W3C

I18N ITS Working Group

6 Jul 2005

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Attendees

Present
Masaki_Itagaki, Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki, Diane_Stoick, Andrzej_Zydron, Yves Savourel
Regrets: Christian Lieske, Tim Foster, Najib Tounsi
Chair:
Yves Savourel
Scribe
fsasaki

Contents


agendum 1. "action items" taken up [from fsasaki]

ACTION: Felix to contact person for ATOM

Yves: http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0505WordCount

ACTION: Richard to contact person from w3c about feedback from non-wg members

AZ: worked on word count

.. needs to check with wg if it meets the its reqs

.. keept the previous comments so far

Yves: leave that for next time until there are comments

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqSpan

tim to lock at span-like element

<scribe> ACTION: tim to lock at span-like element (PENDING) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<YvesS> http://www.w3.org/International/its#work

<scribe> ACTION: Yves to reorder work items on main page DONE [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

discussion of requirements document

Yves: felix feedback from project review: we should publish very fast
... within days

<YvesS> http://www.w3.org/International/its/requirements/

Yves: worked on document for reqs
... link shows current state of document
... we will have all work items there
... and just fill in what we have

ri: you need a couple of things
... as part of the publishing process
... Yves and Felix will work through that process

Yves: do we need a formal vote in the wg?

ri: yes

<scribe> ACTION: Yves and Felix to finish up the first draft [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action03]

ri: we have to minute confirmation from the wg for publishing the wd
... that's one of the requirements for publishing

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqBackground

yves: was there a comment from RI?
... there was only a few changes
... comments?

(no comments)

scribe: let's move it to WD

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqWhoShouldRead

yves: "who should read this document"
... some addition after felix comments

felix: liked the changes

yves: move it to WD?
... ok, it will be WD

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqOverview

Yves: "Overview"
... addressing comments from RI

there was an example at the end of the last paragraph

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0503ReqOverview?action=diff&rev2=4&rev1=3

scribe: link shows the differences between the versions

RI: like the changes Yves did

Yves: not formal wording like in the reqs themself.
... move to WD?
... let's move it to WD

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0504ReqKeyDefinitions

Yves: "Definitions"
... at the top of introduction

<r12a> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0504ReqKeyDefinitions?action=diff&rev2=8&rev1=7

difference was trying to replace schematron by RELAX NG (request from RI)

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0504ReqKeyDefinitions?action=diff&rev2=8&rev1=7

RI: wanted RELAX NG, don't remember why

Yves: will remove schematron, leave RELAX NG

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0506ReqConstraints

Yves: now about the reqs themselves
... "constraint" req
... main change after comment from Felix

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0506ReqConstraints?action=diff&rev2=10&rev1=9

felix: like the changes

yves: other comments?
... so this goes also to WD.

<YvesS> http://esw.w3.org/topic/its0504ReqCulturalAspects

Yves: from masaki "cultural aspect"

masaki: made some changes

changed country name

scribe: it was yugoslavia
... put something like a standard date format into it
... changed Japanese example

Yves: one comment on that
... would the h(???) be better

zh

RI: you can specify that with the current system

will be much better with rfc 3066bis

RI: the chinese example states a problem, but doesn't say what the req is to solve the problem
... what do we need? xml:lang? tags? another mechanism?
... we need to specify that

masaki: recently there is lot's of specs on locale and country codes
... do we need more? is there enough with the current system?
... e.g. the zh case already has a solution

RI: I think there is now a code for swiss german

masaki: how about aserbadjian?
... locale for aserbadjian

RI: there is still work on that being done
... e.g. by the core wg.
... still a potential issue
... but we should say: why is it an issue, not in terms of the solution
... maybe met by the core work

masaki: if it is discussed in core, i could point to the core group

ri: hasen't been discussed yet.

yves: we need additional informaion on locale, that's in the summary. Do we need more text e.g. in the challenges section?

ri: concept of representing orthography will be representable very soon
... with rfc 3066bis other problems will go away as well
... all what is said in the summary will be possible to be managed with rfc 3066bis
... the question is: are we talking about xml:lang values
... or are we talking about other attributes related to locale etc.?

masaki: I see the point

yves: you want to talk about dates, calenders etc.?

ri: if we need to specify locale for a date format
... that's something different
... so we have to say what we will focus on

yves: we talk about xml:lang in another req

masaki: this is an additional on top of it
... there should be more than xml:lang
... do we have other examples?
... somebody said "a date format could solve the req"
... you want to know whether Japanese uses wareki or western style time

i.e. date format

ri: I can see the scenario
... it's the other stuff in the req we have problems with

yves: should we remove the two examples which don't fit

<r12a> FAQ by Addison (in preparation) that has some bearing here: http://esw.w3.org/topic/geoFAQxmllang

felix: would be hard to have a fixed set of values for a @context attribute

ri: who would use the attribute?

masaki: it would be used in the target language
... there is only one source
... as you translate, it could be translated in two different ways
... e.g. in the case of desu / masu
... if you reuse the content, you need information about the context / e.g. the writing style
... this is always about target languages
... example: italian users like different styles for user interfaces

ri: do we have an attribute in the english source or in the target side?

masaki: context could be specified in the english side, writing style at the target side (Japanese)

ri: how would the attribute be used?

masaki: for a cms, you have 1000 units of Japanese and english
... you might wonder if they are consistent with respect to writing style (in the target language)
... content builder would use this information

yves: or translation memory systems?
... at some point the source becomes the target

ri: could you rephrase the requirement as you just explained it?

masaki: you're right.
... can change the requirements to writing styles
... will change the title to something about writing styles

ri: locale is something we should continue thinking about

masaki: will keep that in my mind

f2f meeting

yves: started a page for the meeting
... one question was the hotel

would a hotel close to antibe better or not?

ri: I would prefer to stay in antibe, if we could get a car.

<YvesS> http://www.w3.org/International/its/ftf-200509-Sophia.html

yves: felix will update the page with new information
... we have to think about agenda in the three days
... need to organize it efficient
... as soon as you know whether you will come, tell Felix

<scribe> ACTION: everybody to think about participation [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action04]

masaki: is not sure about participation yet, will probably know in August

yves: other comments on f2f?

other business

yves: felix is team contact now

ri: will still be here at the telecon
... I'll be helping Yves and felix with the practical aspects

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: everybody to think about participation [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: Yves and Felix to finish up the first draft [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action03]
 
[PENDING] ACTION: tim to lock at span-like element [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
 
[DONE] ACTION: Yves to reorder work items on main page [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action02]
[PENDING]ACTION: Richard to contact person from w3c about feedback from non-wg members
[PENDING]ACTION: Felix to contact person for ATOM
 
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