ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3162
DATE: 1998-08-27
  
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 
Coded Character Sets 
Secretariat: Japan (JISC)
 
 
DOC TYPE:   Summary of Voting/Table of Replies 
 
TITLE:  
 		 Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3107, Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on Project JTC 1.02.18.01.27 (10646-1/amd 27): Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 27: Syriac
SOURCE:  
 		 Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
PROJECT:  
 		 JTC 1.02.18.01.27
STATUS:  
 		 1) PDAM Registration: Approved. 2) PDAM Consideration: This document is forwarded to WG 2 for consideration. WG 2 is requested to prepare a disposition of comments report, revised text and a recommendation to the SC 2 Secretriat for further processing.
ACTION ID:  
 		 ACT
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WG Conveners, Secretariats 
ISO/IEC JTC 1 Secretariat 
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Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Toshiko KIMURA
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Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3107, ISO/IEC 10646-1/PDAM 27 Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 27: Syriac
 
PDAM Registration
PDAM Consideration
  
P-member Approve Approve with Comments Disapprove Abstain Approve Approve with Comments Disapprove Abstain Comment
Armenia                  
Austria                  
Belgium                  
Brazil                  
Canada
X
      
X
        
China                  
Denmark
X
      
X
        
Egypt                  
Finland
X
      
X
        
France                  
Germany
X
      
X
        
Greece
X
      
X
        
Iceland 
X
      
X
        
India                  
Iran                  
Ireland
X
        
X
     Attachment 1
Israel  
X
      
X
     Attachment 2
Italy      
X
      
X
 Lack of experts
Japan
X
      
X
        
Korea Rep. of
X
      
X
        
Morocco                  
Netherlands      
X
      
X
 Lack of experts
Norway      
X
      
X
 No expertise
Poland
X
      
X
        
Romania                  
Russian Federation
X
      
X
        
Singapore                   
Slovenia                   
Sweden  
X
      
X
     Attachment 3
Thailand                  
Tunisia                  
Turkey                   
UK
X
      
 
  
 X
   Attachment 4
USA
X
        
X
     Attachment 5
Vietnam                   
Yugoslavia                  
Total (36)
15
0
3
14
 1
3
  
O-member
Portugue      
1
      
1
  
 


Attachment 1: Ireland

See attached: 02n31622.pdf


Attachment 2: Israel

General
Israel Votes YES, provided that the relevant (*) national body/bodies also approves this draft - otherwise our vote is
ABSTAIN.

(*) relevant national body = the national body for which this charactercollection describes its national language.


Attachment 3: Sweden

General
The vote Approval is on condition of approval from the countires concerned.


Attachment 4: UK

UK COMMENTS ON ISO/IEC 10646-1/PDAM 27 - SYRIAC (JTC 1/SC2 N 3107)

The UK approves the registration of PDAM 27.

The UK disapproves the draft in SC 2 N 3107 for the following reasons:

Technical comments

1.  The names of the following characters:
074B  MADDAH ABOVE
074C  HAMZA ABOVE
074D  HAMZA BELOW
should be amended to include a term to identify the script, for example SYRIAC, or ARABIC, or ARABIC-SYRIAC.
Note:  This does not imply that any of these characters should be reassigned to different code positions.

Justification

a.  The names in the PDAM are incomplete since the characters are clearly intended to be used mainly with the SYRIAC script.
b.  In the English Dictionary (Collins) MADDAH does not appear at all, so the additional script identifier is clearly needed.  The entry for HAMZA is "the sign used in Arabic to represent the glottal stop", so the inclusion of a script identifier such as ARABIC would clearly be correct.

2.  On page 4 the list of combining characters for Annex B.1 is missing.


 Attachment 5: USA

The U.S. Vote for ISO/IEC 10646-1 PDAM consideration for amendment 27 - Syriac

Document: SC2 N 3107

The U.S. vote is to approve with comments.
 
Comments:

1. U+074B..U+074D are intended for generic use with Arabic, as well as for Syriac. They should be moved to U+0653..U+0655 and have the word ARABIC prepended to each of their names. This will accord with the use of other
Arabic combining marks already encoded in the Arabic block. [This change will entail various changes to the amendment to correct Annex E.] This change will make these 3 characters become part of the BASIC ARABIC collection (which is not a fixed collection).
 
2.  The list of combining characters from the new SYRIAC collection and the new three combining characters for the BASIC ARABIC collection must be specified in the PDAM with a list of additions for Annex B.1. (U+0711,  U+0730..U+074A, and assuming the move of comment 1, U+0653..U+0655)

3.  Other than the character name changes noted in the Editor's note, four character names do not match the working draft. These should be corrected to:
U+0708 SYRIAC SUPRALINEAR COLON SKEWED LEFT
U+0709 SYRIAC SUBLINEAR COLON SKEWED LEFT
U+0738 SYRIAC DOTTED ZLAMA HORIZONTAL
U+0739 SYRIAC DOTTED ZLAMA ANGULAR