W3C

Internationalization Core Working Group Teleconference

05 Oct 2011

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Richard, Addison_Phillips, matial, David, Gwyneth, kojiishi
Regrets
Aharon
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
Addison Phillips

Contents


Action Items

http://www.inter-locale.com/whitepaper/charmod-norm-draft.html

close ACTION-46

<trackbot> ACTION-46 Dump charmod-norm and add disclaimer paragraph, dates, etc. so that we can publish an interim working draft closed

close ACTION-53

<trackbot> ACTION-53 Create working draft of TAG finding document closed

close ACTION-71

<trackbot> ACTION-71 Publish articles on language tagging in HTML closed

Info Share

koji: text/glyph orientation, unicode has proposal on that
... queried about hangul on public list

<kojiishi> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/

koji: but new UTR will be interesting
... please watch css mailing list for discussion of text-orientation

gwyneth: applies only to CJ(K) ?

addison: TAUS keynote

<r12a> http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/madrid-workshop/madrid-workshop-report

<r12a> http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/pisa-workshop/pisa-workshop-report

richard: EC project called "LT-Web" looks to start in january
... and they are going to call it the "MLW-LT WG"
... spin-off from current MultilingualWeb project
... address specific things in ongoing projectr
... but main emphasis of WG will be ITS, standards related to metadata for localization workflow
... so making you aware
... under our I18N Activity

what time is this meeting at?

David: will organize

<scribe> ACTION: David: poll WG for post-DST/Summer change time for call [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/05-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-73 - Poll WG for post-DST/Summer change time for call [on David Clarke - due 2011-10-12].

Richard's Interlude

richard: home page for i18n has changed
... shouldn't notice
... now it is a wordpress blog
... maybe wordpress will appeal to you more if you were thinking of creating blog posts yourself?

TPAC agenda planning

http://www.w3.org/2011/11/TPAC/

<David> I almost certainly won't make it to TPAC

addison: summary of what's going on, observer, etc.

richard: do we need a room?

koji: will attend, but in CSS

Normalization

http://www.inter-locale.com/whitepaper/charmod-norm-draft.html

This is an updated W3C Working Draft of this document. The purpose of publishing a new Working Draft at this time is to inform users of the Working Group's intention to significantly change the recommendations regarding normalization. The intention is to replace with with a document based on the Internationalization Core Working Group's consensus position at some time in the very near future.

richard: bold with more emphasis
... document isn't valid, needs doctype
... need validationj
... graphics missing

addison: pubrules validatoin?

<r12a> html validation

<r12a> css validation

<r12a> checklinks

<r12a> pubrules

ff webdev addon for checklinks

<scribe> ACTION: addison: prep charmod-norm for publication and coordinate with richard [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/05-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-74 - Prep charmod-norm for publication and coordinate with richard [on Addison Phillips - due 2011-10-12].

<scribe> chair: should we publish the new WD of charmod-norm?

addison: yes

<David> yes

<matial> no pb

<r12a> richard: yes, after running tests and sorting status

koji: yes

gwyneth: okay

richard: change para about publishing as REC

discussion with TAG at TPAC about this to indicate clear direction; goal is rapid replacement of this with something useful

HTML5 and other reviews

addison: should we escalate <rb> back to tracker?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10830

<scribe> chair: escalate?

addison: yes

koji: agree with addison

<scribe> ACTION: addison: escalate HTML5 bug 10830 to tracker [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/05-i18n-minutes.html#action03]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-75 - Escalate HTML5 bug 10830 to tracker [on Addison Phillips - due 2011-10-12].

<q> tag: Ian wants block of styles to include in spec

richard: not, for example, asking for hypehantion dictionaries for all languages, so why should this be different?

addison: hard to change once in document, then you have disparate references in different places... :-(

richard: ask for evidence that browser developers want a list (in preference to using a list in CLDR)

<scribe> ACTION: addison: request evidence that browser developers want a list of styles in preference to a normative reference to CLDR for <q> tag implementation [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/05-i18n-minutes.html#action04]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-76 - Request evidence that browser developers want a list of styles in preference to a normative reference to CLDR for <q> tag implementation [on Addison Phillips - due 2011-10-12].

AOB?

richard: 2nd edition of JLReq soon to be published for review

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: addison: escalate HTML5 bug 10830 to tracker [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/05-i18n-minutes.html#action03]
[NEW] ACTION: addison: prep charmod-norm for publication and coordinate with richard [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/05-i18n-minutes.html#action02]
[NEW] ACTION: addison: request evidence that browser developers want a list of styles in preference to a normative reference to CLDR for <q> tag implementation [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/05-i18n-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: David: poll WG for post-DST/Summer change time for call [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/05-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
 
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