PRI #203: Proposed Update UTS #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm

The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page:

http://www.unicode.org/review/

Review period for the new item closes on October 24, 2011.

Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. Briefly, the new issue is:

PRI #203 Proposed Update for UTS #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm
http://www.unicode.org/review/pri203/

This proposed update aligns with Unicode 6.1, and includes the following changes:

• A major revision to the ordering of variable characters into groups, separating punctuation and symbols. Some other characters have changed ordering as well.
• A new option for sorting, IgnoreSP, that ignores (shifts) only whitespace and punctuation (and not general symbols)
• Clarifications or fixes to text on soft-hyphen, contiguous weights, and collation grapheme clusters.
• A new section on asymmetric search.
• Review notes for new UCA verification tables, and several other areas where the text will be changed.

To supply feedback on this issue, see
http://www.unicode.org/review/#feedback .

New Unicode Acknowledgements Page

The Consortium is pleased to announce a new section on our website devoted to acknowledging the many contributors to the Unicode Standard and its related standards: http://www.unicode.org/acknowledgements/

Expect to see additional changes to our font acknowledgments section, as well as the addition of new names as the information becomes available.

PRI #202: Extensions to NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0

The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page:

http://www.unicode.org/review/pri202/

Review periods for the new items close on October 24, 2011.

Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. Briefly, the new issue is:

PRI #202: Extensions to NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0

The UTC is planning to extend the format and content of the Unicode Character Database file NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0. In addition to the current scope of NameAliases.txt, which covers the definition of formal name aliases for characters whose names have serious mistakes in them, the intent is to add various standard and de facto aliases for control characters, which have no names defined for them in the Unicode Standard, as well as various character abbreviations which are in widespread use.

Details of the proposal and draft data file are available on the public review issue page: http://www.unicode.org/review/pri202/

To supply feedback on this issue, see http://www.unicode.org/review/#feedback .

UTS #37 Updated to Version 3

A new version of UTS #37, Unicode Ideographic Variation Selectors is now available. Please see: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr37/tr37-7.html In this version, there are new requirements for registrations as well as several editorial updates and clarifications.

Proposed new characters updated in Pipeline Table

The Pipeline Table for proposed new characters has been updated to reflect recent decisions by the UTC. Changes include the approval of characters for Grantha and several other historic scripts, and many new symbols to cover the popular sets of Wingdings. Please see http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html .

The information in the Pipeline Table is intended only to summarize the interim status of the committee progress on processing new character proposals. The Pipeline Table a good place to find out what's on the horizon for future versions of the Unicode Standard, before the encoding is finalized. However, because the committee review continues, the information is necessarily subject to change. Products should be created based only on final, public release of a version of the standard.

Public Review Issues Extended

The closing dates of the Public Review Issues for all proposed updates to Unicode Standard Annexes for Unicode Version 6.1 have been extended to October 24, 2011. The text of UAX #44 has also been updated to take into account feedback reviewed at the UTC meeting last week.

http://www.unicode.org/review/

Review periods for the following issues have also been extended to October 24, 2011. The text of PRI #182 and PRI #185 will be changed, and a separate announcement will be made about the changes.

177 Proposed Update UTS #46: Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing
182 Proposed Update UTS #18: Unicode Regular Expressions
185 Revision of UBA for improved display of URL/IRIs

To supply feedback on any of these issues, see http://www.unicode.org/review/#feedback .