ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 (Universal Character Set)
and Unicode

WG2 is the ISO/IEC working group responsible for the Universal Character Set; Michael Everson is Irish national representative to this working group, and is a Contributing Editor of ISO/IEC 10646.

Unicode is the industrial implementation standard for the Universal Character Set; Michael Everson is one of the authors and editors of The Unicode Standard version 3.0.

• Roadmaps to the BMP and Plane 1 of ISO 10646 and Unicode Provided as a service to JTC1/SC2/WG2 and the Unicode Technical Committee
  
• ConScript Unicode Registry. A registry which coordinates the assignment of blocks out of the Private Use Zone to constructed/artificial scripts, including scripts for constructed/artificial languages. (Nothing in the CSUR has any official status of any kind, but it is fun.)
  
• N2317: On the use of JOINERs in ligation
  
• N2311: Roadmapping early Semitic scripts
  
• N2310: Background information on Recycling Symbols by Michael Everson and Asmus Freytag
  
• N2306: Proposal to add LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG to the UCS
  
• N2297: Legacy cuneiform font implementations and the ICE project"
  
• N2296R: Accessing the ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 CD-ROM"
  
• N2241: Proposal to add 6 Egyptological characters to the UCS"
  
• N2240: Proposal to add 8 recycling characters to the UCS" by Michael Everson and Asmus Freytag [proposal accepted for the BMP]
  
• N2224: Archaic Komi Cyrillic characters for the BMP of the UCS by Michael Everson, Klaas Ruppel, and Trond Trosterud [proposal accepted for the BMP]
  
• The case of the Cyrillic letter PÁLOCHKA
  
• N2147: Further discussion of the ZERO-WIDTH LIGATOR [proposal rejected; ZWJ to be used instead]
  
• N2141: On the need for a ZERO-WIDTH LIGATOR
  
• N2134: Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098)
  
• N2133: Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097)
  
• N2132: Response to comments on the question of encoding Egyptian hieroglyphs in the UCS (N2096)
  
• N2080: Request for two additional collections in ISO/IEC 10646-1
  
• N2046: Graphic representation of the Roadmap to Plane 1 of the UCS
  
• N2045: Graphic representation of the Roadmap to the BMP of the UCS
  
• N2044: On encoding New Tai Lue
  
• N2043: On the apostrophe and quotation mark, with a note on Egyptian transliteration characters
  
• N2042: Unicode Technical Report #3: Early Aramaic, Balti, Kirat (Limbu), Manipuri (Meitei), and Tai Lü scripts by Rick McGowan and Michael Everson
  
• N1963: Response to Japanese National Body recommendation to ISO/IEC JTC1 concerning the activities of JTC1/SC2 (JTC1 N5698)
  
• N1962: Optimizing Georgian representation in the BMP of the UCS
  
• N1960: Response to Ngô Trung Viêt on feedback from Cham experts
  
• N1959: Proposal for encoding the Indus script in the UCS
  
• N1958: Proposal for encoding the Varang Kshiti script in the UCS
  
• N1957: Proposal for encoding the Sorang Sompeng script in the UCS
  
• N1956: Revised proposal for encoding the Ol Cemet' script in the UCS
  
• N1948: Proposal to encode the Osmanya script in Plane 1 of the UCS
  
• N1947: Revised proposal for encoding the Old Permic script in the UCS
  
• N1944: Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS
  
• N1938: On the Greek letter Koppa
  
• N1933: Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS [proposal accepted for the BMP]
  
• N1932: Revised proposal for encoding the Phoenician script in the UCS
  
• N1931: Revised proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS
  
• N1930: Revised proposal for encoding the Buginese script in the UCS
  
• N1893: Revisions to Annex N of ISO/IEC 10646-1
  
• N1891: On encoding the Deseret script in Plane 1 of the UCS [proposal accepted; Deseret encoded in the SMP]
  
• N1866: Proposal to encode Blissymbolics in Plane 1 of the UCS
  
• N1847: Responses to NCITS/L2 comments on numerous proposals
  
• N1846: Proposal to encode Ethiopic Extensions in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646 by The Ethiopian Quality and Standards Authority, the Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission, and the Ethiopian Computer Standards Association
  
• N1758: On encoding the Old Hungarian rovásírás in the UCS
  
• N1757: Encoding the Tifinagh script
  
• N1749: Additional Hebrew mark characters for the UCS
  
• N1748: Additional signature mark characters for the UCS
  
• N1747: Contraction mark characters for the UCS
  
• N1746: Additional combining characters for the UCS
  
• N1745: Additional mathematical characters for the UCS
  
• N1744: Additional Cyrillic characters for the UCS
  
• N1743: Additional Greek characters for the UCS
  
• N1742: Additional IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters for the UCS
  
• N1741: Additional Latin characters for the UCS
  
• N1740: Proposal to encode the Hebrew Tetragrammaton in ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1689: Proposal to encode South Arabian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1688: Proposal to encode Sinaitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1687: Proposal to encode Old Permic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1686: Proposal to encode Old Hungarian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1685: Proposal to encode Brahmi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1684: Proposal to encode Avestan in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1658: Proposal to encode Coptic in ISO/IEC 10646
  
• Coptic script compared with Greek and Cyrillic
  
• N1643: Proposal to encode Klingon in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1642: Proposal to encode Cirth in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1641: Proposal to encode Tengwar in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1640: Proposal to encode Ugaritic Cuneiform in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 Updated code table here.
  
• N1639: Proposal to encode Old Persian Cuneiform in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1638: Proposal to encode Meroitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
  
• N1559: Proposal for encoding Cham in ISO/IEC 10646 (Unofficial HTML version of a WG2 document)
  
• N1549: On the derivation of YOGH and EZH (Unofficial HTML version of a WG2 document)
  
• Archive of earlier WG2 papers. An archive of papers which are either no longer active, or which have been superceded by events (such as sending Canadian Syllabics and Cherokee out for ballotting).
  

HTML Michael Everson, [email protected], Everson Gunn Teoranta, 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach, Baile Átha Cliath 2, Éire, 2001-03-06