14:52:10 RRSAgent has joined #i18n 14:52:10 logging to http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-irc 14:52:16 Zakim has joined #i18n 14:52:25 trackbot, prepare teleconference 14:52:28 RRSAgent, make logs world 14:52:31 Meeting: Internationalization Working Group Teleconference 14:52:31 Date: 12 October 2017 14:52:48 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017Oct/0006.html 14:52:52 Chair: Addison Phillips 14:52:57 ScribeNick: addison 14:53:10 agenda+ Agenda 14:53:15 agenda+ Action Items 14:53:18 agenda+ Info Share 14:53:21 agenda+ Radar 14:53:34 agenda+ accessKey in HTML 14:53:39 agenda+ String-Meta 14:53:57 agenda+ Behnam's comments on UTR 53 14:54:06 agenda+ Working with Unicode experts 14:54:15 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison 14:57:43 addison_ has joined #i18n 14:58:04 scribenick: addison_ 15:01:01 Steve_Atkin has joined #i18n 15:01:17 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison_ 15:01:25 agenda? 15:05:39 zakim, take up agendum 1 15:05:39 agendum 1. "Agenda" taken up [from addison] 15:05:42 agenda? 15:06:31 richard: moving string-meta to first public 15:07:03 zakim, take up agendum 2 15:07:03 agendum 2. "Action Items" taken up [from addison] 15:07:44 https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open 15:08:13 action-660? 15:08:13 action-660 -- Richard Ishida to Raise comment against utr53 asking for clarity about what they are trying to do -- due 2017-10-12 -- OPEN 15:08:13 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/660 15:08:16 richard: did that 15:08:24 close action-660 15:08:24 Closed action-660. 15:08:33 richard: there was a response on edcom 15:08:41 ... and my comment is in the PRI 15:09:14 https://www.unicode.org/review/pri359/ 15:10:03 action-661? 15:10:03 action-661 -- Richard Ishida to Send https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/488 to intersection observer group -- due 2017-10-12 -- OPEN 15:10:03 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/661 15:10:16 close action-661` 15:10:16 Closed action-661. 15:10:25 zakim, take up agendum 3 15:10:25 agendum 3. "Info Share" taken up [from addison] 15:10:32 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison_ 15:11:08 addison: IUC41 next week. teleconference? 15:12:00 (telecon next week) 15:12:18 zakim, take up agendum 4 15:12:18 agendum 4. "Radar" taken up [from addison] 15:12:25 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1 15:14:06 present+ 15:14:10 action: addison: review DNT and sent an all-clear status to that WG unless something found 15:14:14 Created ACTION-662 - Review dnt and sent an all-clear status to that wg unless something found [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-10-19]. 15:15:40 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/ 15:18:15 action: addison: remind all to review charmod for status for next week, set agenda item for working to promote to next status next telecon 15:18:15 Created ACTION-663 - Remind all to review charmod for status for next week, set agenda item for working to promote to next status next telecon [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-10-19]. 15:19:00 richard: we should prep new encoding, will be substantive 15:19:06 ... and work on moving to req 15:19:14 ... dropping off a snapshot 15:19:36 addison: follow html and do dot releases? 15:19:43 richard: figure out possibilities 15:20:12 ... scenario is, when publish req version, keep a WD and move into CR asap 15:20:22 ... and just track 15:20:40 richard: new urls for "latest version" 15:21:56 richard: thanks to Fuqiao, clreq making progress 15:22:02 ... short gap analysis report 15:22:09 ... ALreq also working on one 15:22:21 agenda? 15:22:48 zakim, take up agendum 6 15:22:48 agendum 6. "String-Meta" taken up [from addison] 15:23:01 richard: I think we might want to make a FPWD 15:23:19 ... but probably needs a bit more text first 15:25:05 action: addison: produce updated string-meta with additional text needed for FPWD by 2 weeks 15:25:05 Created ACTION-664 - Produce updated string-meta with additional text needed for fpwd by 2 weeks [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-10-19]. 15:25:25 rrsagent, draft minutes 15:25:25 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html r12a 15:25:46 zakim, take up agendum 7 15:25:46 agendum 7. "Behnam's comments on UTR 53" taken up [from addison] 15:26:09 https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017Oct/0007.html 15:26:27 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/499 15:26:27 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/497 15:27:24 richard: behnam wanted to send sooner rather than later 15:27:46 ... 499, UTR says how to reorder for rendering 15:28:03 ... wouldn't it be better to have something like "rendering pre-order algorithms" 15:28:20 ... with a chapter on arabic and others in the future 15:29:21 addison: interesting observation. maybe not WG? 15:29:25 richard: want to track 15:29:56 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/497 15:30:22 richard: doc says "this is useful to prep for rendering" 15:30:30 ... but also says "could be useful for backspacing" 15:30:46 ... might delete grapheme clusters, for example 15:30:59 ... backspace, vowel sign and shadda 15:31:23 ... base-vowel-shadda, ordering reversed in utr53 15:31:45 ... so if you backspace, even though sequence base-vowel-sh but you want to delete vowel first 15:32:10 addison: just a happy side effect? 15:32:30 richard: behnam pointing out that this is just one potential text function that might use 15:33:04 steve: leads to unexpected results, new behavior? 15:33:23 richard: you'd type like base-sh-vowel 15:33:37 ... but normalize as above 15:33:46 steve: what about cursoring? 15:34:04 richard: all one grapheme cluster... hmm... 15:34:57 addison: in or out problem: here's an algo. useful for this. might be useful "for other things" 15:35:29 ... what are unicode's intentions? 15:35:35 richard: did they think through? 15:35:49 addison: forward? 15:35:52 steve: okay 15:35:59 richard: okay 15:36:35 action: richard: get behnam to forward 497 to the UTR53 PRI 15:36:39 Created ACTION-665 - Get behnam to forward 497 to the utr53 pri [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-10-19]. 15:36:41 agenda? 15:36:56 zakim, take up agendum 8 15:36:56 agendum 8. "Working with Unicode experts" taken up [from addison] 15:37:02 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison_ 15:37:10 richard: have the matrix thing 15:37:18 http://w3c.github.io/typography/gap-analysis/language-matrix.html 15:37:38 richard: looking for funding to support projects to find people to work on specific set of languages 15:37:43 ... make reports 15:37:54 ... notwithstanding we get folks working on it 15:38:03 ... always a need for experts to support our work 15:38:16 ... have a bunch of outstanding questions not getting anwers at moment 15:38:25 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/textlayout/ 15:38:26 s/anwers/answers/ 15:38:42 richard: type info request, no responses at the moment 15:38:48 ... always has been/will be case 15:38:55 ... be nice to hage a better network 15:38:58 s/hage/have/ 15:39:06 richard: unicode has a good network 15:39:10 ... have lists 15:39:15 ... have ISO committees 15:39:27 ... submitting things like proposals 15:39:37 ... wondering how we could get into similar situation 15:39:44 ... work more closely with unicode?? 15:40:00 ... post to their mailing lists, maybe in return to cross posting to ours? 15:40:11 ... post digest to unicode list? 15:40:19 ... casting about for ideas 15:42:42 action: addison: talk to unicode folks about ways to cross-pollinate between our groups 15:42:50 Error creating an ACTION: could not connect to Tracker. Please mail with details about what happened. 15:44:36 richard: other ideas on ways to develop expert base? 15:44:48 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison_ 15:44:53 action: addison to talk to unicode folks about ways to cross-pollinate between our groups 15:44:55 Created ACTION-667 - Talk to unicode folks about ways to cross-pollinate between our groups [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-10-19]. 15:45:34 agenda? 15:46:11 richard: fuqiao, do you think we might get more interest in china? 15:46:16 xfq: matrix work? 15:46:28 richard: many questions related to chinese 15:46:49 ... great if we had more folks on ruby and text decoration and such 15:46:55 ... possibilities in china? 15:47:14 xfq: not quite familiar, discussed with angel 15:47:21 ... reached out to stakeholders 15:47:28 ... and national stds bodies 15:47:38 ... some interest, but mostly very busy 15:47:52 interest, not commitment 15:48:03 richard: prepared to join a mailing list or something 15:48:12 ... just for ad hoc opinions 15:48:17 ... nothing structured 15:48:26 ... just answering questions offhand 15:48:53 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison_ 15:49:39 bert: must be folks in universities studying language 15:49:49 ... they might have time if we knew how to contact them 15:50:09 ... other idea is if we want to get answers, make into a game or make attractive 15:50:26 ... even virtual points 15:51:06 richard: send more tweets, I follow lots of folks who talk about typography e.g. 15:51:16 bert: question of the month 15:51:51 richard: capturing those folks somehow, not just random? 15:52:32 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison_ 15:53:21 richard: think more, send suggestions 15:55:10 addison: somewhere to capture ideas? 15:55:17 richard: wiki in our repo? 15:55:46 action: richard to set up wiki in our repo to capture ideas for engaging folks with our questions 15:55:47 Created ACTION-668 - Set up wiki in our repo to capture ideas for engaging folks with our questions [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-10-19]. 15:56:02 addison: will have in agenda next week 15:56:11 Topic: AOB? 15:56:20 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison_ 15:56:56 zakim, who is here? 15:56:56 Present: Bert 15:56:58 On IRC I see addison_, Zakim, RRSAgent, r12a, bigbluehat, xfq, koji, Bert, trackbot 15:57:01 present+ Richard 15:57:07 present+ Fuqiao 15:57:10 present+ Steve 15:57:18 present+ Addison 15:57:44 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/12-i18n-minutes.html addison_ 16:08:00 zakim, bye 16:08:00 leaving. As of this point the attendees have been Bert, Richard, Fuqiao, Steve, Addison 16:08:00 Zakim has left #i18n