INCITS/L2 Open Action Items

Open Action Items
after UTC #100, L2 #197

last modification: August 18, 2004

From UTC #99 and L2 #196, June 15 - 18, 2004, Toronto, Ontario (IBM)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
99-A4	Mark Davis	Add Other_ID_Continue property and document that Other_ID_Continue plus the derivation of ID_Continue.	In Progress
99-A7	Lisa Moore	Add Turkic Case Folding Exceptions to the agenda for the next UTC meeting, document L2/04-123.	Done
99-A9	Mark Davis	Give U+1D96, U+1DA4, U+1DA8 the soft dotted property, as in L2/04-144.	In Progress
99-A11	Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee	Post Public Review Issue on "directional run", in UAX #9 to close August 3, 2004.	Mv to EdC
99-A16	John Jenkins	Add the kIICore field to Unihan.txt for the next release. Mark it as provisional until the IICore collection becomes stable.
99-A16a	V S Umamaheswaran	Pursuant to the above consensus, request an update to the WG2 Principles and Procedures document that for these kinds of collections (IICore) stability must be guaranteed.
99-A19	V S Umamaheswaran	Forward document L2/04-212 to Mike Ksar for WG2 consideration.
99-A20	Cathy Wissink	Get more information on the correct ordering for U+0CBD from the author of L2/04-102.
99-A21	Lisa Moore	Schedule a 2-hour collation ad hoc for UTC 100.	Done
99-A27	Michael Everson, Eric Muller	Review the TDIL input for potential new character proposals.	In Progress
99-A29	Cathy Wissink	Determine the collation order of "Bengali Letter Khanda Ta".	In Progress
99-A39	Asmus Freytag	Advance draft UTR #23 to UTR #23 after incorporating the editorial feedback in PRI #32 (L2/04-251), update and post as UTR #23.	Done
99-A43	Asmus Freytag	UTC instructs the liaison to WG2 to not object to putting N'ko into PDAM 2 if WG2 so decides.	Done
99-A45	Michael Everson, Rick McGowan, Francois Yergeau	Respond to the government of Morocco.
99-A48	Ken Whistler	Respond to DIN with the UTC recommendation for distinction between umlaut and trema for sorting.	Done
99-A52	Peter Constable	Write a document on consistency of left and right-side conjunct forms in Indic scripts and request an agenda item for the August meeting.	Done
99-A58	Rick McGowan	Draft and post a public review issue discussing "Unicode has received a request to change general category of U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT and U+FF65 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT from Connector Punctuation to Other Punctuation and wishes to know if this is a significant improvement" from L2/04-152R section E.2.
99-A59	Lisa Moore	Put L2/04-152R section D onto the August agenda.

From UTC #98 and L2 #195, February 2 - 5, 2004, Mountain View, CA (Microsoft)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
98-A1	John Jenkins	Determine the frequency of usage of the supplementary Hong Kong characters.	In Progress
98-A2	John Jenkins	Ask Tom Bishop if he is willing to have CDL data used internally by the IRG. [L2/04-037]	In Progress
98-A8	John Jenkins	Add data on Cantonese pronunciation from Cheung and Bauer to Unihan.txt after the release of Unicode 4.0.1.	In Progress
98-A17	Steve Tinney, Rick McGowan	Document numeric and other properties for cuneiform. Take into account Ugaritic and Old Persian properties. Since this is the third cuneiform script coming into the standard, check to make sure there aren't gratuitous differences. [L2/03-036]	In progress
98-A20	Rick McGowan, Steve Tinney	Discuss "named sequences" listed as a possible appendix to the revised L2/04-036 document.	In progress
98-A21	Michael Kaplan, Editorial Committee	Add a section to the Indic FAQ on using Tamil digits.	In progress
98-A70	Asmus Freytag	Update proposal for the four math characters U+27C3 OPEN SUPERSET, U+27C4 OPEN SUBSET, U+27C5 LEFT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER, U+27C6 RIGHT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER using the latest proposal summary form and forward to WG2 for the June 2004 meeting.	In Progress
98-A84	Ken Whistler, Michel Suignard, Asmus Freytag, V S Umamaheswaran	Review L2/03-336 (alternate format characters) and draft UTC feedback before the next UTC meeting.	Moot
98-A85	Benson Margulies	Produce a proposal for a model for a characterization of multi-valued script properties. [L2/03-427, L2/04-043;L2/04-083]
98-A98	Rick McGowan	From WG2, send letter of appreciation to the people who contributed the ancient Greek proposals (Pantelia, Peevers, Nicholas).

From UTC #97 and L2 #194, November 4 - 7, 2003, Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins Univ)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
97-A16	Michael Everson	Write a tech note on phonetic notation (Insular G and related IPA & Latin characters).	In progress
97-A17	Michael Everson	Write a tech note on the double oblique hyphen.	In progress
97-A53	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.	Mv to EdC

From UTC #96 and L2 #193, August 25 - 27, 2003, Pleasanton, CA (PeopleSoft)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
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-A7	John Jenkins	Report to the IRG that the Unicode Standard has corrected a glyph error at code point U+3D0A. See 94-A44
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.	In Progress
96-A102	Rick McGowan	Get line break properties for the three Glagolitic punctuation characters, including the description and narrative. [L2/03-282]

From UTC #95 and L2 #192, June 10 - 13, 2003, San Jose, CA (Adobe)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
95-A11	Rick McGowan	Take over action item 91-A5 from Lisa Moore (response to the proposer of the Arabic Kaf character).
95-A12	Rick McGowan	Take over action item 91-A82 from Asmus Freytag. Point to W3C documentation and prepare a web document on the known discrepencies in E. Asian mapping tables. Also get data from Mark Davis and the ICU team.
95-A14	Rick McGowan	Prepare a proposal on "Maintaining Han Variant information" for the next meeting. Work with Richard Cook regarding how to use the Wenlin database for information on variants, and propose a model for UTC for maintaining a database of variant information.	In Progress
95-A37	Debbie Anderson, Asmus Freytag, Rick McGowan	Create a proposal for how to meet the user requirements for use of the Pipeline and Pending web pages.	In Progress
95-A58	Kamal Mansour	Communicate to the author of L2/03-166 that the committee would prefer to encode a single precomposed character for Syriac Alaph Wasla.
95-A62	Jonathan Kew	Write text for a Technical Note that explains of usage of Kaf and Gaf characters for different languages. Suggest additional annotations for these characters.

From UTC #94 and L2 #191, March 4 - 7, 2003, Mountain View, CA (Microsoft)

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
94-A2	Asmus Freytag	Work with the Mongolian experts to have a description of Mongolian shaping by end of 2003.	In Progress

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

UTC#	Who?	Action	Status
90-A84	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