L2/14-177R

Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 140
Redmond, WA -- August 5-8, 2014
Hosted by Microsoft

UTC #140 Agenda
Revision date: October 17, 2014


Tuesday August 5, 2014

Administrative — Roll Call (A.1)

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, SAP AG, UC Berkeley. 6 full members and 1 institutional member present, 7 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh, MIT, Bangladesh, MICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Sultanate of Oman, MARA, Tamil Nadu, W. Bengal, Yahoo! 3 full members,4 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 7.5 total votes

Voting members: 9 full, 5 institutional, 1 supporting
Voting members in regular attendance: 7 full, 2 institutional, 0 supporting
Quorum: 5


Administrative
Action Item Review (A.5.2.1) 
Oral review by Ken Whistler. No new actions. [L2/SD2, L2/14-178]
Administrative  Calendar Review (A.6)

UTC 141 October 27-30, 2014, host Apple, Annual Members Mtg
UTC 142 February 2-5, 2015, host IBM
UTC 143 May 5-8, 2015, host Adobe
UTC 144 July 27-31, 2015, host Microsoft

Administrative Membership update (A.9)

Oral report by Mark Davis.

Scripts Glagolitic (C.7)

[140-M1] Motion: Accept 38 Glagolitic combining characters with properties as documented in L2/14-087R, at 1E000..1E02A in block "Glagolitic Extended-A" at 1E000..1E02F for encoding in a future version of the standard.

Moved by Lisa Moore, seconded by Roozbeh Pournader

4 for (Google, IBM, Microsoft, UCB)
0 against
3 abstain (Adobe, Apple, SAP)

Motion carries.

[140-A1] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include 38 new Glagolitic characters. [L2/14-087R]

[140-A2] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the 38 new Glagolitic characers to the the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-087R]

[140-A3] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with Aleksandr Andreev to update the Glagolitic proposal and then forward to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-087R]

Scripts Latin Dialectology (C.4.1

The UTC took no action at this time. [L2/14-169]

Scripts Greek Byzantine Indiction Sign (C.9.1)

[140-C1] Consensus: Accept U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN with properties as given in L2/14-156 for encoding in a future version of the standard.

[140-A4] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN. [L2/14-156]

[140-A5] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-156]

[140-A6] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Forward the proposal to encode U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-156]

[140-A7] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Follow up on a font for U+1018D GREEK INDICTION SIGN and forward to Michel Suignard. [L2/14-156]

Scripts Double Suspension Mark (C.9.2) 

[140-C2] Consensus: Accept U+2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in L2/14-157.

[140-A8] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK. [L2/14-157]

[140-A9] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-157]

[140-A10] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with the proposer of the Double Suspension Mark to update the proposal and forward to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-157]

[140-A11] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Forward a font for U+2E44 DOUBLE SUSPENSION MARK to Michel Suignard. [L2/14-157]

Roll call adjustment
PRESENT: Oman MARA now present.
8 members now represented

Symbols Emoji (E.1.4)

The UTC provided comments, but took no action at this time. [L2/14-184]

Technical Reports Unicode Collation Algorithm (B.12.1)

[140-C3] Consensus: For the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) Version 8, remove from the DUCET all Cyrillic contractions except for Й and й (U+0419 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I, U+0439 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I). [L2/14-106]

[140-A12] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remove all Cyrillic contractions from the DUCET, except for Й and й (U+0419 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I, U+0439 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I) for V8.0. [L2/14-106]

[140-A13] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Editorial Committee: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm highlighting the change for Cyrillic contractions. [L2/14-106]

[140-A14] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for the proposed update of the Unicode Technical Standard #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm, to close October 20, 2014, highlighting the impact on the European Ordering Rules from the change for Cyrillic. [L2/14-106]

[140-A15] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Regenerate the DUCET with the V7.0 repertoire without the Cyrillic contractions, and post that for the initial Public Review Issue on the Unicode Technical Standard #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm for V8.0. [L2/14-106]

[140-A16] Action Item for Markus Scherer, Lisa Moore: Update document  L2/14-140 on removing most Cyrillic contractions and forward to Alain LaBonte as a UTC liaison document.

Symbols Emoji (E.1.4) 

[140-A17] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to William Overington regarding his feedback on Working Draft UTR #51, Unicode Emoji. [L2/14-184]

[140-A18] Action Item for Mark Davis, Peter Edberg: Update Working Draft Unicode Technical Report #51, Unicode Emoji based on input received for the October 2014 Unicode Technical Committee meeting. [L2/14-184]


Wednesday, August 6, 2014

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, SAP AG, Sultanate of Oman, MARA, UC Berkeley. 7 full members and 1 institutional member present, 8 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh, MIT, Bangladesh, MICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu, W. Bengal, Yahoo! 2 full members,4 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 6.5 total votes

South Asian Kannada Spacing Candrabindu (D.6)

[140-C4] Consensus: Accept U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in document L2/14-153.

[140-A19] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU.

[140-A20] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-153]

[140-A21] Action Item for Vinodh Rajan: Provide a font for U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU to Michel Suignard. [L2/14-153]

[140-A22] Action Item for Vinodh Rajan: Forward the proposal to encode for U+0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-153]

South Asian Saurashtra Candrabindu (D.5) 

[140-C5] Consensus: Accept U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU with properties as given in L2/14-163, for encoding in future version of the standard.

[140-A23] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU. [L2/14-163]

[140-A24] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-163]

[140-A25] Action Item for Vinodh Rajan: Provide font for U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU to Michel Suignard. [L2/14-163]

[140-A26] Action Item for Vinodh Rajan: Forward the proposal to encode U+A8C5 SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU to SC2/ WG2. [L2/14-163]

South Asian New Tai Lue (D.2)

[140-C6] Consensus: Issue a Public Review Issue to say that the UTC is considering a change in the rendering model of New Tai Lue to visual order. [L2/14-090]

[140-A27] Action Item for Martin Hosken, Andrew Glass, Deborah Anderson, Editorial Committee: Draft a Public Review Issue background document on the New Tai Lue rendering model, by August 31, 2014. [L2/14-090]

[140-A28] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the Public Review Issue on the New Tai Lue rendering model to close October 20, 2014.

[140-A29] Action Item for Peter Constable: Add information on the New Tai Lue Public Review Issue to his SC2/WG2 liaison report. [L2/14-090]

[140-A30] Action Item for Peter Constable: Communicate the proposed changes in the rendering model for New Tai Lue to the Chinese National Body in advance of upcoming SC2/WG2 meeting. [L2/14-090]

CJK Bopomofo Letter I (B.15.1)

[140-C7] Consensus: Change the representative glyph of U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I to use the horizontal bar form. [L2/14-189]

[140-A31] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Issue a glyph erratum for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I. [L2/14-189]

[140-A32] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Michel Suignard: Update the chart font for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-189]

[140-A33] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update text and annotations relevant to the glyph change for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I. [L2/14-189]

[140-A34] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the glyph change for U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I to the document requesting future additions in 10646. [L2/14-189]

Public Review Issue 278 Vertical Text Layout (B.11.5)

[140-C8] Consensus: Accept the editor's proposals 1, 3, and 4 from document L2/14-171.

[140-A35] Action Item for Koji Ishii: Incorporate editor's proposals from L2/14-171 into UTR #50. [L2/14-171]

[140-C9] Consensus: Change the vertical layout property of U+3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I from "U" to "Tu". [L2/14-171]

[140-C10] Consensus: Approve the publication of Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout, updated for Unicode V7.0. [L2/14-171]

[140-A36] Action Item for Koji Ishii, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout based on feedback and discussion in the meeting and prepare revision 13. [L2/14-171]

[140-A37] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the final Unicode Technical Report #50, Unicode Vertical Text Layout. [L2/14-171]

[140-A38] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #278. [L2/14-171]

[140-A39] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add "B.15.2 CJK ideographs glyphs representation and sources references (WG2 N4544) [Suignard, L2/14-149]" to the agenda for the October UTC meeting.

CJK WAVE_DASH (B.15.3

[140-M2] Motion: Change the glyph for U+301C WAVE DASH as per document L3/14-198.

Moved by Mark Davis, Seconded by Peter Edberg

5 for (Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft)
0 against
3 abstain (Oman, SAP, UCB)

Motion carries.

[140-A40] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Issue a glyph erratum for the change to U+301C WAVE DASH. [L2/14-198]

[140-A41] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update the text of the core specification and the nameslist for the glyph change for U+301C WAVE DASH, for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-198]

[140-A42] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Include the glyph change for U+301C WAVE DASH in the Unicode V8.0 migration information.

IRG U+2827C Unification Issue (B.3.2) 

UTC discussed the issue but took no action. [L2/14-138]

IRG Meeting Resolutions (B.3.3)

[140-A43] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Fix the pipeline entry for CJI ideograph  U+9FD0. [L2/14-197]

Scripts Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters (C.7.1.1) 

[140-C11] Consensus: Accept nine Cyrillic characters at U+1C80..U+1C88 with properties as documented in L2/14-196, and block "Cyrillic Extended-C" at U+1C80..U+1C8F, for encoding in future version of the standard:

	U+1C80 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ROUNDED VE
	U+1C81 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LONG-LEGGED DE
	U+1C82 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NARROW O
	U+1C83 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER WIDE ES
	U+1C84 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TALL TE
	U+1C85 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER THREE-LEGGED TE
	U+1C86 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TALL HARD SIGN
	U+1C87 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TALL YAT
	U+1C88 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UNBLENDED UK

[140-A43a] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to add nine Cyrillic characters at U+1C80..U+1C88. [L2/14-196]

[140-A44] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add nine Cyrillic letters to the document requesting future additions to 10646, and note that this as an urgent request. See Consensus 140-C11. [L2/14-196]

[140-A45] Action Item for Aleksandr Andreev: Forward an updated proposal for nine Cyrillic letters to WG2. See Consensus 140-C11. [L2/14-196]

[140-A46] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font for nine Cyrillic letters at U+1C80..U+1C88 to Michel Suignard. See Consensus 140-C11. [L2/14-196]

Symbols Emoji (E.1.1)

The UTC discussed but took no action on the iDiversicons proposal. [14-154R]

[140-A47] Action Item for Mark Davis: Talk to Facebook and Twitter to see if they would like to get more involved.

Scripts Pitman Shorthand Scripts (C.8)

[140-A48] Action Item for Van Anderson: Relay feedback to the author of the Pitman shorthand proposal. [L2/14-167]

[140-A49] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Work with the Roadmap Committee to add Pitman Shorthand, after Duployan. [L2/14-167]

Symbols Adding Georgian Lari currency sign (E.2) 

[140-C12] Consensus: Accept U+20BE LARI SIGN with properties as given in document L2/14-161 and "LB=Po" for encoding in Unicode version 8.0.

[140-A50] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+20BE LARI SIGN. [L2/14-161]

[140-A51] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+20BE LARI SIGN to the document requesting future additions to 10646 and note the urgency. [L2/14-161]

[140-A52] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Follow up with submitters of U+20BE LARI SIGN to update the name and provide a font. Obtain an updated proposal and forward to WG2. [L2/14-161]


Thursday, August 7, 2014

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, SAP AG, Sultanate of Oman, MARA, UC Berkeley. 7 full members and 1 institutional member present, 8 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh, MIT, Bangladesh, MICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu, W. Bengal, Yahoo! 2 full members,4 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 7.5 total votes

South Asian Disunify Khamti Style Letters from Myanmar (D.4.1) 

The UTC discussed but took no action at this time. [L2/14-108R]

Properties Defining "Block" (B.14.1)

[140-A53] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Update document L2/14-155 to propose a definition of block for the core specification for Version 8 of the Unicode Standard. 

Properties Cherokee Casing and Identifier Syntax (B.14.2) 

[140-C13] Consensus: Start a proposed update to Unicode Standard Annex #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax that addresses the Cherokee casing issue docuemtned in L2/14-187.

[140-A54] Action Item for Mark Davis Editorial Committee: Create a Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax that addresses the Cherokee casing issue. [L2/14-187]

[140-A55] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Prepare and post a Public Review Issue on Proposed Update Unicode Standard Annex #31, Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax to close October 20, 2014.

Properties Feedback on Mandaic Shaping (B.14.3) 

[140-C14] Consensus: Create an erratum to address the changes to Mandaic shaping documented in items #1 and #2 of document L2/14-194.

[140-A56] Action Item for Rick McGowan, Editorial Committee: Create an erratum for Mandaic shaping, based on document L2/14-194.

Properties UCD Test Stability (B.14.4)

[140-A57] Action Item for Mark Davis, Laurentiu Iancu: Provide a document that details requirements and proposes a solution for Unicode test files, for Unicode V8.0.

Scripts Proposal to encode Latin characters for Osage (C.4.2

[140-C15] Consensus: Osage should be encoded as a separate script, not Latin. [L2/14-175]

[140-M3] Motion: Osage should be encoded as a bicameral script. [L2/14-175]

Moved by Peter Constable, seconded by Ken Whistler.

6 for (Adobe, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, UCB)
0 against
1 abstain (Google)

Motion carries.

Properties Script Extensions and Indic Properties (B.14.5) 

[140-C16] Consensus: Change the name of the Indic_Matra_Property to Indic_Positional_Category, for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-199]

[140-A58] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Prepare the revised data file IndicPositionalCategory.txt, for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-199]

[140-A59] Action Item for Mark Davis: Make all the relevant adjustments to PropertyValues.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt for the updates to Indic properties for Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-199]

[140-A60] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Adjust the text of Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database for the updates to Indic properties. [L2/14-199]

[140-A61] Action Item for Eric Muller, Editorial Committee: Adjust the text of Unicode Standard Annex #42, Unicode Character Database in XML for the updates to Indic properties [L2/14-199]

[140-C17] Consensus: Make Indic_Syllabic_Category and Indic_Positional_Category informative properties in Unicode V8.0. [L2/14-199]

[140-A62] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Make further adjustments in Unicode Standard Annex #44, Unicode Character Database related to Indic_Positional_Category and Indic_Syllabic_Category. [L2/14-199]

Technical Reports IDNA Compatibility Processing Testing for Empty Labels (B.12.4.1)

[140-A63] Action Item for Mark Davis: Produce a revised version of L2/14-137 that fixes the links.

[140-C18] Consensus: Prepare an update of Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing for Unicode V8.0 to add "0. The label must have length not-equal-to zero, if it is not the final label." That is, always check for zero-length labels. [L2/14-137]

[140-A64] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Prepare an update of Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing for Unicode V8.0.

[140-A65] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing for Unicode V8.0, to close October 20, 2014.

Technical Reports IDNA Update for Unicode 7.0.0 (B.12.4.2)

The UTC discussed, but took no action at this time. [L2/14-159]

Technical Reports IDNA Compatibility Processing (B.12.4)

[140-A66] Action Item for Mark Davis: Look at feedback from Anne van Kesteren in L2/14-179 regarading Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing, and report back to UTC with a recommendation whether to do anything, and if so, what.

[140-A67] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Thank Anne van Kesteren for the input in L2/14-179 regarding Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing.

[140-A68] Action Item for Mark Davis: Fix the typo in Unicode Technical Standard #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing reported by Diego Perini. [L2/14-179]

Public Review Issue 272 Unicode Security Considerations (B.11.1) 

[140-C19] Consensus: Approve the update of Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations. [L2/14-181]

[140-A69] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Upate the approved Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations and prepare for publication.

[140-A70] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #272.

[140-A71] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the approved Unicode Technical Report #36, Unicode Security Considerations.

Public Review Issue 273 Unicode Security Mechanisms (B.11.2)  

[140-A72] Action Item for Mark Davis: Compare the list of maximal starting repertoire characters in Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms for V8.0.  

[140-C20] Consensus: Approve the proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms as amended during the meeting. [L2/14-182]

[140-A73] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Update Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms and prepare for publication.

[140-A74] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post the approved Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms.

[140-A75] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #273.

[140-C21] Consensus: After releasing Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms for V7.0, post a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms for version 8.0 that removes the SL, SA, and ML tables, and documents how they can be derived instead, and makes the appropriate changes in the text.

[140-A76] Action Item for Mark Davis, Editorial Committee: Issue a proposed update of Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms for V8.0.

[140-A77] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for Proposed Update Unicode Technical Standard #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms, to close January 26, 2015.

Scripts Latin Characters for Mazahua (C.4.3)

[140-A78] Action Item for Denis Jacquerye, Deborah Anderson: Contact the Mazahua language speakers to validate use of the two characters proposed in document L2/14-201.

Scripts Additional Latin Dialectology Characters (C.4.1)

The UTC discussed, but took no action at this time. [L2/14-169R]

Scripts Additional proposal to encode Latin characters for theta and delta (C.4.5)

[140-A79] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add "C.4.5 Additional proposal to encode Latin characters for theta and delta [Jacquerye, L2/14-202]" to the agenda for the October 2014 UTC meeting.

Properties U+E01EF VARIATION SELECTOR-256 (B.14.6)

[140-A80] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Communicate UTC feedback on L2/14-200 to Behdad Esfahbod.

Properties — Closing the Donut Hole (B.13.4)

[140-A81] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add the following agenda items to the agenda for October 2014 UTC meeting:
     B.13.4 Closing the donut hole [Whistler, L2/14-146]
     B.13.5 Mongolian representations in the charts [Suignard, L2/14-150]
     C.9.4 Proposal to change glyph for small GREEK LETTER YOT [Bobeck, L2/14-185]
     C.6 Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Turkestani Script [Wilson, L2/14-192]
     C.4.4 Revised proposal to encode Unifon characters [SEI, Everson, L2/14-070]

Other —  Roadmap

[140-A82] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Remand the proposal to include Cyrillic and Latin extended blocks in the roadmap to the Roadmap Committee. [L2/14-190]

[140-A83] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Karl Pentzlin regarding his roadmap request. [L2/14-190]

Scripts Nomisma Sign (C.9.3)

[140-C22] Consensus: Accept U+1018E NOMISMA SIGN with GC=So, Bidi=ON, and no decomposition, for encoding in a future version of the standard. [L2/14-158]

[140-A84] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+1018E NOMISMA SIGN. [L2/14-158]

[140-A85] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+1018E NOMISMA SIGN to the document requesting future additions to 10646. [L2/14-158]

[140-A86] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Get a font to Michel Suignard for U+1018E NOMISMA SIGN. [L2/14-158]

[140-A87] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Forward an updated proposal to encode the nomisma sign to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-158]

SEI Liaison report (B.7.1)

Oral report by Deborah Anderson. [L2/14-191]


Friday, August 8, 2014

PRESENT: Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, SAP AG, Sultanate of Oman, MARA, UC Berkeley. 7 full members and 1 institutional member present, 8 total votes

NOT PRESENT: Andhra Pradesh, MIT, Bangladesh, MICT, India MIT, Monotype Imaging Corp., Oracle America Inc., Tamil Nadu, W. Bengal, Yahoo! 2 full members,4 institutional member, and 1 supporting member not present, 7.5 total votes

Scripts Warsh Orthography (C.3.2)

The UTC discussed but took no action at this time. [L2/14-104]

Scripts Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa (C.3.1.1) 

[140-C23] Consensus: Accept U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in section 7 of document L2/14-170.

[140-A88] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB. [L2/14-148]

[140-A89] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB to the document requesting future additions to 10646. [L2/14-148]

[140-A90] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB to US ballot comments. [L2/14-148]

[140-A91] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader, Tom Milo: Write a section in the core specification about horizontally stacking Koranic marks. [L2/14-148]

[140-A92] Action Item for Roozbeh Pournader: Respond to Lateef Sagar Shaikh asking him to update his proposal and send to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-148]

[140-A93] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font to Michel for U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB. [L2/14-148]

[140-A94] Action Item for Lisa Moore: Add the following to the agenda for the October 2014 UTC meeting:
     C.3.1.2 Proposal to encode Proposal to encode Quranic mark Small High Yeh with Fatha [Shaikh, L2/14-203]
     C.3.3.1 Proposal to encode seventeen Arabic honorifics [Pournader, L2/14-147]
     C.3.3.2 Proposal to encode two Arabic honorifics [Shaikh, L2/14-152]
     B.11.4 Issue 277: Reconciling Script and Script_Extensions character properties
     B.12.2.1 Linebreaking before IN [Muller, L2/14-168]

South Asian ZWJ Joiner for Grantha Chillus (D.3.2) 

[140-A95] Action Item for Deborah Anderson, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Peter Constable: Discuss how to represent Grantha chillus, and create a recommendation for the next UTC meeting. See documents L2/14-097 and L2/14-110.

Scripts Warsh Orthography (C.3.2) 

[140-C24] Consensus: Accept three Arabic letters for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in [L2/14-207]:
    U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH
    U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF
    U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON

[140-A96] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH, U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF, and U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON. [L2/14-207]

[140-A97] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH, U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF, and U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON to the document requesting new additions to 10646. [L2/14-207]

[140-A98] Action Item for Lorna Evans: Update the proposal for three African Arabic letters and forward to SC2/WG2. [L2/14-207]

[140-A99] Action Item for Michael Everson: Provide a font to Michel Suignard for the three new African Arabic letters. See L2/14-104 and L2/14-207.

Scripts Nushu (C.5.1) 

[140-C25] Consensus: The UTC requests US ballot comments to remove Nushu from PDAM2. [L2/14-186]

[140-A100] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add request for removal of Nushu to ballot comments on PDAM2. [L2/14-186]

[140-A101] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Work with Toshiya Suzuki to update document L2/14-186 on the Nushu code chart review and submit to both SC2/WG2 and to UTC (as L2/14-186R).

Public Review Issue 276 Repertoire of 10646:2014 Amendment 2 (B.11.3.1) 

[140-C26] Consensus: Change U+1F32D BLACK WANING CRESCENT MOON to U+23FE POWER SLEEP SYMBOL. [L2/14-179]

[140-A102] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline with new name and code point for U+23FE POWER SLEEP SYMBOL. [L2/14-179]

[140-A103] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add U+23FE POWER SLEEP SYMBOL to US ballot comments.[L2/14-179]

[140-A104] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Review the content of feedback on Public Review Issue #276 when processing the nameslist for Unicode 9.0. See PRI #276 feedback.

[140-A105] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to Jörg Knappen regarding his feedback on PRI #276.

[140-A106] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to feedback from Mu. Elangovan regarding Tamil names in PRI #276.

[140-A107] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Respond to feedback from Krishnaswamy Nachimuthu in PRI #276.

[140-A108] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add to ballot comments a request to change the header "Letter for Gabonese" to "Letter for African Languages" over the section of the names list starting with U+A7AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I. See feedback from Denis Moyogo Jacquerye in PRI #276.

[140-A109] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the comments on the text of the amendment in L2/14-205 to ballot comments on PDAM2 as editorial comments. 

[140-A109a] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Close Public Review Issue #276.

Editorial Unicode 8.0 (B.13.3)

[140-C27] Consensus: Release Unicode 8.0 in the summer of 2015.

[140-A110] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Release Unicode 8.0 in the summer of 2015.

Editorial Emoji (E.1)

[140-C28] Consensus: Accept five symbol modifier letters (general category "Sk", for encoding in Unicode 8.0: [L2/14-213]

	U+1F3FB LIGHT SKIN TONE
	U+1F3FC MEDIUM LIGHT SKIN TONE
	U+1F3FD MEDIUM SKIN TONE
	U+1F3FE MEDIUM DARK SKIN TONE
	U+1F3FF DARK SKIN TONE

[140-A111] Action Item for Ken Whistler: Update the pipeline to include the five symbol modifier letters at 1F3FB..1F3FF. [L2/14-213]

[140-A112] Action Item for Deborah Anderson: Add the five symbol modifier letters 1F3FB..1F3FF to the request for new additions as an urgent request. [L2/14-213]

[140-A113] Action Item for Mark Davis, Peter Edberg: Prepare a proposal summary form for the five symbol modifier letters at 1F3FB..1F3FF and send to WG2. [L2/14-213]

[140-A114] Action Item for Peter Constable: Add a discussion of skin tone modifiers to the Unicode SC2 liaison report. [L2/14-213]

[140-A115] Action Item for Peter Edberg, Mark Davis: Update L2/14-172, L2/14-173, L2/14-174 and post as R versions.

[140-A116] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Provide font for the five symbol modifier letters 1F3FB..1F3FF. [L2/14-213]

[140-A117] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Reply to the two documents from Nzewi Uchenna, L2/14-144 and L2/14-145.

[140-A118] Action Item for Mark Davis: Set up monthly telephone calls on emoji.

[140-A119] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Extend Public Review Issue #277 to October 20, 2014.

Technical Reports Character Property Model (B.12.3.1)

[140-C29] Consensus: Create a proposed update of Unicode Technical Report #23, Unicode Character Property Model. [L2/14-193]

[140-A120] Action Item for Ken Whistler, Editorial Committee: Prepare a proposed update of Unicode Technical Report #23, Unicode Character Property Model based on L2/14-193.

[140-A121] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Post a Public Review Issue for Proposed Update Unicode Technical Report #23, Unicode Character Property Model to close October 20, 2014.

Public Review Issue Other feedback (B.11.6.1)

[140-A122] Action Item for Mark Davis: Review feedback from Claus Faerber in L2/14-179.

[140-A123] Action Item for Rick McGowan: Create a new document for unreviewed feedback from document L2/14-179 and request an agenda item for the October UTC.


UTC Attendance

Person Representing
Shervin Afshar High Tech Passport
Julie Allen Unicode
Deborah Anderson UC Berkeley
Van Anderson self
Aleksandr Andreev self
Peter Constable Microsoft
Craig Cummings Informatica
Mark Davis Google
Peter Edberg Apple
Asmus Freytag self
Naga Ganesan self
Andrew Glass Microsoft
Laurențiu Iancu Microsoft
Koji Ishii self
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye self
Sergey Malkin Microsoft
Rick McGowan Unicode
Thomas Milo MARA/DecoType
Lisa Moore IBM
Eric Muller Adobe
Katrina Parrott Cub Club
Michelle Perham Microsoft
Roozbeh Pournader Google
R2-D2 self
Murray Sargent Microsoft
Markus Scherer Google
Nikita Simmons self
Shawn Steele Microsoft
Michel Suignard Unicode
Tex Texin Xencraft
Ken Whistler SAP
   
By Phone
Lorna Evans SIL
Michael Everson Evertype
Martin Hosken SIL
John Jenkins Apple
Ken Lunde Adobe
Kat Momoi Google
Lateef Sagar Shaikh self
   

Members Represented

Full Member

8/5/14

8/6/14

8/7/14

8/8/14

1. Adobe Systems, Inc.

yes

yes yes yes

2. Andhra Pradesh, MIT

 

 

 

 

3. Apple, Inc.

yes

yes yes yes

4. Google, Inc.

yes

yes yes yes

5. IBM Corporation

yes

yes yes yes

6. Microsoft Corporation

yes

yes yes yes

7. Oracle America, Inc.

 

 

 

 

8. SAP AG

yes

yes yes yes

9. Sultanate of Oman, MARA

yes

yes yes yes

10. Yahoo! Inc.

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

Institutional Member

 

 

 

 

1. Bangladesh, MSICT

 

 

 

 

2. India, MIT

 

 

 

 

3. Tamil Nadu, TVA

 

 

 

 

4.  West Bengal, SNLTR

 

 

 

 

5. UCB

yes

yes yes yes

 

 

 

 

 

Supporting Member

 

 

 

 

1. Monotype Imaging Corp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Associate Member

 

 

 

 

1. DecoType

yes

yes yes yes
2. High Tech Passport yes yes yes yes

 

 

 

 

 

Individual Member

 

 

 

 

1. Shervin  Afshar

yes

yes

yes

yes

2. Craig Cummings

yes yes yes yes

3. Koji Ishii

yes

yes yes yes

4. Denis Jacquerye

yes

yes yes yes

5. Tom Milo

yes

yes yes yes

6. Katrina Parrott

yes

yes yes yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members not in regular attendance: Andhra Pradesh, India, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Monotype, Oracle

Total full members in regular attendance: 7

Total institutional members in regular attendance: 2

Total supporting members in regular attendance: 0

Quorum: 5