L2/19-121R17

Agenda
UTC Meeting 159
San Jose, CA April 30 - May 3, 2019
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Last updated: May 3, 2019

UTC Plenary Meeting:
    Tuesday, April 30             10:30 am to 5:30 pm
    Wednesday, May 1            9:30 am to 5:30 pm
    Thursday, May 2               9:30 am to 5:30 pm
    Friday, May 3                    9:30 am to 2:30 pm
   
L2 Plenary Meeting:
    Friday, May 3                   3:00 pm to 5:00 pm


Scheduled Activities:

Agenda Person Day and Time (PST) Location
E.1 Emoji topics Davis, et al Tuesday, 2:00 pm  
C. Arabic Evans Wednesday, 9:30 am  
B.3 and B.4 IRG and CJK Lunde, Jenkins, et al Wednesday, 10:00 am  
E.1 Emoji topics Davis, et al Wednesday, 2:00 pm  
C. Adlam Patel, et al Wednesday, 3:00 pm  
E.3 Znamenny Musical Notation Andreev, et al Thursday, 9:30 am  
D.2 Bangla Kabir, et al Thursday, 10:00 am  
C.3 Mongolian Moore, et al Thursday, 11:00 am  
E.1 Emoji topics Davis, et al Thursday, 2:00 pm  
C.17 Bobomofo Yang, Chan Thursday, 4 pm  
B.13.8 String properties in regular expressions Bynens Friday, 9:30 am  

Ad  Hoc Meetings:
Ad Hoc Subject Person Day and Time (PST) Location
C.3 Mongolian Moore, Liang, et al Tuesday, 12:45 to 1:45 pm  
E.1 Emoji topics Davis, et al Wednesday, 12:45 to 1:45 pm
A. EMG Davis, et al Thursday, 12:45 to 1:45 pm
B.13.8 String properties in regular expressions Davis, et al Friday, 12:45 to 1:45 pm  


Other meetings:


Meeting Person Day and Time (PST) Location
CLDR regular meeting   Wednesday, 8:00 to 9:30 am teleconference



A. Administrative Topics
A.1 UTC membership roll call
  A.1.1 Call for proxies
  A.1.2 Roll call

A.2 Declaration of meeting open

A.3 Registration of new documents

A.4 Approval of meeting agenda [L2/19-121]
  Latest version of this document

A.5 Minutes and action items
  A.5.1 Approval of minutes
    A.5.1.1 Approve UTC meeting 158 minutes [L2/19-008]
  A.5.2  Action Items
    A.5.2.1 Review of open action items [L2/SD2]
    A.5.2.2 Recently closed action items [L2/19-123]

  Minutes posted at https://www.unicode.org/L2/meetings/utc-meetings.html

A.6 Calendar review
  UTC 160 July 23-26, 2019, host Microsoft
  UTC 161 October 7-10, 2019, host Apple, Annual Full Members Mtg
  UTC 162 January 13-16, 2020, host VMware, TBC
  UTC 163 April 28-May 1, 2020, host Adobe 
  UTC 164 July 27-30, 2020, host Microsoft
  UTC 165 October 6-9, 2020, host Apple, TBC     

  Calendar posted at http://www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html

A.7 Letter ballot review

A.8 Schedule ad hoc meetings

A.9 Membership update


B. Liaison Reports and Technical Topics

B.1  JTC1/SC2/WG2
  B.1.1 Meeting reports
    B.1.1.1 Convenor's report
    B.1.1.2 Liaison reports
      B.1.1.2.1 Unicode liaison report to SC2 [Constable

      B.1.1.2.2 Unicode liaison report from SC2 [Constable]      
      B.1.1.2.3
Script Encoding Initiative Liaison report (to WG2) [Anderson]
    B.1.1.3 IR's meeting report [Anderson]
    B.1.1.4 Consent docket
[Anderson, et al]
  B.1.2 SC2/WG2 minutes, recommendations, resolutions, report
    B.1.2.1 Minutes [SC/WG2]
    B.1.2.2 Reports
    B.1.2.3 Recommendations [WG2]
  B.1.3 Amendments/Ballots
    B.1.3.1 6th Edition
     B.1.3.1 Disposition of comments on ISO/IEC CD 10646 6th edition [Suignard, L2/19-181]
     B.1.3.2 Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646: 2019 (6th ed) CD2 [Suignard, L2/19-182]
     B.1.3.3 Review ballot comments [Anderson]
  B.1.4 Ad Hoc reports
  B.1.5 Review pipeline characters to ensure all new characters are in ballot comments or a separate document [Whistler]
  B.1.6 Review of document requesting new additions [Anderson, L2/19-198]
 

B.2 SC2/SC22/SC34/SC35/SC36/TC37/SC29/TC12
  B.2.1 Liaison reports
    B.2.1.1 Unicode Consortium Liaison Report to TC 37/SC 2 [Constable]  
    B.2.1.2 Unicode Consortium Liaison Report to JTC1/SC 2  
    B.2.1.3 Liaison report from OWG Sort Editor [Whistler]    
  B.2.2 JTC/SC documents
    B.2.2.1 SC2
      B.2.2.1.1 10646
      B.2.2.1.2 14651
    B.2.2.2 SC35
    b B.2.2.2.1 WG5    B.2.2.3 TC37/SC2
      B.2.2.3.1 Liaison report [Constable]
    B.2.2.4 JTC1

B.3 IRG
  B.3.1 Liaison report [Lunde, Jenkins]
  B.3.2 Under-specified IRG source references  [Cook, L2/19-066]
   B.3.3 Proposed Horizontal Extension to ISO/IEC 10646 [Jenkins, L2/19-185]

B.4 CJK
  B.4.1 Proposal to add kTGHZ2013 to the Unihan Database [Chung, L2/19-160]

  B.4.2 New kMandarin readings for 148 ideographs [Chung, L2/19-161]
  B.4.3 Glyph for U+2F2A KANGXI RADICAL LAME [Jenkins, L2/19-175]  
  B.4.4 Unihan Ad Hoc Report on Variant Changes [Jenkins, L2/19-186]
  B.4.5 UAX#38 vs. UAX#42, and Unihan properties [Cook, L2/19-191]

 B.5 IETF
  B.5.1 Liaison report [Suignard]

B.6 INFITT
  B.6.1 Liaison report [Moore]

B.7 UC Berkeley Department of Linguistics - Script Encoding Initiative
  B.7.1 Liaison report [Anderson, L2/19-174]

B.8 ICU
    B.8.1 Liaison report [Umaoka, Scherer]

B.9 Unicode Locales Project (CLDR)
   B.9.1 Liaison report [Davis, Edberg]

B.10 Public Review Issues
   B.10.1 Other feedback
     B.10.1.1 General feedback [L2/19-124

B.11 Unicode Technical Reports, Standards, and Standard Annexes
  B.11.1 Unicode Standard Annex #29, Unicode Text Segmentation
    B.11.1 Draft for Proposed Update UAX#29, Unicode Text Segmentation [Chapman, L2/19-188]
  B.11.2 Unicode Standard Annex #42,Unicode Character Database in XML
    B.11.2.1 Approve UAX #42 for Unicode V12.1 release
  B.11.3 Unicode Standard Annex #45,U-Source Ideographs
    B.11.3.1 Compatibility ideographs and UAX#45  [Jenkins, L2/19-065]
     B.11.3.2 Distributed file to be described in UAX #45 [Jenkins, L2/19-176] 
    B.11.3.3 Proposal to update the U-Source reference for U+2B089  [Chan, et al, L2/19-081]
    B.11.3.4 Proposal to add 4 music-used ideographs to UAX #45 [Chan, Jiang, L2/19-089]

B.12 Editorial Committee/Unicode Standard
  B.12.1 Errata
  B.12.2 Editorial Committee report [Whistler]
  B.12.3 Approve release of Unicode V12.1
 
B.13 Properties
  B.13.1 Positional category of Javanese pengkal [Lindenberg, Perdana, L2/19-083]
  B.13.2 Proposal to define a space character as a group separator [Schneider, L2/19-112]
  B.13.3 Proposal to spread a warning about legibility of six bidi-mirrored symbols [Schneider, L2/19-113]
  B.13.4 Proposal to focus line break prevention design on end-user input [Schneider, L2/19-114]
  B.13.5 Proposal to ensure usability of fixed-width spaces [Schneider, L2/19-115]
  B.13.6 Proposal to clarify the purpose of U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE [Schneider, L2/19-116]
  B.13.7 Proposal to correct General_category for a pair of ornamental guillemets [Schneider, L2/19-117]
  B.13.8 Supporting string properties in regular expressions [Bynens, L2/19-168]
    B.13.8.1 Comments on L2/18-337 - Broaden the scope of what Unicode calls “properties” [Saboff, L2/19-056]

B.14 Ad hoc reports
  B.14.1 Mongolian
    B.14.1.1 Mongolian  at UTC 159
  B.14.2 Emoji
    B.14.2.1 Emoji at UTC 159
  B.14.3 Bangla

    B.14.3.1 Bangla at UTC 159
  B.14.4 String properties in regular expressions
    B.14.4.1 String properties in regular expressions UTC 159

B.15 Other
  B.15.1 Review of Unicode 2018 Henri Sivonen docs [Scherer, L2/19-192]


C. Scripts  

C.1 WG2-related
  C.1.1 Review of script documents requested by WG2
C.2 Review of UTC script proposals
  C.2.1 Script Ad Hoc recommendations to the UTC [Anderson, et al, L2/19-173]
C.3 Mongolian
  C.3.1 Mongolian Working Group Meeting 3 (MWG3) [Moore, L2/19-139]
  C.3.2 Summary of proposals made during MWG3 [Pournader, L2/19-141]


  C.3.3 Towards a well-formed Mongolian specification that allows interoperable implementations [Liang, L2/19-130]

  C.3.4 GENERAL COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS ON THE MONGOLIAN WORKING GROUP MEETING 3 [Mongolian Academy of Sciences, L2/19-142]
C.4 Proposal to include Shughni/Roshani Alphabet [Zoorhori, L2/19-174]
C.5 Proposal for encoding the Yezidi script in the SMP of the UCS [Rovenchak, Pirbari, Karaca, L2/19-051R]

C.6 Proposal to add six phonetic characters for Scots (WG2 N5036) [Everson, L2/19-075]
C.7 Latin
  C7.1 Unicode Letter Addition Proposal (Latin letter turned capital y) [Schüler, L2/19-072]
  C.7.2  Proposal to encode Latin Letter Reversed Half H [West, Everson,
L2/19-092]
C,8 Proposal to encode the Old Turkic ligature ORKHON CI [Pandey, L2/19-069]
C.9 Arabic
  C.9.1 Proposal to include Balti alphabet [Shaikh, L2/19-077]
 
C.9.2 Proposal to include Shughni/Roshani Alphabet [Zohoori, L2/19-074]

  C.9.3 Proposal to encode ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE in the UCS [Evans, et al, L2/19-111R]
  C.9.4 Proposal to add Arabic letter JEEM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE and JEEM WITH THREE DOTS BELOW [Patel, et al, L2/19-118]
C.10 Tangut
  C.10.1 Investigation of Tangut unification issues (WG2 N5031) [West, Zaytsev,
L2/19-064]
C.11 Preliminary report on L2/17-337, revised chart of Naxi Dongba characters [Poupard, L2/19-071]
C.12 Proposal to add BREATH punctuation marks to the UCS  [Sanhueza, L2/19-073]
C.14 Replacement of Adlam reference font [Patel, et al, L2/19-119]

C.15 Peoplese half-length hyphen [Moore, L2/19-165]
C.16 Announcement of Japanese new era name  [Japan NB, L2/19-094]
C.17 Bopomofo
   C.17.1 Proposal to encode Cantonese Bopomofo Characters [Yang, Chan, L2/19-177]
   C.17.2 Preliminary proposal to encode four extended Bopomofo letters for Cantonese in BMP [Chan, L2/19-100]
C.18 New charts for Northern and Southern Palaeohispanic [Ferrer, L2/19-045]
C.19 SBL Hebrew Font User Manual [Hudson, L2/19-183]
C.20 Brief report from meeting on Cypro-Minoan, Paris, March 2019 [Anderson, L2/19-166]
C.21 Final list of characters and quadrats for Mayan codices [Pallan, L2/19-171]
C.22 A proposal for encoding italics in plain text using Variation Selector 14 [Overington, L2/19-063]
  C.22.1 Comments on comments about L2/19-063 Italics in Plain Text [Overington, L2/19-195]


D. South Asian

D.1 Review of Indic-related UTC documents

  D.1.1 Review of Indic-related documents and recommendations to the UTC [Anderson, et al, L2/19-173]
D.2 Bangla
  D.2.1 Proposal for revision of Unicode Bangla Block [ICT Bangladesh/Kabir, L2/19-079]
D.3 Encoding Model for Conjuncts with Chillus [Johny, et al, L2/19-086R]
   D.3.1 Comments on L2/19-086: Archaic Malayalam Sequences [Ganesan, L2/19-125]
D.4 Request to change Annotation of U+11FEC and U+11FED in Tamil Supplementary Block [Ganesan, L2/19-117]
  D.4.1 Response to L2/19-117 on Tamil annotations [Sharma, L2/19-184]
D.5 Proposal to encode CHAKMA LETTER VAA for Pali [Scheuren, L2/19-143]
D.6 Request to change the default behavior of Newa Initial Ra [Scheuren, Maharjan, L2/19-170]
D.7 Response to Script Ad Hoc re: L2/18-319 on Bindi before Bihari in Gurmukhi [Singh, L2/19-167]

 


E. Symbols

E.1 Emoji
  E.1.1 ESC Recommendations for 2019Q2 UTC [ESC, L2/19-190
    E.1.1.1 Additions to emoji data files for Emoji 13.0 [ESC/Davis, L2/19-193]  
  E.1.2 ESC Candidate Recommendations for 2019Q2 UTC [ESC]
  E.1.3 Smileys under consideration for Unicode 13.0 [ESC/Burge, L2/19-085]
  E.1.4 Priorities for Future RGI Emoji Sequences [ESC/Burge, L2/19-101]
  E.1.5 QID Emoji Proposal [Davis, L2/19-082]
  E.1.6 Gender
    E.1.6.1 Using gender inclusive designs [Daniel, L2/19-078]
    E.1.6.2 The Curse of Representation by Specificity, or: Why There Should Not Be a Transgender Flag Emoji (L2/19-080]) [Buff, L2/19-084]
      E.1.6.2.1 Response to The Curse of Representation by Specificity, or: Why There Should Not Be a Transgender Flag Emoji [ESC/Jones, L2/19-194]  
    E.1.6.3 Proposal for Consistent Gender Options for Emoji ZWJ Sequences [ESC/Daniel, L2/19-189]
E.2 Proposal to encode three cross symbols (WG2 N5037) [Everson, L2/19-076]
E.3 Proposal to Encode Znamenny Musical Notation in Unicode (Preliminary and Incomplete) [Andreev, et al, L2/19-053]
E.4 Proposal to encode the Zoroastrian symbol ‘Fravahar’ in Unicode  [Pandey, L2/19-067]
E.5 Proposal to add block elements and symbols for software developing [Li, L2/19-068]
E.6 Garay math notation [Rovenchak,
L2/19-162]
   E.6.1 Feedback on Garay [Rovenchak, Riley, L2/19-163]
E.7 Proposal to encode a pair of Ascia symbols for Roman epigraphy [West, Everson, L2/19-091]
E.8 Proposal to encode three Christian symbols (WG2 N5040) [West, Everson, L2/19-093]
E.9 Preliminary proposal on encoding Jianzi Musical Notation and Jianzi Format Controls in SMP [Culture and Art Publishing House, Chan, L2/19-107]

F. Miscellaneous

F.1

G. Close of Meeting

 

G.1 Thank our hosts