L2/01-292

Action items from UTC and L2 before the meeting in Seattle

August 8, 2001

From UTC #87 and L2 #184, May 21-24, 2001 in Pleasanton (Peoplesoft)

UTC #	L2 #	Who ?	Action	Status
87-1		Michael Kaplan	Update language and country code cross mappings on the Unicode website.
87-2		Rick McGowan	Follow up with John Jenkins on AI 83-2 (have Cora Chang verify the collection of compatibility characters).
87-3		Ken Whistler	Contact Patrick Ion about AI 83-30 (info for math annotations).	Done
87-4		Editorial Committee	Check the text of the Standard regarding the usage of radical characters as compatibility characters.	In progress
87-5		Ed. Committee, Rick McGowan	Better document the Unicode patent policy.
87-6		John O'Conner	Check if Sun can host the Feb 11-14 UTC.
87-7		Rick McGowan	Document the public availability of UTC minutes in the UTC procedures informational RFC.	Done
87-8		Lisa Moore	Include in the minutes the link to the publicly accessible location .
87-9		Lisa Moore	Ask Arnold Winkler to post on the L2 site the Sykes document SC32/WG3 PER-054R1, dated 4/18/01.	Done L2/01-259
87-10		Dave Birdsall	Initiate discussion of SQL character set issues and provide background information from L2/01-188 and the UTC discussion.
87-11		Dave Birdsall	Get minutes from the Perth ISO DBL meeting for posting and discussion.	Done (01-254, 255)
87-12		Editorial Committee	Update data files and bidi source, post and announce a public beta for Unicode 3.1.1. Unicode 4.0 is targeted for March, 2003.
87-13		Ken Whistler	Send a note to the unicore list soliciting review of the TC37 activities on language codes.	Done
87-14		Rick McGowan	Solicit feedback from unicore on the UTC Procedures informational RFC with a two week deadline for comments. [L2/01-211]
87-15		Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline page noting the formal rejection of  Klingon. [L2/01-212]	Done
87-16		Asmus Freytag	As Unicode liaison, inform WG2 that the UTC has formally rejected the encoding of Klingon. [L2/01-212]	Done
87-17		Mark Davis	Reply to W3C that the UTC is receptive to documenting in a technical report the subject of internationalized white space collapsing, but needs a better problem description. [L2/01-175]	Done
87-18		Asmus Freytag	Relay the UTC's request to Michel Suignard to please consider contributing to the discussion of internationalized white space collapsing. [L2/01-175]	Done
87-19		Debbie Anderson	Inform Michael Everson of the UTC decisions on the Aegean scripts proposal and ensure that the proposal gets updated in time for the October WG2 meeting, to make amendment 1 for Part 2. [L2/01-149]	Done
87-20		Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline page with the accepted Agean scripts characters. [L2/01-149]	Done
87-21		Asmus Freytag	Notify Mike Ksar that he needs to put the Limbu proposal on the WG2 agenda for the Singapore meeting, to consider for amendment 2 for part 1. [L2/01-137, 138, 139]	Done
87-22		Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline page with the accepted Limbu script characters. [L2/01-137, 138, 139]	Done
87-23		Rick McGowan	Get a Limbu font. [L2/01-137, 138, 139]
87-24		Ken Whistler	Ask Roozbeh Pournader to update the proposal for ARABIC CURRENCY SIGN RIAL and forward it to Mike Ksar for the WG2 agenda for the Singapore meeting, to consider for amendment 2 for part 1. [L2/01-148R]	Done
87-25		Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline page with the ARABIC CURRENCY SIGN RIAL. [L2/01-148R]	Done
87-26		Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline page with the Ugaritic script characters. [L2/01-141]
87-27		Arnold Winkler	Communicate with the US SC22 delegate that 15435 should be withdrawn.	In progress
87-28		Markus Scherer, Cathy Wissink	Work with the Editorial Committee to update the GB 18030 FAQ and post. [L2/01-216]
87-29		Rick McGowan	Post GB 18030 mapping table with explanatory text.
87-30		Cathy Wissink	Verify the mappings for GB 18030 with the Chinese committee.
87-31		Markus Scherer	Prepare a draft update of UTR#22 Character Mapping Tables. [L2/01-180]
87-32		Rick McGowan	Archive the mappings/EastAsian files, adding to the readme analysis from L2/01-179, 192.
87-33		Uma	Develop an FAQ on JIS X 0213.
87-34		Nobu Mori	Write up a document requesting that the C/C++ committees add a UTF-16 datatype and string literal support. Send to the UTC/L2 lists for review as a joint UTC/L2 proposal. [L2/01-195, 220]
87-35		Asmus Freytag	Contact Kent Karlsson for background information for proposal to C/C++ committees. [L2/01-220]	Done
87-36		Hideki Hiura	Inform Steve Clamagh (Chair of C++ committee) about the UTC proposal on supporting UTF-16 and ask to have it be considered. [L2/01-195, 220]
87-37		Mark Davis	Update SpecialCasing.txt to better handle Greek sigma. [L2/01-196]	Done
87-38		Editorial Committee	Incorporate UTR#21 Case Mappings into Unicode 4.	In progress
87-39		Mark Davis, Eric Muller	Produce a draft technical report for the next UTC and a sample file showing the Unicode Character Database in that format. [L2/01-194]
87-40		Rick McGowan, John Jenkins	Set up a database for UTC members to use to contain information about variants.
87-41		John Jenkins	Prepare a document on variation selectors for the next UTC.
87-42		John Jenkins	Ask the IRG for mappings or pointers to mappings for their character sets.
87-43		Bidi Committee	Analyze the bidi issues raised in the Atkin/Stansifer documents and make recommendations on what actions to take. [L2/01-218, 219]
87-44		Editorial Committee	Take the recommendations from the bidi committee on the issues raised in the Atkin/Stansifer documents and see if documentation changes are required and how such changes should be managed. [L2/01-218, 219]
87-45		Rick McGowan	Add Steve Atkin to the bidi e-mail list.
87-46		Steve Atkin	Contact Mark Leisher and let him know about the bidi problems detected in his freeware.
87-47		Editorial Committee	Make the updates to Arabic cursive joining necessary to correct items 1 and 6 of L2/01-214, based on motion 87-M13.
87-48		Bidi Committee	Analyze the bidi issues raised in items 2, 3, 4, and 5 of document L2/01-214 and make recommendations to the UTC on what actions to take.
87-49		Rick McGowan	Make a list of characters in the standard that have been deprecated.	Done, see L2/01-301
87-50		Members	Determine from company database engineers the need for UTF-8S.
87-51		Toby Phipps, Nobu Mori, Jianping Yang	Update the UTF-8S proposal, including adding performance measurements. [L2/01-230]
87-52		Lisa Moore	Invite Kent Karlsson to participate in discussions on his proposal on changes to SpecialCasing.txt and soft dot above at the next UTC. [L2/01-202]
87-53		Mark Davis	Relay to Kent Karlsson the feedback that the UTC does not wish to modify the normal case for casing i and j. [L2/01-191R]	Done
87-54		Mark Davis	Solicit a new name for locale-independent grapheme on unicore. [L2/01-086]	Done
87-55		Mark Davis	Update property files with the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]
87-56		Mark Davis	Update UTR#17: Character Encoding Model and      UTR#18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines with the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]
87-57		Editorial Committee	Create appropriate erratum for the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]
87-58		Mark Davis	Notify the W3C of the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]
87-59		Lisa Moore	Add an agenda item for the next UTC to discuss the name of the new locale-independent grapheme property and its interactions with other properties. [L2/01-086]
87-60		Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Incorporate the new ideographic description property into the appropriate version of the Standard and database. [L2/01-085]	Done
87-61		Mark Davis	Document the semantics of the combining grapheme joiner for discussion at the next UTC.
87-62		Unicode L2 Liaison	Ensure that the name changes to 29D1, 29D2, 29D4, 29D5 given in motion 87-M15 are part of the US comments on the FDAM. [L2/01-227]
87-63		Ken Whistler	Update the pipeline and database with the changes in the PDAM for Amendment 1 given in motion 87-M15 and document L2/01-227.	Done
87-64		Ken Whistler, Mark Davis	Develop a stability proposal for the UCA collation weight table.
87-65		Mark Davis	Post the UCA conformance test and solicit feedback.	Done
87-66		Mark Davis, Ken Whistler	Post a draft update of UTS#10: Unicode Collation Algorithm and solicit feedback.
87-67		V.S. Uma	Inform Michel Suignard of the correct way to process the list of variation selectors for PDAM 1. [L2/01-226]
87-68		Rick McGowan	Review the math technical report in detail and provide feedback to the authors by June 1.[L2/01-226]
87-69		Murray Sargent, Asmus Freytag	Update Proposed Draft UTR#25: Unicode Support for Mathematics, have it reviewed by the Editorial Committee and then post. [L2/01-226]	In progress
87-70		Lisa Moore	Notify Murray Sargent of the next Editorial Committee meeting date.	Done
87-71		Lisa Moore	Add the East Asian updates to the list of data file fixes for 3.1.1. [L2/01-189]	Done
87-72		Asmus Freytag	Make updates to the East Asian width tables to reflect the changes agreed to in 87-M19. [L2/01-189]
87-73		Editorial Committee	Modify the enumerated versions page and the versions page to align with the method of citing the Unicode Standard specified in document L2/01-233.
87-74		Ken Whistler	Write up the problem with the mapping of FA45 by JIS X 0213 and distribute to Japan SC2, IRG, and WG2 (Sato-san, Kobayashi-san, John Jenkins, and Mike Ksar) L2/01-164, p.82.
87-75		John Jenkins	Present the problem with the mapping of FA45 by JIS X 0213 at the June IRG meeting.
87-76		Michel Suignard	Write a document answering the questions raised in L2/01-168.
87-77		Lisa Moore	Add the bracket disunification topic to the agenda of the next UTC.
87-78		Mark Davis, Michel Suignard	Produce an update to UAX#13: Unicode Newline Guidelines that adds a section on collapsing white space.
87-79		Mark Davis	Convey to W3C the UTC action to update UAX#13: Unicode Newline Guidelines with a section on collapsing white space.	Done

From UTC #86 and L2 #183, Jan. 29 – Feb. 1, 2001 in Mountain View (MS)

UTC#	L2#	Who?	Action	Status
86-3		Murray Sargent	Confirm there is a room available for the new dates for UTC 88 (August 14-17, 2001).	Done
86-8		Editorial Committee	Change the status of UTR#7: Plane 14 Characters for Language Tags to Superseded by by the publication of Unicode 3.1.	In progress
86-9		Ken Whistler	Prepare the updated Unicode 3.1 collation tables and modify the packaging to be one file.
86-12		Mark Davis	Pursue IANA registration of UTF-32 (all three forms).	Done
86-13		Officers	Revisit allowing proxy designations by e-mail in the UTC Procedures.	In progress
86-18		Asmus Freytag	As Unicode Liaison to L2 and WG2, support the  UTC's action  in 86-M5 (rejecting the disunification of brackets and braces) during L2 and WG2 meetings. [L2/01-033]
86-19		Murray Sargent	Inform MathML of the change to use U+3008 and U+3009 as math characters instead of U+2329 and U+232A. [L2/01-033]
86-21		Cathy Wissink, Markus Scherer	Organize the UTC work effort to publish a mapping for GB18030.	In progress
86-22		Editorial Committee	For Unicode 3.1, number articles with Roman    numerals and consistently note the status of the sections as part of the header.	Done
86-30		Rick McGowan	Initiate an internet draft describing the Unicode      process for standardizing technical content. L2/01-032]
86-31		Officers	Improve communications processes with liaison organizations and the public in response to the IETF's desire to work with publicly released information. [L2/01-032]	In progress
86-32		Rick McGowan	Initiate an internet draft describing the registration process for namespace authorities. [L2/01-056]	In progress
86-40		Mark Davis	Respond to Michael Everson's comments and concerns about the COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER found in WG2 action item 39-10-a. [L2/01-042]	In progress
86-44		Editorial Committee	Update the Unicode Policies document to note the corrigendum in normalization forms which adds U+FB1D YOD WITH HIRIQ to the composition exclusion list. [L2/01-004]
86-57		Lisa Moore	Reply to the Patriarch of Georgia on behalf of the UTC.
86-76		Arnold Winkler	Provide comments on the Taxonomy for European Localization Requirements to Uma for him to forward to CEN. [L2/01-021]
86-78		Editorial Committee	Review document L2/01-081, update as appropriate, and post as Proposed Draft Technical Report#23: Survey and Guidelines for Unicode Character Properties.
	183-79	Davis, Whistler	Draft text to include references to Bidi and Normalization into the PDAM#1 for 10646-1:2000
	183-84	Joan Aliprand	contact Pat Harris to prepare documentation for registration of ANSI/NISO Z39.47
	183-85	Joan Aliprand Rick McGowan	Publish mapping tables for ISO TC46 standards

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

UTC#	L2#	Who?	Action	Status
85-2		Sandra Martin O'Donnell	Working with Peter Constable and Rick McGowan, further refine the requirements for qualified namespace authorities.	In progress [Now with Rick]
85-9		Mark Davis, Editorial Committee	Put a link on the Unicode web site to the roadmap.	In progress
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]	Planned for February  [close]
85-33		Michael Kaplan, Editorial Committee	Update the Tamil block description to note that item 5, page 232 is archaic practice. [L2/00-400]	In progress
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.	In progress
85-38		Om Vikas	Provide text for Indic script block introductions, particularly including information on syllable formation.	In progress

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

UTC#	L2#	Who?	Action	Status
84-04		Asmus Freytag	Complete the table given in the Character Foldings proposal, L2/00-261, and make suggested updates including the rationale section.	In progress
84-29		Toby Phipps	Include the issues raised in L2/00-184 in the TR on using Unicode in databases.
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.	In progress

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

UTC#	L2#	Who?	Action	Status
83-02		(Mark Davis) assigned to Jenkins	Have Cora Chang verify the collection of compatibility characters given in L2/00-087 (map to source and verify no duplicates)	Assigned to Jenkins
83-30		Patrick Ion Ken Whistler	Analyze math symbols to propose annotations to clarify character usage.	Waiting for input from Patric

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