Hello Ken and thanks for the reply. So I understand that the need for this category is rare but occurs nevertheless.
Now I'm wondering about the similar category "not accepted by UTC, and not in ISO ballot" – why such a character would be mentioned on the pipeline at all… On Fri, 27 Dec, 2019, 07:19 Ken Whistler, <kenwhist...@sonic.net> wrote: > Shriramana, > > On 12/20/2019 6:29 PM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: > > I was looking at the pipeline for something else, and for the first > > time I see a character category: “not accepted by the UTC but in ISO > > ballot” and two characters in it. > Those two characters changed status as of December 4, when the > disposition of comments for CD3 was posted. They will not be part of the > DIS ballot. The pipeline has now been updated to reflect that change of > status. > > > > So IIUC while technically people are free to submit a document to the > > ISO separately without submitting to UTC, it has always been the > > practice to my knowledge to get a character approved by the UTC first. > > That is a preferred process, but doesn't always occur. The most obvious > exception is that large new CJK repertoire additions are developed by > the IRG and often go into ballot in ISO before the UTC takes a formal > decision to approve them. CJK Extension G has now been approved for 13.0 > by the UTC, but the entire block was listed in the pipeline for some > time as "not accepted by UTC, but in active ISO technical ballot" once > Extension G went into CD balloting. > > --Ken > >