L2/03-356R2

Approved Minutes of the UTC 97 / L2 194 Joint Meeting
Baltimore, MD -- November 4 - 7, 2003
Hosted by Johns Hopkins University
February 5, 2004

November, 4, 2003

Number of members in good standing as of this meeting: 15, number of members in regular attendance: 13, Quorum: 7.

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; RLG; SAP (by proxy); Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Oracle Corporation; Pakistan, NLA; Peoplesoft.

NOT IN REGULAR ATTENDANCE: India, MIT; Pakistan, NLA

Minutes Approval (A5.1)

[97-C1] Consensus: Approve the minutes of the meeting UTC 96/L2 193 as documented in L2/03-240R3.

Action Item Review (A.5.2)

Calendar Review  (A6)

UTC 98/L2 195 - February 2-5, 2004,Mountain View, host Microsoft
UTC 99/L2 196 - June 15-18, 2004, Toronto, host IBM
UTC 100/L2 197 - August 17-20, 2004, Redmond, host Microsoft
UTC 101/L2 198 - November 15-18, 2004, Cupertino, host Apple, Annual Members Mtg
Calendar details posted at www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html

Public Review Issue 15 - Changing general category of Braille Patterns to Lo (B.11.3)

[97-C2] Consensus: The UTC will not change the general category of Braille pattern symbols to LO (Letter Other) as suggested in Public Review Issue #15. [L2/03-335,L2/03-389]

[97-C3] Consensus: Change the bidi property of the Braille symbols from ON to L (OtherNeutralto strong Left-to-right) in 4.0.1. [L2/03-335,L2/03-389]

[97-A2] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #15, noting both the unchanged general category and the changed bidi category of the Braille pattern symbols. [L2/03-335,L2/03-389]

[97-A3] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update Unicode Data to reflect the change of Braille pattern symbols bidi property from ON to L in 4.0.1. [L2/03-335,L2/03-389]

[97-A4] Action Item for Mark Davis: Update derived properties file, reflecting change of Braille pattern symbols bidi property from OtherNeutral to strong Left to right in 4.0.1. [L2/03-335,L2/03-389]

[97-A5] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update UCD.html, reflecting the change of Braille pattern symbols bidi property from ON to L in 4.0.1. [L2/03-335,L2/03-389]

Public Review Issue 15 - Collation ramifications (B.11.3.1)

[97-A6] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Explain in an FAQ the use of Braille and other symbols in searching and in sorting, and distinguish the two. [L2/03-335,L2/03-389]

Public Review Issue 16 - Update to UAX#29 Text Boundaries (B.11.4)

[97-C4] Consensus: Include some minor editing to take into account public feedback on Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and include in the 4.0.1 edition. [L2/03-389]

[97-A7] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries with feedback received during the review period and as discussed in the meeting and post the update for 4.0.1. [L2/03-389]

[97-A8] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #16: Update to Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and post the resolution as in consensus 97-C4. [L2/03-389]

Public Review Issue 17 - Change status of UTR#18 Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines to UTS (B.11.5)

[97-A9] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #17 for Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines. [L2/03-389]

[97-A9a] Action Item for Editorial Committee: Change the status of Unicode Technical Report #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines to Unicode Technical Standard #18: Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines and post. [L2/03-389]

Public Review Issue 18 - Review of DUTR#23 The Unicode Character Property Model (B.11.6)

[97-A10] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #18 for Draft Unicode Technical Report #23: The Unicode Character Property Model.[L2/03-389]

Public Review Issue 19 - Review of DUTR#30 Character Foldings (B.11.7)

[97-A11] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings  to add a description of what syllabic folding is, but not necessarily add syllabic folding tables. [L2/03-389]

[97-A12] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #19 for Draft Unicode Technical Report #30:Character Foldings . [L2/03-389]

WG2 - Consent Docket (B.1.3)

[97-C5] Consensus: Accept the codepoint changes given in 1 a, b, c, d, and e of the WG2 consent docket, L2/03-397. Also see L2/03-320,L2/03-380.

[97-C6] Consensus: Accept the name changes given in 2 a, b, c, d of the WG2 consent docket, L2/03-397.

[97-C7] Consensus: Accept the name change and codepoint movement of U+2E0E FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION to U+205B FOUR DOT MARK. [L2/03-397]

[97-A13] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Get more information on U+205D TRICOLON to see if it should be unified with U+2AF6 TRIPLE COLON OPERATOR.

[97-C8] Consensus: Accept the TLG Greek characters in 4 a, d, e, and n of document L2/03-397, for encoding as follows:

U+03FD REVERSED GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL
U+03FE DOTTED GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL
U+03FF REVERSED DOTTED GREEK CAPITAL LUNATE SIGMA SYMBOL
U+1DC0 COMBINING DOTTED GRAVE ACCENT
U+1DC1 COMBINING DOTTED ACUTE ACCENT
U+205D TRICOLON
U+2E0E EDITORIAL CORONIS
U+2E0F PARAGRAPHOS
U+2E10 FORKED PARAGRAPHOS
U+2E11 REVERSED FORKED PARAGRAPHOS
U+2E12 HYPODIASTOLE
U+2E13 DOTTED OBELOS
U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
U+2E15 UPWARDS ANCORA
U+2E16 DOTTED RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE

[97-A14] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Investigate possible unification of U+2E13 DOTTED OBELOS and U+2052 COMMERCIAL MINUS SIGN. [L2/03-397]

[97-C9] Consensus: Accept U+060B AFGHANI SIGN Sign for encoding. [L2/03-330,L2/03-397]

[97-A15] Action Item for Michael Everson, Editorial Committee: Document in Unicode 4.1 the range of variation in glyphs for U+060B AFGHANI SIGN. [L2/03-330]

[97-C10] Consensus: Accept U+1D79 LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G for encoding. [L2/03-331,L2/03-397]

[97-A16] Action Item for Michael Everson: Write a technical note on phonetic notation, including U+1D79 LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G and related IPA & Latin characters. [L2/03-331]

[97-C11] Consensus: Accept the gender symbols, circles, and genealogical symbols in 4 h, i, j of document L2/03-397 for encoding (see also L2/03-364):

U+26A2 DOUBLED FEMALE SIGN
U+26A3 DOUBLED MALE SIGN
U+26A4 INTERLOCKED FEMALE AND MALE SIGN
U+26A5 MALE AND FEMALE SIGN
U+26A6 MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26A7 MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN
U+26A8 VERTICAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26A9 HORIZONTAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26AA MEDIUM WHITE CIRCLE
U+26AB MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE
U+26AC MEDIUM SMALL WHITE CIRCLE
U+26AD MARRIAGE SYMBOL
U+26AE DIVORCE SYMBOL
U+26AF UNMARRIED PARTNERSHIP SYMBOL
U+26B0 COFFIN
U+26B1 FUNERAL URN

[97-C12] Consensus: Accept the U+2E0D RAISED SMALL DIAGONAL LOWER LEFT TO UPPER RIGHT from section 4 m of the WG2 consent docket, document L2/03-397 (see also L2/03-379).

[97-C13] Consensus: Accept the U+2CBC COPTIC SYMBOL KHI RO for encoding, as in section 4 l of the WG2 consent docket, document L2/03-397 (see also L2/03-327).

[97-C14] Consensus: Accept U+2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN for encoding, as in section 4 o of the WG2 consent docket, document L2/03-397 (see also L2/03-329,L2/03-338).

[97-A17] Action Item for Michael Everson: Write a technical note on U+2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN. [L2/03-329,L2/03-338]

[97-C15] Consensus: Accept the four dots symbol, dictionary symbols, and  half square forms in section 4 f, g, k of document L2/03-397  for encoding:

U+205E VERTICAL FOUR DOTS
U+2692 HAMMER AND CHISEL
U+2693 ANCHOR
U+2694 CROSSED SWORDS
U+2695 ROD OF AESCLEPIUS
U+2696 SCALES
U+2697 ALEMBIC
U+2698 FLOWER
U+2699 GEAR
U+269A STAFF OF HERMES
U+2B12 SQUARE WITH TOP HALF BLACK
U+2B13 SQUARE WITH BOTTOM HALF BLACK

[97-A18] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Research the name of the tool that's pictured in the glyph for U+2692 HAMMER AND CHISEL. [L2/03-397]

[97-C16] Consensus: Accept the 80 Tai Lue characters at U+1980..U+19DF as in L2/03-397 section 6 a, with block name "Tai Lue".

[97-A19] Action Item for Cathy Wissink: Get feedback from Peter Constable about Tai Lue names (Tai Le, Tai Lue versus "Xishuang BannaDai", and *Old* Xishuang Banna Dai).

[97-C17] Consensus: Create a new block "Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement" at U+1DC0..U+1DFF for combining diacritical marks, as in document L2/03-397, sections 7 a, b.

[97-C18] Consensus: Change the block boundaries for Coptic to U+2C80..U+2CCF and Phags-pa to U+A840..U+A87F, see section 8 of L2/03-397.

[97-C19] Consensus: Accept the changes in variation sequences for Phags-Pagiven in section 8 of L2/03-397:

<AB9B, FE00> ==> <A85B, FE00>
<ABA0, FE00> ==> <A860, FE00>
<ABA4, FE00> ==> <A864, FE00>
<AB9E, FE00> ==> <A85E, FE00>

[97-A20] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to reflect changes reflected in consensus 97-C5 through 97-C19, from WG2 consent docket  L2/03-397.

November 5, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; RLG; SAP (by proxy); Sun Microsystems; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Oracle Corporation; Pakistan, NLA; Peoplesoft.

Public Review Issue 20 - Review of PDUTR#31 Identifier and Pattern Syntax (B.11.8)

[97-A21] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to the submitter on the comment about U+1361 ETHIOPIC WORDSPACE in L2/03-389, (Public Review Issue  #20).

Public Review Issue 21 - General Category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (B.11.9)

The following motion was assumed to pass during the meeting, but later was determined to have failed do to the requirement for a super-majority. The associated action items were therefore invalid.

[97-M1] Motion: Change the general category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE from Zs to Cf in Unicode version 4.0.1. [L2/03-389]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Benson Margulies

6 For (Adobe, Apple, Basis, IBM, RLG, Sybase)
0 Against
5 Abstain (HP, MS, JS, Sun, SAP)

Motion 97-M1 fails as a super-majority is required

Action Items 97-A22, 97-A23,97-A24 are invalid, due to failure of 97-M1.

[97-A22] [Invalid] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue  #21, general category of U+200B, as per motion 97-M1. [L2/03-389]

[97-A23] [Invalid] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Update the data files for 4.0.1, changing the general category of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE from Zs to Cf. [L2/03-389]

[97-A24] [Invalid] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Add text on the general category change of U+200B from Zs to Cf, in Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/03-389]

Public Review Issue 23 - Terminal Punctuation Characters (B.11.23)

[97-A25] Action Item for Benson Margulies: Review the text of Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries for clarity.

[97-C20] Consensus: Change "Sentence Terminal" to "STerm" in the Unicode Character Database, Proplist.txt and PropertyAliases.txt. Add explanatory text on necessary tailorings to Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries and update UCD.html as per discussion at the meeting, for Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/03-389]

[97-A26] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Change the property "Sentence Terminal" to "STerm" in UCD.html, Proplist.txt and PropertyAliases.txt and update explanatory text on necessary tailorings in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries. Update UCD.html as per discussion at the meeting. [L2/03-389]

[97-A27] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #23, as per consensus 97-C20.

[97-A28] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to Daniel Yacob on his Ethiopic comments on Public Review Issue #23, on terminal punctuation characters. [L2/03-389]

Public Review Issue Issue 22 - Collation mechanism for syllabic scripts (B.11.10)

[97-A29] Action Item for Mark Davis, Cathy Wissink, Editorial Committee: Incorporate the collation mechanism for syllabic scripts from Public Review Issue #22 and create a proposed update to the Unicode Technical Standard #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm. [L2/03-389]

[97-A30] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #22 on a collation mechanism for syllabic scripts, with the resolution as in action 97-A29.[L2/03-389]

Public Review Issue 9: Bengali Reph and Ya-Phalaa (B.11.1)

[97-M2] Motion: Use the representation of Reph and Yaphalaa as in document L2/03-394 as the way to resolve the ambiguity between the processing of combinations of Ra and Ya in Bengali. [L2/03-388,L2/03-389,L2/03-394]

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Cathy Wissink

6 For (Basis, HP, IBM, MS, RLG, Sybase)
0 Against
5 Abstain (Adobe, Apple, Justsystem, SAP, Sun)

Motion 97-M2 carries

[97-A31] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Update the Indic FAQ and add the clarification from document L2/03-394 to Unicode 4.0.1.

[97-A32] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #9 (on Reph and Yaphalaa), with resolution as in motion 97-M2.

Properties - Ethiopic (B.15.2)

[97-A33] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Draft Public Review Issues on the correct numeric type of Ethiopic numbers and Tamil numbers. [L2/03-279,L2/03-298]

[97-A34] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the public review issues for Ethiopic numbers and Tamil numbers for review after receiving text from Mark Davis. [L2/03-279,L2/03-298]

[97-A35] Action Item for Mark Davis: Respond to Daniel Yacob on Ethiopic properties, see documents L2/03-279 and L2/03-298.

Properties - Combining Grapheme Joiner (B.15.5)

[97-A36] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update document L2/03-403 on combining grapheme joiner to reflect that this is a mechanism that should be used in specific circumstances and incorporate other comments made during the meeting.

 Han Ideographs - Variation Selectors and Variation Collection Identifiers (B.16.9) 

[97-M3] Motion: The UTC supports the development of policies and procedures for the registration of Han variation selection sequences using variation selectors from Plane14. [L2/03-413]

Moved by Mark Davis, seconded by Eric Muller

9 For (Adobe, Apple, Basis, HP, IBM, Justsystem, RLG, Sun, Sybase)
1 Against (Microsoft)
1 Abstain (SAP)

Motion 97-M3 carries

[97-A37] Action Item for Eric Muller, Hideki Hiura: Form a group to develop the policies and procedures for a registration process for Han Variation Selectors. See motion 97-M3.

Han Ideographs - Chinese character description language (CDL) (B.16.3)

[97-A38] Action Item for John Jenkins: Ask that a demo and overview of CDL gets onto the IRG agenda for the December meeting. Ask the IRG to examine it and encourage their support [L2/03-387;L2/03-404]

[97-A39] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Discuss with Richard Cook that if he wishes to post L2/03-404 and L2/03-420 as a technical note, to please address the intellectual property and naming implications.

Han Ideographs - Status of the ideographic description sequences for Extension B (B.16.8)

[97-A40] Action Item for Deborah Goldsmith, John Jenkins: Ask Cora to generate CDL descriptors for the characters for Extension B, starting with the ones not currently available from Richard Cook. [L2/03-405]

[97-A41] Action Item for John Jenkins: Turn the CDL descriptors for Extension B into a set of IDS descriptors for IRG use, as soon as can be done. [L2/03-405]

November 6, 2003

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; RLG; Sun Microsystems; SAP; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Oracle Corporation; Pakistan, NLA; Peoplesoft.

Properties - Line breaking property exceptions and East Asian Width changes (B.15.3, B.15.4)

[97-C21] Consensus: Decouple East Asian Width properties from from Linebreak properites. [L2/03-419]

[97-A42] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Put in a disclaimer that Unicode Standard Annex #11: East Asian Width does not conform to modern layout practice, for Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/03-419]

Properties - Base Character (B.15.6)

[97-C22] Consensus: The UTC wishes to delay the introduction of the "Base Character" property until after Unicode 4.0.1, so that it can be discussed more thoroughly.

Properties - Boundary Neutral (B.15.7)

[97-C23] Consensus: Change the bidi class for Interlinear Annotation Characters from Boundary Neutral to Other Neutral in Unicode 4.0.1. [L2/03-418]

[97-A43] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Make the required changes in the data files UnicodeData.txt and derived files to reflect consensus 97-C23 (change the bidi class for Interlinear Annotation Characters from Boundary Neutral to Other Neutral) in 4.0.1. [L2/03-418]

[97-A44] Action Item for Mark Davis: Draft a Public Review Issue discussing a possible disposition of characters that are default-ignorable (DICP) but not boundary-neutral (BN). See consensus 97-C23.

[97-A45] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on default-ignorable code points that are not boundary neutral (drafted by Mark Davis). 97-A44

WG2 - Consent docket (B.1.3)

[97-C24] Consensus: Accept the names for the characters in the Ancient Greek Numbers block, as given in documents L2/03-380,L2/03-397.

Properties - Line breaking property (B.15.3)

[97-C25] Consensus: Make the changes to Uniclde Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties documented in sections 2.a, 2.b.1, L2/03-419, with the exception that section 2.a.3 only updates EAW for 24C0..24CF. Add a rule 19b that prevents breaks betwen numeric punctuation and letters; and in section 2.b.7, change the linebreak class from AI to AL for the letters (only) in the range of Latin 1 to Cyrillic 0020 - 04FF, for Unicode 4.0.1.

[97-A46] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Update the Linebreak and East Asian Width data files, for Unicode 4.0.1, to reflect consensus 97-C25.

[97-A47] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Update the text of Uniclde Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties adding rule 19b and data lists reflecting consensus 97-C25, and data lists, for Unicode 4.0.1.

Technical Reports - Character Properties (B.12.3.1)

[97-A48] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Create a new internal draft of Draft Unicode Technical Report #23: Character Properties decribing immutable, fixed, and limited properties. [L2/03-401]

Technical Reports - Character Foldings (B.12.4)

[97-A49] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Create a new internal draft of Draft Unicode Technical Report #30: Character Foldings. Add the concept of filtering and the concept of syllabic folding.

[97-A50] Action Item for Mark Davis: See if ICU can supply some of the folding tables for Draft Unicode Technical Report #30:Character Foldings.

Technical Reports - Identifier and Pattern Syntax (B.12.5)

[97-C26] Consensus: UTC re-affirms its committment to not allocate characters suitable suitable for identifiers in the range 2190..2BFF. (See also action 89-67.) [L2/03-341]

[97-A51] Action Item for Mark Davis: Prepare and post a draft update of Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax for public review, incorporating feedback received.

 Technical Reports -Assessing Unicode  (B.12.7)

[97-A52] Action Item for Michael Kaplan: Get suggested edits for working draft Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #32: Assessing Unicode to Mark Davis. [L2/03-196]

 Proposal to add a header to UnicodeData.txt (B.20)

[97-A53] Action Item for Asmus Freytag: Come up with suggested improvements in the documentation of file formats (post Unicode 4.0.1), with regard to the proposal to add a header to UnicodeData.txt.

Proposal for making Property Aliases machine readable (B.23)

[97-A54] Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Discuss the problems brought up in L2/03-310.

Han Ideographs - Unihan updates (B.16.6)

[97-A55] Action Item for John Jenkins: Incorporate the data references in L2/03-285 and L2/03-288 into a future version of the UCD. [L2/03-398;L2/03-399]

[97-A56] Action Item for Richard Cook: Make a proposal for encoding the 31 characters mentioned in L2/03-288.

PRESENT: Adobe Systems, Inc.; Apple Computer; Basis Technology; Hewlett Packard; IBM Corporation; Justsystem Corp (by proxy); Microsoft Corporation; RLG; Sun Microsystems; SAP; Sybase, Inc.

NOT PRESENT: India, MIT; Oracle Corporation; Pakistan, NLA; Peoplesoft.

Technical Reports - Bidirectional Algorithm (B.12.6.3)

The following motion was assumed to pass during the meeting, but later was determined to have failed do to the requirement for a super-majority. The associated action items were therefore invalid.

[97-M4] Motion: Change the first bullet in section 4.3 of L2/03-396 (Unicode Standard Annex #9: Bidirectional Alogorithm) to allow only 2b, 2d, and 2f, and to change the bidi properties of U+002B, U+002D, and U+002F, to ES, ES, CS respectively in the data file in the Unicode 4.0.1 timeframe.

Moved by Ken Whistler, seconded by Michel Suignard

7 For (Apple, Adobe, Basis, HP, Microsoft, RLG, Sybase)
0 Against
4 Abstain ( IBM, Justsystem, SAP, Sun)

 Motion 97-M4 fails as a super-majority is required

[97-A57] [Invalid] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Fix and post the texts of Unicode Standard Annex #9: Bidirectional Alogorithm as per discussion in the meeting, for Unicode 4.0.1.

[97-A58] [Invalid] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Mark Davis: Update the data files to change the bidi properties of U+002B, U+002D, and U+002F, to ES, ES, CS respectively.

[97-A59] [Invalid] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Issue a notification immediately regarding the above motion 97-M4. Include the bidi list.

[97-A60] [Invalid] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the data files to change the bidi properties of U+002B, U+002D, and U+002F, to ES, ES, CS respectively.

[97-C27] Consensus: Remove the current inconsistency in bidi properties by changing the parenthesized and circled numbers to be uniformly general category "ON" (other neutral). Codepoints are U+2460..U+2487 and U+24EA; "EN" goes to "ON".

 Unicode 4.0.1, beta approval (B.13.1)

[97-C28] Consensus: Approve Unicode 4.0.1 for publication to be issued before the February, 2004 UTC meeting.

[97-A61] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Issue 4.0.1 before February, 2004 UTC meeting.

Han Ideographs - Basic International CJK Subset (B.16.4)

[97-C29] Consensus: UTC would like to see the Basic International CJK subset completed as an outcome of IRG Meeting #22. Our IRG representatives should ask the IRG to use the modified proposal in L2/03-407 as the basis for this subset. 

[97-A62] Action Item for Eric Muller, Ken Lunde: Update L2/03-407 and send to Rick for posting, and to John for his use at the IRG meeting.

Scripts and New Characters - Additional Mathematical Characters (B.14.12 )

[97-A63] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add L2/03-410 to the agenda for next UTC meeting.

Scripts and New Characters - Six HKSCS characters (B.14.2)

[97-A64] Action Item for Eric Muller: Communicate with the government of Hong Kong regarding L2/03-423, that the first four characters can already be represented in Unicode and request more evidence of usageof the two circuit symbol characters. We believe the first should be called "ground symbol".

Scripts and New Characters - Phonetic symbols used in dictionaries (B.14.15) 

[97-A65] Action Item for Action Item for Asmus Freytag, Editorial Committee: Document how to represent phonetic symbols used in dictionaries in a technical note and FAQ, using information from L2/03-359.

[97-C30] Consensus: Move the encoding location of LATIN SMALL LETTER TH WITH STRIKETHROUGH from U+0238 to U+1D7A, because it is more appropriate to encode with other phonetic extensions. [L2/03-359]

[97-A66] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Include in ballot comments the above consensus 97-C30 (moving LATIN SMALL LETTER TH WITH STRIKETHROUGH from U+0238 to U+1D7A). [L2/03-359]

Base character definition  (B.21)

[97-C31] Consensus: Accept the definitions of Graphic, Base, and Combining character(s) as given in L2/03-041R2, as modified during discussion in the meeting,for Unicode 4.0.1.

[97-A67] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Incorporate the new definitions of Graphic, Base, and Combining character(s) from L2/03-041R2 into Unicode 4.0.1.

[97-C32] Consensus: Retract the UTC decision to define a base character property (motion 95-M5).(Note: this is also related to 97-A68,95-A96, and 97-C22.)

[97-A68] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close the action items 95-A95 and 95-A96 for Mark Davis to add a base character property).

Named composite entities (B.22)

[97-C33] Consensus: Update the list in L2/03-400 by adding the four accented Hong Kong characters to the repertoire of named composite entities, and prepare a list to be published in Unicode 4.0.2.

[97-A69] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the list in L2/03-400 by adding the four accented Hong Kong characters to the repertoire of named composite entities, and prepare a list to be published in Unicode 4.0.2.

[97-A70] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Request "Phags-pa character names" and any other unused agenda items from meeting 97 for the next meeting.