Internationalization Core Working Group Teleconference -- 29 Jun 2011

Minutes and Agenda review

Action Items

Check into digit shaping with CSS

none of the browsers support substitution so if you type 1 you don't get e.g. Arabic digit '1'

<r12a> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

Review Contacts API and collect last call comments for the WG. WG members to perform review.

close ACTION-43

<trackbot> ACTION-43 Review Contacts API and collect last call comments for the WG. WG members to perform review. closed

Publish qa-personal-names for wide review

next week

Dump charmod-norm and add disclaimer paragraph, dates, etc. so that we can publish an interim working draft

Collect any remaining comments and update timezones document for final publication

richard has kindly posted it

Update charmodsummary and review WG member comments as they come in

Convert koji's comments on contacts API into tracker comments to forward to DAP

Create a new product for contacts API in tracker

richard isn't done yet....... so a-50 is blocked

should be today?

Contact the TAG to ask for finding on normalization in about a month

ready to fire. will send this morning

Create working draft of TAG finding document

Info Share

gwyneth: date control discussion on html5 list
... two comments about internationalization in that thread

richard: CSS Ruby to be published as WD tomorrow
... some process snags

<Gwyneth> Here is the tread I mentioned: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jun/0425.html

richard: will put up new version of i18n checker
... significantly updated
... just a "beta"
... won't replace the production version yet
... will announce

addison: new internet-draft for transliterations

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davis-t-langtag-ext-01

en-t-ja

Timezones

http://www.w3.org/International/docs/timezones/

richard: still have open comment

<r12a> "Offset from UTC is the most basic measure of a time zone"

richard: suggest

<r12a> The most basic way to derive a time zone is to base it on the offset from UTC.

<r12a> "Some times zones observe DST, while others do not. "

<r12a> In some regions, the time zone is based on an offset and a amount corresponding to DST. Such time zones only exist for part of a year.

richard: need better wordsmithing to explain

A time zone is a geographical region or area that has common rules

A time zone is a set of rules that apply to a particular geogprahical region or area

remove "or area"

A time zone is a set of rules for determining the local observed time (wall time) as it relates to incremental time (as used in most computing systems).

scribe: as applied to a particular geo. region

for a particular...

All time zones have, as their basis, an offset from UTC.

Some time zones include rules for observing DST...

raw offset + dst delta

addison: are we done?

<scribe> chair: call for consensus on publishing WWTZ as a WG-Note

richard: aye

<Gwyneth> sounds good

<matial> ok

david: okay

koji: okay

<Gwyneth> Time zone service: https://svn.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-douglass-timezone-service-01

<scribe> ACTION: richard: publish Timezones as a WG-Note [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/06/29-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-54 - Publish Timezones as a WG-Note [on Richard Ishida - due 2011-07-06].

<scribe> ACTION: addison: write an announcement for time zones document as for the home page [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/06/29-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-55 - Write an announcement for time zones document as for the home page [on Addison Phillips - due 2011-07-06].