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

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

Review periods for the new items close on August 9, 2005.

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

72 Stability of the Bidi Mirrored Property

In a bidirectional context, the images of many characters need to be
oriented depending on the writing direction of the text in which they
occur. The Bidi Mirrored property defines this behavior, but the model it
implements has a few inconsistencies. Ideally, these would be corrected,
but doing so will destabilize all documents containing the affected
characters. A stability policy would freeze future changes, but should one
last round of improvements be carried out? Your input on the range of
possible actions is solicited, whether you are a language expert, user. or
implementer.

73 Representative Glyphs for Arabic Characters U+06DF, U+06E0, and U+06E1

The representative glyphs for several Arabic characters used to annotate
the Koran have been reported as being possibly incorrect. The UTC has
tentatively decided to revise them as explained in the accompanying
document. The UTC invites anyone knowledgeable in their use to provide
additional information or recommendations.

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 use
the following link to subscribe (if necessary). Please be aware that
discussion comments on the Unicode mail list are not automatically recorded
as input to the UTC. You must use the reporting link above to generate
comments for UTC consideration.

    http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html

Regards,
        Rick McGowan
        Unicode, Inc.

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