksar

    11 for, 0 against, 1 abstain (NCR)