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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 N2104R
Date: 1999-09-21
WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark; 1999-09-13--16
Resolutions of WG 2 meeting 37
For approval by SC 2 and for information to WG 2 and WG 3
Adopted at meeting 36 of WG 2ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 and WG 2.

Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,Romania, Sweden, UK, USA, AFII (Liaison), CEN/TC304 (Liaison), the Unicode Consortium(Liaison), and Lithuania (Guest) were represented when the following resolutions were adopted. 35
delegates representing 14 national bodies, 3 liaison organizations and 1 guest, were present atdifferent times during the meeting (see attached attendance list).
(Note: Resolution M37.23 which was missed during the meeting was added after the meeting ended.)

RESOLUTION M37.1 (TCOR 3):
Unanimous
WG 2 accepts the comment from Korea on draft TCOR-3 and text of Annex xx on Hangul names indocument N2077, and instructs its project editor to prepare a disposition of comments and the final
text of TCOR-3 and forward it to SC2 secretariat for further processing.
RESOLUTION M37.2 (FPDAM-15 on Kang Xi and CJK radicals):
Unanimous
WG 2 accepts the revised disposition of comments on FPDAM-15 ballot in document N2079R, andinstructs its project editor to prepare the final text of FDAM-15 with assistance from the contributing
editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target
dates.
RESOLUTION M37.3 (FPDAM-28 on Ideographic description characters):
Unanimous
WG 2 accepts the revised disposition of comments on FPDAM-28 ballot in document N2079R, andinstructs its project editor to prepare the final text of FDAM-28 with assistance from the contributing
editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target
dates.
RESOLUTION M37.4 (PDAM-29 on Mongolian script):
Unanimous
WG 2 accepts the revised disposition of comments on FPDAM-29 ballot in document N2079R, andinstructs its project editor to prepare the final text of FDAM-29 with assistance from the contributing
editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged targetdates.
RESOLUTION M37.5 (PDAM-30 on Additional Latin and other characters):
Unanimous
WG 2 accepts the revised disposition of comments on FPDAM-30 ballot in document N2079R, andinstructs its project editor to prepare the final text of FDAM-30 with assistance from the contributing
editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged target
dates.
RESOLUTION M37.6 (PDAM-31 on Tibetan extensions):
Unanimous
WG 2 accepts the revised disposition of comments on FPDAM-31 ballot in document N2079R, andinstructs its project editor to prepare the final text of FDAM-31 with assistance from the contributing
editor, and forward these documents to SC 2 secretariat for further processing with unchanged targetdates.

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RESOLUTION M37.7 (Defect report on Thai character names):
Unanimous
With reference to documents N2026, N2035 and N2036, WG2 accepts its project editor's response toadd annotations on the character names as the proper solution, and instructs its editor to process itfurther.
RESOLUTION M37.8 (Next edition of 10646-1):
Unanimous
WG2 instructs its editor to prepare a revised text of document N2005 (textual part of the next editionof 10646-1) incorporating changes arising from:a) Amendment 15b) Amendment 28c) Amendment 29d) Amendment 30e) Amendment 31f) Technical Corrigendum 3 (see resolution M37.1 above)g) Responses to comments on N2005 in documents N2082, and N2108 (amended bydiscussion at this meeting)h) Updated list of sources of characters in Annex M (based on documents N2084, N2106, andchanges to N2106 based on discussion at this meeting)i) Annotations to Thai character names (see resolution M37.7 above)and forward the revised text to SC2 secretariat for circulation to national bodies and liaisonorganizations for information, by 1999-11-01.
WG2 further instructs its project editor to prepare the camera ready copy of the second edition of10646-1 consisting of the above revised text, the final code charts for non-CJK ideographs from AFII
and the final code charts for CJK ideographs from the IRG, and submit it to ITTF by 1999-11-01.
RESOLUTION M37.9 (Mathematical alphanumeric symbols):
Unanimous
WG2 accepts the proposal for 991 (subject to verification of this number) new mathematicalalphanumeric symbols in document N2086, for inclusion in 10646-2, in the range D400 -- D7FF in
Plane 1. The project editor is to select the appropriate character names and block name in thepreparation of the text for inclusion in part 2.
RESOLUTION M37.10 (CJK unified ideograph extension B):
Unanimous
WG2 accepts the proposal for 42,807 CJK unified ideographs of extension B in document N2105
from the IRG, for encoding in plane 2 of 10646-2, in the range 0100 -- ABFF. The WG2 notes that
the IRG contributing editor has provided the code charts organized as 16 rows by 8 columns. WG2further accepts dropping of the word "unified" from the name of plane 2. The project editor is toselect the appropriate names for the characters and the block name in the preparation of the text forinclusion in part 2.
RESOLUTION M37.11 (2nd WD of 10646-2):
Unanimous
WG2 accepts the disposition of comments in document N2087R on the 2nd WD of 10646-2 andinstructs its project editor to prepare the text for CD 10646-2 with assistance from the contributing
editors, including the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (see resolution M37.9 above) and theCJK unified ideographs extension B (see resolution M37.10 above) in the CD. WG2 further instructs
its project editor to submit the CD document to SC2 secretariat for a CD ballot with unchanged target
dates.

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RESOLUTION M37.12 (Feedback to D.P.R of Korea):
Unanimous
With reference to the NP in document N2056 to amend the Korean encoding of Amendment 5, WG2
instructs its convener to inform SC2 to respond to the Committee for Standardization of the D.P.R. ofKorea:a) that WG2 cannot support this NP because any reordering of the standardized Korean Hangulcharacters would harm existing implementations that are using the standard including itsAmendment 5b) that existing standardized character names cannot be changed because character names arenormative in the standard and changing them would harm existing users of thesestandardized character namesc) invite them to make concrete proposals to add any missing characters following the existing
WG2 Procedures and Guidelines document (JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2002), and the conventions
for naming of characters in the standard, for future consideration by WG2, and,d) invite them to participate in the IRG regarding any Hanja character requirements they may
haveand,e) draw their attention to FCD-3 of ISO/IEC 14651 -- international ordering under ballot in SC22.
RESOLUTION M37.13 (Feedback to Romania):
UnanimousWith reference to document N2117 (letter from Romania to SC 2 requesting changes to Annex P of10646-1), WG2 instructs its convener to inform SC2 that the request of Romania cannot be
considered at this time, and to invite the Romanian national body to resubmit it for consideration after
the relevant 8859 part has become a standard.
RESOLUTION M37.14 (Response to report on ETSI meeting ):Unanimous
WG2 invites Mr. Karl Ivar Larsson to prepare an appropriate response to document N2118 on
harmonizing ETSI GSM SMS standard with 10646 in consultation with the convener and forward it toETSI.
RESOLUTION M37.15 (Liaison request from W3C I18N WG):
Unanimous
WG2 accepts the offer to establish the Category C liaison from W3C I18N WG in document N2081,
and appoints its convener Mr. Mike Ksar as the liaison representative from WG2. WG2 requests
SC2 to process this liaison and the nomination.
RESOLUTION M37.16 (CJK compatibility ideographs from JIS):
Unanimous
WG2 requests IRG to review document N2095 on CJK compatibility Ideographs from Japan, andprovide their input to WG2 before meeting 38 of WG2, in the context of IRG resolution M13.8 indocument N2111.
RESOLUTION M37.17 (Japanese NB concerns to JTC 1 on SC 2 program of work):
Germany and Sweden Abstained
WG2 takes note of the comments in document N2062 (SC2 N3336, JTC1 N5826) regarding the issueof when to use NP versus subdivision process for new amendments to 10646. WG2 endorses therecommendations from SC2 ad hoc group established at the SC2 meeting no. 9 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Further, WG2 accepts and endorses the recommendations in contribution N2049 (SC2 N3341), andinstructs its convener to forward document N2049 along with a summary of the recommendations toSC 2 secretariat for forwarding to JTC 1. WG2 also encourages its experts to get support from theirnational JTC 1 committees of the recommendations contained in document N2049.

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RESOLUTION M37.18 (Future meetings):
Unanimous
WG 2 confirms the following future meeting schedule:- Meeting 38: 21--24 March 2000, Beijing, China- Meeting 39: 11-15 September 2000, Greece (US as fall back) (along with SC2 andSC2/WG3 meetings)- Meeting 40: March 2001 - US (subject to confirmation)
WG 2 accepts and confirms the following IRG future meeting schedule:- IRG 14: 6--10 December 1999 in Singapore- IRG 15: 15--19 May 2000 in Taiwan- IRG 16: November 2000 in Korea
RESOLUTION M37.19 (Appreciation to project editor and contributors)
By acclamation
WG2 thanks its project editor and all contributing editors on the successful completion ofAmendments 17 (Han vertical extension A), Amendment 18 (Miscellaneous symbols includingEURO) and Amendment 21 (Sinhala script).
RESOLUTION M37.20 (Appreciation to IRG)
By acclamation
WG2 thanks the members of IRG, the IRG editor and its rapporteur for their timely and valuable
contribution on CJK-related items for inclusion in the second edition of 10646-1 and in thepreparation of the first CD of 10646-2.
RESOLUTION M37.21 (Appreciation to AFII)
By acclamation
WG2 thanks AFII, for their excellent support in preparing and printing the camera ready copy of thenon-Han code tables for the next edition of 10646-1.
RESOLUTION M37.22 (Appreciation to the host):
By acclamation
WG 2 thanks its hosts, Dansk Standard, DKUUG, Kommunedata, and their staff for hosting themeeting, for providing excellent secretarial and administrative support, and for their kind hospitality.
RESOLUTION M37.23 (Appreciation to DKUUG for web services):(Added after the meeting ended)
WG 2 thanks DKUUG, in particular Mr. Keld Simonsen, for its continued support of the web site for
WG 2 document distribution and the e-mail server.

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/ SC 2 /WG 2Meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999-09-13—16
Attendance List
The following 35 delegates representing 14 national bodies, 3 liaison organizations and 1 guest
attended the meeting.
Name
Alain La Bonté

Representing
CanadaV. S. (Uma)Umamaheswaran
Chen Zhuang
Lobsang Tokme

Canada,Recording Secretary
China
China

Quejingzhabu
Shama Layi
Woshur Slamu
Yasin Imin

China
China
China
China

Zhang Zhoucai

China, IRG
Rapporteur
Convener
Denmark
Denmark
Denmark
Denmark
Denmark
Finland, CEN TC304
Germany
Germany
Guest - Lithuania
IrelandJapanJapanJapanNetherlands
NorwayPolandRomania
Romania
SwedenThe Unicode
Consortium, AFII
U.K.; Editor Part 1
U.S.A.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.; Editor Part 2

Michael Y. Ksar
Bent Barnholdt
Birger Jacobsen
Keld Drube
Myanne Olesen
Sven Thygesen
Erkki Kolehmainen
Marc Küster
Paul Dettmer
Vladas Tumasonis
Michael Everson
Satoshi Yamamoto
Shun Ishizaki
Takayuki Sato
Johan van Wingen
Keld SimonsenElżbieta Broma-Wrzesień
Alexandrina StătescuMihaela Anghelescu
Karl Ivar Larsson
Asmus Freytag
Bruce Paterson
Arnold Winkler
Hideki Hiura
Michel Suignard

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JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 N2104RAffiliation
Direction du soutien au déploiement del'inforoute gouvernmentale, Gouvernement duQuébec
IBM Canada
Chinese Electronic Standardization InstituteInterpretation Bureau of Tibet AutonomousRegion
Inner Mongolia University
Southwest National Institute, Nansiduan
Xinjiang University
National Language and Character Committee
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
CCID
Hewlett-Packard Company
Independent
BITS
Dansk Standard
DKUUG
Kommunedata
Tieke
Universit‫ن‬t Tübingen
Independent
Vilnius University
Everson Gunn Teoranta
Hitachi, Ltd.
Keio University
Independent
Independent
Rationel Almen Planl‫و‬gning
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.
Romtelecom
Romanian Standards Association
Independent Consultant
ASMUS, Inc.
Independent
Unisys Corporation
SunSoft, Inc.
Microsoft

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