L2/SD-2

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December 22, 1999

 

UTC #81 and L2 #178, October 26-29, 1999 in Mission Viejo [Unisys]

UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status 

 

 

 

 

 

81-1

 

Officers

Develop a policy on patents and inform the UTC

 

81-2

 

Mike Ksar

Pursue with the ISO secretariat that when 10646-1 first edition plus amendments is posted on the web to also include a notice that it has been superceded by the second edition

 

81-3

 

Joan Aliprand

Check the ISO spine standard for their guidelines for published books

 

81-4

 

Mark Davis/Ken Whistler

Incorporate the feedback received on Draft Unicode Technical Report #17, Character Encoding Model

Done

81-5

 

Mark Davis

Solicit feedback from Mark Leisher and Keld Simonsen on Unicode Technical Report #18, Regular Expressions Guidelines, and incorporate feedback received at the meeting, including adding a reference section

Done (no references were supplied)

81-6

 

Ken Whistler

Update the Unicode Version 3 reference for Unicode Technical Report #18, Regular Expressions Guidelines

Moot, reference was correct.

81-7

 

Mark Davis

Draft a technical corrigendum to redefine the UCS-4 encoding space to include only the first 17 planes of 10646, and work with Uma and Mike Ksar to process

 

81-8

 

Mark Davis

Update Draft Unicode Technical Report #19, Interoperable 32-bit Serialization to remove serialization and change to describe as a useful alias for a subset of UCS-4

Done

81-9

 

Mark Davis

Give Kent Karlsson feedback on his index to Unicode mapping tables: remove personal comments, needs to be complete, and UTC would like to review at next meeting

Done

81-10

 

Mark Davis

Update L2/99-326 (Unicode Character Mapping Formats): deleting the sections on fallback characters and delta mappings and make the document a readme for the mapping tables for the Unicode 3.0 CD

Done

81-11

 

Lisa Moore

Put out a notice on Unicore for members to check their mapping tables and update them by year end

Done

81-12

 

Mark Davis

Write up a WG2 character encoding proposal for the ZERO WIDTH WORD JOINER and forward to WG2. Document in the proposal the rationale for adding this character. The proposed glyph will be a dotted square with ZWWJ inside.

 

81-13

 

Ken Whistler

Add the ZERO WIDTH WORD JOINER to the pipeline document on the web

Done

81-14

 

Mark Davis

Relay feedback on Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #20, The Use of Unicode in Markup Languages to the other co-authors

 

81-15

 

Umamaheswaran

Write a technical paper documenting how future POSIX locale structures can handle special case mappings for the Nov 8, 1999 WG20 meeting

 

81-16

 

Mark Davis

Update Unicode Technical Report #21, Case Mappings with feedback received during the meeting

Done

81-17

 

Ken Whistler

Update the Unicode Version 3 reference for Unicode Technical Report #21, Case Mappings

Done

81-18

 

Mark Davis

Ask Markus Scherer to update his proposal for a signature for SCSU to give more background and to provide the exact text that is proposed for Unicode Technical Report #6, Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode.

Done

81-19

 

Arnold Winkler

Send a message to the members of SC2 urging members to ask the editor of ISO 8859-7 to accommodate the US comments due to potential severe implementation problems. Lisa and Michel will help to draft the text.

Done

81-20

 

Joan Aliprand

Check on the typical method of representing Western music symbol names in English.

 

81-21

 

Michel Suignard

Solicit input on correctness of Western music symbol glyphs that are currently used in 10646 Part 2

 

81-22

 

Murray Sargent

Update the Math Brace Pieces Proposal and give to Arnold Winkler to send on to WG2.

Done at the meeting

81-23

 

Ken Whistler

Add the Math Brace Pieces proposal characters to the pipeline document on the web.

Done

81-24

 

Ken Whistler

Relay feedback to Barbara Beeton about the unifications of glyph variants.

Done

81-25

 

Ken Whistler

Relay feedback to Barbara Beeton about using variant tags in the Math and Technical Symbol proposal.

Done

81-26

 

Lisa Moore

Write the UTC response on the proposal L2/99-310 to encode 56 kanji compatibility characters to Shibano-san, copying the IRG and WG2

Done

81-27

 

Lisa Moore

Inform the Unicode IRG and WG2 liaisons of the UTC position on proposal L2/99-310 to encode 56 kanji characters

Done

81-28

 

Ken Whistler

Add the 56 compatibility ideographs to the pipeline document on the web

Done

81-29

 

Lisa Moore

Inform Shibano-san that the UTC provisionally accepts the two small Hiragana forms and the sixteen small Katakana, and that the five Hiragana semi-voiced and nine Katakana semi-voiced proposed characters are already representable (provide the list).

Done

81-30

 

Lisa Moore

Inform Shibano-san that the UTC will be discussing a method of representing circled numbers

Done

81-31

 

Ken Whistler

Add the two shogi piece characters, the open arrow, and the double question mark to the pipeline document on the web

Done

81-32

 

Lisa Moore

Inform Shibano-san of the UTCs provisional acceptance of the four characters, and provide our feedback on the other unaccepted characters

Done

81-33

 

Lisa Moore

Inform Shibano-san of the fact that we are not accepting any of the dentist symbol characters, and provide our feedback

Done

81-34

 

Lisa Moore

Inform Shibano-san of our comments on the educational letters and symbols

Done

81-35

 

Ken Whistler

Work with Barbara Beeton to add the two arrow characters to the STIX proposal

Done

81-36

 

Lisa Moore

Inform Shibano-san of the UTC's responses to proposal L2/99-310 to encode 313 kanji characters (radicals already encoded, if not must go to IRG)

Done

81-37

 

Lisa Moore

Work with John Jenkins to have Cora check the latest level (9) of Super CJK to determine if the 313 proposed kanji are already included by the IRG

Done

81-38

 

Mark Davis

After working with Japanese encoding experts to verify the JIS X 0213 mappings, send a note to Unicore and Unicode expressing the UTC consensus that the recently published JIS X 0213 mappings to unassigned Unicode characters are invalid

 

81-39

 

Lisa Moore

Inform Shibano-san of the same message regarding the JIS X 0213 mappings to unassigned Unicode characters

Done

81-40

 

Mark Davis

Write up a proposal for a Morpheme Break Character and distribute for comments before the next UTC.

 

81-41

 

Mark Davis

Write up a document which covers the implications of encoding precomposed characters post Unicode 3.0, and provide lists of how to correctly represent Lithuanian and Slovak accented characters. Post to Unicore for review.

 

81-42

 

Lisa Moore

Add discussion of a collection ID for all UTF-16 accessible characters to the agenda for UTC 82.

 

 

178-43

Winkler

Nominate Asmus Freytag for the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing

Done

 

178-44

Whistler

Write comments to EITAAC report and distribute

 

 

178-45

Winkler

Write to V1 that L2 recommends to withdraw ISO 10036

 

UTC #80 and L2 #177, June 8-11, 1999 - Redmond [Microsoft]

UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status

 

 

 

 

 

80-9

 

Editorial committee

Put a pointer into Appendix B for the "Criteria for Encoding Symbols"

done

80-10

 

Asmus Freytag

Once "Criteria for Encoding Symbols" is posted on the web, send out an announcement

 

80-14

 

Mike Ksar

Determine the standards and organizations that Unicode should be working with; suggest liaison relationships

 

80-15

 

Umamaheswaran

Check the Unicode Versions page and if not satisfied with the language describing the potential for the data files to change, then send suggested language to the editorial committee

mute

80-29

 

Asmus Freytag

Prepare a response for Bruce Paterson regarding the editorial corrigendum on the glyph for U+301C.  Also contact Japan to see how they can be satisfied.

done

80-31

 

Mark Davis

Check on possibility of hosting UTC #82 at IBM in Cupertino

closed

80-35

 

Murray Sargent and Barbara Beeton

Add to the math proposal descriptive text that can be used in the book.  For an example, look at the Syriac proposal.  We will need to know how the math characters should be used in practice, any systematic relationships, and the use of other characters with the math property that won't be in the math block.

 


80-38

 

Sargent, Beeton

Provide a high quality font if possible for the math proposal.

Closed


80-38a

 

M. Sargent
B. Beeton

Delete the variant tag option, but add a note that variant tags were considered

Closed

80-45

 

Mark Davis Ken Whistler

Make a final revision of UTR #10, Collation,  post on the web, and send out a notice.

Closed

80-48

 

Lisa Moore

Have script identifiers as a future agenda item.

Moot (no doc.)

80-53

 

Lisa Moore

Once a report is received on the Unicode Localization Resource proposal, put it on the agenda for UTC#81

Done

80-54

 

Ken Whistler

Put U+20E5 (reverse solidus) in the Pipeline document

Closed

80-061

177-061

Uma, Davis

Propose UTF-16 LE and BE to SC2/WG2 (AI 77-26)

done

80-062

 

Freytag

Post soft copy of UTC procedures document on the web

Closed

 

UTC #79 and NCITS/L2 #176, February 3-5, 1999 – Palo Alto, CA

UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status

79-28

 

Unicode Officers
assigned to Joan Aliprand

Update the Consortium’s policy on patents to add the following points:

1. Don't adopt technologies under patent claim

2. Need to close loophole re-unknown patent

3. No requirement to do patent search

Closed

79-38

 

Murray Sargent

Provide information on mapping the “math pieces” to Postscript fonts, etc.  (Benefit: would complete Symbol font mapping.)

Closed

79-40

 

Murray Sargent

Take all permutations under the rules (see AI 79-39) and sketch out how the variant characters would be laid out in the Plane 1 area designated for Symbols.

Done
L2/99-244R

79-41

 

Murray Sargent

Solicit opinion of math community regarding encoding options.

done

 

UTC #78 and NCITS/L2 #175, December 1-4, 1998 - San Jose, CA

 

78-44

 

Mansour & Davis

Split Arabic script proposal into:

1)       characters for ancient Arabic

2)       Combining characters for Arabic.  Take Syriac combining characters into account in this proposal.

 

 

UTC #75 and L2 #172 (February 25-27, 1998 - Cupertino, CA)

 

UTC #

L2 #

Who

Action

Status

 

 

 

Revision of transcoding proposal

 

75-18

 

Edberg

Compile list of Big 5, etc. characters that cannot be transcoded

in progress

75-19

 

Aliprand

Compile list of EACC characters that cannot be transcoded

in progress, more by 6/2000

 

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