Friday, April 1, 2011

PRI 181: Changing General Category of Twelve 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/pri181/

Review periods for the new items close on May 2, 2011.

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

The UTC has decided to change the general category of twelve characters, and is requesting public feedback on the proposed changes. Details of the proposal and the list of affected characters are in the background document: http://www.unicode.org/review/pri181/

If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:

http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

If you wish to discuss issues on the Unicode forum or the Unicode mail list, then please use the following links to subscribe (if necessary). Please be aware that discussion comments on the Unicode mail list are not automatically recorded as input to the UTC. You must use the reporting link above to generate comments for UTC consideration.

http://www.unicode.org/forum/
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html