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Re: [SG16] Agenda for the 2022-01-12 SG16 telecon

From: Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:41:12 -0500
This is your friendly reminder that this telecon will take place tomorrow.

Barry informed me that a D2286R5 draft is not yet available, so we will
not be discussing that paper tomorrow.

Tom.

On 1/10/22 12:19 PM, Tom Honermann via SG16 wrote:
>
> SG16 will hold a telecon on Wednesday, January 12th at 19:30 UTC
> (timezone conversion
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220112T193000&p1=1440&p2=tz_pst&p3=tz_mst&p4=tz_cst&p5=tz_est&p6=tz_cet>).
>
> The agenda is:
>
> * D2286R5: Formatting Ranges
> o Review pending availability of proposed wording and continued
> targeting of C++23.
> * P2491R0: Text encodings follow-up <https://wg21.link/p2491r0>
> o Initial review.
> * P2498R0: Forward compatibility of text_encoding with additional
> encoding registries <https://wg21.link/p2498r0>
> o Initial review.
>
> I don't yet have confirmation of the existence of a D2286R5 so, unless
> I hear otherwise, the first item on the agenda won't happen.
>
> We last reviewed a draft of P2286R4 <https://wg21.link/p2286r4> during
> the 2021-12-15 SG16 telecon
> <https://github.com/sg16-unicode/sg16-meetings/blob/master/README-2021.md#december-15th-2021>
> where we approved forwarding it to LEWG despite the absence of
> wording. Prior to that, we had reviewed P2286R3
> <https://wg21.link/p2286r3> during the 2021-12-01 SG16 telecon
> <https://github.com/sg16-unicode/sg16-meetings/blob/master/README-2021.md#december-1st-2021>.
> LEWG has since reviewed the proposal during its 2022-01-04 telecon
> <https://wiki.edg.com/bin/view/Wg21telecons2022/P2286?twiki_redirect_cache=e1d7621f93ffd926fb2c8172a10fead5>
> and plans to review again during its 2022-01-18 telecon. In this
> telecon, we'll review the available wording to look for new SG16
> concerns and to validate the wording reflects previous design
> guidance. Previous design discussion related to the following concerns:
>
> 1. Use of P2290 <https://wg21.link/p2290> style brace delimited
> hexadecimal notation to preserve the values of code units that
> appear in an ill-formed code unit sequence.
> 2. Use of P2290 <https://wg21.link/p2290> style brace delimited UCN
> notation (as opposed to hexadecimal notation) for non-printable
> characters.
> 3. Whether it is always possible to map an input character to a
> Unicode character for the purpose of determining printability.
> 4. How characters are determined to be printable or non-printable.
> 5. Handling of lone surrogate characters; whether they are encoded in
> UCN notation (like a non-printable character) or in hexadecimal
> notation (like an invalid code unit).
> 6. Handling of unassigned code points.
> 7. Handling of Private Use Area (PUA) code points.
> 8. How to determine the boundaries of ill-formed code unit sequences.
> 9. Whether a replacement character should be emitted for an
> ill-formed code unit sequence (as opposed to emitting hexadecimal
> notation for each contributing code unit).
> 10. Stability guarantees.
> 11. Support for non-Unicode platforms.
> 12. Handling of std::filesystem::path.
>
> P2491R0 <https://wg21.link/p2491r0> proposes changes to P1885;
> primarily with regard to handling of wide encodings. The recently
> communicated D1885R9 <https://isocpp.org/files/papers/D1885R9.pdf>
> draft revision removes support for wide encodings thus making much
> (but not all) of what P2491R0 proposes moot.
>
> P2498R0 <https://wg21.link/p2498r0> also proposes changes to P1885 to
> make way for the possibility of supporting different encoding
> registrars in the future. Note that the ISO does specify its own
> registry of encodings that have been registered for use with ISO/IEC
> 2022 <https://www.iso.org/standard/22747.html>. The registry is called
> ISO-IR (officially, "INTERNATIONAL REGISTER OF CODED CHARACTER SETS TO
> BE USED WITH ESCAPE SEQUENCES") and the registration procedures are
> specified in ISO/IEC 2375 <https://www.iso.org/standard/32184.html>.
> Unfortunately, I don't think any of these publications is freely
> available, though copies can be found online. ISO/IEC 2022
> <https://www.iso.org/standard/22747.html> is also published as ECMA-35
> <https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-35/>.
>
> Please review the updates made to D1885R9
> <https://isocpp.org/files/papers/D1885R9.pdf> prior to this telecon
> for applicability to our review of the latter two papers.
>
> Tom.
>
>


Received on 2022-01-11 18:41:13