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Re: Agenda for the 2022-02-09 SG16 telecon

From: Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 12:03:09 -0500
On 2/7/22 11:41 AM, Corentin Jabot wrote:
> Please note that P1885 was updated (again) to address P2498. I
> encourage people to read the paper.
> https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P1885R10.pdf
> <https://isocpp.org/files/papers/P1885R10.pdf>

Thank you for mentioning that Corentin; I apologize that I neglected to
do so.

As Corentin requests, please do familiarize yourself with the changes made.

>
> I do not intend to make further design changes to P1885 that do not
> get first approved by LEWG

I think that is the correct choice; any agreed upon design changes can
and should be handled by a new paper.

Tom.

>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 5:29 PM Tom Honermann via SG16
> <sg16_at_[hidden] <mailto:sg16_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
> SG16 will hold a telecon on Wednesday, February 9th at 19:30 UTC
> (timezone conversion
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220209T193000&p1=1440&p2=tz_pst&p3=tz_mst&p4=tz_cst&p5=tz_est&p6=tz_cet>).
>
> The agenda is:
>
> * P2498R1: Forward compatibility of text_encoding with
> additional encoding registries <https://wg21.link/p2498r1>
> o Continue prior discussion and poll.
> * P2513R0: char8_t Compatibility and Portability Fixes
> <https://wg21.link/p2513r0>
> o Initial review.
>
> We last discussed P2498R0 <https://wg21.link/p2498r0> at our
> 2022-01-12 telecon
> <https://github.com/sg16-unicode/sg16-meetings#january-12th-2022>,
> but did not poll then due to lack of quorum. A new revision has
> since been published to address concerns raised during that
> discussion. We'll continue discussion, and then, assuming quorum,
> poll further direction or forwarding of the proposal. Potential
> polls are listed below ordered from more abstract to concrete.
>
> 1. The text_encoding class design should be modified to
> facilitate potential future association with additional
> encoding registries without retaining a bias towards the IANA
> registry.
> 2. The text_encoding class should be modified to make the
> association to the IANA character set registry explicit in the
> interface.
> 3. Forward P2498R1 as proposed (or with changes as discussed) to
> LEWG as an amendment of P1885 <https://wg21.link/p1885> for C++23.
>
> P2513R0 <https://wg21.link/p2513r0> intends to reduce the backward
> compatibility impact of the C++20 introduction of char8_t by
> restoring the ability to initialize an array of char, signed char,
> and unsigned char with UTF-8 string literals. The motivation is to
> restore compatibility with C and to restore the explicit ability
> to use UTF-8 data in [signed/unsigned] char-based storage without
> having to explicitly copy bytes, but without otherwise relaxing
> type constraints with char8_t. WG14 will be considering N2653
> <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2653.htm>
> (char8_t: A type for UTF-8 characters and strings (Revision 1))
> next week. If accepted as proposed, C23 will introduce a char8_t
> typedef of unsigned char, but will not restrict initialization
> behavior as C++20 did. Discussion at this telecon may provide
> input to WG14 next week. Based on discussion, we may elect to
> delay forwarding this paper until WG14 has discussed and polled
> N2653 <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2653.htm>.
>
> Tom.
>
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