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Iso/Iec Jtc 1/Sc 2/Wg 2 N4605-A ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 N4605-A DATE: 2014-10-02 Tentative Agenda – Meeting # 63 Topic (Document No.) Proposed Outcome 1. Opening and roll call (N4551) Update Distribution List 2. Approval of the agenda (N4605-A) Approved agenda 3. Approval of minutes of meeting 62 (N4553) Approved Minutes 4. Review action items from previous meeting (N4553-AI) Updated Action Item List 5. JTC1 and ITTF matters FYI 5.1 Results of Voting: ISO/IEC FDIS 10646 4th ed (N4586) Published 2014-09-01 – SC2 N4358/WG2 N4618 6. SC2 matters: 6.1. SC2 Notification of approval of subdivision of work (N4578) FYI 6.2. Notification of SC2 approval of SC2 N4319, request from FYI the Unicode Consortium for changing the category of liaison from C to A (N4577 ) 6.3. Summary of Voting on 10646: DAM1 (Ed 4) Review and progress (N4611, N4611-BSI) 6.4. Proposed Disposition of Ballot Comments DAM1 (N4615) Approve and progress 7. WG2 matters 7.1 Possible ad hoc meetings – Nushu (N4647 ad hoc report) (8:30 Wed), Tangut (post close on Monday) Consider (Tangut - N4642) 7.2 Summary of Voting on 10646 4th edition PDAM2 (N4614) FYI (N4614 Commentfiles PDAM2) 7.3 Proposed Disposition of Ballot Comments on PDAM2 Approve and progress 10646 4th ed (N4616) 7.4 Roadmap Snapshot (N4617) Adoption 8. IRG status and reports 8.1 IRG No. 42 Resolutions – Qindao, China (N4582) FYI 8.2 IRG No. 42 Summary Report (N4581) Adoption 8.3 IRG Principles and Procedures version 7.5 (N4579) FYI 8.4 Report of Inaccurate Source Reference for Twelve FYI HKSCS Compatibility characters(N4598) 9. Script contributions related to ballots: 9.1 Related to Amendment 1 (DAM1) 9.2 Related to Amendment 2 (PDAM2) 9.2.1 Contributions addressed and included in PDAM 2 Draft additional repertoire Amendment 2 to ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (4th edition) (N4585) 9.2.1.1 Final Proposal to encode the Bhaiksuki script (N4573) 9.2.1.2 Proposal to Encode the Khojki Sign SUKUN (N4575) 9.2.1.3 Urgently needed characters from SEI for the Slavonic transcription (N4583, N4583A) 9.2.1.4 Urgently needed characters from Unicode (N4584A, N4584B, N4584C) 9.2.1.5 Proposal to encode fourteen Pakistani Quranic marks (N4589) 9.2.2 Tangut glyph corrections (N4588) 9.2.3 Comments on Nushu in ISO/IEC 10646:2014 PDAM2 (N4569) (N4610) 9.2.4 Comments on Nushu ad-hoc report WG2 N4561 (N4626) 9.2.5 Comments on Zanabazar Square in PDAM2 (N4613) 9.2.6 Future Additions to 10646 (N4612) 9.2.7 Current status of Tamil symbols naming issue (N4622) 9.2.8 Response to the ICTA’s doc L2/14-048 on Tamil fractions and symbols (N4623) 9.2.9 Proposal to add a new extended collection (N4625) 9.2.10 Request for confirmation of the Unification Rule for similar shaped non-cognate in CJK Unified Ideographs (N4624) withdrawn 9.2.11 Response to PDAM2 comments from Great Britain on Chinese characters needed for Slavonic (N4627) 9.2.12 A letter to the authors of N4542 (5 Birgas in Mongolian Block) (N4632) 9.2.13 Theory and Rules of Nushu Character Unification (N4339) 10 Script contributions not related to ballots 10.1 Carried Forward 10.1.1 Scripts and new blocks Afáka (N4292); Bagam (N4293); Balti ‘B’ (N4016); Balti scripts (N3842); Chinese Chess Symbols (N3910); Dhives Akuru (N3848); Diwani Numerals (N4119); Diwani Siyaq Numbers (N4122); English Phonotypic Alphabet (EPA) (N4079); Eskaya (N4499); Garay (N4261); Gondi (N4291); Indic Siyaq (N4123); Jenticha (N4028); Jurchen (N4077); Kawi (N4266); Khambu Rai (N4018); Khatt-i Baburi (N4130); Khitan (N3918); Kpelle (N3762); Landa (N3768); Leke (N4438); Loma (N3756); Moon (N4128); Mwangwego (N4323); Nandinagari (N4389); Naxi Dongba (N4043); Nepaalalipi (N4322); Nepal Himalayish (N4347); Newar (N4184); Obsolete Simplified Chinese Ideographs (N3695); Old Yi (N3288); Ottoman Siyaq (N4124); Ottoman Siyaq System Numerals (N4118); Pau Cin Hau Syllabary (N4412); Persian Siyaq (N4125); Pyu (N3874); Ranjana (N4515); Raqm Numerals (N4117); Rohingya (N4283); Soyombo (N4414); Tolong Siki (N3811); Tulu (N4025); Woleai (N4146); Zou (N4044) 10.1.2 Miscellaneous additions to blocks 10.2 New Scripts or Blocks 10.2.1 Extension F (N4580summaryform.pdf, N4580p1.zip, N4580p2.zip, N4580p3.zip N4580p4.zip, N4580p5.zip, N4580CJKFv3.xls, N4580SATWithdrwanCharacters.xls) 10.2.2 Proposal to encode characters for Osage (N4587) (N4619) 10.2.3 Proposal to encode additional Cyrillic characters used in early church Slavonic printed books (N4607) 10.2.4 Proposal to encode Combining Glagolitic Letters (N4608) 10.2.5 Supplement on proposal for encoding Naxi Dongba Pictograph script (N4633, N4641), refers to earlier documents N4043 and N4112 10.2.6 Proposal to encode the Adlam script (N4628) 10.2.7 Proposal to encode Small Seal Script (N4634) 10.2.8 10.3 Additions to Existing Scripts or Blocks 10.3.1 Proposal to encode Saurashtra Sign Candrabindu (N4590 ) 10.3.2 Proposal to encode Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu (N4591 ) 10.3.3 Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rub used in Quran published in Pakistan (N4592) 10.3.4 Adding Georgian Lari Currency Sign (N4593) 10.3.5 Proposal to encode Nomisma Sign (N4594) 10.3.6 Proposal to encode Double Suspension Mark (N4595) 10.3.7 Proposal to encode Greek Indiction Sign (N4596 ) 10.3.8 Proposal to encode Warsh-based Arabic script characters (N4597) 10.3.9 Proposal to encode emoji skin tone characters (N4599) 10.3.10 Bopomofo letter (N4609) 10.3.11 Gujarati signs used for the transliteration of Arabic (N4574) 10.3.12 Proposal on Encoding Khitan Large Script (N4631, N4631 1of5, N4631 2of5,N4631 3of5, N4631 4of5, N4631 5of5) 10.3.13 Proposal for encoding Shuishu (N4638) 10.3.14 Alternate approach to N4599 (N4644) 10.3.15 Tangut Radicals (N4636) 10.3.16 Feedback on N4599 (N4646) 10.4 Miscellaneous Proposals 10.4.1 Proposal for the modification of the sample character layout of WAVE_DASH (U+301C) (N4606) 10.4.2 A preliminary proposal requesting a horizontal extension of 152 Hanja (N4630) 11 Architecture issues 11.1 CJK ideograph glyphs representation and sources references (N4620) (N4643) 12 Publication issues 13 Defect reports 13.1 CJK chart and source references update (N4621) 14 Liaison Reports 14.1 Unicode Consortium (N4635) 14.2 IETF 14.3 SC22 14.4 W3C 14.5 SEI (N4629) 15 Other business 15.1 Web site review 16 Future meetings: 16.1 Meeting 64 – 2015 late Summer or early Fall – looking for host (Europe?) 16.2 Meeting 65 – 2016 looking for host (USA tentative) 17 Closing 17.1 Approval of Results of meeting 63 17.2 Adjournment .
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