ISO

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION

ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION

ISO/IEC JTC 1/ SC 2/ WG 2

Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set

(U C S)

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N 1521

Date: 1997-04-02

Title: WG2 Draft Report to the seventh SC2 plenary meeting in Greece,

8 - 9 July 1997

Source: Mike Ksar, SC2/WG2 Convener

Action: For Review and approval by WG2

Distribution: ISO/IEC JTC 1/ SC 2/WG 2 members

 

  1. Meetings

 

Since the last SC2 plenary session, which was Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in August 1996, WG2 met several times as detailed below. Earlier meetings are included for reference.

 

Meeting #

Location

Date

Document #, Minutes/Resolutions

23

Athens, Greece

24 - 26 May 1993

N 903, N 904

24

Washington, DC, U.S.A.

1 - 5 Nov. 1993

N 955, N 949

25

Antalya, Turkey

18 - 25 April 1994

N 1033, N 1034

26

San Francisco, Calif. U.S.A.

10 - 14 Oct. 1994

N 1117, N 1118

27

Geneva, Switzerland

3 - 7 April 1995

N 1203, N 1204

28

Helsinki, Finland

26 - 28 June 1995

N 1253, N 1254

29

Tokyo, Japan

6 - 10 November 1995

N 1303, N 1304

30

Copenhagen, Denmark

22 - 26 April 1996

N 1353, N 1354

31

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

12 - 16 August 1996

N 1453, N 1454

32

Singapore

20 - 24 January 1997

N 1503*, N 1504

33 Planned

Greece

30 June – 4 July 1997

 

34 Planned

West Coast, U.S.

16 – 20 March 1998

 

35 Planned

London, UK

21 – 25 September 1998

 

36 Planned

China

March 1999

 

 

* These are unconfirmed minutes.

 

  1. Scope of Work

Develop a universal multiple-octet coded character set that encompasses the world’s scripts. This is Work Item JTC1.02.18 - ISO/IEC 10646.

  1. Progress of Work and Achievements
    1. JTC 1 ballots approved, in January 1997, four additional amendments to ISO/IEC 10646-1 (DAM 5, 6, 7 and 8) covering additional repertoires for Hangul, Tibetan and Hebrew. DAM 8, an informative annex on CJK Unification Rules, as approved by JTC 1 as well. Final text is being prepared for submittal of camera ready copies to ITTF for publication.
    2. Prepared a proposed disposition of comments for ballot issues related to pDAM 9, Identifiers for Characters. Final text, and prepared final text for consideration at WG2 meeting 33 in Greece.
    3. Completed its work on 3 other pDAMs for additional repertoires on Ethiopic, Canadian Syllabics, and Cherokee scripts, pDAMs 10, 11 and 12 respectively. SC2 ballot results are on the agenda for WG2 meeting 33 in Greece in July 1997. It is expected that a disposition of comments will be prepared for these 3 pDAMs and final text to be prepared for further processing.
    4. The Character Glyph Model Technical Report has been sent to JTC1 for balloting.
    5. Continued to enhance the set of principles and a process to prioritize the various repertoire additions to WG2. The new process has been extremely helpful in managing and prioritizing repertoire additions to 10646.
    6. The Rapporteur of the IRG is Mr. Zhang Zhoucai of China. His term runs until the SC2 plenary session in Greece.
    7. Established a World Wide Web site for WG2 and a WG2 ftp site for posting electronic documents. The URL is www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2. Keld Simonsen of the Danish Unix Users Group (dkuug) in Copenhagen, Denmark operates the site.
    8. Approved the following repertoire additions including code allocation::
      1. Additional Cyrillic characters (4)
      2. Additional Pinyin characters (2)
      3. Internal Supplementation/Horizontal Supplementation of Ideographic characters
      4. Braille
    9. Approved the following repertoire additions but did not decide on final code position allocation:
      1. Ogham
      2. Vertical Extension A to CJK Unified Ideographs (6585)
      3. Additional Symbols

 

  1. Work in Progress
    1. Additional Latin characters
    2. Armenian
    3. Byzantine Music Symbols
    4. Cham script
    5. Ideographic Component Supplement
    6. Ideographic Radical Supplement
    7. Ideographic Structure Characters
    8. Ideographic Vertical Extensions B and C
    9. Indic
    10. Mongolian
    11. Publish DAMs 9, 10, 11, and 12
    12. Runic
    13. Tai (Dai) scripts
    14. Yi

5. WG2 Liaisons

WG2 continues to work very closely with the following liaison organizations.

 

In addition, WG2 has worked very closely with the following working groups but no official liaisons exist between them and WG2.

 

 

6. Mailing List

 

7. Issues Requiring Consideration by SC2.

WG2 requests SC2 to consider and approve the following resolutions: