Public Review Issue #172: Proposed Update Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing

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 September 9, 2010.

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

#172 Proposed Update UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/proposed.html

There is a proposed update with the following features: alignment with Unicode 6.0, the addition of conformance test files, and support of the IDNA2003 option UseSTD3ASCIIRules=false.

Feedback is requested both on both the draft text http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/proposed.html and draft data files http://unicode.org/Public/idna/6.0.0/

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Public Review Issue #176: Properties of Two Khmer Characters

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 periods for the new items close on October 25, 2010.
Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. Briefly, the new issue is:

PRI #176: Properties of Two Khmer Characters

The UTC is considering potential changes to the General_Category property values and default collation weighting of two Khmer characters, U+17B4 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AQ and U+17B5 KHMER VOWEL INHERENT AA. The UTC is seeking feedback on this topic. In particular, the UTC would be interested in learning of any current implementations which might be adversely affected by any of the proposed modifications to the General_Category and/or default collation weighting of these two characters. Please see the background document http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-176.html for details on the proposal.

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Public Review Issue #175: CLDR 1.9 Collation Changes

The Unicode CLDR committee is making Unicode locale-sensitive collation a major focus for the next release, CLDR 1.9. There are specific changes for a large number of languages, plus a change in the default ordering of punctuation vs symbols for all languages.

Please see the background document for more information: http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-175.html

If you have any feedback on any of the actions, please file a ticket with CLDR as described in the background document.

Review period for this issue closes on October 1, 2010.

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Unicode Security and Domain Names

The Unicode Consortium has released three important specifications related to Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and Security.

UTS #46: Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/

UTR# 36: Unicode Security Considerations
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/

UTR# 39: Unicode Security Mechanisms
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/

UTS #46: Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing

Client software, such as browsers and emailers, faces a difficult transition from the version of international domain names approved in 2003 (IDNA2003), to the revision approved in 2010 (IDNA2008). The specification in this document provides a mechanism that minimizes the impact of this transition for client software, allowing client software to access domains that are valid under either system. The specification provides two main features: One is a comprehensive mapping to support current user expectations for casing and other variants of domain names.
Such a mapping is allowed by IDNA2008. The second is a compatibility mechanism that supports the existing domain names that were allowed under IDNA2003. This second feature is intended to improve client behavior during the transitional period.

UTR# 36: Unicode Security Considerations

Because Unicode contains such a large number of characters and incorporates the varied writing systems of the world, incorrect usage can expose programs or systems to possible security attacks. This is especially important as more and more products are internationalized.

This document describes some of the security considerations that programmers, system analysts, standards developers, and users should take into account, and provides specific recommendations to reduce the risk of problems.

UTR# 39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

Because Unicode contains such a large number of characters and incorporates the varied writing systems of the world, incorrect usage can expose programs or systems to possible security attacks. This document specifies mechanisms that can be used to detect possible security problems.

New PRI: Proposed Draft UTR #49 Unicode Character Categories

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 periods for the new items close on October 25, 2010. Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.

Briefly, the new issue is:
PRI #174 Proposed Draft UTR #49, "Unicode Character Categories"
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr49/tr49-1.html
This proposed draft UTR presents an approach to the categorization of Unicode characters, and documents a data file that implementers can use for defining Unicode character categories.

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Submit nominations for the Unicode Bulldog Award

The Unicode Consortium sponsors an annual award for outstanding personal contributions to the philosophy and dissemination of the Unicode Standard. Known as the “Bulldog Award,” it is presented at the Unicode conference to recognize “those tenacious champions of Unicode who have produced solid achievements in promoting its use around the globe”.

 

The Consortium invites the Unicode community to nominate up to two people they believe are most deserving of this award. Nominations should include a brief rationale why the candidate would be a good choice. Please check http://unicode.org/conference/bulldog.html to see a list of past winners. Executive officers and staff of the Unicode Consortium are not eligible for the award.  Send nominations to magda@unicode.org with “Bulldog Award nomination” in the subject line by August 22, 2010.

 

Unicode Locale Identifier Stability

The Unicode Locale stability policies have been extended to cover
Unicode locale identifiers more clearly. See
http://unicode.org/policies/locales_stability.html

Unicode 5.0 now in Chinese

Pearson Education Asia Ltd. and Tsinghua University Press just published a translation of the Unicode Standard 5.0 in Simplified Chinese, available at Amazon.cn: http://www.amazon.cn/gp/product/B00328IJ46?ver=gp

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Unicode welcomes Government of Bangladesh

The Unicode Consortium is pleased to welcome the Government of
Bangladesh as a new instutitional member. Their website is at:
http://www.mosict.gov.bd/