L2/01-013

L2/SD-2 -- Open action items from UTC and L2 after San Diego

January 4, 2001

From UTC #85 and L2 #184, November 7-10, 2000 in San Diego, (NCR)

 

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

85-1

 

Mark Davis, Kamal Mansour

Write a proposal for Arabic combining    characters.

 

85-2

 

Sandra Martin O'Donnell

Working with Peter Constable and Rick McGowan, further refine the requirements for qualified namespace authorities.

 

85-3

 

Ken Whistler

Coordinate with Peter Constable to provide feedback to IETF (see 85-2).

 

85-4

 

Mark Davis

Update UTR#22: Unicode Character Mapping Markup Language (CharMap ML). [L2/00-402]

 

85-5

 

Mark Davis

Update UTR#21: Case Mappings. [L2/00-390, 395, 396]

 

85-6

 

Mark Davis 

Update Draft UTR#21: Script Names. [L2/00-368R, 379]

 

85-7

 

Kamal Mansour

Prepare a proposal summary form for ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS BEH and ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS QAF and forward to WG2. [L2/00-354] 

 

85-8

 

Ken Whistler

Update the web site pipeline document for ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS BEH and ARABIC LETTER DOTLESS QAF. [L2/00-354]

Done

85-9

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Put a link on the Unicode web site to the roadmap.

 

85-10

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Change Unique Sequence Identifier to Unicode Sequence Identifier. [l2/00-369] 

 

85-11

 

Ken Whistler

Update the web site pipeline document to reflect the changes to Part 1 from the Athens WG2 meeting, as agreed to in motion [85-M7]. [L2/00-369] 

Done

85-12

 

Ken Whistler

Draft two documents in response to JIS X 0213 compatibility characters: 1) our counter proposal to Sato-san's document L2/00-378 and 2) a document that maps JIS  X 0213 compatibility characters to the CJK radical extension. Distribute these documents with a liaison statement to WG2 and ask Kimura-san to distribute to SC2.

 

85-13

 

Ken Whistler

Update the web site pipeline document to reflect the acceptance of the eight recycling characters.

Done

85-14

 

Sandra Martin O'Donnell

Draft FAQ material to respond to Unicode and internationalization concerns that have come up on the SUS discussion list. [L2/00-382]

 

85-15

 

Ken Whistler

Send notes on Unicore soliciting comments on 15897, 15435 and 14652. [L2/00-381, 383, 385, 386]

 

85-16

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update the text of the Unicode Standard to reflect 85-C1.

 

85-17

 

Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Incorporate into V3.1 changes to explanatory text for datafiles regarding changes to the General Category property and Case Mappings.     [L2/00-392] 

 

85-18

 

Ken Whistler

Post updated datafiles for public review. [L2/00-392]

 

85-19

 

Editorial Committee

Incorporate into V3.1 the new glossary entries as
documented in L2/00-391 and modified during discussion.

 

85-20

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Use the amended document L2/00-414 to     create modified text for Chapter 3 to address security issues in UTF-8.

 

85-21

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline document to show the grapheme joiner with an encoding position of U+034F. 

Done

85-22

 

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Work with Michael Everson to produce a new
proposal for the grapheme joiner for WG2. [L2/00-369]

 

85-23

 

Cathy Wissink

Send a line for the translated summary of  GB 18030 to Arnold Winkler. 

Overcome by new standard

85-24

 

Cathy Wissink

Send text on GB 18030 to Arnold Winkler so that he can forward to ITI on behalf of our US companies.

Overcome by new standard

85-25

 

Mark Davis

Send a link to Arnold Winkler that points to an explanation of GB 18030 mappings with a list of the known problems.

Overcome by new standard

85-26

 

Editorial Committee

Add a standard reference section at the end of all
technical reports. Also, collect all references in the new section.

 

85-27

 

Mark Davis

Write a response on FDIS 8601 to be reviewed by the Editorial Committee and forwarded through WG20. [L2/00-389]

 

85-28

 

Michael Kaplan

Write a document which describes how the current Unicode encoding of Georgian can be used to represent the three Georgian scripts. [L2/00-404]

 

85-29

 

Editorial Committee

Make sure that Unicode V3.1 adequately describes how  the current Unicode encoding of Georgian can be used to represent the three Georgian scripts.
[L2/00-404]

 

85-30

 

Arnold Winkler

Watch the SC35 list for anything regarding CLAUI
compliance checking and forward to UTC members. [L2/00-321, 384]

 

85-31

 

Lisa Moore

Determine who will be the UTC liaison to IRG. 

Done

85-32

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline document to show the changes needed to maintain alignment with Part 2 of WG2. [L2/00-369] 

Done

85-33

 

Michael Kaplan, Editorial Committee

Update the Tamil block description to note that item 5, page 232 is archaic practice. [L2/00-400] 

 

85-34

 

Michael Kaplan

Encourage the Tamil group to have liaison activities with the UTC. [L2/00-405] 

 

85-35

 

Lisa Moore

Invite Tamil Nadu to come to the UTC.

Done

85-36

 

Om Vikas

Pursue organizing an ad hoc work group of Indic experts and UTC experts for educational purposes.

 

85-37

 

Michael Kaplan

Provide text on visual ordering of input for Indic script block introductions. 

 

85-38

 

Om Vikas

Provide text for Indic script block introductions, particularly including information on syllable formation.

 

85-39

 

Murray Sargent, Cathy Wissink

Provide input to Asmus Freytag on the     description of processes that make use of Unicode character properties. [L2/00-401] 

 

85-40

 

Asmus Freytag

Solicit further input from Unicore on Proposed Draft Technical Report #23, Character Property Model, and update based on input received during the UTC and from Unicore, including a change in title to Proposed Draft Technical Report #23, Survey and Guidelines for Unicode Character Properties. [L2/00-401] 

 

85-41

 

Ken Whistler

Note in the datafiles the new property defined for ZWSP - collapsible white space.

 

 

184-42

Arnold Winkler

Report ballot results and comments to NCITS

done

 

From UTC #84 and L2 #183, August 8-11, 2000 in Boston (Progress)

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

84-01

 

Ken Whistler

Document character rejections from this and the previous meeting. 

In progress

84-02

 

Murray Sargent

Add descriptive text for the math proposal that can be used in publication of the Standard. We 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.

In progress

84-04

 

Asmus Freytag

Complete the table given in the Character Foldings proposal, L2/00-261, and make suggested updates including the rationale section.

 

84-13

 

Lisa Moore

Respond to WG2 on the UTC position on additional Georgian characters. [L2/99-082]

 

84-29

 

Toby Phipps

Include the issues raised in L2/00-184 in the TR on using Unicode in databases.

 

84-36

 

Editorial Committee

(Asmus)

Review the final results from W3C on UTR#20: Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages. Make editorial updates as appropriate and forward major changes to the UTC for its approval. [L2/00-266]

Review needed

84-44

 

Mark, Editorial Committee

Pull out appropriate text from L2/00-262 on handling
surrogates and create a FAQ.

 

84-28

 

Editorial Committee

Correct the terminology used on the Unicode web site
(particularly in the Technical Introduction) based on the confusion in terms noted in Appendix B of L2/00-184. 

 

84-27

 

Arnold Winkler

Communicate with the SQL working group about establishing a liaison with L2/Unicode. [L2/00-184] 

H2 contacted, open

From UTC #83 and L2 #182 April 25-28, 2000  San Jose (Microsoft)

 

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

83-02

 

Mark Davis

Have Cora Chang verify the collection of compatibility characters given in L2/00-087 (map to source and verify no duplicates)

In progress

83-03

 

Ken Whistler

Respond to Japan on the rising and falling tone letters. [L2/00-108]

 

83-30

 

Patrick Ion
Ken Whistler

Analyze math symbols to propose annotations to clarify character usage.

 

83-45

 

John Jenkins (taking over from Mark Davis)

Document in Unicode 3.1 that the radical characters are compatibility characters and ensure that this is communicated to WG2 and the IRG.

Arnold ask John on 8/16/2000

 

UTC #82 and L2 #179, January 31 – February 3, 2000 in San Jose  [Apple]

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

82-27

 

Officers

Update UTC Procedures and distribute to the membership  before the next UTC.

In progress

82-32

 

Ed Hart

Create UTC guidelines for changes other than character additions.

 

 

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

UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status 

81-01

 

Officers, Aliprand

Develop a policy on patents and inform the UTC

(Lisa talk to Joan)

 

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