<DIV ALIGN=right>ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 N 1835

<DIV ALIGN=right>ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3160

</DIV<DIV ALIGN=right>DATE: 1998-08-27</DIV>

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 3105, Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on Project JTC 1.02.18.01.25 (10646-1/amd 25): Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 25: Khmer
SOURCE: / Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
PROJECT: / JTC 1.02.18.01.25
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 Secretariat for further processing.
ACTION ID: / ACT
DUE DATE:
DISTRIBUTION: / P, O and L Members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
WG Conveners, Secretariats
ISO/IEC JTC 1 Secretariat
ISO/IEC ITTF
NO. OF PAGES: / 3
ACCESS LEVEL: / Defined
WEB ISSUE #: / 025

Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Toshiko KIMURA
IPSJ/ITSCJ (Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan)*
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Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3105, ISO/IEC 10646-1/PDAM 25 Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane -- AMENDMENT 25: Khmer

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 / Attachment 3
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 4
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
UK / X / X
USA / X / X / Attachment 5
Vietnam
Yugoslavia
Total (36) / 15 / 0 / 3 / 14 / 1 / 3
O-member
Portugal / 1 / 1

Attachment 1:Ireland

See attached: 02n31602.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 character collection describes its national language.

Attachment 3:Japan
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SC2N3105 10646-1 PDAM25 Khmer
Q1. APRROVAL of PDAM REGISTRATION
Q2. DISAPRROVAL OF THE DRAFT FOR REASONS ON THE ATTACHED
Acceptance.... Will change our vote to approval

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Technical comment A.

17DB KHMER CURRENCY SYMBOL RIAL should be moved to CURRENCY SIGN BLOCK and renamed as
RIEL SIGN (Cambodia).

Rationale: This sign is not a part of Khmer script. It is a modern currency sign used in Cambodia which uses Khmer script as a part.

For an administrative purpose of this comment, Japan will provide the new SUMMARY FORM for the Riel sign at the London meeting.

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Technical comment B.
The following comments are from an expert in Austro-Asian languages Makoto MINEGISHI (associate professor,
Institute for the study of languages and cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo university of foreign studies, Tokyo, JAPAN).

1. Delete 163(17A3), as it is identical with 162(17A2) as a graphic character. Avoid duplicate encoding.
2. Delete 164(17A4), as it is merely a representation form of the combination of 162(17A2)/163(17A3) and 182(17B6).
3. Delete 180(17B4) and 181(17B5), as there is no evidence for the existence of them as real characters. The term `inherent vowel' itself is doubtful.
4. Add a pre-combined form for 182 (17B6) and 198(17C6), as they are used in this (combined) form as well as independent forms.
5. Add a rationale to drop `feet' (subscript) forms.
Existent Khmer encoding adopt encode these consonants in `feet' forms, apart from other forms. This encoding might give rise to confusion with conflicting existing encodings.

END OF COMMENTS

Attachment 4:Sweden

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

Attachment 5:USA

U.S. vote for ISO/IEC 10646-1 PDAM consideration for amendment 25 - Khmer

Document: SC2 N 3105

The U.S. votes to approve with comments.

Comments:

To be consistent with the way other Brahmi-based scripts are encoded, U+17C7 and U+17C8 should be shown in the chart with a dotted circle on their left (implying that they are spacing combining characters). Cf. the way the visarga's are handled in the Indic scripts (e.g. U+0903). These two characters should also be added to the list for Annex B.1 (combining characters).

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