Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

Action Items

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

<r12a> close action-345

<trackbot> Closed action-345.

<r12a> close action-347

<trackbot> Closed action-347.

JcK: question about action-346, please be very specific about what they objections are

<r12a> ACTION: richard to clarify action 346 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/10/02-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-348 - Clarify action 346 [on Richard Ishida - due 2014-10-09].

Info Share

Steve Atkin from IBM on the call, welcome

Chief G11n architect at IBM, 20yrs there; involved with cloud/mobile computing, interested in Arabic language/script

<matial> Hello, Steve!

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Improving_typography_on_the_Web_and_in_eBooks

<r12a> http://www.w3.org/International/docs/html-bidi-requirements/

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Improving_typography_on_the_Web_and_in_eBooks#Bidirectional_text_direction

Intent to Implement: Form controls respecting |lang| attribute value

<r12a> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/QpEoCwU0Ttg

Richard: folks want to localize form controls, e.g. default text for submit button should match page language, rather than OS language
... question from Anne: what if the author wants the OS to provide the information?
... current proposal is to give highest priority is language declared in source code, then browser language, then OS language

Koji's concern: content of form controls should belong to users, rather than authors

JcK: reader's preference should prevail

<JcK> (only if one can accurately determine the reader's preference and it doesn't conflict with other things. This is complicated)

Steve: how do I know what the fallback language is?

Richard: we need to work out through all the scenarios

<koji> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/QpEoCwU0Ttg/YR1xM5ck9vgJ

Richard: we need Addison to get involved in this discussion

<r12a> ACTION: richard to put together framework for wiki/document discussing issues and proposals for handling locale of form widgets [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/10/02-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-349 - Put together framework for wiki/document discussing issues and proposals for handling locale of form widgets [on Richard Ishida - due 2014-10-09].

Chinese font-family defaults

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Chinese_font_families

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