Status: For review by WG2 Date: 2007-09-18 Distribution: WG2 Reference:

, character sets are used in text streaming which are mostly included in Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. In addition to regular Japanese text (broadly conceived as a mixed of Romaji (ASCII), Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji) many symbols are also used. Most of these symbols are already encoded in the standard mentioned earlier. However many still are not and that has lead to the creation of Private Use characters in fonts used in the ARIB context. It would be desirable to encode many of these symbols to avoid confusion with end user created private characters. This document is categorizing them in usage groups: � Traffic signs � Audio/Video symbols � Map/Guide symbols � Arrows � Numbers followed by period � Chad symbols � Japanese date symbols � Japanese currency symbol � Squared Latin abbreviations � Miscellaneous symbols � Registry Office symbols (?) � Numbers followed by comma � Parenthesized ideographs � Circled Ideographs � Geometric shapes � CJK brackets � Miscellaneous symbol