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N3505 Date: 2008-10-15 Updated JTC1/SC2/WG2 N3505 Date: 2008-10-15 Updated Updated Agenda – Meeting # 53 Topic (Document No.) Proposed Outcome 1. Opening and roll call (N3451) Update WG2Distribution List 2. Approval of the agenda (N3505) Approved agenda 3. Approval of minutes of meeting 52 (N3453) Approved Minutes 4. Review action items from meeting 52 (N3453-AI) Updated Action Item List 5. JTC1 and ITTF matters: FYI 5.1. Amendment 4 Publication – 2008-07-01 5.2. Amendment 5 Status – FDAM – Deadline 2008-11-05 6. SC2 matters: FYI 6.1. SC2 Program of Work 6.2. Submittals to ITTF – FDAM Amendment 5 6.3. Ballot results – Amendment 6.2 (N3515) 6.4. SC2 Business Plan (SC2 N4035) 7. WG2 matters: 7.1. Roadmap (N3518) FYI 7.2. WD for next 10646 edition Review (N3508, N3509, N3510) 7.3. Multi-column charts (N3408) 7.4. Handling CJK compatibility characters with variation sequences (N3525) 8. IRG status and reports: 8.1. Include 5 unencoded HKSCS characters Review and progress (N3513, N3513-A) 8.2. Summary Report IRG30 (N3512) FYI 8.3. IRG 30 Resolutions (N3511) FYI 8.4. Fonts availability (N3524) 8.5. 9. Script Contributions related to current ballot (6.2): Review 9.1. Nushu (N3449, N3462, N3463, N3497). 9.2. Meetei Mayek 9.2.1. Proposed encoding for Meetei Mayek (N3473) 9.2.2. Proposed encoding for Meetei Mayek Extended Block (N3478) 9.3. Vedic – Proposal and background 9.3.1. Proposal to encode additional characters for Vedic (N3488) 9.3.2. Devanagari examples of Vedic tone Yajurvedic Mid–char Svarita (N3493) 9.4. Extended proposal to add Khamti Shan to Myanmar Block (N3492) 9.5. Comments on Old South Arabian Names (N3517) 9.6. Comments on Kaithi punctuation (N3520) 9.7. Proposal to encode Soccer ball symbol (N3514) 9.8. Old Turkic (N3516: Proposed disposition of comments), US 9.9. Tangut Formatted: French (France) (N3338, N3343, N3448, N3467, N3496, N3498, N3521) Formatted: French (France) 9.10. Proposal to encode 2 Cyrillic characters for Abkhaz (N3435) Formatted: French (France) feedback (N3540) Field Code Changed Formatted: French (France) 10. Script Contributions not related to current ballot Review Formatted: French (France) 10.1. Proposal to encode 22 characters for Arabic Pedagogical use Field Code Changed (N3460,N3460-A) Formatted: French (France) Field Code Changed 10.2. Preliminary proposal to encode Old Bamum in SMP (N3472) Formatted: French (France) 10.3. Proposal to add four characters for Kashmiri (N3480) Formatted: French (France) 10.4. Proposal to Encode Additional Latin and Cyrillic Characters (N3481) Field Code Changed 10.5. Proposal to encode additional Tifinagh characters (N3482) Formatted: French (France) 10.6. Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script (N3484) Formatted: French (France) Formatted: French (France) 10.7. Proposal for encoding the Mandaic script (N3485) Field Code Changed 10.8. Proposal for encoding the Manichaean script (N3486) Formatted: French (France) 10.9. Proposal to encode Egyptological yod and similar characters (N3487) Formatted: French (France) 10.10. Proposal for encoding the Batak script in UCS (N3320) Field Code Changed Field Code Changed 10.11. On the inputting model for Batak (N3489) Formatted: French (France) 10.12. Progressing the encoding of Brahmi (N3490, N3491) Formatted: French (France) 10.13. Proposal to add two characters for Malayalam (N3494) 10.14. Proposal to encode additional Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (N3507) 10.15. Moved to 9.7 10.16. Oriya Fractions (N3471) 10.17. Proposal to encode Tangut radicals and CJK strokes (N3495) 10.18. Old Hungarian script (N3483, N3526, N3527, N3531, N3532) 10.19. Proposal to encode modern Bamum in the BMP of the UCS (N3522) 10.20. Two Kana characters (N3388, N3528, N3534) 10.21. Proposal to add several named USIs from JIS 0213 (N3529) 10.22. Proposal to add a set of compatibility ideographs for government use (N3530) 10.23. Response to action item AI-52-8 – Korea (N3535) 10.24. US feedback and concerns about KS X 1026‐1:2007 (N3536) 11. Ballots disposition of comments 11.1. AMD 6.2 Text (N3479, N3515) FYI 11.2. Proposed Disposition of Comments (N3516) Approve Disposition 11.3. 12. Architecture issues 12.1. 13. Publication issues 13.1. 14. Defect reports 15. Liaison reports 15.1. Unicode Consortium 15.2. IETF 15.3. SC22 15.4. W3C 15.5. SEI (N3519) 16. Other business 16.1. Web Site Review 16.2. Future Meetings 16.2.1. Meeting 54–2009-04-20/24 Mountain View, CA, US (pending confirmation) Dublin, Ireland (alternate 1); Toronto, Canada (alternate 2) 16.2.2. Meeting 55 – 2009-10-26/30 with SC2 plenary, Tokushima, Japan 16.2.3. Meeting 56 – Spring 2010, CA, U.S. (pending confirmation) 16.2.4. Meeting 57 – Fall 2010, R.O. Korea (pending confirmation) 17. Closing 17.1. Approval of Resolutions of Meeting 53 17.2. Adjournment .
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