Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar (Observer), the Netherlands, Poland, U.K., U.S.A., AFII (Liaison) and the Unicode Consortium (Liaison) were present when the following resolutions were adopted.

RESOLUTION M35.1 (FPDAM-18 on Symbols and Other characters including EURO):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1789R2, as amended by N1875 (defect report), and instructs its project editor to prepare the final text of DAM-18 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.2 (FPDAM-21 on Sinhala):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1841R, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final text of DAM-21 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.3 (PDAM-22 on Keyboard Symbols):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1816R, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final text of FPDAM-22 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.4 (PDAM-24 on Thaana):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1841R, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final disposition of comments and the final text of FPDAM-24 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.5 (PDAM-25 on Khmer):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1841R, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final disposition of comments and the final text of FPDAM-25 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.6 (FPDAM-27 on Syriac):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1841R, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final disposition of comments and the final text of DAM-27 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.7 (FPDAM-17 on CJK Extension A):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1889, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final text of DAM-17 with assistance from the IRG editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.
 
RESOLUTION M35.8 (FPDAM-23 on Bopomofo Extended and other characters):
Unanimous

WG 2 instructs its project editor to prepare the final disposition of comments based on the agreements at meeting 35, and the final text of DAM-23 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.9 (Procedures for character set registration):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the recommendations from the US national body contained in document N1839, and instructs its convener to forward the document to SC2 for endorsement and to the Registration Authority for consideration.

RESOLUTION M35.10 (Defect report on Zones):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the defect report in document N1874 and instructs its project editor to prepare an editorial corrigendum to ISO/IEC 10646-1.

RESOLUTION M35.11 (Mongolian script):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the 155 characters, their shapes, and their names in document N 1878, and assigns them to code positions in the range 1800 to 18AF, and 3 following additional characters in the General Punctuation Block:

• create a new sub division proposal, with the following target dates:

WD 1998-09, FPDAM 1998-10, FDAM 1999-04 and AM 1999-07
• prepare registration request and FPDAM text, with assistance from China, Mongolia, and the contributing editor (for the three additional characters)
• forward these to SC 2 secretariat for further processing.

• create a new sub division proposal, with the following target dates:

WD 1998-09, FPDAM 1998-10, FDAM 1999-04 and AM 1999-07
• prepare registration request and FPDAM text, with assistance from the contributing editor, and
• forward these to SC 2 secretariat for further processing.

WG 2 instructs its project editor to prepare the disposition of comments based on the agreements at meeting 35 as summarized in N1890, and the final text of FPDAM-14 with assistance from China and the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.14 (PDAM-26 on Myanmar / Burmese):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N1883R2, and instructs its project editor to prepare the final disposition of comments and the final text of FPDAM-26 with assistance from the contributing editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.15 (IRG - Extension B Format):
Unanimous

With reference to IRG resolution M11.5 in document N1870, WG 2 expresses its preferred format for CJK Unified Ideographs, Extension B, to be:

• Single column glyphs (as compared to the five columns of Extension A)
• Absence of decimal notation for code positions in line with new proposed format for 2nd edition of 10646-1.

WG 2 accepts the 12 characters, their shapes, and their names in document N 1842R, and assigns them to code positions in the range 2FF0 to 2FFF in the BMP. WG 2 further instructs its editor to prepare the PDAM text, with assistance from China and the contributing editor, and forward these to SC 2 secretariat for further processing, with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.17 (PDAM-15 - KangXi radicals):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the working draft in document N1869, with corrected names and moving the starting point of the CJK Radicals Supplement to 2E80 from 2E00. WG 2 further instructs its editor to prepare the PDAM text, with assistance from TCA, China and the IRG project editor, and forward these to SC 2 secretariat for further processing, with unchanged target dates.

RESOLUTION M35.18 (PDAM on Tibetan Extension):
Unanimous

WG 2 accepts the 25 additional Tibetan characters, their shapes, and their names based on documents N 1756, N1864, and N1880 and the discussion at meeting 35 - and assigns them to code positions in the range 0F00 to 0FFF, in the BMP. WG 2 further instructs its editor to:

• create a new sub division proposal, with the following target dates:

WD 1998-09, PDAM 1998-10, FPDAM 1999-04, FDAM 1999-08 and AM 1999-12
• prepare registration request and PDAM text, with assistance from China, and the contributing editor
• forward these to SC 2 secretariat for further processing.

In response to the liaison request from ISO/TC 211 in document N1828, WG 2 informs SC 2 that it has no objection to and welcomes the establishment of liaison relationship from ISO/TC 211 to JTC 1/SC 2.

RESOLUTION M35.20 (Future meetings):
Unanimous

WG 2 confirms the following future meeting schedule:

WG 2 thanks and its host, the British Standards Institution, and its staff, especially Miss. Bernadette Shine, for hosting the meeting, and for providing excellent secretarial and administrative support. WG 2 further extends its thanks to members of the UK national committee for JTC 1/SC 2, especially Mr. Bruce Paterson, Philips Research Laboratories and Reuters International, for their kind hospitality.

The following 41 delegates representing 14 national bodies and 3 liaison organizations attended the meeting.
 

Name	Representing	Affiliation
Alain La Bonté	Canada	Secrétariat du Conseil du trésor
V. S. (Uma) Umamaheswaran	Canada,  Recording Secretary	IBM Canada
Chen Zhuang	China	Chinese Electronics Standardization Institute
Choijinzhab	China	Inner Mongolia University
Fu Yonghe	China	Chinese Language Institute
Ji Mu Yan	China	Nationality Affairs Committee of Inner Mongolia
Yang Xiu-Xia	China	Sino-Software System Co. Ltd.
Zon Tingxiang	China	China Nationality Affairs Committee
Zhang Zhoucai	China, IRG Rapporteur	CCID
Mike Ksar	Convener	Hewlett-Packard Company
Keld Simonsen	Denmark, CEN/TC304	DKUUG
Erkki I. Kolehmainen	Finland	TIEKE
Klaas Ruppel	Finland	Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Paul Dettmer	Germany	Independant
Evangelos Melagrakis	Greece	ELOT, Hellenic Organization For Standardization
Bernadette Shine	Host	BSI
Michael Everson	Ireland	Everson Gunn Teoranta
Hideki Nakade	Japan	Mistsuishi Research Institute, Inc.
Shun Ishizaki	Japan	Keio University
Takayuki Sato	Japan	CICC
Myatav Erdenchimeg	Mongolia	The United Nations University
Richard Moore	Mongolia	UNU/IIST, Macau
Yumbayariin Namsarai	Mongolia	Mongolian Technical University
Aung Maw	Myanmar	CE Technology
Khin Maung Lwin	Myanmar	Myanmar Computer Scientists' Association
Kyaw Thien	Myanmar	University of Computer Studies, Thamang College
Thaung Tin	Myanmar	KMD Company Limited
Thein Htut	Myanmar	Geocomp
Elzbieta Broma-Wrzesien	Poland	Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.
J. W. Van Wingen	The Netherlands	Independent
Bruce Paterson	U.K.	Independent
Christopher J. Fynn	U.K.	Independant
Christopher White	U.K.	The British Library
Hugh Ross	U.K.	Data Systems Consultants
John Clews	U.K.	Sesame Computer Projects
Maurice Bauhahn	U.K.	Independant
Patrick A. V. Hall	U.K.	The Open University
Joan Aliprand	U.S.A.	The Research Libraries Group
Ken Whistler	U.S.A.	Sybase Inc.
Michel Suignard	U.S.A.	Microsoft
Asmus Freytag	Unicode Consortium, AFII	Unicode Consortium