IRC log of core on 2008-02-06

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19:48:13 [aphillip]
zakim, this will be I18N
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ok, aphillip; I see I18N_CoreWG()3:00PM scheduled to start in 12 minutes
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Teleconference: Internationalization Core WG
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Meeting: Internationalization Core WG
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Chair: Addison Phillips
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Scribe: Addison Phillips
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ScribeNick: aphillip
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Agenda: http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Core_Homework#Agenda_topics
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I18N_CoreWG()3:00PM has now started
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+Michael_Monaghan
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+aphillip
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zakim, dial richard please
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ok, r12a; the call is being made
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+Richard
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Topic: Agenda
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http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Core_Homework#Agenda_topics
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Topic: Info Share
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richard: kevin novak was formerly a wg member from Library of Congress; a new representative will be joining us shortly
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Topic: Action Items
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Addison to finish revising Unicode Migration for publication; Addison to resolve editing issues
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Addison: check C14N XML 1.1 for health warning on normalization and comment appropriately if there is not one
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Addison: contact C14N XML about IRI issue and seek resolution
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DONE in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2008JanMar/0019.html
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Felix to contact XML Schema to ask them not to close language validation issue before we've seen the wording
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Richard create notes on how to use the wiki template
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Richard to publish Character encoding for Beginners article [DONE]
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Topic: Case Folding in CSS 2.1
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2007OctDec/0050.html
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addison: suggested references to Unicode and a health warning on using default locale
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richard: thought we would suggest not doing case folding generally
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regrets: david
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addison: also: my suggestions are kind of too heavy-weight
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addison: suggestion that we document something somewhere else that others can reference
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richard: suggest that we start small
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richard: don't start with Note status
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richard: just put basic ideas down first
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richard: put to wiki or blog first
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ACTION: Addison: write basic outline in wiki for a note on case folding
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Topic: HTML5 and CharMod conformance
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addison: status of architecture WG and it's work items... and our relation to them
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(discussion of background of charmod and also the conformance thereto)
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andrew: they call out their position well
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addison: need to decide if we (or they) got it wrong
20:29:44 [aphillip]
(discussion of how UA's interpret iso8859-1 vs. windows-1252)
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andrew: also people using custom fonts with iso8859-1 as the declared encoding
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andrew: also interplay between encoding, runtime, etc.
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andrew: two issues: what browsers do is one thing and what authors should do is another
20:32:35 [aphillip]
andrew: should separate what authors do and what browsers should do
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addison: this is the ultimate fallback after all other considerations have been applied
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addison: charmod has a requirement that if something says encoding 'x', then you must use encoding 'x'
20:36:11 [aphillip]
... but html5 says if 8859-1, then bytes 0x80->0x9F should be interpreted as 1252
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mick: so are we saying we should change charmod?
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addison: maybe... but maybe just endorse their "willful violation"
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addison: have a table in my day job where I do this for a variety of encodings :-)
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richard: support writing up questions if we don't have answers
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addison: strong feelings of opposition to what they've done?
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richard: don't know enough yet; maybe martin?
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richard: or possibly francois...
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andrew: not to concerned about what they tell browser writers to do, but they need to be clear about what authors should do
20:41:28 [aphillip]
andrew: they should provide strong guidance to authors; for example, if it is 1252, then it should be labeled windows-1252
20:41:48 [aphillip]
mick: agree; should be fixed at the author, rather than browser, level---browsers didn't create this problem
20:41:58 [aphillip]
addison: +1
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ACTION: andrew: write up a position statement describing why the willful violation exists and advising authors on the Right Thing to do with encoding declaration
20:44:06 [aphillip]
Topic: styling in HTML5 and dir on public list thread: needs follow up
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defer for felix's attendance
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Topic: Named entities for bidi controls vs. markup
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... was responding to our TPAC notes, where there was a suggestion of having the Unicode bidi controls as entities (instead of markup)
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2007OctDec/0144.html
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richard: the problme is that named entities don't translate well into XML
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s/problme/problem/
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richard: probably should get XML 1.0 6E to incorporate some of this
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addison: actually as named entities?
20:47:19 [aphillip]
richard: doubt they'd consider it; there are alreasy a few in there
20:47:33 [aphillip]
richard: HTML maybe should have some of these
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addison: now we have two ways of marking bidi (controls vs. markup) and this would add a third
20:49:30 [aphillip]
andrew: it gives you something to see in your ascii editor
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andrew: no good if you're in an RTL editing environment
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richard: anywhere you can't use markup you can't use entities either
20:51:12 [aphillip]
richard: except for attributes or elements such as title
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... and entities might be valuable there
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addison: title and attribute argument is somewhat compelling
20:53:55 [aphillip]
... already can put controls as NCRs... but that's not user friendly... have mysterious code point references
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richard: but if you know these things, you probably just want the code points........
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richard: need to publich proposal or question for feedback
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mick: write to winter list?
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addison: also unicode bidi list
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ACTION: Michael: write a proposal/summary message for eventual distribution to winter, et al, relating to doing bidi entities vs. markup vs. controls
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send to member list; target next week if possible or the week after if no
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s/if no/if not
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Topic: AOB?
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-Michael_Monaghan
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-andrewc
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I see 3 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2008/02/06-core-actions.rdf :
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ACTION: Addison: write basic outline in wiki for a note on case folding [1]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/02/06-core-irc#T20-20-41
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ACTION: andrew: write up a position statement describing why the willful violation exists and advising authors on the Right Thing to do with encoding declaration [2]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/02/06-core-irc#T20-43-19
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ACTION: Michael: write a proposal/summary message for eventual distribution to winter, et al, relating to doing bidi entities vs. markup vs. controls [3]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/02/06-core-irc#T20-58-29