ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 4005 Rev
DATE: 2008-04-22
 

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
Coded Character Sets
Secretariat: Japan (JISC)

DOC. TYPE Secretariat Report
TITLE Secretariat Report to the 15th Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2, Redmond, Washington, USA, 2008-04-25
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STATUS For information and review at the 15th Plenary Meeting to be held in Redmond, Washington, USA, 2008-04-25.
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Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - IPSJ/ITSCJ (Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan)* Room 308-3, Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg., 3-5-8, Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011 Japan *Standard Organization Accredited by JISC
Telephone: +81-3-3431-2808; Facsimile: +81-3-3431-6493; E-mail: kimura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp


Secretariat Report to the 15th Plenary Meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2,
Redomond, Washington, USA, 2008-04-25

1.1 Title
Coded Character Sets

1.2 Scope
Standardization of graphic character sets and their characteristics, including string ordering, associated control functions, their coded representation for information interchange and code extension techniques. Excluded: audio and picture coding.

1.3 Chairman
Mr. Tatsuo L. Kobayashi
JISC - Japan

1.4 Secretariat
JISC - Japan
Attn.: Toshiko Kimura
IPSJ/ITSCJ
Room 308-3, Kikai-shinko-kaikan
Minato-ku, Shiba-koen,
Tokyo 105-0011
Japan

1.5 Membership

1.5.1  P - Members (30)

Belgium, Canada, China, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran Islamic Republicof , Ireland , Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea Democratic People's Republic, Korea Republic of , Mongolia , Norway, Poland , Romania , Russian Fed., Serbia, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine, USA, United Kingdom

1.5.2  O -  Members (18)
Armenia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Singapore, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey, Viet Nam

1.5.3  L - Members
 Internal Liaisons (9)
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Coding of Audio, Picture, Multimedia and Hypermedia Information
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data management and interchange
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Document Description and Processing Languages
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 User interfaces
ISO/TC 37/SC 2 Terminology and other language and content resources -- Terminographical and lexicographical working methods
ISO/TC 46/SC 2 Conversion of written languages
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics

External Liaisons

Category A (5)

EC Commission of European Communities 
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
ITU-T  International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector 
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
U-ECE/WP4 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Category B (3)

CCSDS Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems 
WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization 
WMO World Meteorological Organization 

Category C (6)
HK ITF Hong Kong Information Technology Federation 
TCA Taipei Computer Association 
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley
UNICODE The Unicode Consortium 
UNU/IIST  United Nations University International Institute for Software Technologies
W3C World Wide Web Consortium

1.6 Working Group Structure

16.1 OWG-SORT: Maintenance of ISO/IEC 14651

Convener:Mr. Alain LaBonté

1.6.2 Working Group 2: Universal Coded Character Set

Convener:
Mr. Mike Ksar (Re-appointed : 2004-04)

Secretariat :ANSI

Recording Secretary:
Dr. V.S. Umamaheswaran
IBM Toronto Software Lab, Canada

Area of Work:
To standardize the Universal Coded character Set (UCS)

Programme of Work:


1.6.3 Ideographic Rapporteur Group (IRG)

Rapporteur:
Dr. Qin LU (Re-appointed : 2006-04)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong, China

Terms of Reference:
Working for ideograph related tasks under WG 2, Work Item JTC1.02.18 - ISO/IEC 10646 including old Hanzi and CJK strokes.

1.7 Project Editors/Contributing Editors (active projects only):
02.14651 Mr. Alain LaBonté
02.10646 Mr. Michel Suignard

1.8Contributing Editors (active projects only):
02.10646  Mr. Chen, Zhuang 
Mr. Michael Everson 
Dr. Asmus Freytag 
Dr. Lu, Qin 
Dr. Ken Whistler 
Ms. Wang, Xiaoming

1.9 Liaison Representatives
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 Mr. Mike Ksar
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Mr. Mike Ksar
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 Dr. Asmus Freytag
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 Mr. Alain LaBonté
ISO/TC 46/SC 4 Mr. Michael Everson
ISOC/IETF Mr. Michel Suignard
Unicode Mr. Mike Ksar
W3C Mr. Mike Ksar

2. Meetings

SC 2

No.
Date
Place
Agenda
Resolutions
Report
15
2008-04-25
Redmond. WA, USA
3992
 
 
14
2006-04-27/28
Mountain View, CA, USA
3829
3865
 3873
13
2004-06-24/25
Markam, Ontario, Canada
4774Rev.
3755
3781
12
2002-12-12
Tokyo, Japan
3657
3668
3675
11
2001-10-18/19
Singapore, Singapore
3570
3574
--
10
2000-09-25/26
Athens, Greece
3490
3492
3521
9
1999-03-16/17
Fukuoka,  Japan
3260
3296
3324
8
1998-03-24/25
Redmond, Washington, USA
3073
3077
--
7
1997-07-08/09
Iraklion - Crete, Greece
2935
2940
3012
6
1996-08-20/21
Quebec, Canada
2735
2749
2756
5
1995-06-26/28
Helsinki, Finland
2583
2616
2635
4
1993-05-24/26
Athens, Greece
2428
2466
2468
3
1991-10-14/17
Rennes, France
2228
2296, 2297
 
2
1990-04-09/12
Washington DC, USA
 
2166
 

OWG-SORT

No.
Date
Place
Agenda
Resolutions
Report
8 2008-04-21/24 Redmond, WA, USA 3996
7 2007-09-19/20 Hangzhou, China 3965 3970 3970
6 2007-04-26/27 Frankfurt, Germany 3931 3935 3935
5 2006-09-26 Tokyo, Japan 3887 3896 3896
4
2006-04-27
Mountain View, CA, USA
3835
 
3
2005-09-13
Sophia Antipolis, France
3793
3811
2
2005-01-25
Xiamen, China
3764
3783

WG 2

No.
 Date
Place
 Agenda
 Resolutions
Report
52 2008-04-21/24 Redmond, WA, USA 3994
51 2007-09-17/21 Hangzhou, China 2963 3972 3983
50
2007-04-23/27
Frankfurt, Germany
 3919
 3936
 3971
49
2006-09-25/28
Tokyo, Japan
 3882
 3897
 
48
2006-04-24/27
Mountain View, CA, USA
 3834
 3861
3888
47
2005-09-12/15
Sophia Antipolis, France
3785
3815
3837
46
2005-01-24/28
Xiamen, China
3770
3784
3836
45
2004-06-21/24
Markham, Canada
3717
3746
3780
44
2003-10-20/23
Mountain View, USA
3693
3701
3754 
43
2002-12-09/12
Tokyo, Japan
3634
3658
3691
42
2002-05-20/23
Dublin, Ireland
3593
3614
3644
41
2001-09-15/18
Singapore, Singapore
3551
3568
3607
40
2001-04-02/05 
Mountain View, CA, USA 
3508
3518
3547
39
2000-09-19/25 
Athens, Greece
3448
3489
3517
38
2000-03-21/24
Beijing, China
3404
3442
 3464
37
1999-09-20/24
Copenhagen, Denmark
3335
3357
3425
36
1999-03-09/15
Fukuoka, Japan
3238
3291
3352
35
1998-09-21/25 
London, UK
3123
3175 Rev
3255 
34
1998-03-16/20
Redmond, WA, U.S.A
3021
3073
3148
33
1997-06-30/07-04
Iraklion - Crete, Greece
2860
2927
3009
32
1997-01-20/24
Singapore, Singapore
WG 2 N 1465
2808
2872
31
1996-08-12/16
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
WG 2 N 1387
2747
WG 2 N 1453
30
1996-04-22/26 
Copenhagen, Denmark
WG 2 N 1327
2683
WG 2 N 1353
29
1995-11-06/10
Tokyo, Japan
WG 2 N 1245
2646
WG 2 N 1303
28
1995-06-26/28
Helsinki, Finland
WG 2 N 1211
2609
WG 2 N 1253
27
1995-04-03/07
Geneva, Switzerland
 
2577
WG 2 N 1203
26
1994-10-10/14
San Francisco, Calif. U.S.A.
 
2549
2559
25
1994-04-18/25
Antalya, Turkey
 
2536
WG 2 N 1203
24
1993-11-01/05
Washington, DC, U.S.A
 
2478
2504
23
1993-04-24/26
Athens, Greece
2416
2458
WG 2 N 903

IRG

No.
Date
Place
Agenda
Resolutions/Report
30
2008-06-09/06-14
Busan, Republic of Korea
4002
29
2007-11-12/16
San Jose, California, U.S.A,
3977
3999
28
20007-04/08
Shaanxi, China
3928
3952, 3953
27
2006-11-27/12-01
San Ya, Hannan, China
3902
3917, 3918
26
2006-06-05/09
Hue, Vietnam,
3844
3889
25
2005-11-28/12-02
Berkeley, CA, USA
3821
24
2005-05-24/27
Kyoto, Japan
3794
23
2004-11-29/12-03
Jeju Island, Republic of Korea,
3763

WG 3 (Disbanded)

 No.
Date
Place
Agenda
Resolutions
Report
16
2000-09-18/19
Athens, Greece
3460
3477
 
15
1999-09-16/17
Copenhagen, Denmark
3344
3379
 
14
1998-09-25
London, UK
3143
3176
 
13
1998-03-20, 23
Redmond, Washington, U.S.A
3026
3072
 
12
1997-07-04,07
Iraklion - Crete, Greece
2837
2933
 
11
1996-08-19
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
 
2748
2757
10
1995-04-03/07
Helsinki, Finland
 
2608
2638
9
1994-10-07
California, USA
 
 
 
8
1994-04-22
Antalya, Turkey
 
2521
2522
7
1993-05-26
Athens, Greece
2427
2453
2489

3. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Programme of Work
Updated: 2008-03-27
SC 2 Project #
(JTC 1.02.)
Reference
TITLE
Project Editor
Current
Stage
Target Date (Top)/
Actual Date (Bottom)
*=completion
   
WD
CD/
PDAM
FCD/
FPDAM
FDIS/
FDAM
  IS/
AMD  
OWG-SORT
14651.00.00.00.02 ISO/IEC 14651: 2007

(Freely available from ITTF site)

Information technology -- International string ordering and comparison -- Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering (Revision of ISO/IEC 14651: 2001) A.LaBonté
-
Published: 2007-12-01
14651.01.00.00.02 SC 2 N 3969
International string ordering and comparison -- Method for comparing character strings and description of the common template tailorable ordering -- Amendment 1 A.LaBonté
 1
         
WG 2: Universal Coded Character Set
10646 ISO/IEC 10646: 2003
(Freely available from ITTF site)
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)
 
-
Published: 2003-12-15
10646.00.01.00.01 ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amd.1: 2005
(Freely available from ITTF site)
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character set (UCS) -- Amendment 1: Glagolitic, Coptic, Georgian and other characters  
-
Published: 2005-11-15
10646.00.02.00.01 ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amd.2: 2006
(Freely available from ITTF site)
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) --Amendment 2: N'Ko, Phags-pa, Phoenician and other characters  
-
 
 Published: 2006-07-15
10646 00.03.00.01 ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amd.3: 2006
(Freely available from ITTF site)
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Amendment 3: Lepcha, Ol Chiki, Saurashtra, Vai, and other characters  
-
Published: 2008-02-15 
10646.00.04.00.01 ISO/IEC 10646/FDAM4
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Amendment 4: Lanna, Cham, Game Tiles, and other characters M.Suignard
4
 
06-12
06-12
07-06
07-05
07-12
08-01
 
10646.00.05.00.01 ISO/IEC 10646/FPDAM5
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 5: Meitei Mayek, Bamum, Tai Viet, Avestan, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C, and other characters
M.Suignard
3
  07-05
07-05
07-10 08-07  
10646.00.06.00.01 SISO/IEC 10646/PDAM 6 Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- AMENDMENT 6 M.Suignard
3
 
 -
07-12
     
10646.00.00.00.02 SC 2 N 3974 Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) (Second Edition: Consolidating ISO/IEC 10646: 2003 and Amendment 1 - 5 into a New Edition of ISO/IEC 10646) M.Suignard
1
         
15285 ISO/IEC TR 15285: 1998
(Freely available from the ITTF site)
An Operational Model for Characters and Glyphs
[Technical Report Type 3]
 
-
Published: 1998-12-15
SC 2 (Formerly assigned to WG 3: 7-bit and 8-bit codes and their extension)
01 ISO/IEC 646:1991

ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange  
*
Published: 1991-12-01
(Third Edition)
02 ISO/IEC 2022: 1994

Character code Structure and extension techniques  
*
Published: 1994-12-01
(Fourth Edition)
02.00.01 ISO/IEC 2022/ 
Cor.1: 1999
Character code Structure and extension techniques -- Technical Corrigendum 1  
*
Published: 1999-04-15
04.00.00 ISO/IEC 2375: 2003 Procedure for registration of escape sequences  
-
Published: 2003-02-15
08 ISO/IEC 4873: 1991 ISO 8-bit code for information interchange -- Structure and rules for implementation  
*
Published: 1991-12-15
13 ISO/IEC 6429: 1992 Control functions for coded character sets  
*
Published: 1992-12-15
(Third Edition)
14.01/02 ISO/IEC 6937: 2001 Code graphic character set for text communication  
-
Published: 2001-12-15
14.03/04 ISO/IEC 10538: 1991 Control functions for text communication  
-
Published: 1991-09-15
16 ISO/IEC 7350: 1991 Registration of repertories of graphic characters from ISO 10367  
*
Published: 1991-12-15
(Second Edition)
19 ISO 9036: 1987 Arabic 7-bit coded character set for information interchange  
*
Published: 1987-04-15
20.01 ISO/IEC 8859-1: 1998 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 1: Latin alphabet No.1  
*
Published: 1998-04-15
20.02 ISO/IEC 8859-2: 1999 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2  
-
Published: 1999-01-15
20.03 ISO/IEC 8859-3: 1999 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3  
-
Published: 1999-01-15
20.04 ISO/IEC 8859-4: 1998 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4  
*
Published: 1998-07-01
20.05 ISO/IEC 8859-5: 1999 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 5:  Latin/Cyrillic alphabet  
-
Published: 1999-01-15
20.06 ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet  
-
Published: 1999-01-15
20.07 ISO/IEC 8859-7: 2003 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet  
-
Published: 2003-10-15
20.08 ISO/IEC 8859-8: 1999 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 8: Latin/Hebrew alphabet  
-
Published: 1999-01-15
20.09 ISO/IEC 8859-9:1999) 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5  
-
Published: 1999-01-15
20.10 ISO/IEC 8859-10: 1998 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 10: Latin alphabet No. 6  
*
Published: 1998-07-15
20.11 ISO/IEC 8859-11: 2001 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 11: Latin/Thai character set  
-
Published: 2001-12-15
20.13 ISO/IEC 8859-13: 1998 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 13: Latin alphabet No.7  
*
Published: 1998-10-15
20.14 ISO/IEC 8859-14: 1998 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 14: Latin alphabet No.8 (Celtic)  
*
Published: 1998-11-15
20.15 ISO/IEC 8859-15: 1999 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 15: Latin alphabet N. 9  
-
Published: 1999-03-15
20.16 ISO/IEC 8859-16: 2001 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 16: Latin alphabet N. 10  
-
Published: 2001-07-15
22 ISO/IEC 10367: 1991 Standardized coded graphic character sets for use in 8-bit codes  
-
Published: 1991-12-15
22.00.00.01.01 ISO/IEC 10367/ Cor. 1 Standardized coded graphic character sets for use in 8-bit codes -- Technical Corrigendum 1  
-
Published: 2001-06-01
00962 ISO 962: 1974 Implementation of the 7- bit coded character set and its 7- bit and 8-bit extensions on 9- track 12,7 mm (0.5 in) magnetic tape  
*
Published: 1974
01113 ISO 1113: 1979 Representation of the 7- bit coded character set on punched tape  
*
Published: 1979
01154 ISO 1154: 1975 Punched paper tape -- Dimensions and location of feed holes and code holes  
*
Published: 1975
01681 ISO 1681: 1973 Unpunched paper cards -- Specification  
*
Published: 1973
02033 ISO 2033: 1983 Coding of machine readable characters (MICR and OCR)  
*
Published: 1983
02047 ISO 2047: 1975 Graphical representations for the control characters of the 7- bit coded character set  
*
Published: 1975
03275 ISO 3275: 1974 Implementation of the 7- bit coded character set and its 7- bit and 8-bit extensions on 3,81 mm magnetic cassette for data interchange  
*
Published: 1974
06586 ISO 6586: 1980 Implementation of the ISO 7- bit and 8- bit coded character sets on punched cards  
*
Published: 1980
06936 ISO 6936: 1988 Conversion between the two coded character sets of ISO 646 and ISO 6937-2 and the CCITT international telegraph alphabet No. 2 (ITA 2)  
*
Published: 1988
05426 ISO 5426: 1983  Extension of the Latin alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange  
*
Published: 1983-11-01
05426-2 ISO 5426-2: 1996  Information and documentation -- Extension of the Latin alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange -- Part 2: Latin characters used in minor European languages and obsolete typography  
-
Published: 1996
05427 ISO 5427: 1984 Extension of the Cyrillic alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange  
*
Published: 1984-09-15
05428 ISO 5428: 1984 Greek alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange  
*
Published: 1984-11-01
06438 ISO 6438: 1983 Documentation - African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange  
*
Published: 1983-08-01
06861 ISO 6861: 1996 Information and documentation -- Glagolitic alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange  
-
Published: 1996
06862 ISO 6862: 1996 Information and documentation -- Mathematical coded character set for bibliographical information interchange  
*
Published: 1996-10-01
08957 ISO 8957: 1996 Information and documentation -- Hebrew alphabet coded character sets for bibliographic information interchange  
-
Published: 1996
10585 ISO 10585: 1996 Information and documentation - Armenian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange  
*
Published: 1996-12-15
10586 ISO 10586: 1996 Information and documentation - Georgian alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange  
*
Published: 1996-12-15
11822 ISO 11822: 1996 Information and documentation - Extension of the Arabic alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange  
*
Published: 1996-12-15

 Target Dates:WD: Introduction of the first edition of WD by editors, CD: Registration of the first CD/PDAM (and subsequent CDs/PDAMs), FCD: Registration of FCD/FPDAM, FDIS: Submission of text for FDIS/FDAM processing, IS: Publication
Stages:0: A study period under way, 1: An NP is under consideration, 2: A WD is under consideration, 3: A CD/FCD is under consideration, 4: An FDIS is under consideration, 5: An IS is being prepared, -: Published, *: Stabilised