L2/SD-2 -- Action items from UTC and L2

February 10, 2003

From UTC #93 and L2 #190, November 5-8, 2002 in Nashua (HP)

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

93-A1

 

Lisa Moore

Update the attendee list in UTC 92 minutes. [L2/02-253R]

 

93-A2

 

Eric Muller, Mark Davis

Update the committee draft of the UCD in XML format. [L2/02-179, 91-A12]

 

93-A3

 

Rick McGowan

Add boiler-plate to Mark's IUC21 paper on surrogates (action item 90-A5), post as a tech note, and make an FAQ entry pointing to it.

done

93-A4

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Review the technical reports for consistency and propose updates for the next UTC.

 

93-A5

 

Lisa Moore

Add GB18030 status to the agenda for the next UTC.

 

93-A6

 

John Jenkins

Give Asmus a font with corrected glyphs for code points 48B4, 63AF, 29FD7, 29FCE, for a glyph erratum for Unicode 4.0.

 

93-A7

 

Asmus Freytag

Check the pending glyphs on the "book" web site.

 

93-A8

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Review text on the semantics (request nature) of ZWJ and ZWNJ. Clarify the intended semantics. [L2/02-363]

 

93-A9

 

Asmus Freytag, Ed Committee

Draft text supporting motion 93-M2, revising ZWJ (for scripts that traditionally have joining behavior) in the layout controls section of Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-363]

 

93-A10

 

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Release a Unicode 4.0 alpha that includes planned 3.2.1 changes.

 

93-A11

 

Mark Davis

Update the boilerplate section of L2/02-393 and bring back to UTC for further discussion.

 

93-A12

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Standard Annex #24 Script Names and post for public review.

 

93-A13

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #22 Character Mapping Markup Language (CharMapML) and post for public review.

 

93-A14

 

Mark Davis

Look at Unicode Technical Report #18 Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines and propose changes that will make it more referenceable, possibly as a UTS.

 

93-A15

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Incorporate the suggested text on default ignorables from L2/02-368 into the standard in version 4.

 

93-A16

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update Proplist.txt for Unicode 4.0, to include non-characters in the property, default ignorable code points. [L2/02-368]

 

93-A17

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Draft and post for public review with a closing date of February 14, 2003, a discussion of the options for Object Replacement Character and the interlinear annotation characters: whether to treat as default ignorable or as having a default visible representation. [L2/02-368]

 

93-A18

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update the default ignorable characters in Proplist.txt for version 4, remove Arabic End of Ayah and Syriac Abbreviation Mark and  guarantee that similar characters (U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN, U+0601 ARABIC SIGN SANAH, U+0602 ARABIC FOOTNOTE MARKER ) are treated the same way. [L2/02-368]

 

93-A19

 

Asmus Freytag

Correct the glyph for Syriac Abbreviation Mark, adding a symbol to the representative glyph. [L2/02-368]

 

93-A20

 

Michel Suignard

Incorporate the glyph change to Syriac Abbreviation Mark to US comments on FPDAM2. [L2/02-368]

 

93-A21

 

Ken Whistler, Asmus Freytag, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Fix data files for Unicode 4.0:  change the general category of U+180E MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR  from "Cf" to "Zs"; add it to the "whitespace" property; remove from list of Default Ignorables; and ensure that the line break property is no-break, in order to align it with narrow no-break space. Check consistency of explanatory text in Unicode 4 (add to the table of spaces, etc.). [L2/02-368]

 

93-A22

 

Rick McGowan

Add text and picture to the version 4 Devanagari block intro referring to the Marathi/Devanagari allographs described in L2/02-204. Also address Vedic symbols, currency sign, and four Sindhi consonants.

done

93-A23

 

Joan Aliprand

Make sure responding to the Government of India is on the agenda for the officers retreat on the TDIL newsletter document(s).

done

93-A24

 

Rick McGowan, Eric Muller, Cathy Wissink, Peri Bhaskararao

Produce a cover document for L2/02-402 (as revised) as a UTC response to the Government of India on the TDIL newsletter document(s).

 

93-A25

 

Peri Bhaskararao

Update L2/02-402 and send to L2doc by November 22, 2002.

done

93-A26

 

Asmus Freytag

Work with WG2 and request that Plane 3 be added to the roadmap as planned for ideographs.

 

93-A27

 

Asmus Freytag

Ensure that Unicode Standard Annex #11 East Asian Width is in sync with the 93-C12 decision to make data file and documentation changes as discussed in section 3 of  [L2/02-360].

 

93-A28

 

Ken Whistler

Update the East Asian width  and line break data files to reflect the changes to fallback properties for section 3, items C and D of  [L2/02-360].

 

93-A29

 

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Update the data files and documentation to reflect the changes given in section 3, items A, B, E of L2/02-360.

 

93-A30

 

Mark Davis

Update Unicode Standard Annex #9 The Bidirectional Algorithm to correct the ranges for the Bidi classes. [L2/02-360]

 

93-A31

 

Mark Davis

Add the text from section 6 of L2/02-360 to the proposed
update of Unicode Standard Annex #15 Unicode Normalization Forms, for review at the next UTC.

 

93-A32

 

Asmus Freytag, Michel Suignard

Represent the UTC consensus on combining right dot above: combining right dot above is acceptable if WG2 accepts, but the rest of the proposal must be rejected. [L2/02-348]

 

93-A33

 

Michel Suignard

Add the addition of Greek Capital Lunate Sigma at 03F9 to US comments. L2/02-314R

 

93-A34

 

Rick McGowan

Forward the proposal for Greek Capital Lunate Sigma at 03F9, document L2/02-314R to Mike Ksar for WG2 distribution.

done

93-A35

 

Deborah Goldsmith

Ensure that a report documenting the problems with the DPRK compatibility characters is written by December 1 for submission to WG2 before the December meeting.

 

93-A36

 

Deborah Goldsmith

Send a copy of the spreadsheet detailing DPRK compatibility character problems to Eric Muller, Michel Suignard, Daniel Chen, and Ken Lunde.

 

93-A37

 

Michel Suignard

Add the two letters, U+03FA GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and U+03FB GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN to US comments on the FPDAM ballot. [L2/02-313R]

 

93-A38

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline to include the two letters, GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN at U+03FA and U+03FB, respectively. [L2/02-313R]

 

93-A39

 

Rick McGowan

Forward proposal for the two letters, U+03FA GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and U+03FB GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN, L2/02-313R, to Mike Ksar for WG2 distribution.

done

93-A40

 

Maria Pantelia

Forward the font for GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SAN and GREEK SMALL LETTER SAN to Asmus Freytag by November 22, 2002.

 

93-A41

 

Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan

Go through the BMP roadmap and look for space on the BMP for a new punctuation block for the New Testament sigla characters, post 4.0. [L2/02-317R]

 

93-A42

 

Maria Pantelia

Update the proposal for New Testament sigla characters with property information and resubmit. [L2/02-317R]

 

93-A43

 

Maria Pantelia

Update proposal L2/02-312R as per the discussion in the meeting, including properties, names, and proposed encoding locations.

 

93-A44

 

Maria Pantelia

Update the chart to indicate suggested code positions and property values and names "metrical symbol" instead of just "metrical". [L2/02-315R]

 

93-A45

 

Rick McGowan

Forward the updated proposal for Greek metrical symbols to Mike Ksar for WG2 distribution. [L2/02-315R]

done

93-A46

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline to include the 9 new Greek metrical symbols at 2692..269A. [L2/02-315R]

 

93-A47

 

Maria Pantelia

Update the proposal for archaic Greek musical notation symbols as per the discussion in UTC and forward to Rick McGowan. [L2/02-316R]

 

93-A48

 

Maria Pantelia

Forward a font for Archaic Greek Musical Notation Symbols to Asmus Freytag by end of November, 2002.

 

93-A49

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline to include Archaic Greek Musical Notation symbols, at 1D200..1D24F.

 

93-A50

 

Rick McGowan

Forward the updated proposal on Archaic Greek Musical Notation symbols, L2/02-316R2 to Mike Ksar for WG2 distribution.

done

93-A51

 

Deborah Goldsmith

Have Cora Chang verify the correctness of Unihan database errata in document L2/02-359R and verify all compatibility mappings of Han characters in the latest Unicode Character Database.

 

93-A52

 

Rick McGowan

Inform the IETF liaison of document L2/02-359R (on Unihan DB errata) and that we are double-checking the data. We will take up the issue at the next meeting.

done

93-A53

 

Lisa Moore

To initiate a Letter Ballot on the errors in the mappings of five ideographic characters, to either fix the mapping errors as specified in  L2/02-359R or to add new characters as replacements.

 

93-A54

 

John Jenkins

Add the JIS 0213 mappings to the Unihan database, after they have been verified by Cora Chang. Correct the HKSCS mappings to the values given in L2/02-359R after they have been verified by Cora Chang against the mappings issued by the Hong Kong Government.

 

93-A55

 

Eric Muller, Ken Lunde

Reformat the JIS mappings in L2/02-359R and send to Michel Suignard so he can use for comparison with WG2 data.

 

93-A56

 

Eric Muller, Ken Lunde

If there are differences between mappings of the JIS data of L2/02-359 against existing WG2 mappings of JIS 0213, create a technical corrigendum to 10646 and submit as a WG2 document.

 

93-A57

 

Eric Muller, Ken Lunde

Check and see if the 10646 mappings are the same as our Unihan "V" source mappings.

 

93-A58

 

Eric Muller

Draft a document to WG2 requesting that they require three mappings to identify each compatibility character: (1) the "real" Unified ideograph in 10646; (2) the source character in the standard they come from; (3) the mapping for the "base" character in the original standard for which it is a compatibility duplicate. These have not been provided for all compatibility characters up to now.

 

93-A59

 

Eric Muller, Ken Lunde, Michel Suignard

See where the underlying issue is with the "V" source in document L2/02-390.

 

93-A60

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Post the need for tailorings of normalization as a public review issue which will close February 14, 2003 (see 93-C22).

 

93-A61

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Prepare proposed update text for addition to Unicode Standard Annex #15 Unicode Normalization Forms to address the need for tailorings of normalization, for the next UTC meeting.

 

93-A62

 

Mark Davis

Make a WG2 paper supporting the UTC consensus on "loose name matching" by the end of November, 2002. [L2/02-365R]

 

93-A63

 

Mark Davis

Send feedback to the IETF on internationalized string matching rules through Patrik Faltstrom. [L2/02-358]

 

93-A64

 

Rick McGowan, Mark Davis

Notify the IETF liaison and W3C liaison regarding our contemplated introduction of named tailorings of normalization; after publication as a public issue. [L2/02-355]

done

93-A65

 

All

Send comments to Mark Davis on L2/02-355 (XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators) by November 15, 2002.

 

93-A66

 

Mark Davis

Relay UTC comments on L2/02-355 (XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators) back to W3C.

 

93-A67

 

Mark Davis

Send comment on security issue in XML 1.1 to unicore list before sending to W3C.

 

93-A68

 

Mark Davis

Write up comment on lack of support for null (or zero) in XML, and send to unicore before sending to W3C.

 

93-A69

 

Mark Davis

Prepare a liaison statement to W3C that there is a security issue with transcoding from legacy encodings.

 

93-A70

 

Ken Whistler

Change the bidi property of code points U+0CBF and U+0CC6 from NSM to L in Unicode data for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-194]

 

93-A71

 

Mark Davis

Add a note about canonical equivalence to Unicode Standard Annex #9 The Bidirectional Algorithm for Unicode 4.[L2/02-194]

 

93-A72

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update Unicode policies regarding invariance of the Bidi algorithm under canonical equivalence (see 93-C26).

 

93-A73

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update the text of Unicode Standard Annex #9 The Bidirectional Algorithm to reflect consensus 93-C27.

 

93-A74

 

Mark Davis, Bidi Committee

Ask Bidi committee to review and make a determination about  section 5 of L2/02-194.

 

93-A75

 

Lisa Moore

Add L2/02-194, section 5 to the agenda for UTC #94.

 

93-A76

 

Michel Suignard

Raise bidi character property issues with respect to URIs to the bidi committee.

 

93-A77

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update the boilerplate on the technical report web page based on 93-C28. [L2/02-393R]

 

93-A78

 

Mark Davis

Update L2/02-393R to reflect the changes discussed in the meeting and post to the document register.

 

93-A79

 

Julie Allen, Editorial Committee

Ensure that the new boilerplate is rolled into all of the technical reports. [L2/02-393R]

 

93-A80

 

Magda Danish, Ed Committee

Update the Unicode Technical Reports and Unicode Technical Standards as required by motion 93-M4 (above), for Unicode 4.0.

 

93-A81

 

Lisa Moore

Designate the actual list of Unicode Technical Reports and Unicode Technical Standards to be updated by Magda for 93-M4.

 

93-A82

 

Lisa Moore

Put a review of the conformance clause from L2/02-393R on the agenda for UTC #94.

 

[93-A83

 

Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Make the version 4 update based on the discussion during the meeting, reflecting consensus 93-C29.

 

93-A84

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add the new Hangul Syllable Type to Proplist.txt for Unicode 4.0. Make the relevant changes to PropertyAliases.txt, PropertyValues.txt, and related documentation. [L2/02-360, section 7.C.F]

 

93-A85

 

Joan Aliprand

Contact Richard Youatt to determine what he knows about the implementation of Armenian hyphen. [L2/02-375]

 

93-A86

 

Asmus Freytag

Work with Mongolian experts to get feedback on the usage of Mongolian Todo Soft Hyphen. [L2/02-375]

 

93-A87

 

Asmus Freytag, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add text discussing normative aspects of Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties and Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries. [L2/02-362; L2/02-392]

 

93-A88

 

Mark Davis

Incorporate feedback from this meeting into another draft of Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries. If possible, post for public review before the next UTC meeting. [L2/02-362; L2/02-392]

 

93-A89

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Incorporate updates to the Assessing Unicode Support document, L2/02-400, as discussed in the meeting, and post as an L2 document.

 

93-A90

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Incorporate the three weeks of feedback received on the Assessing Unicode Support document, L2/02-400R, and post as Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31 Assessing Unicode Support.

 

93-A91

 

Rick McGowan

Update the web page on Public Review Issues with the extended review period (to February 14, 2003) for deprecating language tags, connecting characters, and sharp s collation weight, and remove the closed issue on deprecating six Khmer characters.

done

93-A92

 

Rick McGowan

Once all the new and revised Public Review Issues are up (93-A91), send a notification.

done

93-A93

 

Mark Davis

Update Proplist.txt for the deprecations of the six Khmer characters, for Unicode 4.

 

93-A94

 

Ken Whistler

Update the nameslist with the various discouragement tags for the six Khmer characters, for Unicode 4.

 

93-A95

 

Rick McGowan

Request an agenda item for next meeting, regarding the documentation of Public Review Issues and the input gathering process.

done

93-A96

 

Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee

Update Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties with comments received in the meeting and post as Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties. [L2/02-360, 412]

 

93-A97

 

Eric Muller, Deborah Goldsmith

Have the same work group (as in AI89-20) that is investigating GB18030 also evaluate the HKSCS characters that are mapped to the PUA. Generate a proposal for handling them for UTC consideration. [L2/02-395]

 

93-A98

 

Rick McGowan

Submit a description of character properties for Kharoshthi as a new L2 document. Reference L2/02-203R2.

done

93-A99

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline the sixty six new Kharoshthi characters at 10A00..10A5F. [L2/02-203R2]

 

93-A100

 

Rick McGowan

Forward the Kharoshthi font to Asmus Freytag.

 

93-A101

 

Rick McGowan

Forward the document L2/02-203R2 to WG2 in time for the December WG2 meeting.

done

93-A102

 

Rick McGowan

Report back to Peter Constable that the model used in the Syloti Nagri proposal is controversial with respect to the use of ZWJ, and this issue needs to be resolved among concerned parties before the script can be accepted. The UTC recommends that existing rendering practice should be used if at all possible. Thank the author for a well done proposal. If the proposal is for encoding on the BMP, it should be compressed into the fewest code points possible. [L2/02-388]

done

93-A103

 

Rick McGowan

Update L2/02-364 with the properties for COMBINING DOUBLE RING BELOW; modify the suggested code point in the proposal to U+035A; and forward the revised proposal to WG2 for possible acceptance in December and encoding in Unicode 4.

 

93-A104

 

Ken Whistler

Update the pipeline with COMBINING DOUBLE RING BELOW at U+035A. [L2/02-364]

 

93-A105

 

Asmus Freytag

Create a font for COMBINING DOUBLE RING BELOW. [L2/02-364]

 

93-A106

 

Rick McGowan

Prepare a single proposal for the next UTC meeting for the three double combining marks (double stroke, double breve below, and double macron). Proposal to include names, glyphs, properties, and the WG2 form. Also in the proposal address the Greek hyphen proposed by  TLG. Include more supporting rationale if possible. [L2/02-361, 367]

 

93-A107

 

Rick McGowan

Request an agenda item for Devanagari "glottal stop", document L2/02-394, at the next UTC meeting.

done

93-A108

 

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

The Public Review Issue for connecting dash characters should be closed and the UTC consensus published with a pointer to the public minutes.

done

93-A109

 

Rick McGowan

Include the resolution of the connecting dashes in announcement of changes to Public Review Issues.

done

 

From UTC #92 and L2 #189, August 20-23, 2002 in Redmond (Microsoft)

UTC #

L2 #

Who?

Action

Status

92-A3

 

Peter Edberg

Make sure that Cora begins to check the DPRK compatibility character additions (122 chars) in time for them to be included in the US national ballot comments, by end of September 2002. Make sure there are no further duplicates and that the mappings for each character are correct. See the FPDAM document L2/02-300. [L2/02-291, 292]

Done

92-A4

 

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Post an erratum for two variation sequences ([2278, FE00] and [2279, FE00]), remove from list of variation sequences, and reflect the erratum in Unicode 3.2.1. (see L2/02-291)

In progress

92-A6

 

Peter Edberg

Ask Cora to verify that the CJK source references are correct in FPDAM document L2/02-300, by the end of October. 

Done

92-A7

 

Peter Edberg, Mark Davis, Cathy Wissink

Check that suggested corrections in Amendment 1 (WG2 N2444, resolution M42.20) don't impact character set mappings. Verify by the end of October. 

Done

92-A15

 

All members

In preparation for approving Unicode 4.0 at the November meeting, review the draft of chapters 1 to 4 of Unicode 4.0 which will be posted a month in advance of the November meeting.

Done

92-A16a

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add a reference to an appendix of Unicode Annex: #15: Unicode Normalization that points to UTN #5, in the version 4.0 time frame.

 

92-A18

 

Mark Davis, Officers

Encourage Om Vikas and the Gov't of India to work within the UTC process when communicating with the committee. [L2/02-268]

 

92-A19

 

Michael Kaplan, Cathy Wissink

Write a FAQ entry within Indic FAQ covering the Unicode position with regard to the TDIL Newsletter document, and send to the editorial committee. [L2/02-268]

In Progress

92-A20

 

Rick McGowan

Work with Michael Everson to ensure there is an initial proposal for Egyptian Hieroglyphics ready for the November meeting. It should contain the Gardiner set and all letters of support. [L2/02-281, 288, 290, 295]

Closed

92-A21

 

Stephan Baums, Rick McGowan

Update the Kharoshthi proposal with comments received and produce a modified proposal in time for the upcoming UTC and WG2 meetings. Forward to Mike Ksar for WG2 posting.

In Progress

92-A25

 

Maria Pantelia

Produce new proposal for the eleven New Testament sigla in time for the November meeting, taking into account more generic names, properties, etc. Have the Editorial Committee review the names. [L2/02-317]

 

92-A26

 

Maria Pantelia

Update the proposals for ancient Greek editorial and punctuation characters, Greek metrical characters, ancient Greek musical characters, and Greek numerical characters. Include WG2 proposal summary forms. [L2/02-312, 315, 316, 318]

 

92-A27

 

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Update Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm. Reflect the consensus items [92-C11] and [92-C12] synchronizing Unicode 4.0 and UCA.

 

92-A28

 

Mark Davis, Cathy Wissink, Editorial Committee

Move section 5.17 of the Unicode Standard into Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm and possibly update with material from Cathy & Michael's tutorial, time permitting.

In Progress; moved to EC list?

92-A29

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add language to Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm that describes the current use of soft hyphen to prevent contraction in collation.

 

92-A30

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Add an informative section to UTS#10 on stability of collation (issues involved and possible ways to handle).

 

92-A31

 

Asmus Freytag

Verify that U+2615 HOT BEVERAGE is correctly located in the Unicode charts.

Done

92-A32

 

Peter Edberg

Ask Cora to check KSC 5601 mappings for the CJK compatibility ideographs in the F900 block, by the end of October.

Done?

92-A34

 

Eric Muller

Supply Michel Suignard with information on Mongolian hyphens for US comments on the WD 3rd Edition of 10646. [L2/02-282]

Done

92-A35

 

Peter Edberg

Investigate the 1.1 to 2.0 Hangul mapping inconsistencies and discuss the results with Michel Suignard, to be included in US comments on the WD 3rd Edition of 10646. [L2/02-282]

Done?

92-A36

 

Mark Davis

Add a section to Unicode Technical Standard #10 Unicode Collation Algorithm on stability of weights for scripts.

 

92-A40

 

Michael Kaplan

Send example text to Mark for Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries.

Done 

92-A41

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Clarify the status statement boiler plate of Unicode Standard Annexes regarding conformance to the standard.

Done 

92-A42

 

Mark Davis

Update the UCD files relating to the correcting inconsistencies in some grapheme properties (see 92-C21) for the 4.0 time frame. [L2/02-304, 311]

In Progress

92-A44

 

Julie Allen

Post the erratum relating to inconsistencies in some grapheme properties (see 92-C21). [L2/02-304, 311]

 

92-A46

 

Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Post a proposed update to Unicode Technical Standard #6 A Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode, adding the update on "XML Suitable". [L2/02-262]

In Progress 

92-A47

 

Mark Davis

For Unicode 3.2.1, fix PropList.txt for U+034F and U+205F as specified in section 1.A of document L2/02-267R3.

 

92-A48

 

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

For Unicode 3.2.1, fix the properties of U+00AD soft hyphen and clarify the Pd nature of U+058A and U+1806 as specified in section 1.B of document L2/02-267R3, and produce an erratum for posting.

 

92-A49

 

Rick McGowan

Post the property erratum for U+00AD, U+058A and U+1806 when available. [L2/02-267R3]

Done

92-A50

 

Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee

Update 1) the text of the standard and 2) Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties for soft hyphen and related hyphens in version 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

1) Done
2) In Progress

92-A51

 

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Update the general categories of the soft hyphen in the data files for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

In Progress

92-A52

 

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler

Clarify the situation regarding the distinctions among characters that have no visible glyph for the November 2002 UTC. [L2/02-267R3]

Done

92-A53

 

Ken Whistler, Mark Davis

Change the general category of 02B9..02BA, 02C6..02CF to Sk in the data files for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

 

92-A55

 

Mark Davis, Officers

Update the UTC policies to reflect consensus 92-C29 on backwards compatibility of identifiers for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

 

92-A56

 

Mark Davis

Add the new ID_Start_Exceptions property containing the characters U+2118, U+212E, U+309B, U+309C for Unicode 4.0. [L2/02-267R3]

 

92-A58

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

1) Document in Namelist.html the character encoding of the namelist file. 2) For the other files, in Unicode 4.0 document the encoding of the Unicode data files.

1) done
2) open

92-A59

 

Mark Davis

Fix the description and property of U+0307 in SpecialCasing.txt in 3.2.1. See section 5.A of L2/02-267R3.

 

92-A62

 

Mark Davis

Add U+2047 DOUBLE QUESTION MARK to terminal punctuation in PropList.txt for version 3.2.1, and add to the "Term" class defined in Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries. See section 7.A of L2/02-267R3.

 

92-A63

 

Mark Davis

Delete "Non_Break" from PropertyValueAliases.txt and add "Block_Property" to PropertyValueAliases.txt for version 3.2.1. See sections 8.A, 8.B of L2/02-267R3.

 

92-A64

 

Asmus Freytag

Use the information in section 4 of L2/02-267R3 and make a proposed update for Unicode Standard Annex #14 Line Breaking Properties, to be available for comment before the November meeting, and incorporated into version 4.

In Progress 

92-A65

 

Mark Davis, John Jenkins

For version 4.0, add the Numerical, Radical/Stroke, & Source Reference PropertyAliases.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt as normative properties, and create a "provisional" property and state that all other Unihan tags are provisional. [L2/02-267R3]

 

92-A66

 

John Jenkins

Determine if other Unihan tag properties could be improved to the point at which they could become informative rather than provisional in the 4.0 timeframe, and communicate this to UTC.

 

92-A67

 

Mark Davis, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Prepare a version 3.2.1 beta ASAP, and release 3.2.1 upon completion of the beta period, targeting the first of October.

 

92-A68

 

Mark Davis

Separate document L2/02-305, on assessing Unicode support, into two parts; the definitional part should be moved into Unicode 4.0. Update the remaining portions of L2/02-305 and post for comments.

Done?  Moved to EC list?

92-A70

 

Mark Davis

Write a paper for W3C regarding canonical equivalence, early and late normalization.

In progress 

 

From UTC #91 and L2 #188, April 30-May 3, 2002 in Pleasanton (Peoplesoft))

 

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

91-5

 

Lisa Moore

Follow up on action 88-35 (Respond to the proposer of the Arabic Kaf character that the UTC thinks the character is already encoded at U+0681. The character may need an annotation and/or an explanation. [L2/01-316])

In progress

91-6

 

Rick McGowan, Officers

Make mirroring PDF files available to members on their web sites. Reference: AI 88-22. Write text explaining how to do the mirroring and which pages may be mirrored.  (Target date:  Unicode 4.0)

In progress (text is done; needs to move to EC list?)

91-7

 

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Review the text for mirroring PDF files for legal disclaimers and post for Unicode 4.0.

In progress

91-11

 

Mark Davis

Add Unihan properties to the UCD.

In progress for 3.2.1; see doc

91-12

 

Eric Muller, Mark Davis

Update the committee draft of UCD in XML for the March 03 UTC. [L2/02-179]

Superceded by new AI 93-A2

91-15

 

John Jenkins

Create a document for AI 89-16.

Peter Edberg will follow up

91-16

 

John Jenkins

Bring to the IRG's attention the fact that mappings between simplified and traditional characters are of interest to the UTC, and the UTC will request such mappings from WG2.

Peter Edberg will follow up

91-31

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Make Draft Unicode Technical Report #29 Text Boundaries a Unicode Annex in Unicode 4.0, after appropriate editorial updates to the content.

In progress; move to EC AI list?

91-44

 

Mike Ksar

Report on the status of the liaison between Unicode and SC2 and SC22, both directions.

Cathy Wissink to follow up

91-45

 

John Jenkins, Editorial Committee

Issue an erratum and provide corrected glyphs for Han Extension B to Asmus Freytag in reasonably matching TrueType format. [L2/02-115]

 

91-59

 

Rick McGowan, Officers

Establish the process for public review of issues.

Done

91-63

 

Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee

Update and post Draft Unicode Technical Report #23 Character Properties. [L2/02-172]

In progress

91-73

 

Lisa Moore

Put StandardizedVariants.html (regarding a machine readable file, 91-C24) onto the agenda for next meeting.

Done

91-76

 

Asmus Freytag

Add standardized variant glyphs to the standard charting program for Unicode 4.0.

 

91-78

 

Asmus Freytag, Mark Davis

Prepare a paper for Unicode 4.0 clarifying of the use of variation selectors with Mongolian.

In Progress

91-79

 

Mark Davis

Remove U+06DD ARABIC END-OF-AYAH from default ignorable code point listing in Proplist.txt in Unicode 3.2.1.

 For 3.2.1.

91-82

 

Asmus Freytag

Draft text that documents existing information on known discrepancies in E. Asian mapping tables.

 

91-83

 

Mark Davis, Peter Edberg

Provide info to Asmus Freytag on pointers to information on mapping tables.

In Progress

91-85

 

Joan Aliprand

Contact Michael Everson after the June WG2 meeting to discuss Glagolitic and to progress his proposal.

 

91-86

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Document the UTC response to issues raised in points 1, 4, and 6b of L2/02-194.

For 4.0; Moved to EC AI list

91-87

 

Asmus Freytag, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Document the UTC response to issues raised in point 6a of L2/02-194.

For 4.0; Moved to EC AI list

91-88

 

Mark Davis, Bidi Committee

Come to consensus on issues raised in points 2, 3, and 5 of L2/02-194, and any other outstanding issues prior to the November UTC meeting.

Closed

91-90

 

Ken Whistler

Develop further documentation on the Unicode conformance model. [L2/02-165]

 

91-91

 

Mark Davis

Develop further test cases and test data for Unicode conformance testing. [L2/02-149]

Done

 

From UTC #90 and L2 #187, February 11-14, 2002 in Mountain View (Microsoft)

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

90-5

 

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Extract useful information from Mark Davis' IUC21 tutorial on surrogates and create a FAQ (replaces 84-44).

Superceded by new AI (93-A3); Rick will create boilerplate

90-36

 

Hideki Hiura

Let the Linux community know about the inaccurate locales.

John O’Conner will follow up

90-75

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Review the technical reports for consistency with Unicode 3.2 and post changes as proposed updates to be reviewed at UTC 91.

Closed; superceded by new AI (93-A4)

90-84

 

John Jenkins

Contact other organizations (Basis, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Xerox) with traditional and simplified mappings, asking them to make those mappings available for inclusion in Unihan.txt. Do this after Unicode 3.2 has been published.

In progress

From UTC #89 and L2 #186, November 6-9, 2001 in Mountain View (Microsoft)

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

 

89-12

 

John Jenkins

Work with Cora to determine the status of IDS decompositions and then work on any gaps and post on-line.

Peter Edberg will follow up

89-16

 

John Jenkins, Rick McGowan

Prepare a document from the UTC to the IRG exemplifying the (TC/SC) variant problem to be sent to the IRG before the meeting in November 2002. [L2/01-417]

 

89-17

 

John Jenkins, Asmus Freytag, Rick McGowan

Convey to WG2 that the UTC will request the IRG to indicate which proposed compatibility characters are duplicates of existing or proposed compatibility characters. Due to time schedules, the UTC will ask the IRG to help with indicating the duplicates in the DPRK set. [89-C6]  This will happen by the end of October.

In Progress

89-18

 

John Jenkins, Rick McGowan

Prepare a document to send to WG2 that requests that in the future 10646 should use variant tags for distinguishing new simplified Chinese variants from their traditional counterparts. [89-M2]  This will happen by end of Oct.

 

89-20

 

Deborah Goldsmith, Peter Edberg

Create a work group to evaluate the characters from GB 18030 that are mapped to the PUA, and generate a proposal for handling these for UTC consideration. [L2/01-416]

On Hold

89-27

 

Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee

Appropriately document the font policy approved in motion 89-M4.

Julie to move to EC list

89-54

 

Asmus Freytag; Editorial Committee

Correct the glyphs for U+0B66 and U+0A33. [L2/01-431R]

Done

89-70

 

Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee

Add language to the 4.0 standard on identifiers that describes the use of stable identifiers for meta-languages, and the tradeoffs involved in using them. [L2/01-454]

Closed

89-72

 

Rick McGowan

Update the JIS X 0213 FAQ and after review by Julie Allen, post on the website. [L2/01-442]

 

 

From UTC #88 and L2 #185, August 14-17, 2001 in Redmond (Microsoft)

UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status

88-7

 

Cathy Wissink

Update the draft GB18030 FAQ and distribute to Unicore, to be later posted on the Unicode web site on October 1, 2001. [L2/01-314]

Closed

88-8

 

Arnold Winkler, Ken Whistler

Write a position paper on TR 10176 - there should be no more revisions of TR 10176 as new characters are encoded, rather 10176 should be modified to point to the Unicode Character Database for determining identifiers.

Closed

 

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

UTC #

L2 #

Who ?

Action

Status

87-29

 

Rick McGowan

Post GB 18030 mapping table with explanatory text.

Closed

87-30

 

Cathy Wissink

Verify the mappings for GB 18030 with the Chinese committee.

Closed

87-40

 

Rick McGowan, John Jenkins

Set up a database for UTC members to use to contain information about variants.

In progress

87-56

 

Mark Davis, Editorial Committee

Update UTR#17: Character Encoding Model with the new locale-independent grapheme property. [L2/01-086]; should be done after TR29 is final

In progress; added to 4.0?

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

UTC#

L2#

Who?

Action

Status

86-57

 

Lisa Moore

Reply to the Patriarch of Georgia on behalf of the UTC.

Closed