L2/10-287 Subject: INCITS/L2 Letter Ballot results: 10646 3rd Edition; 10646/FDAM 8 From: Eric Muller Date: August 4, 2010 To: l2 Dear INCITS/L2 members: The results for the letter ballots L2/10-250 are: Approval of the Project Subdivision Proposal for ISO/IEC 10646 3rd Edition For (7): Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Against (0): Abstain (0): No vote (3): Apple, Google, Oracle Recommendation to approve 10646/FDAM 8, Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 8: Additional symbols, Bamum supplement, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D, and other characters For (7): Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase, Unicode, UC Berkeley, Yahoo! Against (0): Abstain (0): No vote (3): Apple, Google, Oracle In addition, Microsoft provided thorough editorial comments on 10646/FDAM 8 (see below) . They all look sensible and straightforward enough to be our ballot comments. Both motions pass. Thanks, Eric Muller, INCITS/L2 Chair --- Editorial comments on 10646/FDAM 8: E1. Page 1, Amendment to Clause 17: "This International Standard does no attempt..." -- change "no" to "not". E2. Page 1, Amendment to Clause 17: " Furthermore, the usage of „BLACK‟ and „WHITE‟" -- change quotation mark convention to that for English (use U+201C, U+201D rather than U+201E, U+201F). E3. Page 1, Amendment to Clause 17: " Furthermore, the usage of „BLACK‟ and „WHITE‟ in character name does not imply a specific colour." -- change "name" to "names". E4. Page 1, Amendment to Clause 26: "... comment lines (starting with „#‟), ..." -- change quotation mark convention to that for English (use U+201C, U+201D rather than U+201E, U+201F). E5. Page 1, Amendment to Clause 26: "... the following information organized in fields delimited by „;‟:" -- change quotation mark convention to that for English (use U+201C, U+201D rather than U+201E, U+201F). E6. Page 1, Amendment to Clause 26, NOTE 2: "... sequences on one hand and Shift‐JIS codes..." -- delete the spaces flanking the dash, i.e., change "Shift - JIS" to "Shift-JIS". E7. Page 2, Amendment to Clause 26, NOTE 2: "... symmetric (ʺround tripʺ), ..." -- use smart quotation marks (use U+201C, U+201D rather than straight quotation marks or modifier double-prime letters). E8. Page 2, Amendment to Clause 26, NOTE 2: "... (ʺfallbackʺ) ..." -- use smart quotation marks (use U+201C, U+201D rather than straight quotation marks or modifier double-prime letters). E9. Page 2, Amendment to Clause 26: "It does not include best‐fit ("fallback") ..." -- delete the spaces flanking the dash, i.e., change "best - fit" to "best-fit". E10. Page 2, Amendment to Sub-clause 27.1: "2nd field: Radical Stroke index" -- change "Radical Stroke" to "Radical-Stroke". E11. Page 2, Amendment to Sub-clause 27.1: "(d{1,3}’.d{1,2})." -- The regular expression does not imply that the apostrophe is optional, as the text describes. Also, the character displayed is a right curly quotation mark (U+2019), not the straight apostrophe (U+0027). Change this text to: "(d{1,3}(').d{1,2})" E12. Page 3, Amendment to Annex A.1: " Add a „*‟ (for fixed collection)..." -- change quotation mark convention to that for English (use U+201C, U+201D rather than U+201E, U+201F). ---