IRG Meeting #65 will be conducted as a hybrid in-person/online meeting. Online participants will use Webex.
All dates and times shown are China Standard Time (UTC/GMT+08:00).
Schedule
Monday, October 13, 2025:
| 1. Opening Speech by Meeting Host & Convenor | 10:30 |
| 2. Administrative Topics | morning |
| 3. Member Body Activity Reports | morning |
| 4. Review of Recommendations and Action Items from IRG Meeting #64 | morning |
| Lunch | 12:30 to 14:00 |
| 6. Urgently Needed Ideograph Proposals | afternoon |
| 7. Disunification Proposals & Documents | afternoon |
| 8. Horizontal Extension Proposals & Documents | afternoon |
| Break | Approximately 15:30 |
| 9. Other Documents | afternoon |
Tuesday, October 14, 2025:
| 5. IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0 | 09:00 |
| Break | Approximately 10:30 |
| 5. IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0 (cont’d) | morning |
| Lunch | 12:30 to 14:00 |
| 5. IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0 (cont’d) | afternoon |
| Break | Approximately 15:30 |
| 5. IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0 (cont’d) | afternoon |
Wednesday, October 15, 2025:
| 5. IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0 (cont’d) | 09:00 |
| Break | Approximately 10:30 |
| 5. IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0 (cont’d) | morning |
| Lunch | 12:30 to 14:00 |
| 9. Other Documents | afternoon |
| Break | Approximately 15:30 |
| 9. Other Documents (cont’d) | afternoon |
| Welcome Dinner | evening |
Thursday, October 16, 2025:
| 10. Final Document Preparation | 09:00 |
| Break | Approximately 10:30 |
| 10. Final Document Preparation (cont’d) | morning |
| Lunch | 12:30 to 14:00 |
| 11. Approval of Meeting Recommendations and Action Items | afternoon |
| 12. Meeting Adjournment | afternoon |
Friday, October 17, 2025:
No Meeting
Agenda
Agenda Legend
| Document number | Documents that have not yet been posted to the IRG document register; also used for tentative meeting dates |
| Document title | With the exception of member body activity reports, documents that were submitted after the submission deadline |
| ✅ | Agenda items that have be completed |
| 🟡 | Agenda items that need to be revisited, either during this meeting or at the next one |
| 🔴 | Agenda items that were not discussed |
1. ✅ Opening Speech by Meeting Host & Convenor
2. ✅ Administrative Topics
Schedule: Monday
Topics:
2.1 ✅ Roll call
2.2 ✅ Approval of agenda items
2.3 ✅ Review of work planning and future meeting schedule
- ✅ Recommendation IRG M64.01: Future Meeting Schedule (IRG N2765)
- ✅ IRG Meeting #66: Virtual (Webex), 2026-03-16/20 — approved by WG 2
- ✅ IRG Meeting #67: Tokyo, Japan (hybrid), 2026-10-12/16 — approved by WG 2
- ✅ IRG Meeting #68: Virtual (Webex), 2027-03-15/19 — approved by WG 2
- ✅ IRG Meeting #69: Fall 2027 — seeking host
2.4 ✅ Address Book Revision (IRG N2829 & IRG N2830)
2.5 ✅ IWDS Updates
3. ✅ Member Body Activity Reports
Schedule: Monday
Topics:
3.1 ✅ China (IRG N2816R)
3.2 ✅ Hong Kong SAR (IRG N2817)
3.3 ✅ Macao SAR (IRG N2818)
3.4 ✅ TCA (IRG N2819)
3.5 ✅ ROK (IRG N2821)
3.6 ✅ SAT (IRG N2822)
3.7 ✅ UK (IRG N2823R2)
3.8 ✅ US/Unicode (IRG N2824)
3.9 ✅ Vietnam (IRG N2825)
4. ✅ Review of Recommendations and Action Items from IRG Meeting #64 (IRG N2765)
Schedule: Monday
Note from WG 2 Convenor: Unicode Version 17.0 is a strict subset of ISO/IEC 10646 7th Edition, meaning that anything that is reflected in Unicode Version 17.0 (2025) will be incorporated into the next progression of ISO/IEC 10646 7th Edition (aka CD.2). ISO/IEC 10646 7th Edition is also targeting Unicode Version 18.0 (2026).
Topics:
4.1 ✅ M64.03: Updated UCV and NUCV Lists (IRG N2813)
- Current Status: IRG experts should be reviewing document IRG N2813 with comments due by 2025-07-25.
4.2 ✅ M64.05: 12 Urgently Needed Characters—China (IRG N2753 & IRG N2802R2)
- Current Status: These Urgently Needed Characters are reflected in Unicode Version 17.0, at the end of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E block at code points U+2CEA2 through U+2CEAD.
4.3 ✅ M64.06: Disunification of 16 T-Source Ideographs (IRG N2778)
- Current Status: These TCA disunifications and horizontal extension are reflected in Unicode Version 17.0.
4.4 ✅ M64.07: Disunification of U+6138 (IRG N2782)
- Current Status: This disunification is reflected in Unicode Version 17.0, but note that the UTC changed the code point of the disunified ideograph to be at the end of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C block at code point U+2B73F per UTC Consensus 183-C58. See Section 4.5 immediately below.
4.5 ✅ M64.08: Disunification of U+980B, U+FACB & U+2F9FF (IRG N2786)
- Current Status: In light of document IRG N2834 in Section 7.3, which recommended that the KP- and T-source disunifications in document IRG N2786 be reconsidered during this IRG meeting, the UTC CJK & Unihan Working Group recommended that the UTC not accept this proposal, and the UTC agreed. Also see document IRG N2865 in Section 7.3.
4.6 ✅ M64.09: Disunification of U+2A50D (IRG N2780 & IRG N2804)
- Current Status: See Section 7.1.
4.7 ✅ M64.10: China Horizontal Extensions (IRG N2729R3 & IRG N2805R2)
- Current Status: This China horizontal extension is reflected in Unicode Version 17.0.
4.8 ✅ M64.11: Japan Horizontal Extension Issues (IRG N2040 & IRG N2722)
- Current Status: See Section 8.1.
4.9 ✅ M64.12: TCA Horizontal Extension (IRG N2779R2)
- Current Status: This TCA horizontal extension is reflected in Unicode Version 17.0.
4.10 ✅ M64.13: Vietnam Horizontal Extension (IRG N2798)
- Current Status: This Vietnam horizontal extension is reflected in Unicode Version 17.0.
4.11 ✅ M64.14: Revised G-Source Representative Glyphs & Sources (IRG N2800, IRG N2803R2, IRG N2805R2 & IRG N2807)
- Current Status: These G-source representative glyph and property value changes are reflected in Unicode Version 17.0.
- Special Note: The one kRSUnicode and two kTotalStrokes property value changes in document IRG N2800 should have been excluded from this recommendation, because they affect U+9D56 and U+3125D whose possible disunifications were deferred to a future IRG meeting.
4.12 ✅ M64.15: Revised T-Source Representative Glyphs & Sources (IRG N2777, IRG N2778 & IRG N2779R2)
- Current Status: These T-source representative glyph and property value changes are reflected in Unicode Version 17.0.
4.13 ✅ M64.16: Revised V-Source Representative Glyphs & Sources (IRG N2798 & IRG N2801)
- Current Status: These V-source representative glyph and property value changes are reflected in Unicode Version 17.0.
4.14 ✅ M64.17: Updated IRG Disunified Ideographs (IRG N2811)
- Current Status: IRG experts should be reviewing document IRG N2811 with comments due by 2025-08-29.
4.15 ✅ M64.18: IRG P&P Update (IRG N2711, IRG N2713, IRG N2714R, IRG N2715R, IRG N2743 & IRG N2791)
- Current Status: See document IRG N2850 in Section 9.2.
4.16 ✅ M64.19: Encoding CJKV Components (IRG N2799)
- Current Status: See documents IRG N2852, IRG N2878R, and IRG N2890 in Section 9.3.
4.17 ✅ M64.20: Script-Hybrid Han Ideographs (IRG N2789, IRG N2792 & IRG N2793R)
- Current Status: See documents IRG N2866R, IRG N2867, IRG N2885R, and IRG N2893 in Section 9.3
4.18 ✅ M64.21: CAAPH IVD Collection (IRG N2796R2)
- Current Status: PRI #521, Combined registration of the CAAPH collection and of sequences in that collection, which opened on 2025-04-08, closed on 2025-07-11, and a new version of the IVD that registers the new CAAPH IVD collection and its initial set of 198 IVSes was published on 2025-07-14.
5. ✅ IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0
Schedule: Tuesday & Wednesday
Topics:
5.1 ✅ IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0 (IRG N2809)
5.2 ✅ IRG Working Set 2024 Version 3.0 Consolidated Comments (IRG N2810)
5.3 ✅ Specific issues that require attention:
- ✅ The following 21 G-source ideographs specify source references that conflict with kIRG_GSource property values that were updated in Unicode Version 16.0 per document IRG N2679, and should therefore be changed to the one specified after the arrow per China’s feedback in the ORT:
- GDM-00377 (00009) → GDM-01009
- GXM-00434 (00113) → GXM-00526
- GXM-00435 (00217) → GXM-00527
- GXM-00436 (00264) → GXM-00528
- GXM-00437 (00266) → GXM-00529
- GXM-00438 (00318) → GXM-00530
- GXM-00439 (01024) → GXM-00531
- GXM-00440 (01028) → GXM-00532
- GXM-00441 (01030) → GXM-00533
- GXM-00442 (01211) → GXM-00534
- GXM-00443 (01238) → GXM-00535
- GXM-00444 (01290) → GXM-00536
- GXM-00445 (01390) → GXM-00537
- GXM-00446 (01406) → GXM-00538
- GXM-00447 (00030) → GXM-00539
- GXM-00449 (02141) → GXM-00540
- GXM-00450 (02213) → GXM-00541
- GXM-00451 (02309) → GXM-00542
- GXM-00452 (02308) → GXM-00543
- GXM-00453 (02415) → GXM-00544
- GXM-00454 (02564) → GXM-00545
5.4 ✅ Editorial Report (IRG N2827)
6. ✅ Urgently Needed Ideograph Proposals
Schedule: Monday
Topics:
NONE
7. Disunification Proposals & Documents
Schedule: Monday
Topics:
7.1 ✅ Proposal to Disunify U+2A50D (IRG N2780)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2780 (IRG N2804)
- Current Status: See Section 1 of document IRG N2859 in Section 9.3, which was sent to Japan on 2025-08-13, along with the response from Japan in document IRG N2870.
7.2 ✅ Possible Disunification of U+21694 (IRG N2846)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2846 (IRG N2848)
- Current Status: See Section 4 of document IRG N2859 in Section 9.3, which was sent to Japan on 2025-08-13, along with the response from Japan in document IRG N2870.
7.3 ✅ Proposal to Disunify U+FACB and U+2F9FF (IRG N2786)
8. ✅ Horizontal Extension Proposals & Documents
Schedule: Monday
Topics:
8.1 ✅ Issues about JMJ Horizontal Extension (IRG N2040 & IRG N2722)
- Current Status: See Section 3 of document IRG N2859 in Section 9.3, which was sent to Japan on 2025-08-13, along with the response from Japan in document IRG N2870.
8.2 ✅ Request for Horizontal Extension in the H column of the ISO/IEC 10646 Standard (IRG N2849R)
8.3 ✅ G-Source horizontal extensions for 597 characters (IRG N2877R3)
8.4 ✅ T-Source horizontal extensions for 163 characters (IRG N2879R2)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2879 (IRG N2883)
9. ✅ Other Documents
Schedule: Monday & Wednesday
Topics:
9.1 ✅ Representative Glyph & Source Reference Issues
- ✅ G7-source references updates (IRG N2808R2)
- ✅ Request to revise the glyphs for 4 G-source ideographs (IRG N2840)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2840 (IRG N2874R)
- ✅ Request for consideration to revise the glyphs for 18 G-source characters (IRG N2843)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2843 (IRG N2844R)
- ✅ Proposal to Normalize some G-source Characters in CJK-ExtG (IRG N2845)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2845 (IRG N2875)
- ✅ G-Source references updates for 1,538 characters (IRG N2864R)
- ✅ Proposal for changing the source reference information for 1,417 G-Source characters (IRG N2835R) — Evidence ZIP (1.4GB)
- ✅ Request for consideration to update the source reference values for 82 GXC-source characters (IRG N2837) — Evidence ZIP (51MB)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2835 (IRG N2838)
- ✅ Recommendations for resolving long-standing G3 and G5 issues (IRG N2863)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2835 / N2837 / N2838 (IRG N2868)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2851/N2853/N2855/N2869/N2730/N2871 (IRG N2876R2)
- ✅ Request to update the G-source glyph and source reference for U+3A17 (IRG N2851)
- ✅ Request to revise 11 G-source glyphs (IRG N2853)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2851 and IRG N2853 (IRG N2855)
- ✅ Request for consideration to modify G glyph for U+28B48 (IRG N2869)
- ✅ Proposal to Disunify two Kangxi Characters (Redux) (IRG N2730)
- ✅ Proposal on modifying 3 G-source representative glyphs (IRG N2871)
- ✅ Feedback on IRG N2884, IRG N2838, and IRG N2730 (IRG N2889R2)
- ✅ Proposal to modify the references of 11 KC-source characters (IRG N2858)
- ✅ KR Response to IRG N2858, Proposal to modify the references of 11 KC-source characters, Wenjie Dong (IRG N2872)
- ✅ Request to revise 2 K-source glyphs (IRG N2881)
- ✅ KR Response to IRG N2881, Request to revise 2 K-source glyphs by MA Shijie (IRG N2882)
- ✅ A discussion of the glyph of K6-110B/U+25A2B/U+2B058 and the glyph of GZJW-01380/U+2B058 (IRG N2873)
- ✅ Request to move SAT-60289 from U+2E30B to U+809E (IRG N2854)
- ✅ SAT Feedback on “Request to move SAT-60289 from U+2E30B to U+809E” (IRG N2854) (IRG N2891)
- ✅ Feedback to IRG N2779 (IRG N2832)
- ✅ Response on IRG N2832 (IRG N2833)
- ✅ Glyph issues of U+8FBC (IRG N2842)
- ✅ Request to revise 25 T-source glyphs (IRG N2860)
- ✅ Response on IRG N2860 (IRG N2861)
- ✅ T-Source and Glyph Updates (IRG N2880)
- ✅ Request to consider normalizing U+2B9EC (IRG N2847)
- Current Status: This V-source representative glyph change is reflected in Unicode 17.0.0.
9.2 ✅ IRG P&P Documents
- ✅ Version 18, Draft 1 (IRG N2850)
9.3 ✅ Miscellaneous Documents
- ✅ Handling of ideographs used in Singapore and Malaysia (IRG N2841)
- ✅ Recommendations for disposition of IRG N2676, N2722, N2780, N2846 & related documents (IRG N2859)
- ✅ Comment on IRG N2859 (IRG N2870)
- ✅ Proposal to create consolidated SC and FS guidelines for IWDS (IRG N2862)
- ✅ Updated proposal to encode CJK Unified Ideographs Components and CJK Unified Ideographs Jianzi Musical Notation Components (IRG N2878R)
- ✅ Script-Hybrid Characters and GB 18030 (IRG N2866R2)
- ✅ Some comments RE: IRG N2866R, Script-Hybrid Characters and GB 18030, Witty Wen, 2025-10-01 (IRG N2885R)
- ✅ Multi-Syllabic Characters and Abbreviation Characters (IRG N2867R)
- ✅ China's advice on the encoding work of CJK Hybrid Characters (IRG N2893)
9.4 ✅ Editorial Report on Miscellaneous Issues (IRG N2828)
10. ✅ Final Document Preparation
Schedule: Thursday
11. ✅ Approval of Meeting Recommendations and Action Items
Schedule: Thursday
Topics:
11.1 ✅ IRG Meeting #65 Recommendations and Action Items (IRG N2826)