[Fwd]: New Public Review Issues

----- Forwarded message from Rick McGowan <[email protected]> -----

 > The Unicode Technical Committee has posted two new issues 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 August 9, 2005.
 > 
 > Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.  
 > Briefly, the new issues are:
 > 
 > 
 > 72  	Stability of the Bidi Mirrored Property
 > 
 > In a bidirectional context, the images of many characters need to be  
 > oriented depending on the writing direction of the text in which they  
 > occur. The Bidi Mirrored property defines this behavior, but the model it  
 > implements has a few inconsistencies. Ideally, these would be corrected,  
 > but doing so will destabilize all documents containing the affected  
 > characters. A stability policy would freeze future changes, but should one  
 > last round of improvements be carried out? Your input on the range of  
 > possible actions is solicited, whether you are a language expert, user. or  
 > implementer.
 > 
 > 
 > 73 	Representative Glyphs for Arabic Characters U+06DF, U+06E0, and U+06E1
 > 
 > The representative glyphs for several Arabic characters used to annotate  
 > the Koran have been reported as being possibly incorrect. The UTC has  
 > tentatively decided to revise them as explained in the accompanying  
 > document. The UTC invites anyone knowledgeable in their use to provide  
 > additional information or recommendations.
 > 
 > 
 > 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 mail list, then please use  
 > the following link 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/consortium/distlist.html
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 	Rick McGowan
 > 	Unicode, Inc.
 > 

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