14:48:02 RRSAgent has joined #i18n 14:48:02 logging to http://www.w3.org/2017/08/24-i18n-irc 14:48:07 agenda? 14:48:31 zakim, delete agendum 6 14:48:31 agendum 6, escapes article update, dropped 14:48:36 agenda? 14:48:38 agenda+ https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2945 14:48:49 zakim, delete agendum 7 14:48:49 agendum 7, TTML issue closing, dropped 14:49:00 trackbot, prepare teleconference 14:49:03 RRSAgent, make logs world 14:49:06 Meeting: Internationalization Working Group Teleconference 14:49:06 Date: 24 August 2017 14:49:10 Chair: Addison Phillips 14:49:13 ScribeNick: addison 14:49:37 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017Aug/0017.html 14:49:41 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/08/24-i18n-minutes.html addison 14:58:51 Steve_Atkin has joined #i18n 15:00:39 present+ 15:00:50 present+ Steven 15:02:05 present+ 15:02:07 Klensin has joined #i18n 15:03:47 zakim, who is here? 15:03:47 Present: JcK, Bert, r12a, David, Addison, (IRC, only), Steven 15:03:49 On IRC I see Steve_Atkin, RRSAgent, addison, r12a, bigbluehat, Bert, Zakim, trackbot, fantasai, koji 15:04:06 Klensin has joined #i18n 15:04:51 zakim, take up agendum 1 15:04:51 agendum 1. "agenda" taken up [from addison] 15:04:53 agenda? 15:05:30 zakim, take up agendum 2 15:05:30 agendum 2. "action items" taken up [from addison] 15:05:36 https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open 15:05:45 present+ JcK 15:06:05 close action-614 15:06:05 Closed action-614. 15:06:55 action-643? 15:06:55 action-643 -- Richard Ishida to Close ttml issues -- due 2017-08-24 -- OPEN 15:06:55 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/643 15:07:08 richard: a couple where there need to make notes, so haven't closed those 15:07:11 close action-643 15:07:11 Closed action-643. 15:07:24 action-644? 15:07:24 action-644 -- Richard Ishida to Add the language use case to string meta article -- due 2017-08-24 -- OPEN 15:07:24 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/644 15:07:26 close action-644 15:07:26 Closed action-644. 15:07:34 zakim, take up agendum 3 15:07:34 agendum 3. "info share" taken up [from addison] 15:07:55 https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017Aug/0018.html 15:08:18 richard: advanced publishing lab set up 15:08:22 ... links have info 15:08:31 ... using jlreq as a source for some of the work they do 15:08:49 ... hopefully doing gap analysis and looking at things that need to be priortized and worked on 15:09:05 addison: possiblity of contributing upates to jlreq? 15:09:13 richard: hoping that might happen, floated idea 15:09:20 ... want to form a task force at w3c at some point 15:09:33 ... to make gap analysis happen, probably not until next year 15:09:39 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/08/24-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:10:03 David has joined #I18n 15:10:12 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-discuss/notes/language-matrix.html 15:10:27 richard: been thinking about things related to how we handle requirements side of stuff 15:10:40 ... motivated by discussions about improving funding, etc. for i18n 15:10:59 ... one of the question is: can we not say the top 100 languages in the world 15:11:08 ... these are supported at level x or y 15:11:13 ... these not supported, etc. 15:11:18 ... playing with ideas 15:11:22 ... not straightforward 15:11:32 ... sometimes there's only one feature broken 15:11:37 ... sometimes the language but not the dialects 15:11:42 ... language in 2 scripts, etc. 15:11:50 ... which tech css, html, etc. 15:12:01 ... all those problems, but seems like interesting exercise 15:12:13 ... above link is early mock up of what it could look like 15:13:38 richard: colors indicate ability to use language on the web 15:13:46 ... throw that out in case anyone has ideas 15:13:54 ... if you scroll down to Javanese 15:14:23 ... link there is to a mockup of gap analysis 15:14:35 ... type in description of issues if any 15:14:39 ... could get input that way 15:14:50 ... also occured as a better way to do TF work 15:15:03 ... better than trying to document how script works 15:15:16 ... maybe start with gap analysis, quicker 15:15:22 ... and then doc requirements to fill gaps 15:15:22 Zakim, present+ 15:15:29 ... any thoughts? 15:15:50 jck: one comment, need to handle carefully the choice of languages 15:23:27 bert: is this for working groups or for content authors? 15:23:42 richard: this is from jeff jaffe's idea to some degree 15:23:57 ... original impetus, but from me, I would hope this would provoke people to work on gaps 15:24:03 ... come to grips with gaps 15:24:21 ... probably need to be tech specific 15:24:29 ... page on javanese for example is on html/css 15:24:37 ... for people who want to use on the web 15:24:45 ... could be ordinary users 15:24:59 ... but also define advanced users, as defined by speakers 15:25:10 ... like dealing with paged media, such as ebooks 15:25:15 ... covers a range of people 15:25:48 agenda? 15:26:05 zakim, take up agendum 4 15:26:05 agendum 4. "radar and active work review" taken up [from addison] 15:26:11 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1 15:29:10 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/ 15:30:02 agenda? 15:30:16 zakim, take up agendum 8 15:30:16 agendum 8. "https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2945" taken up [from r12a] 15:30:43 issue title: Hinting at a translation language for outgoing links 15:30:51 the issue title: Hinting at a translation language for outgoing links 15:31:27 richard: links from an Indian page to an English article, browser may not be set to request their language 15:31:58 ... wouldn't it be good if content-author could put in a tag that says "translate this content to language xxx" 15:32:20 addison: that would result in an Accept-Language header? 15:32:40 richard: they haven't talked about that bit 15:32:54 ... plenty of cases where it's not a good idea 15:33:13 ... how could you know what language I prefer to read the page in? 15:34:27 addison: probably want options for "in the language of this page" and "in the language my browser it set to" 15:34:36 richard: a lot of browsers are set wrong 15:36:41 richard: make it easier to use language settings in browsers 15:38:04 addison: opposite of what browser vendors have been doing 15:38:35 action: addison: remind working group to read whatwg html issue 2945 for discussion next telecon 15:38:36 Created ACTION-645 - Remind working group to read whatwg html issue 2945 for discussion next telecon [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-08-31]. 15:38:50 zakim, take up agendum 5 15:38:50 agendum 5. "string-meta" taken up [from addison] 15:38:58 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/08/24-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:39:29 https://w3c.github.io/string-meta/ 15:40:27 richard: some descriptions of things that don't work. do we need to add? 15:40:29 addison: yes 15:41:06 richard: sent a bunch of comments in a pull request 15:41:35 addison: will review 15:42:45 https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/strings-and-bidi/index.en 15:42:46 richard: strings and bidi article 15:42:55 ... can take an action 15:43:01 ... been out for wide review, should we publish 15:43:12 Topic: strings and bidi article 15:43:37 addison: any objections to publishing" 15:43:49 action: richard: publish strings-and-bidi article 15:43:49 Created ACTION-646 - Publish strings-and-bidi article [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-08-31]. 15:44:02 richard: will publish panels/cards as images (alas!) 15:44:41 addison: have the html source somewhere? 15:44:52 richard: try to figure it out, "see how it works in your browser" 15:45:50 richard: wanted to do this for months, perhaps years 15:46:02 ... gather all the issues in one place 15:46:22 ... if you think of other issues, please let me know!! 15:46:27 agenda? 15:46:38 Topic: AOB? 15:47:26 Klensin has left #i18n 15:47:31 zakim, bye 15:47:31 leaving. As of this point the attendees have been JcK, Bert, r12a, David, Addison, (IRC, only), Steven 15:47:31 Zakim has left #i18n 15:47:41 rrsagent, make minutes 15:47:41 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/08/24-i18n-minutes.html addison