i18n core working group

Plans for the near future

Francois: try to recruit more members

Mary: Addison was working on s.t. from Microsoft
... we hope that this work will continue now
... I don't know about the guy from Microsoft

<scribe> ACTION: felix to send a note to Moataz [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/11/15-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

Richard: I talked to Mrs. Snyder from Microsoft

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Richard: she was at the Unicode conference

<scribe> ACTION: felix to look for Kieran Snyder [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/11/15-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

Mary: Were might also be somebody from Sun
... I can continue editing the ws i18n document
... it would be possible to have a better draft by then
... mark davis might take a look at the language and locale identifiers document

<scribe> ACTION: felix to ping mark about ltli document [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/11/15-i18n-minutes.html#action03]

francois: charmod norm
... have to deal with the xml situation

felix: let's discuss open issues in charmod norm in every meeting from now
... about 20 minutes or longer if time allows

<scribe> ACTION: felix to present the comments on chardmod norm to the wg [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/11/15-i18n-minutes.html#action04]

felix: I will ask students at Keio if they can create IRI tests

Richard: Trip Report

Richard: trip report
... went to Bejing
... participated in SSML workshop on SSML internationalization
... lot's of people (China, Poland, Korea)
... very interesting
... e.g in Chinese there are no spaces to indicate word boundaries
... that creates an ambiguity on word boundaries
... so they want to have markup to indicate word boundaries
... they need to express information about tones
... information about accent (e.g. in Polish) would be helpful
... no decisions have been taken
... they want to have another workshop, now with middle eastern languages
... and European languages like Turkish and Finish
... I was also in India, and there was a strong desire to have the next workshop in India

Francois: Is there s.t. special about Indic languages?

Richard: I don't know
... we might see from the submissons to the upcoming workshop
... last week I was at the opening of the W3C office in India
... there was a plenary day, I presented Internationalization
... there was a strong interest in internationalization
... only 5% of the population speak English
... they also interested in the mobile web
... on the second day we had tutorials
... Internationalization came up as a big topic
... there are some computational linguistic type folks
... we have to go through some discussions in the near future
... we need to ask people to write W3C submissions
... this morning I went to the MWI event
... I told them again to take i18n into account
... I tried to encourage s.o. from the BBC to participate in i18n wg
... MWI best practices document looks at XHTML, but not e.g. on SVG
... they don't think e.g. about user interface design that much
... these things may become relevant for their specs

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<scribe> ACTION: felix to review the MWI specs [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/11/15-i18n-minutes.html#action05]