ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N2106R
1999-09-30
Title:
Source:Status:Action:Response to N2084 (Sources of characters)
Michael Everson, contributing editor
Personal contribution
For review and decision by SC2/WG2Following are responses to the editor's request for sources to be listed in Annex M. It
might be useful for future work to ensure that the Principles and Procedures document
specifies an addition to annex M; also, PDAMs should contain this addition.

Sources for 10646-1, Amendments 10–31
Amd. 7 (if we've forgotten it)
SI 1311.1: Standards Institution of Israel. Information technology: ISO 8 bit codedcharacter set with Hebrew points. [Tel Aviv, 1996] (SI 1311.1 (1996)).
SI 1311.2: Standards Institution of Israel. Information technology: ISO 8 bit codedcharacter set with Hebrew accents. [Tel Aviv, 1996] (SI 1311.2 (1996)).
Amd. 10
Ethiopic
Armbruster, Carl Hubert. Initia Amharica: an Introduction to Spoken Amharic . Cambridge,Cambridge University Press, 1908-20.
Launhardt, Johannes. Guide to Learning the Oromo (Galla) Language. Addis Ababa,Launhardt [1973?]
Leslau, Wolf. Amharic Textbook. Weisbaden, Harrassowitz; Berkeley, University ofCalifornia Press, 1968.
Amd. 11
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
CASEC. 1994. Repertoire of Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Proposed forInclusion into ISO/IEC 10646 , version #1.0, CASEC, April 1994.
Amd. 12Cherokee
Holmes, Ruth Bradley, and Betty Sharp Smith. 1976. Beginning Cherokee: Talisgo
galiquogi dideliquasdodi Tsalagi digoweli . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Amd. 13CJK Ideographs
See clause 27 of N2005
Amd. 14Yi and Yi radicals
Bburx Ddie Su (= Bian Xiezhe). 1984. Nuo-su bbur-ma shep jie zzit: Syp-chuo se nuobbur-ma syt mu curx su niep sha zho ddop ma bbur-ma syt mu wo yuop hop, Bburx
Ddie da Su. [Chengdu]: Syp-chuo co cux tep yy ddurx dde. Yi wen jian zi ben: Yi Han
wen duizhao ban. Chengdu: Sichuan minzu chubanshe. [ An examination of thefundamentals of the Yi script. Chengdu: Sichuan National Press.]
Bburx Ddie Su. Nip huo bbur-ma ssix jie: Nip huo bbur-ma ssi jie Bburx Ddie curx Su. =Yi Han zidian. Chengdu: Sichuan minzu chubanshe, 1990. ISBN 7-5409-0128-4
GB 13134: Xinxi jiaohuanyong yiwen bianma zifuji (Yi coded character set for
information interchange), [prepared by] Sichuansheng minzushiwu weiyuanhui.
Beijing, Jishu Biaozhun Chubanshe (Technical Standards Press), 1991. (GB 131341991).
Amd. 15

Kangxi radicals and CJK radicals supplement

Possibly the Kangxi dictionary.
Amd. 16
Braille symbols
ISO 11548-1. Communication aids for blind persons – 8-dot-Braille graphic charaters –identifiers, names and assignation to 8-bit code tables, Part 1: Braille identifiers andshift marks – General guidelines.
Amd. 17CJK Ideographic extension A.
See clause 27 of N2005.
Amd. 18
Symbols and other characters
ISO 2047:1975. Information processing – Graphical representations for the control
characters of the 7-bit coded character set.
ISO IR-181.
Amd. 19
Runic
Benneth, Solbritt, Jonas Ferenius, Helmer Gustavson, & Marit Åhlén. 1994. Runmärkt:från brev till klotter. Runorna under medeltiden . [Stockholm]: Carlsson Bokförlag. ISBN
91-7798-877-9
Derolez, René. 1954. Runica manuscripta: the English tradition . (Rijksuniversiteit te Gent:Werken uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Wijsbegeerte en Letteren; 118eaflevering) Brugge: De Tempel.
Friesen, Otto von. Runorna. Stockholm, A. Bonnier [1933]. (Nordisk kultur, 6).
Page, R. I. 1987. Runes . (Reading the Past; 4) Berkeley & Los Angeles: University ofCalifornia Press. ISBN 0-520-06114-4
Amd. 20Ogham
I. S. 434:1999. Information Technology - 8-bit single-byte graphic coded character set forOgham = Teicneolaíocht Eolais - Tacar carachtar grafach Oghaim códaithe go
haonbheartach le 8 ngiotán. National Standards Authority of Ireland.
Amd. 21SinhalaSLS 1134:1996. Sinhala character code for information interchange. Sri Lanka
Standards Institution.
Gunasekara, Abraham Mendis. 1986 (1891). A comprehensive grammar of theSinhalese language. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services.
Amd. 22
Keyboard symbols
ISO/IEC 9995-7:1994. Information technology – Keyboard layouts for text and officesystems – Part 7: Symbols used to represent functions.
Amd. 23
Bopomofo extensions
Source is whatever was mentioned in the paper that first presented them.
Amd. 24
ThaanaGeiger, Wilhelm. Maldivian Linguistic Studies . New Delhi, Asian Educational Services,
1996. ISBN 81-206-1201-9.
Amd. 25
Khmer
Covered by Barry 1997 and Daniels & Bright 1996. Otherwise Maurice Bauhahn will
have sources.

Amd. 26
MyanmarOkell, John. 1971. A guide to the romanization of Burmese. (James G. Forlang Fund; 27)
London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Roop, D. Haigh. 1972. An introduction to the Burmese writing system . New Haven andLondon: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-01528-3
Amd. 27
SyriacKefarnissy, Paul. Grammaire de la langue araméenne syriaque. Beyrouth, 1962.
Amd. 28
Ideographic descriptors
GBK (already in Annex M)
Amd. 29
MongolianPartially covered Daniels & Bright 1996.
Amd. 30
Additional Latin and other characters
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 24.2 (1994): 95-98, and 25.1 (1995):
21.
Kuruch, Rimma Dmitrievna. Saamsko-russkiy slovar'. Moskva: Russkiy iazyk. 1985
LVS 18-92, Libiesu kodu tabula ar 191 simbolu. Latvian National Centre forStandardization and Metrology.
Amd. 31
Tibetan extensions
Beyer, Stephen V. The classical Tibetan language. State University of New York. ISBN0-7914-1099-4
The following general entries should be added. Some of these are newer editions ofitems already listed in Annex M.
GeneralAllworth, Edward. Nationalities of the Soviet East: Publications and Writing Systems .
New York, London, Columbia University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-231-03274-9.
Barry, Randall K. 1997. ALA-LC romanization tables: transliteration schemes for nonRoman scripts . Washington, DC: Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service.
ISBN 0-8444-0940-5
Daniels, Peter T., and William Bright, eds. 1996. The world's writing systems. New York;
Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0
Diringer, David. 1996. The alphabet: a key to the history of mankind. New Delhi:
Munshiram Manoharlal. ISBN 81-215-0780-0
Faulmann, Carl. 1990 (1880). Das Buch der Schrift. Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn. ISBN3-8218-1720-8
Haarmann, Harald. 1990. Universalgeschichte der Schrift. Frankfurt/Main; New York:Campus. ISBN 3-593-34346-0
Imprimerie Nationale. 1990. Les caractères de l'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris: Imprimerie
Nationale Éditions. ISBN 2-11-081085-8
Jensen, Hans. 1969. Die Schrift in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. 3., neubearbeitete
und erweiterte Auflage. Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften.
Nakanishi, Akira. 1990. Writing systems of the world: alphabets, syllabaries, pictograms .
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle. ISBN 0-8048-1654-9
Unicode Consortium. 1996. The Unicode standard, Version 2.0. Reading, MA: AddisonWesley. ISBN 0-201-48345-9
Unicode Consortium. 2000. The Unicode standard, Version 3.0. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Developer's Press. ISBN 0-201-61633-5 FORTHCOMING

Sources for 10646-2
DeseretTo be provided.
EtruscanBonfante, Larissa. 1990. Etruscan. (Reading the Past) Trustees of the British Museum:British Museum Press. ISBN 0-7141-8071-8
GothicFairbanks, Sydney, and F. P. Magoun Jr. 1940. 'On writing and printing Gothic', inSpeculum 15:313-16.
Byzantine Musical Symbols
SEP ELOT 1373. The Greek Byzantine Musical Notation System.
Western Musical Symbols
To be provided, from N1693. Perry Roland should be consulted one which source orsources should be listed.