Open Action Items
after UTC #99, L2 #196

last modification: June 21, 2004

From UTC #98 and L2 #195, February 2 - 5, 2004, Mountain View, CA (Microsoft)

UTC# Who? Action Status
98-A1John Jenkins Determine the frequency of usage of the supplementary Hong Kong characters. In Progress
98-A2John Jenkins Ask Tom Bishop if he is willing to have CDL data used internally by the IRG. [L2/04-037] In Progress
98-A8John Jenkins Add data on Cantonese pronunciation from Cheung and Bauer to Unihan.txt after the release of Unicode 4.0.1. In Progress
98-A17Steve Tinney, Rick McGowan Document numeric and other properties for cuneiform. Take into account Ugaritic and Old Persian properties. Since this is the third cuneiform script coming into the standard, check to make sure there aren't gratuitous differences. [L2/03-036] In progress
98-A19Steve Tinney Update the proposal L2/04-036 with comments received at the meeting and submit to WG2 and UTC in time for the June 2004 meetings. Please use the latest proposal summary form in the revision.  Done
98-A20Rick McGowan, Steve Tinney Discuss "named sequences" listed as a possible appendix to the revised L2/04-036 document.  In progress
98-A21Michael Kaplan, Editorial Committee Add a section to the Indic FAQ on using Tamil digits.  In progress
98-A23Michael Kaplan Update the proposal for Tamil digit zero L2/04-073 and send to Rick McGowan and Mike Ksar for posting prior to the June 2004 WG2 meeting. Done
98-A32Eric Muller, John Jenkins, Michel Suignard Draft a proposal to encode the 113 missing HKSCS characters, dividing the proposal into appropriate segments (unified ideographs, compatibility, non-ideographs, etc) by April 15th, forward to Mike Ksar for submission to WG2 in time for the June 2004 meeting. [L2/04-037] Done
98-A34Michel Suignard Send a font to Asmus Freytag for printing the 113 missing HKSCS characters. [L2/04-037] Done
98-A70Asmus Freytag Update proposal for the four math characters U+27C3 OPEN SUPERSET, U+27C4 OPEN SUBSET, U+27C5 LEFT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER, U+27C6 RIGHT S-SHAPED BAG DELIMITER using the latest proposal summary form and forward to WG2 for the June 2004 meeting. In Progress
98-A74Jonathan Kew Submit L2/04-025 proposing 5 Arabic characters U+065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA, U+065E ARABIC FATHA WITH TWO DOTS, U+076B ARABIC LETTER REH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE, U+076C ARABIC LETTER REH WITH HAMZA ABOVE, U+076D ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY ABOVE to WG2 for the June 2004 meeting. Done
98-A82UTC Liaisons to other organizations Contact their liaison organizations by phone regarding this Public Review Issue on corrigendum to Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms. [L2/04-094] Done
98-A84Ken Whistler, Michel Suignard, Asmus Freytag, V S Umamaheswaran Review L2/03-336 (alternate format characters) and draft UTC feedback before the next UTC meeting. In Progress
98-A85Benson Margulies Produce a proposal for a model for a characterization of multi-valued script properties. [L2/03-427L2/04-043;L2/04-083]  
98-A97Asmus Freytag Provide a code chart for ISO/IEC 10646:2003/Amendment1:2004 that matches the PDAM plus US comments. [L2/04-021] Done
98-A98Rick McGowan From WG2, send letter of appreciation to the people who contributed the ancient Greek proposals (Pantelia, Peevers, Nicholas).  

From UTC #97 and L2 #194, November 4 - 7, 2003, Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins Univ)

UTC# Who? Action Status
97-A16Michael Everson Write a tech note on phonetic notation (Insular G and related IPA & Latin characters). In progress
97-A17Michael Everson Write a tech note on the double oblique hyphen. In progress
97-A39Rick McGowan Discuss with Richard Cook that if he wishes to post L2/03-404 and L2/03-420 as a tech note, to address the Intellectual property and naming implications. Done
97-A49Asmus Freytag Create a new internal draft of UTR #30 on Character Foldings. Add the concept of filtering and the concept of syllabic folding. Done
97-A52Michael Kaplan Get suggested edits for working draft PDUTR #32 to Mark Davis. Closed
97-A53Asmus Freytag Come up with suggested improvements in the documentation of file formats (post Unicode 4.0.1), with regard to the proposal to add a header to UnicodeData.txt.
97-A56Richard Cook Make a proposal for encoding the 31 characters mentioned in L2/03-288. Done
L2A-194.1Asmus FreytagPursue reviewing the technical report on SGML publishing and technical sets with David Carlisle.Done
97-A64Eric MullerCommunicate with the government of Hong Kong regarding L2/03-423, that the first four characters can already be represented in Unicode and request more evidence of usage of the two circuit symbol characters. We believe the 1st is "ground symbol" and should be so called in Unicode/10646; we don't know what the second symbol would be. Done

From UTC #96 and L2 #193, August 25 - 27, 2003, Pleasanton, CA (PeopleSoft)

UTC# Who? Action Status
96-A5 Rick McGowan Determine the line breaking properties for Saurashtra. Also look at other property aliases, word-break properties, etc. in Unicode Standard Annex #29: Text Boundaries. Punctuation characters are particularly crucial..  
96-A7 John Jenkins Report to the IRG that the Unicode Standard has corrected a glyph error at code point U+3D0A. See 94-A44  
96-A27 Eric Muller, Michel Suignard, Asmus Freytag Propose an update to the WG2 font policy and submit. Done
96-A71 Richard Cook Work with Ken Whistler, Mike Ksar, Michel Suignard, Rick McGowan, and Tatsuo Kobayashi, on a proposal for WG2 on Han variant issues raised in document L2/03-286. In Progress
96-A102 Rick McGowan Get line break properties for the three Glagolitic punctuation characters, including the description and narrative. [L2/03-282]  

From UTC #95 and L2 #192, June 10 - 13, 2003, San Jose, CA (Adobe)

UTC# Who? Action Status
95-A11 Rick McGowan Take over action item 91-A5 from Lisa Moore (response to the proposer of the Arabic Kaf character).
 
95-A12 Rick McGowan Take over action item 91-A82 from Asmus Freytag. Point to W3C documentation and prepare a web document on the known discrepencies in E. Asian mapping tables. Also get data from Mark Davis and the ICU team.  
95-A14 Rick McGowan Prepare a proposal on "Maintaining Han Variant information" for the next meeting. Work with Richard Cook regarding how to use the Wenlin database for information on variants, and propose a model for UTC for maintaining a database of variant information. In Progress
95-A36 Debbie Anderson Document the user requirements that are not met by the current UTC process of publishing of documents and the roadmap. Done
95-A37 Debbie Anderson, Asmus Freytag, Rick McGowan Create a proposal for how to meet the user requirements for use of the Pipeline and Pending web pages. In Progress
95-A58 Kamal Mansour Communicate to the author of L2/03-166 that the committee would prefer to encode a single precomposed character for Syriac Alaph Wasla.  
95-A62 Jonathan Kew Write text for a Technical Note that explains of usage of Kaf and Gaf characters for different languages. Suggest additional annotations for these characters.  

From UTC #94 and L2 #191, March 4 - 7, 2003, Mountain View, CA (Microsoft)

UTC# Who? Action Status
94-A2 Asmus Freytag Work with the Mongolian experts to have a description of Mongolian shaping by end of 2003. In Progress
94-A37 Rick McGowan Get properties, joining groups, and shaping behavior information for Manichaean. Send message to bidi committee also to inform them of the proposal. In Progress

From UTC #93 and L2 #190, November 5-8, 2002 in Nashua, NH (HP)

UTC# Who? Action Status
93-A54 John Jenkins Add the JIS 0213 mappings to the Unihan database, after they have been verified by Cora Chang. Correct the HKSCS mappings to the values given in L2/02-359R after they have been verified by Cora Chang against the mappings issued by the Hong Kong Government. Done
93-A58 Eric Muller Draft a document to WG2 requesting that they require three mappings to identify each compatibility character: (1) the "real" Unified ideograph in 10646; (2) the source character in the standard they come from; (3) the mapping for the "base" character in the original standard for which it is a compatibility duplicate. These have not been provided for all compatibility characters up to now. Done

From UTC #90 and L2 #187, February 11-14, 2002 in Mountain View (Microsoft)

UTC# Who? Action Status
90-A84 John Jenkins Contact other organizations (Basis, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Xerox) with traditional and simplified mappings, asking them to make those mappings available for inclusion in Unihan.txt. Do this after Unicode 3.2 has been published. In Progress