Public Review Issues

From time to time the Unicode Consortium seeks wide public review and feedback for certain proposed actions. The purpose of the review is to elicit better information on the practical impact of such proposals on users or implementers as well as broaden the review of technical details. Any feedback on Public Review Issues will be used in the deliberations of the relevant Unicode Consortium technical committee. These open issues are listed here. Each issue has a number, title, summary, and deadline for receipt of public review comments. The link on the title points to a background document if any. When issues are closed, they are moved to the Resolved Issues pages (1-99, 100-199).

Public Review Issues are often targeted at the next version of a particular specification, such as the Unicode Standard. Where the specification is issued by the UTC, the closing date is set to one week before the next quarterly UTC meeting so that any feedback can be reviewed in the meeting. When the specification is due for release only after further meetings, the closing date is typically extended to each subsequent meeting to allow for more feedback.

Organizations and interested individuals are invited to submit public review comments on these issues. Feedback may be submitted via the online contact form; be sure to indicate the number and title of the issue you are providing feedback for, and try to be as explicit as possible in your suggestions. You may also wish to join the Unicode discussion list, where open discussion of all issues related to the Unicode Standard is held.

Material intended for consideration at a Unicode Technical Committee meeting must be submitted at least one week before the start of that meeting. Material intended for consideration by the CLDR Technical Committee should not use the reporting form; instead please see Filing CLDR Bug Reports.

Public Review issues are different from public resolutions of the Unicode Consortium on external issues of particular public importance to the computing industry. Such resolutions are documented as Unicode Consortium Public Positions.

Note: for constraints on proposed changes, see the Unicode Stability Policies.

Open Issues for Public Review

119	Proposed Update to UTR #25 Unicode Support for Mathematics	2008.08.01
The proposed update of UTR #25 makes minimal content changes, mostly consisting of corrections for typographical errors. There were also some minor formatting changes to enable generation of the text in pdf format, instead of html, and for better typography of the mathematical examples.
111	Proposed Update to UTS #18 Unicode Regular Expressions	2008.05.08
The proposed update of UAX #18 clarifies conformance requirements for "." and CRLF, updates the syntax, incorporates the new extended grapheme clusters for Unicode 5.1, and better describes dealing with normalization, the importance of levels, and the use of wildcards in property values. Public feedback is invited.

For closed issues, see the Resolved Issues pages (1-99, 100-199).