W3C

Internationalization Core Working Group Teleconference

26 Oct 2011

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Addison Phillips, Richard, Mati, Felix, Koji, Gwyneth
Regrets
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
Addison Phillips

Contents


Agenda

Action Items

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

Prep charmod-norm for publication and coordinate with richard

Request evidence that browser developers want a list of styles in preference to a normative reference to CLDR for <q> tag implementation

close ACTION-77

<trackbot> ACTION-77 Post links to template and stylesheet for writing articles closed

close ACTION-78

<trackbot> ACTION-78 Ping mati about his comments on segmentation and then submit revised comments to ULI-TC closed

richard: contacted someone about arrangements for TPAC

no overhead projector, but will have a room

with four chairs and power

Info Share

richard: presentation about script src

<r12a> http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?&id=

given at IUC35

scribe: can submit info about scripts
... neat reference, more populated now

<r12a> How to generate a list of Unicode characters with names and/or codepoints

richard: if you need to generate a list of unicode characters

<r12a> http://rishida.net/blog/?p=702

richard: can see and paste list of characters and format in various ways

<r12a> Managing CSS style sheets for LTR and RTL variants of a page

<r12a> http://rishida.net/blog/?p=671

When is this meeting at?

http://www.doodle.com/mxwrdwfu3f8bsc79

proposal: keep the time the same?

will send one more ping before scheduling

<r12a> ok by me

What I saw at ICU35?

richard: thought conference was good
... lots of people
... talks were good
... but the downside was that couldn't see them all
... suggested that they repeat the ones that people want to see

Addison outlines discussions surrounding IRIs, especially bidi.

Translate attribute

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2011Oct/0015.html

<fsasaki> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12417#c6

<fsasaki> "Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: there's already a solution, a better solution might be to use a new language subtag, and it's not clear a solution is actually needed."

<fsasaki> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12417#c38

<fsasaki> <span translate=no>

<scribe> ACTION: fsasaki: draft a blog post about HTML5 need for translate attribute, including why a language attribute can't do it [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-79 - Draft a blog post about HTML5 need for translate attribute, including why a language attribute can't do it [on Felix Sasaki - due 2011-11-02].

AOB?

no call next week.

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: fsasaki: draft a blog post about HTML5 need for translate attribute, including why a language attribute can't do it [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
 
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