L2/98-205
  revised & posted  July 1, 1998
June 16 version Note: Changes from previous version (June 8th) are in green
Link changes noted by * only
Version of June 8 - changes from June 1st version are in blue

Draft Agenda  #77
                                                                

UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #174 joint meeting

Redmond, WA - July 29-31, 1998

Hosted by Microsoft Corporation

I. Administrative Issues

A. UTC membership roll call

1. Call for proxies

2. Roll call

B. Declaration of joint meeting

C. Approval of joint meeting agenda

D. Minutes and action items

1. Approval of minutes of Joint Meeting UTC #76 & L2 #173 [L2/98-158]
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/members/meetings/minutes-76u.html

2. Review of action items [L2/SD2]

E. Registration of new documents

F. Review of meeting calendar

Calendar posted at http://www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html
Date change: IRG #12 will be held a week earlier, Dec. 7-11, 1998

G. UTC Procedures

1. Revised UTC procedures (Aliprand)

II. Reports on ISO Meetings

A. Report on IRG meeting #11 (Ng)

B. Report on WG20 meeting (Winkler, Whistler)

III. Technical Issues

A. Errata to Unicode 2.0 and 2.1 (Standing Item)

    1. UnicodeData updates (Whistler)   [L2/98-250]

B. BiDi Issues

C. Revised Proposals

1. Draft UTRs

a) #11: Unicode character property "East Asian width"(Freytag) http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/dtr11.html

b) #14: Line breaking properties (Freytag)
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/dtr14.html

c) Support for implementing inline and interlinear annotations (Freytag)
ftp://unicore:unicore@ftp.unicode.org/WorkingGroups/EastAsia/Ruby/Ruby.html

2. Proposals for UTRs

a) Formal criteria on disunification (proposed UTR #12) (Freytag)
ftp://unicore:unicore@ftp.unicode.org/WorkingGroups/Roadmap/criteria_004.html

b) Newline policy (proposed UTR #13) (Davis)
ftp://unicore:unicore@ftp.unicode.org/WorkingGroups/Properties/wdutr-Newline.html

c) Formal criteria for coding precomposed characters (Freytag)

D. New Proposals

1. Variant Forms of Characters

a) Presentation on glyphs and font issues (Carroll)

b) Variation marks for Mongolian and general extension (Sargent and others)

c) Variant tagging for ideographs (Kobayashi & Hiura)

Revision of earlier proposals

2. C1 Use (Umamaheswaran)

3. Other Proposals

a) Canonical Composition (Davis)

ftp://unicore:unicore@ftp.unicode.org/WorkingGroups/Properties/wdutr-Composition1.3.html
                    (updated 7/1/98)

b) Regular expressions (Davis)

ftp://unicore:unicore@ftp.unicode.org/WorkingGroups/Properties/wdutr-RegularExpressions.html

                    c) EBCDIC-UTC (Umamaheswaran)

                    d) Title casing of Greek symbols (Davis)

IV. Script & Character Proposals

A. Mongolian (Whistler)

    [L2/98-088=WG2 N1711] The Working Meeting on Mongolian Encoding... (dated February 15, 1998) Source: China, Mongolia [L2/98-088]

    [L2/98-104=WG2 N1734] Comments on the Mongolian Encoding Proposal, WG2 N1711 (dated March 20, 1998). Source:  Ken Whistler

    [L2/98-251] Reply to 'Proposal WG2 N1734' raised at the Seattle meeting regarding 'Proposal WG2 N1711' (dated April 30, 1998).          Source: China [WG2  to be assigned]

   [L2/98-252] Feedback on Ken Whistler's Comments on Mongolian Encoding: N1734 (email).  Source: Mongolia and UNU/IIST.

B. Math Symbols

1. Proposal for additional mathematical and technical symbols [L2/98-093] (Sargent)

2. Additional mathematical characters for the UCS (Everson) [L2/98-212]
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/pdf/n1745.pdf

C. TC 46 additions (Aliprand/Barry/Everson)

1. Additional Latin Characters [L2/98-208]
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/pdf/n1741.pdf

2. Additional Greek characters [L2/98-210]
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/pdf/n1743.pdf

3. Additional Hebrew cantillation characters [L2/98-216]
* http://www.dkung.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1749.pdf

4. Additional Cyrillic characters [L2/98-211]
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/pdf/n1744.pdf

5. Additional combining characters [l2/98-213]
* http://www.dkung.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1746.pdf

6. Contraction mark characters [L2/98-214]
* http://www.dkung.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1747.pdf

7. Additional signature mark characters [L2/98-215]
* http://www.dkung.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1748.pdf

C. Other Proposals

1. Non-ideographic characters

a) Syllable Break character (Davis)
Unicore mail dated Thu, Apr 1998, Subject: UTC #76 Syllable break

b) Additional IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters for the UCS
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/pdf/n1742.pdf

c)  Proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/pdf/n1755.pdf

d) Proposal for Tibetan extensions (Everson)[L2-218]
* http://www.dkung.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1756.pdf

2. Ideographic additions

a)  CJK radical supplement [L2/98-106]

D. Other script issues

1. Tibetan vowels (McGowan)

2. Encoding the Tifinagh script (Everson)
* http://www.dkung.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1757.pdf

3. On encoding the Old Hungarian rovásírás in the UCS
* http://www.dkung.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1758.pdf

V. Current ballots

VI. W3C issues

VII. International Unicode Conferences (Standing Item)

VIII. Other business

IX. Interaction with ISO

A. UTC positions on topics for WG2 meeting #35 in September

B. UTC positions on topics for IRG meeting #12 in December

C. Appointment of Unicode Consortium representative(s) for IRG meeting #12

X. Review of recommendations to L2, and action items from this meeting

XI. Closing of joint meeting