L2/03-242R2

Action Items of the UTC 96 / L2 193 Joint Meeting
Pleasanton, CA -- August 25 - 28, 2003
October 21, 2003
UTC #   Who? Action Status
96-A1 Mark Davis Put the letter to DIN concerning sharp-s in the document registry, with an English summary, and forward to WG20. Reference action item 95-A35.  
96-A2 Rick McGowan Contact Maria Pantelia about her open action items.  
96-A3 Jonathan Kew Update all of the recent proposals so that the documents are printable (new chars don't print).  
96-A4 Michael Kaplan Review Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #32: Assessing Unicode Support before it is posted for public review.  
96-A5 Rick McGowan Determine the line breaking properties for Saurashtra. Also look at other property aliases, word-break properties, etc. in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries. Punctuation characters are particularly crucial..  
96-A6 Michael Everson Send a Glagolitic font to Asmus Freytag for publishing the standard.  
96-A7 Hideki Hiura Report to the IRG that the Unicode Standard has corrected a glyph error at code point U+3D0A. See 94-A44  
96-A8 Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee In 4.0.1, resolve Public Review Issue #10: Interlinear Annotation Characters by not changing the general category, but by making them non-default-ignorable, using an exclusion list.  
96-A9 Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee Add an erratum that not all characters with dotted-box glyphs have the general category Cf.  
96-A10 Mark Davis Add list of soft-dotted characters from Public Review Issue #11: Soft-dotted Property, as modified by consensus 96-C4 to Proplist.txt and give to Ken Whistler for inclusion in 4.0.1. [L2/03-248]  
96-A11 Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee Document the behavior of "ij" "fi" and "ffi" ligatures with accents in a FAQ. Reference 96-C4 96-A10. [L2/03-248]  
96-A12 Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee Document the behavior of "ij" "fi" and "ffi" ligatures with accents in an appropriate future version of the standard. Reference 96-C4. [L2/03-248]  
96-A13 Mark Davis Add the following characters from consensus 96-C5 to Terminal Punctuation and post to Ken Whistler for inclusion in 4.0.1: [L2/03-267]

U+05C3 HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ
U+0F08 TIBETAN MARK SBRUL SHAD
U+0F0D TIBETAN MARK SHAD
U+0F0E TIBETAN MARK NYIS SHAD
U+0F0F TIBETAN MARK TSHEG SHAD
U+0F10 TIBETAN MARK NYIS TSHEG SHAD
U+0F11 TIBETAN MARK RIN CHEN SPUNGS SHAD
U+0F12 TIBETAN MARK RGYA GRAM SHAD

  
96-A14 Mark Davis, Editorial Committee Prepare a document to issue for public review of the consensus 96-C6 (a mechanism for algorithmically terminating clusters for the purpose of collation of certain scripts).  
96-A15 Mark Davis Prepare a response to Kent Karlsson regarding documents L2/03-221,L2/03-222on collation, to be a contribution for the October meeting of WG20.  
96-A16 Mark Davis Respond to the Hebrew issues raised in L2/03-263 and L2/03-280.  
96-A17 Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee Draft a Public Review Issue that includes request for information about the Braille processing model (we are considering changing the general category of the Braille characters to be "Letter other" rather than "Symbol other", ref 96-C7).  
96-A18 Mark Davis Reply to Kent Karlsson regarding his comments on collation in document L2/03-281.  
96-A19 Mark Davis, Editorial Committee Update the text of Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm including the Default Unicode Collation Element Table draft 5, based on discussion in the meeting, and post document and data tables as Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm. [L2/03-177]  
96-A20 Mark Davis Let Kent Karlsson know that the proposed category change to ZWJZWNJ in L2/03-276 would destabilize most implementations that use these characters, especially bidi.  
96-A21 Mark Davis Update the base character definitions in L2/03-041R to reflect motion 96-M2 and re-submit.  
96-A22 Ken Whistler, Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee Change the annotation in the bullet under U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE and post an erratum, as in consensus 96-C9, for consistency with section 15.2 layout controls. [L2/03-139]  
96-A23 Mark Davis Prepare the Public Review document for consensus 96-C10 to change the general category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE to Cf and give to Rick McGowan for posting. [L2/03-139]  
96-A24 UTC Members Send feedback on the merged document L2/03-061 before the WG2 meeting in October 2003.  
96-A25 Rick McGowan Check with Maria Pantelia on her action items. Ask about updated Greek Musical symbols based on WG2 feedback. Reference WG2-AI-43-7,. UTC/L2 AI 95-A38.  
96-A26 Michel Suignard Send merged data files of L2/03-061 to Rick McGowan for posting to the L2 document register.  
96-A27 Eric Muller, Michel Suignard, Asmus Freytag Propose an update the WG2 font policy and submit.  
96-A28 V.S. Umamaheswaran Send to Rick McGowan the WG2 feedback on Kharoshthi script.  
96-A29 Rick McGowan Work with the authors of L2/02-203R2 Kharoshthi to update the proposal based on WG2 feedback, and resubmit for the October 2003, WG2 meeting.  
96-A30 Rick McGowan Review WG2 meeting minutes L2/03-296 and look for items to review with the authors of the various UTC proposals.  
96-A31 Rick McGowan Ask Cora to check the set of 107 DPRK compatibility characters in WG2 documents N2572, N2573.  
96-A32 Cathy Wissink, Michel Suignard Write a response to the Chinese proposal on Tibetan in WG2 document N2558. Respond to WG2 as an L2/UTC position.  
96-A33 V.S. Umamaheswaran Draft an added paragraph in the WG2 Principles and Procedures document to request contact information from the authors of proposals. Add information on how reviewers can follow the progress of their proposals. [L2/03-226]  
96-A34 V.S. Umamaheswaran Add naming guidelines for submissions to the WG2 Principles and Procedures document. Also add a description of levels 1, 2, and 3. [L2/03-226]  
96-A35 John Jenkins, Editorial Committee Synchronize Unihan.txt with the10646:2003 data file, as per consensus 96-C12.  [L2/03-061]  
96-A36 Eric Muller, Editorial Committee Create a corrections file if substantive differences are found between Unihan.txt and the 10646:2003 data file, also for the 3.0 -> 3.1 versions, etc. [L2/03-061]  
96-A37 Mark Davis, Asmus Freytag Prepare a working draft of a proposed draft UTR defining named sequences of character codes. Reference 96-M3. [L2/03-204]  
96-A38 Ken Whistler Draft an initial list of known named sequences of character codes. Reference 96-M3. [L2/03-204]  
96-A39 Mike Ksar Respond to Sato-san regarding UTC actions on named sequences of character codes L2/03-204. Reference 96-M3, 96-A37,96-A38.  
96-A40 V.S. Umamaheswaran Review the list of characters in Annex F for any missing format characters, such as U+0603, see 94-A34   
96-A41 Joan Aliprand Communicate the text of motion 96-M4 on ISO charging fees for commercial use of standards to NISO.  
96-A42 Cathy Wissink Communicate the text of motion 96-M4 on ISO charging fees for commercial use of standards to INCITS and TC 37.  
96-A43 Rick McGowan Communicate the text of motion 96-M4 on ISO charging fees for commercial use of standards to our liaison organizations, including IETF.  
96-A44 Cathy Wissink Communicate the text of motion 96-M5 on reassigning the cs country code to the maintenance authority and INCITS.  
96-A45 Rick McGowan Communicate the text of motion 96-M5 on reassigning the cs country code to our liaison organizations, including IETF and Unicode members. In the message say that we urge members to contact their national bodies in other countries, especially in the most-affected countries.  
96-A46 Cathy Wissink Communicate the text of motion 96-M5 on reassigning the cs country code to INCITS and TC 37  
96-A47 Lisa Moore Post the resolution in consensus 96-C14 as an L2 document and forward to Mike Ksar for posting as a WG2 document in time for the October 2003 WG2 meeting. [L2/02-441]  
96-A48 Rick McGowan Change the Public Review Issue notice to extend the beta review for 4.0.1 to October 27, 2003, update the beta pages, and make an announcement to notifications list.  
96-A49 Rick McGowan Create a FAQ based on John Cowan's document L2/03-271 on hexadecimal digit values.  
96-A50 Lisa Moore Add review of "W3C Character Model" to the agenda for next UTC meeting.  
96-A51 Lisa Moore, Cathy Wissink Establish guidelines for internet connection capability for UTCs. (The committee informally favored having at least http connectivity during meetings.)  
96-A52 Paul Nelson Produce an updated document on Reph and Ya-phalaa for the next UTC meeting. Update the public review issue. Extend it and add more information about this versus the other approaches. Post for consensus-building in the community. Issue to close on Oct 27, 2003. [L2/03-248, L2/03-264, L2/03-233]  
96-A53 Rick McGowan As a standing action, explicitly forward web reporting forms on Public Review Issues to the authors of the documents that are put up for public review.  
96-A54 Lisa Moore Update the UTC Procedures with the process of reporting web feedback to public review issue authors. Reference 96-A53.  
96-A55 Mark Davis, Editorial Committee Incorporate some of Kent Karlsson's suggestions in document L2/03-203 into the appropriate text in the Unicode Standard or Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms for a future version of the Unicode Standard.   
96-A56 Mark Davis, Michel Suignard, Editorial Committee Improve the conformance statement in Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm so that it is referencable by ISO 10646 and other standards, and create a proposed update for which the public review will close October 27, 2003. [L2/03-284]  
96-A57 Rick McGowan Post the proposed update to Unicode Standard Annex #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm as a Public Review Issue to close October 27, 2003. [L2/03-284]  
96-A58 Rick McGowan Look at all of the Unicode Technical Reports, Standard Annexes, and Technical Standards that are in draft form (PDUTR, DUTR, or proposed update) and add them to the Public Review Issues, to close October 27, 2003.  
96-A59 Mark Davis, Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee Update the sample conformance clause of  Unicode Standard Annes and Technical Standard found in document L2/03-284. Reference 96-C16.  
96-A60 Mark Davis, Editorial Committee Make the corrections to the proposed update of Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and post the result as an approved Unicode Standard Annex, as part of Unicode 4.0.1, when the UCD data file is ready as well.  
96-A61 Rick McGowan Update the draft 4.0.1 pages to include Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries as part of the update release.  
96-A62 Mark Davis See where the text of Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions can be improved in response to L2/03-290 and make the updates. [L2/03-179,L2/03-304]  
96-A63 Mark Davis, Editorial Committee Amend Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions as discussed in committee and post as Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expressions. [L2/03-179, L2/03-290, L2/03-304]  
96-A64 Lisa Moore Add Ethiopic Properties to the agenda for the November UTC. [L2/03-279, L2/03-298]  
96-A65 Mark Davis Respond to Daniel Yacob regarding Ethiopic properties. [L2/03-279, L2/03-298]  
96-A66 Mark Davis, Editorial Committee Incorporate feedback and prepare an update of Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax, and post for public review, to close on Oct 27. [L2/03-275, L2/03-302, L2/03-303]  
96-A67 Rick McGowan Add a new Public Review Issue for Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax to focus on the new parts of the TR that should be reviewed. Issue to close on October 27, 2003. Reference [96-A66].  
96-A68 Mark Davis Respond to Peter Kirk regarding his feedback on Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax. [L2/03-275]  
96-A69 Eric Muller Come back with a proposed list of variation sequences needed to distinguish the compatibility ideographs for the next UTC meeting in November, 2003. [L2/03-294]  
96-A70 Asmus Freytag The Unicode liaison to WG2 is instructed to support the 107 DPRK compatibility ideographs, assuming they are vetted and stable. Reference 96-A31, L2/02-471, L2/02-472.  
96-A71 Richard Cook Work with Ken Whistler, Mike Ksar, Michel Suignard, Rick McGowan, and Tatsuo Kobayashi, on a proposal for WG2 on Han variant issues raised in document L2/03-286.  
96-A72 Ken Whistler Draft language for consensus 96-C20 (on the effect of combining grapheme joiner to prevent canonical re-ordering of combining marks during normalization) for inclusion into Unicode 4.0.1 and create a FAQ describing this effect as well. [ L2/03-235, L2/03-236, L2/03-234]  
96-A73 Joan Aliprand, Sandra Martin O'Donnell Identify key comments in L2/03-250, and back out the DTR comment.  
96-A74 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to change the name of U+267F from HANDICAPPED SIGN to WHEELCHAIR SYMBOL. [L2/03-214]  
96-A75 Rick McGowan Verify that WG2 has the latest proposal for U+267F with the mane WHEELCHAIR SYMBOL. [L2/03-214]  
96-A76 Rick McGowan Supply to Michael Kaplan the character properties for U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA by September 5, so that L2/03-273 can be updated to include property assignments.  
96-A77 Michael Kaplan Work with the authors to update document L2/03-273 proposing U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA to remove the reference to "Grantha" in the document title.  
96-A78 Michael Kaplan Get permission from Peri Bhaskararao to include his paper L2/03-278 in the revision of L2/03-273 to be posted as a WG2 document.  
96-A79 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to include U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA. [L2/03-273]  
96-A80 Michael Kaplan Forward to WG2 (Mike Ksar) the revised document L2/03-273 proposing U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA as a contribution from UTC and INFITT in time for the October, 2003, WG2 meeting.  
96-A81 Michael Kaplan Send an updated Tamil font to Asmus Freytag which includes U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA. [L2/03-273]
96-A82 Joan Aliprand Write a response to L2/03-215, to engage in a discussion to determine if they need 2-way or 3-way distinction. Send response to Mike Ksar for posting as a WG2 document in time for the October, 2003, meeting.  
96-A83 Cathy Wissink Follow up with Peter Constable and Michael Everson to get a font for eleven phonetic symbols with middle tilde. L2/03-174, motion 95-M2.  
96-A84 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to reflect the code assignments of 1D6C..1D76 for eleven phonetic symbols with middle tilde. Reference L2/03-174, motion 95-M2.  
96-A85 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to include the four bent arrow characters:. [L2/03-119R]
2B0E RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP DOWNWARDS
2B0F RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP UPWARDS
2B10 LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP DOWNWARDS
2B11 LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH TIP UPWARDS
  
96-A86 Rick McGowan Update the proposal L2/03-119R using new proposal summary form, providing glyphs, information about the source of the font, and answering other questions that may occur on the new form. Forward to Mike Ksar in time for the October, 2003, WG2 meeting.  
96-A87 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the 43 characters in the Georgian proposal at 2D00..2D25, 10F9..10FA, 10FC, 1D77..1D78, with new block Georgian Supplementary at 2D00..2D2F. [L2/03-230R]  
96-A88 Asmus Freytag Let Michael Everson know the two new code point assignments in the Georgian proposal (Turned G to be encoded at U+1D77, Cyrillic EN to be encoded at U+1D78). Reference L2/03-230R,96-C28.  
96-A89 Lisa Moore Inform the chair of GSDIT of the acceptance of the Georgian repertoire as documented in L2/03-230R and 96-C28.  
96-A90 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the Lithuanian proposal for U+035B COMBINING ZIGZAG ABOVE. [L2/03-219]  
96-A91 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of U+076A ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH BAR. [L2/03-228R]  
96-A92 Jonathan Kew Update L2/03-228R with the new name (ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH BAR) and forward to Mike Ksar for consideration by WG2 at the October, 2003, meeting.  
96-A93 Jonathan Kew Supply the font for U+076A ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH BAR in proposal L2/03-228R by September 30, 2003.  
96-A94 Rick McGowan Draft a WG2 document giving feedback on the Saurashtra proposal, stating that Saurasthra is not currently ready for encoding. Forward the document  to Mike Ksar in time for October, 2003, WG2 meeting. Send Peri Bhaskararao's feedback to WG2, after getting permission from him. [L2/03-231; L2/03-277, L2/03-245, L2/03-256]  
96-A95 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of the 52 characters in the Phags-pa script at U+AB80..U+ABB3. Reference 96-C31,96-C32,96-C33,L2/03-229R2.  
96-A96 Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee Extend the pipeline to include variation sequences.  
96-A97 Ken Whistler Include the four variation sequences from the Phags-pa script in the pipeline. Reference 96-C32,L2/03-229R2.  
96-A98 Rick McGowan Send Asmus Freytag a font for Phags-pa by September 15, 2003.  
96-A99 Rick McGowan Follow up with the proposer of Phags-pa to provide an alternate name for AB9A that does not have a leading hyphen and correct the names for ABB0, ABB1 by removing the first "mark". [L2/03-229R2]  
96-A100 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 94 Glagolitic characters plus 3 punctuation characters at U+2C00..U+2C5F and U+2056, U+2058, U+2059; with a new block Glagolitic at 2C00-2C5F. [L2/03-282]  
96-A101 Michael Everson Send Asmus Freytag a font for Glagolitic. [L2/03-282]  
96-A102 Rick McGowan Get line break properties for the three Glagolitic punctuation characters, including the description and narrative. [L2/03-282]  
96-A103 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 58 Coptic characters at U+2C80..U+2CBF, excluding the Chi-Rho symbol, and encoding Full Stop and Fraction One Half at U+2CBE and U+2CBF, with new block Coptic at 2C80..2CBF. [L2/03-283]  
96-A104 Rick McGowan Inform Michael Everson of the changes to the Coptic proposal L2/03-283 requested by the UTC in consensus 96-C34. Request that he send a Coptic font to Asmus Freytag by September 15, 2003.
96-A105 Rick McGowan Correct the symbol properties for Coptic in L2/03-283 and give to Michael Everson for inclusion in the updated Coptic proposal.  
96-A106 Eric Muller Ask Michael Everson for more examples of double-hyphen and let him know that the UTC recommends writing a separate proposal for encoding of double-hyphen. [L2/03-283]  
96-A107 Ken Whistler Update the pipeline to reflect acceptance of 50 Old Persian Characters at U+103A0..U+103D5, with new block Old Persian at 103A0..103DF, with property corrections noted in the meeting. [L2/03-097, L2/03-149]  
96-A108 Rick McGowan Correct the properties for Old Persian characters and forward the information to Michael Everson for inclusion in the updated proposal..[L2/03-097, L2/03-149]  
96-A109 Michael Everson Send Asmus Freytag a font for Old Persian by September 15, 2003. [L2/03-097, L2/03-149]

  
96-A110 Joan Aliprand Forward document L2/03-261 to Dr Seth Jerchower and get his feedback.

  
96-A111 Rick McGowan, Asmus Freytag Draft FAQs that address the Hebrew issues that are of generic interest, such as linguists' access and UTC policies, in document L2/03-261.  
96-A112 Lisa Moore Add Unihan updates (L2/03-285 and L2/03-288) to the agenda for next UTC meeting.

  
96-A113 John Jenkins Verify and incorporate the fixes to the errors in Unihan.txt documented in L2/03-287 and L2/03-301, plus others identified by Sept 30 into 4.0.1.  
96-A114 Eric Muller Ask Richard Cook to cross-check Super-CJK for the same errors. [L2/03-287, L2/03-301]  
96-A115 Eric Muller Communicate to Richard Cook the September 30, deadline for reporting errors to be fixed in Unihan.txt in 4.0.1.