New Public Review Issue

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Wed Nov 24 2004 - 20:22:04 CST

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    The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public
    review and comment. Details are on the following web page:

            http://www.unicode.org/review/

    Review period for the new item closes on January 31, 2005.

    Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
    Briefly, the new issue is:

    57 Changes to Bidi categories of some characters used with Mathematics

    The UTC is considering changing the bidi category of seven compatibility
    characters from "ET" to "ES":
        U+207A SUPERSCRIPT PLUS SIGN
        U+208A SUBSCRIPT PLUS SIGN
        U+FB29 HEBREW LETTER ALTERNATIVE PLUS SIGN
        U+FE62 SMALL PLUS SIGN
        U+FE63 SMALL HYPHEN-MINUS
        U+FF0B FULLWIDTH PLUS SIGN
        U+FF0D FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS

    The UTC is also seeking feedback on the bidi categories of the following
    characters, and whether to also change these from "ET" to "ES":
        U+2212 MINUS SIGN
        U+207B SUPERSCRIPT MINUS
        U+208B SUBSCRIPT MINUS

    All of these characters may be used in connection with mathematical applications.

    If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by
    submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:

        http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

    If you wish to discuss issues on the Unicode mail list, then please
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    Regards,
            Rick McGowan
            Unicode, Inc.

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