13:59:45 RRSAgent has joined #i18n 13:59:45 logging to http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-irc 13:59:50 trackbot, prepare teleconference 13:59:52 RRSAgent, make logs world 13:59:54 Zakim, this will be 4186 13:59:54 ok, trackbot; I see I18N_CoreWG()10:00AM scheduled to start in 1 minute 13:59:55 Meeting: Internationalization Working Group Teleconference 13:59:55 Date: 21 August 2014 14:00:12 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2014Aug/0042.html 14:00:17 Chair: Addison Phillips 14:00:21 Scribe: Addison Phillips 14:00:26 ScribeNick: aphillips 14:00:32 ScribeNick: aphillip 14:00:37 rrsagent, draft minutes 14:00:37 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 14:00:42 agenda+ RADAR 14:00:47 agenda+ Encoding LC 14:01:05 agenda+ Pre-defined counter styles 14:01:11 David has joined #i18n 14:01:39 I18N_CoreWG()10:00AM has now started 14:01:46 +aphillip 14:02:09 leandro has joined #i18n 14:02:30 +??P10 14:02:43 zakim, dial richard 14:02:43 ok, r12a; the call is being made 14:02:45 +Richard 14:02:48 zakim, ??P10 is David 14:02:48 +David; got it 14:03:06 +leandro 14:03:23 zakim, who's here? 14:03:23 On the phone I see aphillip, David, Richard, leandro 14:03:25 On IRC I see leandro, David, RRSAgent, Zakim, aphillip, r12a, fantasai, trackbot 14:03:35 plh has joined #i18n 14:03:44 +Plh 14:04:40 Topic: Agenda 14:04:43 agenda? 14:05:24 koji has joined #i18n 14:05:42 Topic: Action Items 14:05:53 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open 14:06:52 +koji 14:07:54 matial has joined #i18n 14:08:26 close action-332 14:08:26 Closed action-332. 14:08:35 Topic: Info Share 14:08:41 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 14:08:47 JcK has joined #i18n 14:08:55 leandro: coming to TPAC 14:09:26 richard: new community group 14:09:36 ... looking for members 14:09:37 +JcK 14:09:50 ... character description group 14:09:51 http://www.w3.org/community/cdl/ 14:09:59 ... describing characters based on strokes 14:11:01 +??P18 14:11:11 zakim, ??p18 is me 14:11:11 +matial; got it 14:11:27 JcK: ietf vs unicode issue about precombined marks suspended by not gone away 14:11:47 agenda+ ietf v. unicode discussion 14:12:08 zakim, take up agendum 1 14:12:08 agendum 1. "RADAR" taken up [from aphillip] 14:12:40 https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Review_radar#Scheduled_Last_Call_reviews 14:13:03 zakim, take up agendum 2 14:13:03 agendum 2. "Encoding LC" taken up [from aphillip] 14:13:21 Especially if it is to be an action item, that should be more like "new apparently precombined characters without decompositionss" or words to that effect. A different version would be whether Unicode "characters 14:13:46 plh? muted? 14:14:50 http://www.w3.org/International/docs/encoding/encoding-doc.html#issue-26154 14:15:04 http://www.w3.org/International/docs/encoding/encoding-doc.html 14:15:11 are language and phonetically independent within a script (as described in Section 2.2 of the Standard) or the degree to which language, phonetic use, and other usage issues that cannot be detected by a reader with no context are significant. 14:15:34 (addison summarizes) 14:16:16 richard: want to reach CR by 12 september 14:16:20 ... what is outstanding? 14:16:27 ... working on clarifying, etc. 14:16:40 richard: going through disposition of comments 14:16:45 ... will help 14:16:47 ... two sections 14:16:53 .... first is the LC issues 14:17:13 ... two raised in bugzilla, rest on winter list 14:17:23 richard: second section is bugzilla items 14:17:44 ... mostly old 14:18:20 richard: anne not willing to work on the larger items 14:19:18 ... he sees this as on-going project without specific deadlines 14:19:35 ... don't know if we can defer 14:20:30 addison: don't know how we could correct later 14:20:47 richard: unicode violation text 14:21:00 ... ken whistler, chief editor, said "none of these are violations" 14:21:08 ... went further and suggested changes 14:21:12 ... anne will change 14:21:19 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 14:21:29 richard: another thing causing worry 14:21:40 ... things are not as clear cut on list of encodings and indexes 14:21:50 ... what characters in what codepoints, etc. 14:22:02 ... thought it came from survey 14:22:06 ... of all browsers 14:22:18 ... but seems to be based on older version of opera (12?) 14:22:48 http://www.w3.org/International/tests/repository/encoding/indexes/results-indexes.en.php 14:24:22 addison: did discuss with Anne, many errors are of the same type 14:24:34 richard: above link is from martins tests which I adapted 14:25:15 ... for example 1253 14:25:17 http://www.w3.org/International/tests/repository/run?manifest=encoding/indexes&test=windows-1253_test 14:25:19 windows 1253 14:25:19 Firefox 14:25:19 0081 -> FFFD 14:25:21 0088 -> FFFD 14:25:23 008A -> FFFD 14:25:25 008C -> FFFD 14:25:27 008D -> FFFD 14:25:29 008E -> FFFD 14:25:31 008F -> FFFD 14:25:33 0090 -> FFFD 14:25:35 0098 -> FFFD 14:25:37 009A -> FFFD 14:25:39 009C -> FFFD 14:25:41 009D -> FFFD 14:25:43 009E -> FFFD 14:25:45 009F -> FFFD 14:25:47 Chrome 14:25:49 00AA -> ª instead of FFFD 14:25:51 IE 14:25:53 00AA -> ª instead of FFFD 14:25:55 00D2 -> F8FA instead of FFFD 14:25:57 00FF -> F8FB instead of FFFD 14:26:05 windows 874 14:26:05 Firefox 14:26:05 23 mismatches in rows 8 and 9 14:26:07 Chrome 14:26:09 8 mismatches in rows D and F 14:26:11 IE 14:26:13 same as Chrome 14:27:04 ibm866 14:27:04 Firefox 14:27:04 001A -> 007F 14:27:05 addison: need to say what to do and get consensus on moving to it or allow variations 14:27:06 001C -> 001A 14:27:08 007F -> 001C 14:27:10 Chrome 14:27:12 replacement characters after 0080 14:27:14 IE 14:27:16 same as firefox 14:27:30 richard: bit of a shock 14:27:46 ... calls into question label choices 14:29:03 addison: need to survey the browsers? 14:29:36 JcK: claims of some of the wilder changes are troubling 14:31:16 addison: 1252 thing seems well established 14:31:33 ... multibyte mappings require deeper insight into what is actually happening 14:33:23 addison: any actions? 14:33:27 richard: plh? 14:33:34 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 14:34:02 richard: one option would be to deeply fork 14:35:19 addison: hard to fork because it forms a system 14:35:38 richrad: looked for references 14:35:43 ... mainly sectoin 6 14:35:47 ... utf-8 14:35:49 ... a few things 14:36:06 ... if just going to "normal" CR 14:36:22 ... could then go back to LC if needed to if tests found issues 14:36:52 plh: could work, but can't change things ref by html5 14:37:18 richard: mainly indexes and mainly details 14:37:28 ... check what css and html actrually need 14:38:03 addison: more references now than just the big 2 14:38:44 richard: css cares only about determine encoding, I think 14:39:20 richard: define "indexes and such" as the "registry part" 14:41:25 addison: if only the registyr part is subject to correction, won't cause problems to advance on CR and then correct later 14:41:53 plh: not a REC, so would work to fix if testing came back negative 14:42:08 ... did we address enough of issues to move to CR 14:42:12 richard: probably yes 14:42:41 addison: may know we have some flaws (bugzilla bugs on mbcs) 14:43:02 plh: put notes in CR version to call attention to that 14:43:07 ... on specific encodings 14:43:26 richard: don't know if IE will change as well? 14:44:45 plh: best way to get attention is to get CR 14:45:45 richard: obsolete word removal 14:45:54 ... provided option, but anne didn't like 14:47:10 addison: 26514 looks like it could be defer 14:47:20 plh: would agree that it could defer 14:48:09 addison: violation statement 14:48:20 "is not relevant" 14:48:40 For the purposes of specifications using this specification, that 14:48:40 registry is obsolete 14:48:52 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 14:48:58 User agents actually use a subset of the IANA Character Sets registry in a particular way. This specification documents this to establish interoperability on the Open Web Platform. Specifications and applications using this specification must restrict themselves to the encodings as documented in this specification. 14:51:35 Anne's preference: For the purposes of specifications using this specification, that registry no longer relevant. 14:52:45 addison: could fork and replace or bin that paragraph 14:53:13 JcK: reuse of lables with different meanings is more problematic 14:53:34 ... hard to tell what an implementation is doing when it sees a given label 14:53:42 ... which standard it follows 14:53:58 richard: already a real problem 14:54:35 plh: not looking for convergence... looking for everyone to use UTF-8 15:00:46 "Authors must use the utf-8 encoding and must use the ASCII case-insensitive "utf-8" label to identify it. " 15:00:46 addison: mention actual goal (UTF-8) in preface? 15:01:46 New protocols and formats, as well as existing formats deployed in new contexts, must use the utf-8 encoding exclusively. If these protocols and formats need to expose the encoding's name or label, they must expose it as "utf-8". 15:03:29 richard: close remaining 15:03:35 ... press on with tests 15:03:42 ... get anne to do edits 15:03:52 ... and work on false statement 15:04:32 ... move towards CR 15:04:45 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 15:06:16 -Plh 15:06:32 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 15:06:43 agenda? 15:07:53 JcK: refocus the preface on moving to UTF-8 and the rest of this is legacy compatibility 15:08:15 richard: "is no longer relevant" 15:12:28 action: richard: kick off additional discussion with anne about preface wording 15:12:28 Created ACTION-333 - Kick off additional discussion with anne about preface wording [on Richard Ishida - due 2014-08-28]. 15:13:03 JcK: will suggest new text in the next hour 15:13:18 richard: will look into CR 15:13:18 -David 15:14:41 Topic: AOB? 15:14:46 agenda? 15:15:56 rrsagent, draft minutes 15:15:56 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 15:16:08 -matial 15:16:10 -leandro 15:16:12 -aphillip 15:16:14 -JcK 15:16:16 -koji 15:16:37 rrsagent, make minutes 15:16:37 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 15:16:54 oh, one thing i forgot to mention in the infoshare - we published an updated WD of Predefined Counter Styles today ! 15:17:03 Present: Addison, Richard, JcK, Leandro, Mati, Koji, PLH (guest) 15:17:10 Regrets: Felix 15:17:16 rrsagent, make minutes 15:17:16 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 15:17:52 zakim, who is here? 15:17:52 On the phone I see Richard 15:17:54 On IRC I see plh, David, RRSAgent, Zakim, aphillip, r12a, fantasai, trackbot 15:17:57 zakim, bye 15:17:57 leaving. As of this point the attendees were aphillip, Richard, David, leandro, Plh, koji, JcK, matial 15:17:57 Zakim has left #i18n 15:18:03 rrsagent, make minutes 15:18:03 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 15:18:03 zakim, drop richaard 15:18:08 zakim, drop richard 15:18:08 rrsagent, bye 15:18:08 I see 1 open action item saved in http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-actions.rdf : 15:18:08 ACTION: richard: kick off additional discussion with anne about preface wording [1] 15:18:08 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/08/21-i18n-irc#T15-12-28