MWG/3-N0R13

 

           Mongolian Working Group Meeting 3
3-5 April, 2019
Agenda
Mongolian Working Group Meeting 3 Document Register

last updated 5 April 2019

Wednesday, 3 April:

Day 1 Goals: Understand the Unicode Standard approval process, review of documentation needs for variant selectors and variant sequences, review Mongolian format controls, and introduce a refined phonetic model

9:30 Meeting starts

Opening remarks by B. Chinbat, Chairman of CITA

Meeting Moderator, Lisa Moore, summary of MWG2 outcomes and goals for MWG3 (MWG/3-N13R)

1. The Unicode Standard and the Unicode Approval Process (MWG/3-N6, PPT), Deborah Anderson

2. Insufficiency of the existing description of variant selectors and variant sequences in Mongolian Unicode character table (MWG/3-N3), Enkhdalai B.

Coffee Break

3. Proposal: Modification of description of variant selectors and variant sequences (MWG/3-N4), Enkhdalai B.

13:00 to 14:00 Lunch

4. Improvement of Mongolian Unicode Block (MWG/3-N5), CITA-WG 

Coffee Break 

5. Refined Phonetic Model (MWG/3-N7), Bolorsoft/Badral S.

6. Ad Hoc discussion on the days' topics: description of variant selectors, variant sequences, use of format controls, and a refined phonetic model

Summary of Day 1 accomplishments, Lisa Moore

17:30 pm Meeting adjourned

Commerative photograph

Welcome Dinner

Thursday, 4 April:

Day 2 Goals: Review progress made on new glyph shaping rules and understand what is needed in specifications to enable interoperable implementations.

9:30 Meeting starts

Summary of Day 1 and goals for Day 2, Lisa Moore

1. Filling the gap between orthographic patterns and shaping specs (MWG/3-N9), Shen Yilei 沈逸磊

Coffee Break

2. An introduction to the execution of our Solution with Minimal Modifications Subtitle: for achieving a stable and unified Mongolian encoding as soon as possible (MWG/3-N11),Liang Jinbao 梁金宝

13:00 to 14:00 Lunch

3. Towards a well-formed Mongolian specification that allows interoperable implementations (MWG/3-N8), Liang Hai 梁海

Coffee Break

4. Proposal to create open source for open type tables for modern Mongolian (MWG/3-N14), Andrew Glass

5. Continued...Refined Phonetic Model (MWG/3-N7), Bolorsoft/Badral S.

6. Ad Hoc discussion on the days' topics: orthographic patterns, shaping specifications, creating open source open type tables, phonetic model

Summary of Day 2 accomplishments, Lisa Moore

17:30 Meeting adjourned

Friday, 5 April:

Goals: Understand current implementations of Mongolian punctuation marks and what Unicode behavioral/property changes might be made to get improvements in basic text processing. Extended ad hoc discussions on important meeting topics such as: simplification of the phonetic model and minimizing invisible characters. Capture accomplishments and outline next steps.

9:30 Meeting starts

Summary of Day 2 and goals for Day 3, Lisa Moore

1. Demo: Unbounded gender propagation to make an user-friendly OpenType Mongolian font (MWG/3-N16), Shen Yilei 沈逸磊

2. On Mongolian punctuation marks (MWG/3-N10), Shen Yilei 沈逸磊

3. Summary of UTC Mongolian property updates since MWG2 (MWG/3-N12), Roozbeh Pournader

Coffee Break

4. Summary of alternative encoding solutions to re-syllabified compound words (MWG/3-N19), Liang Hai

13:00 to 14:00 Lunch  

5. Some possible improvement ideas to the current Mongolian encoding (MWG/3-N17), Anand Orkhonbaatar

6. Summary of proposals made during MWG3 (MWG/3-N20), Roozbeh Pournader

Coffee Break

7 Ad Hoc discussion on best approaches to Mongolian punctuation marks and other possible property updates

8. Ad Hoc discussion on continued meeting topics: shaping specifications, creating open source open type tables,simplification of the phonetic model, minimizing invisible characters, etc.

Meeting report: summary of MWG3 agreements, accomplishments, and next steps (MWG/3-N18), Lisa Moore

Appreciation for our hosts

17:00 Meeting adjourned

 

Background Documents:

  1. UTC Mongolian Document List
  2. MWG2 Document Register
  3. MWG3 Document Register
  4. Unicode V12.0 Mongolian Block Description (MWG/3-N2)
  5. The Todo encoding and a font proposition / 托特编码与字体构想 (MWG/3-N15)
  6. Comments on Towards a well-formed Mongolian specification that allows interoperable implementations (MWG/3-N21) (in Mongolian)