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<scribe> ACTION: david: propose clarification text for HTML5 date-local section DONE [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/05/26-core-minutes.html#action01]
norbert: today is the last day for Unicode Conf abstract submission
richard: next week partners in
multilingualweb EC project meeting in Bucharest
... some tests already integrated into CSS test suite, more on the way
been doing a lot of work lately on updating the test format to make usable with other test suites
hoping for finalisation of issues around the time of the bidi meet up
Mati: we should send a reminder to the HTML5 folks that this meeting will take place - the more people we have there the better
<scribe> ACTION: Richard to send email to HTML5 about bidi meeting [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/05/26-core-minutes.html#action02]
Mati: there's a lot of
interesting discussion going on on the public-iri@w3.org list
about bidi IRI/IDNs
... we should take a look
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-iri/
Mati: when people write or read
bidi/rtl IRIs there are different opinions about how it should
be displayed
... some say just use Bidi Algorithm - this leads to possible
confusion because different logical orderings may lead to the
same display
... so if you see the URI on a napkin, you don't know how to
type into an address bar
... so people are presenting different options for
normalisation
... basically suggestion that the parts are always laid out
label by label in a uniform direction and within the label,
bidi algorithm used
... may use control characters, or special duplicates of
punctuation for this purpose, ie. special dot and special @
with unique bidi properties
... to create predictabel and understandable outcome
... there are strong differences of opinion about the best
approach, worries about spoofing, changes on the user or server
side, how to expect the transition to work, etc.
... it's quite obvious that there's no ideal solution, so
different proposals expressed
... nothing decided yet - in order to decide we need agreement
from a large number of bodies, such as browser implementers,
standards orgs, etc
... there have been a lot of interventions - it was started by
Mark Davis, Google
David: probable regrets for next few weeks
meeting adjourned