14:47:13 RRSAgent has joined #i18n 14:47:13 logging to http://www.w3.org/2017/10/19-i18n-irc 14:47:18 Zakim has joined #i18n 14:47:30 trackbot, prepare teleconference 14:47:33 RRSAgent, make logs world 14:47:36 Meeting: Internationalization Working Group Teleconference 14:47:36 Date: 19 October 2017 14:47:42 Chair: Addison Phillips 14:47:46 ScribeNick: addison 14:47:51 Scribe: Addison Phillips 14:48:19 Regrets: David 14:48:29 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017Oct/0014.html 14:48:34 agenda+ Agenda 14:48:44 agenda+ Action Items 14:48:46 agenda+ Info Share 14:48:49 agenda+ Radar 14:49:07 agenda+ DNT review, old DNT comment review 14:49:22 agenda+ String-Meta 14:49:35 agenda+ Low vision needs pending 14:50:02 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/19-i18n-minutes.html addison 14:55:34 Najib has joined #i18n 14:56:28 andrewc_ has joined #i18n 14:58:34 najib has joined #i18n 15:01:21 Klensin has joined #i18n 15:03:49 present+ 15:04:04 present+ Fuqiao 15:05:11 andrewc_ has joined #i18n 15:06:01 agenda? 15:06:26 zakim, take up agendum 1 15:06:26 agendum 1. 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"Action Items" taken up [from addison] 15:07:19 action-658? 15:07:19 action-658 -- Richard Ishida to Look for latin text with dot or macron below that could cause problems for underline -- due 2017-10-05 -- OPEN 15:07:19 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/658 15:07:25 richard: done, here's a link 15:07:27 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1288#issuecomment-337883369 15:07:34 close action-658 15:07:34 Closed action-658. 15:08:25 richard: one of the things I needed was way to find which languages use dot-below 15:08:31 ... didn't find a way to query 15:08:39 ... apart from decode unicode 15:08:45 addison: look at cldr? 15:09:09 richard: don't have a way to query by character 15:09:13 ... might bake something of my own 15:09:33 action-662? 15:09:33 action-662 -- Addison Phillips to Review dnt and sent an all-clear status to that wg unless something found -- due 2017-10-19 -- OPEN 15:09:33 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/662 15:09:42 close action-662 15:09:42 Closed action-662. 15:10:05 agenda+ Charmod 15:10:39 action-665? 15:10:39 action-665 -- Richard Ishida to Get behnam to forward 497 to the utr53 pri -- due 2017-10-19 -- OPEN 15:10:39 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/665 15:10:49 close action-665 15:10:49 Closed action-665. 15:11:01 richard: he forwarded everything, not just the one 15:11:15 action-666? 15:11:15 action-666 -- Addison Phillips to Talk to unicode folks about ways to cross-pollinate between our groups -- due 2017-10-19 -- OPEN 15:11:15 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/666 15:12:39 addison: talked to Mark Davis, suggestion of CLDR-TC 15:12:44 close action-666 15:12:44 Closed action-666. 15:13:02 action-668? 15:13:02 action-668 -- Richard Ishida to Set up wiki in our repo to capture ideas for engaging folks with our questions -- due 2017-10-19 -- OPEN 15:13:02 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/668 15:13:13 richard: suggested we just do member- email instead 15:13:16 ... assuming that works 15:13:21 close action-668 15:13:21 Closed action-668. 15:13:41 bert: one suggestion for that is there may be others who have similar questions or problems 15:13:46 ... maybe ask other groups 15:13:51 ... see if they have ideas 15:14:17 addison: ask generally? like on chairs? 15:14:45 andrewc_ has joined #i18n 15:15:22 action: addison to ping various chairs or the chairs list for ideas on engaging 15:15:23 Created ACTION-669 - Ping various chairs or the chairs list for ideas on engaging [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-10-26]. 15:15:49 action: addison to remind members to send ideas about how to find experts to member list 15:15:50 Created ACTION-670 - Remind members to send ideas about how to find experts to member list [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-10-26]. 15:15:57 zakim, take up agendum 3 15:15:57 agendum 3. "Info Share" taken up [from addison] 15:16:06 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/19-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:16:34 zakim, take up agendum 4 15:16:34 agendum 4. "Radar" taken up [from addison] 15:16:40 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1 15:17:33 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/ 15:18:37 addison: having a hard time finding the matrix 15:19:01 http://w3c.github.io/typography/gap-analysis/language-matrix.html 15:19:43 agenda? 15:19:57 present+ 15:20:01 zakim, take up agendum 5 15:20:01 agendum 5. "DNT review, old DNT comment review" taken up [from addison] 15:20:03 present+ 15:20:10 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/19-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:20:21 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/ 15:21:07 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/#tracking-dnt 15:21:22 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Atracking-dnt 15:21:35 florian has joined #i18n 15:22:16 richard: discovered we had issues, no reply to them on their mailing list 15:22:35 ... second thing was that people started answering the questions/discussion in *our* tracker 15:22:40 ... rather than on their list 15:22:49 ... so removed 'pending' labels 15:22:54 ... and created on their list 15:23:08 addison: are they tracked there? 15:24:00 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/508 15:25:53 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/509 15:26:40 andrewc_ has joined #i18n 15:27:30 richard: dsinger's suggestion goes back to string-meta 15:27:46 ... requires every string to start with a tag 15:28:01 addison: have to parse every string to find out the language 15:28:13 present+ JcK 15:28:27 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/510 15:34:38 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/34 15:34:46 andrewc_ has joined #i18n 15:35:03 richard: looked at latest version of spec 15:35:40 potential for close? 15:36:07 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/35 15:36:11 close (same as 508) 15:36:48 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/36 15:37:28 addison: I no longer thing this issue is a good one 15:37:58 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/35 15:38:00 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/37 15:38:16 editorial 15:38:18 close 15:38:20 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/38 15:40:27 addison: intended to be an ID that is not intended to be human readable 15:40:47 jck: non-ascii identifiers add to confusion or danger 15:41:13 The status-id has been intentionally limited to a small set of characters to encourage use of short tokens instead of potentially long, human-readable strings. 15:41:49 jck: could let go 15:41:55 addison: think we should let go 15:42:29 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/39 15:44:24 addison: 7.4.2 needs same health warning about status-id? 15:44:30 bert: links to previous section 15:46:13 behnam has joined #i18n 15:46:40 addison: kill or keep? 15:46:44 bert: kill 15:47:32 richard: if it is saying that they are just status id's then things are okay 15:47:36 ... not a general URI 15:48:00 addison: location is not arbitrary 15:48:05 bert: can send a redirect 15:48:13 addison: but that could be any URI 15:48:21 richard: close them all then 15:48:40 ... worth asking them why these comments went unanswered for years 15:48:48 bert: could be contacts changed? 15:48:55 ... can ask 15:49:31 richard: curious how fell through cracks 15:49:37 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/19-i18n-minutes.html addison 15:49:49 action: richard to close all dnt issues that need close 15:49:51 agenda? 15:49:52 Created ACTION-671 - Close all dnt issues that need close [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-10-26]. 15:49:54 agenda? 15:50:11 zakim, take up agendum 7 15:50:11 agendum 7. "Low vision needs pending" taken up [from addison] 15:50:21 zakim, take up agendum 8 15:50:21 agendum 8. "Charmod" taken up [from addison] 15:50:32 richard: how should I deal with charmod? 15:50:47 ... went through and spent more time doing editorial improvements 15:50:50 ... raised issues 15:51:03 ... part of me wondered fi to raise issues 15:51:06 ... versus PR 15:51:16 ... so how to proceed 15:54:51 andrewc_ has joined #i18n 15:55:34 zakim, take up agendum 7 15:55:34 agendum 7. "Low vision needs pending" taken up [from addison] 15:55:49 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/ 15:56:04 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Alow-vision-needs 15:56:21 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/#low-vision-needs 15:56:41 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/500 15:57:13 richard: very similar to wcag review I performed recently 15:57:16 ... text is very close 15:57:26 http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/#wcag 15:57:27 ... here's a link to those: 15:57:42 ... low vision doc is just requirements 15:57:57 ... wcag doc says "in context of content dev for use, this is how reqs translate" 15:58:08 ... raised a number of questions that also apply to low vision doc 15:58:14 ... haven't cross-ref 15:58:18 bert: make links? 15:58:23 richard: but carefully 15:58:38 ... wcag->low vision maybe more than vice versa 15:58:47 ... use in wcag is more targetted 15:59:50 richard: "languages that use left-to-right scripts" 16:00:26 accept 16:00:28 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/501 16:01:02 addison: writing mode problem? 16:01:14 richard: look at terse statements, speaking from memory 16:01:18 ... how to express those concepts 16:01:29 ... think they took advice 16:01:34 ... just examples 16:02:31 User Need - Rewrap: 16:02:32 Blocks of text rewrap so that only one direction of scrolling is needed, e.g., for left-right and right-left scripts (languages), usually vertical scrolling and not horizontal scrolling. 16:03:22 okay 16:03:23 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/502 16:03:59 richard: back on 501, consider this on vertical too 16:04:38 richard: 502, don't know, think interesting question 16:05:03 ... small forms for syllables for kya and such 16:05:19 ... forms for dealing with small letters, soetimes prevent from happening at start of line 16:05:22 ... maybe consider 16:05:33 ... lot of complex scripts are based on syllables 16:05:40 ... so maybe not so bad? 16:05:56 andrew: grapheme clusters within a syllable 16:06:09 richard: didn't say grapheme clusters because of tha tproblem 16:06:18 andrew: some browsers break on clusters 16:06:31 s/tha tproblem/that problem/ 16:06:37 richard: keep syllables together 16:07:17 ... could prevent mid-word breaks 16:08:27 bert: two parts of word not next to each other 16:08:56 richard: not hyph, but breaking words in our view 16:09:06 ... don't know offhand how that applies but quote possible it does 16:09:12 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/503 16:09:41 seems valid 16:09:56 richard: maybe phrasing 16:10:06 ... bold isn't easy to read because harder to read 16:10:13 addison: or italics! 16:10:24 richard: doesn't talk about emphasis but rather styling 16:10:40 ... underline definitely preferred 16:10:47 ... in certain scripts 16:11:13 richard: need to say "allow users to change bold/italic/underline to culturally preferred idioms" 16:11:17 ... to make easier to read 16:12:15 https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/511 16:12:35 Klensin has left #i18n 16:12:52 richard: worried they linked there 16:13:38 ... not aware of our articles 16:13:42 ... ? 16:14:04 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/19-i18n-minutes.html addison 16:14:11 Topic: AOB? 16:15:55 addison: will work on encoding tomorrow 16:16:00 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2017/10/19-i18n-minutes.html addison 16:16:07 zakim, bye 16:16:07 leaving. 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