ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34N0622

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34

Information Technology --
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TITLE:	Summary of Voting on JTC 1/SC 34 N 599 - PDTR 9573-13: Maths and scientific character sets
SOURCE:	SC34 Secretariat
PROJECT:	PDTR 9573-13:2004 (type 3) 2nd Edition: Information technology -- SGML support facilities -- Techniques for using SGML -- Part 13: Public entity sets for SGML -- for mathematics and science
PROJECT EDITOR:	Dr. David P. Carlisle
STATUS:	Summary of voting
ACTION:	Based on the ballot responses, this CD is APPROVED and the project status changes to 30.60. Project Editors are requested to review comments and strongly consider disapproved votes. Please advise the Secretariat regarding (1) the change to status 30.92, 30.98 or 30.99, and (2) the next project status and anticipated date that project status will change.
DATE:	2005-05-20
DISTRIBUTION:	SC34 and Liaisons
REFER TO:	N0599b - 2005-02-24 - Ballot due 2005-05-24 PDTR 9573-13: Maths and scientific character sets N0599 - 2005-02-24 - PDTR 9573-13: Maths and scientific character sets
REPLY TO:	Dr. James David Mason (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Chairman) Y-12 National Security Complex Bldg. 9113, M.S. 8208 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8208 U.S.A. Telephone: +1 865 574-6973 Facsimile: +1 865 574-1896 Network: masonjd@y12.doe.gov http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/ ftp://ftp.y12.doe.gov/pub/sgml/sc34/ Mr. G. Ken Holman (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Secretariat - Standards Council of Canada) Crane Softwrights Ltd. Box 266, Kars, ON K0A-2E0 CANADA Telephone: +1 613 489-0999 Facsimile: +1 613 489-0995 Network: jtc1sc34@scc.ca http://www.jtc1sc34.org

Italy

ABSTENTION for lack of experts.

Japan

1. General

(1.1) The scope should make clear that this DTR is applicable to XML or not. In particular, will this TR provide entity declarations using SDATA entities?

(1.2) Since different entity sets assign different UCS code values to the same names, it may well be too late to resolve such conflicts.

2. Technical

(2.1) The first para in Section 4:

This is not a standard but rather a TR.

(2.2) The first para in 4.2:

First, there is no one-to-one replationship between characters and glyphs. Some characters in 10646 do not have glyphs. Other characters have different glyphs depending on combining characters.

Second, this subsection merely expand parsed entities by replacing them with numeric character references. Since this expansion is a standard behaviof of SGML or XML processors, we do not understand why this subsection is present.

United Kingdom

Needs to be aligned with SC2 chagnes to USC character set.