The Unicode Technical Committee has posted 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 dates as early as December 31, 2003. Please see the page for relevant details, links, and discussion. 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 Note: If you are a liaison representative, please forward this message as appropriate within your organization. ------------------------------ The following public review issues have changed: 13 Unicode 4.0.1 Beta The beta period for Unicode 4.0.1 is still open, with a new closing date of 2003/12/31. The Unicode 4.0.1 data files and the 4.0.1 beta page may be updated during the beta period. This beta includes 3 proposed updates: Proposed Update UAX #9 Bidirectional Algorithm Proposed Update UAX #11 East Asian Width Proposed Update to UAX #29 Text Boundaries (The purpose of the update to UAX #11 is to clarify the concept of Ambiguous width.) ------------------------------ The following public review issues are new: 25 Proposed Update UTR #17 Character Encoding Model 2004.01.27 26 Update properties for Ethiopic and Tamil non-decimal digits 2003.01.27 Decimal numbers are those using in decimal-radix number systems. In particular, the sequence of the ONE character followed by the TWO character is interpreted as having the value of twelve. We have gotten feedback that this is the not the case for Ethiopic or Tamil. Details are on the public issues page. ------------------------------ The following public review issues were recently closed, following the UTC meeting in early November. The resolutions are posted on the Resolved Public Review Issues page, at this URL: http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html 23 Terminal Punctuation Characters Resolution: Closed. "Sentence_Terminal" will be changed to "STerm" in the UCD, Proplist.txt and PropertyAliases.txt. The change will be implemented for Unicode version 4.0.1. 22 Collation Mechanism for Syllabic Scripts Resolution: Closed. The collation mechanism for syllabic scripts will be documented in an update to UTS #10. 21 Changing U+200B Zero Width Space from Zs to Cf Resolution: Closed. The general category of U+200B will be changed from Zs to Cf in Unicode version 4.0.1. 15 Changing General Category of Braille Patterns to "Letter Other" Resolution: Closed. The UTC decided not to change the general category of the Braille characters. However, the Bidi category of the Braille characters was changed to be strong left-to-right (L), as a result of this review. ------------------------------ The following public review issues were also closed: 24 Proposed Update UAX #9 Bidirectional Algorithm 19 Proposed Draft UTR #30 Character Foldings 18 Draft UTR #23 The Unicode Character Property Model 17 UTS #18 Unicode Regular Expressions 16 Update to UAX #29 Text Boundaries Details of all the above items can be found on the Resolved Issues page. Regards, Rick McGowan Unicode, Inc.