DRAFT L2/08-111 Title: Scripts Subcommittee Draft Recommendations to UTC #114 Date: February 8, 2008 Source: Rick McGowan --------------------------------------------------------------- C.2 Proposal to encode the Livre Tournois sign [Sewell, L2/07-332] DRAFT [114-C] Consensus: Accept LIVRE TOURNOIS for encoding at U+20B6 in a future version of the standard. ** Note: Committee would like more evidence of representative glyph from French documents. Rick to reply to the author. C.3.1 Proposal to encode Old South Arabian script [SEI/Mansour, et al, L2/08-044] DRAFT [114-C] Consensus: Accept 32 South Arabian characters as described in L2/08-044 for encoding in a future version of the standard, in a new block of 2 columns U+10A80 - U+10A9F DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Kamal Mansour: Forward the document L2/08-044 to WG2. C.21 Proposal for encoding the Javanese script (WG2 N3319R2, replaces L2/07-295R) [SEI/Everson, L2/08-015] DRAFT [114-C] Consensus: Accept 91 Javanese characters for encoding in a future version of the standard, in a 6-column block A980-A9DF. DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Michael Everson: Modify the Javanese proposal L2/08-015 to use a 6 column block rather than an 8-column block, and submit the update. C.1 Inclusion of archaic Sinhala numerals in the Sinhala character code range [Sri Lanka NB, L2/08-007, L2/08-068] DRAFT [114-C] Consensus: Given feedback from scholars and Government of Sri Lanka, UTC agrees that archaic Sinhala numerals should be removed from amendment 5 pending further investigation. DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add to ballot comments that archaic Sinhala numerals should be removed from amendment 5. C.16.2 Proposal to encode the Old Turkic script (N3357R2, replaces L2/07-325R) [SEI/Everson, L2/08-071] ** Note: No recommendation to approve. Needs further study. See what happens in WG2. C.17 Proposal to encode two Kana characters concerning YE [Kato, L2/07-421] ** Note: Generally the scripts subcommittee supports the proposal. DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Prepare a contribution to WG2 suggesting that the Japanese national body provide comments on document L2/07-421, and forward the document to WG2. C.20 Comments on the Avestan Separation Point (WG2 N3336) [Anderson, L2/07-304, L2/08-088] DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Michel Suignard: Add to ballot comments that we continue to request that the Avestan Separation Point be removed from the amendment. C.13 Proposal to encode Samaritan [SEI/Everson, L2/08-024] DRAFT [114-C] Consensus: Accept 61 Samaritan characters for encoding in a future version of the standard, at codepoints U+0800-U+083F, in a new block of the same range. C.11 Proposal to encode the Batak script [SEI/Everson, L2/08-011] ** Note: Discussion resulted in no recommendation for UTC. [114-A] Action Item for Peter Constable, Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler: Look at the combining properties of Batak letters in L2/08-011, and provide feedback to Michael Everson for incorporation into the proposal. C.15 Proposal to encode the character "subscript ten" Broukhis, L2/08-030] DRAFT [114-C] Consensus: Accept U+23E8 DECIMAL EXPONENT SYMBOL for encoding in a future version of the standard, and annotate its use in Algol and in support of the GOST 10859-64 standard. DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Leo Broukhis, Rick McGowan: Recast the proposal L2/08-030 as a request for a technical symbol, and request for encoding among the symbols at codepoint U+23E8. Change title of the document to "Proposal to Encode the Character Decimal Exponent Symbol", and forward the updated proposal to WG2. C.12.1 Revised proposal to encode Old Lisu (replaces L2/07-344) [China NB, L2/08-019] DRAFT [114-C] Consensus: Accept 48 Lisu characters as documented in L2/08-019 for encoding in a future version of the standard. The script name will be changed to "Lisu" in a new block U+A4D0 - U+A4FF. C.7 Proposal to encode the Kaithi script [Pandey, L2/07-418] DRAFT [114-C] Consensus: Recommendation to UTC: Accept the 71 Kaithi characters for encoding in a future version of the standard, in a new block "Kaithi" U+11080 - U+110CF. DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Lisa Moore: Put the following script items on the agenda for the next UTC meeting: C.4 Proposal to encode the Mandaic script [Everson, L2/07-412] C.8 Proposal to encode the Takri script [Pandey, L2/07-419] C.9 Brahmi C.9.1 Proposal to encode Brahmi [Glass, Baums, L2/07-342] C.9.2 Scripts on roadmap covered by Brahmi encoding [Glass, Baums, L2/07-406] C.10 Proposal to encode Sharada [SEI/Pandey, L2/08-017] C.14 Proposal to encode Manichaean [SEI/Everson, L2/08-025] C.11 Proposal to encode the Batak script [SEI/Everson, L2/08-011] DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Michael Everson: Change all of the non-zero combining classes for the vowel marks and consonant signs in Batak to class 0. Change the combining class of sign tomti to "7" (nuktas), before resubmitting the document. DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Michael Everson: Change the names of the Batak vowel and consonant signs be ordinary names such as "a", "i" and so forth. Put the native names in annotations. DRAFT [114-A] Action Item for Michael Everson: Include collation information in the Batak proposal before resubmitting the document. C.23.1 Proposal to encode Rumi numeral symbols (replaces L2/06-126) [Lazrek, L2/06-291] C.23.2 Character and line-breaking properties for Rumi numeral symbols [Lazrek, L2/07-235] ** No recommendation yet. C.22 Proposal to add nine multi-letter Jamo characters [Karlsson, L2/08-084, L2/08-075] ** Recommend that UTC not accept these for encoding.