Status: to be reviewed at #42 WG2 meeting Date: 2002-05-15

This paper expresses a concern on the VARIATION SELECTORS in ISO/IEC 10646-2 PDAM-1. This paper is a concern of the NB of Japan. This paer can be treated as a new input for the FPDAM, or late additional comment from NB of Japan for PDAM-1 ballot. This paper agrees with the sub-code assignment approach to express the variation(s) of the characters. However, at the same time, this paper concerns an application of the VARIATION SELECTOES for CJK ideographs as well as non-CJK-ideographs, and also concerns differences of nature of the CJK ideographs and other scripts from view points of applying VARIATION SELECTOR. This paper expects more intensive discussion on the VARIATION SELECTORS before proceeding to the FPDAM and further, and just in case, the VARIATION SELECTORS may be delayed for Amendment-2 to keep other part of the AMD-1 on schedule. This paper recommend to split the variation into several (at least two). And use the current for the “glyph variation ” (will be expressed later) with minor additional text, and start the extensive discussion on the CJK application by opening ad-hoc group with in WG2 for much clear use of the selectors. Japan is willing to participate the ad-hoc