18:47:30 RRSAgent has joined #core 18:47:30 logging to http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-irc 18:47:36 Zakim has joined #core 18:47:40 zakim, this will be I18N 18:47:40 ok, aphillip; I see I18N_CoreWG()3:00PM scheduled to start in 13 minutes 18:47:49 RRSAgent, set logs world-visible 18:47:58 Meeting: Internationalization Core Teleconference 18:48:02 Chair: Addison Phillips 18:48:06 Scribe: Addison Phillips 18:48:10 ScribeNick: aphillip 18:48:27 Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2009Oct/0002.html 18:48:34 RRSAgent, make minutes 18:48:34 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 18:52:07 David has joined #core 18:55:12 andrewc has joined #core 19:00:00 r12a has joined #core 19:00:13 I18N_CoreWG()3:00PM has now started 19:00:15 fsasaki has joined #core 19:00:19 zakim, dial richard please 19:00:19 ok, r12a; the call is being made 19:00:21 +aphillips 19:00:49 +??P3 19:01:06 zakim, dial richard please 19:01:06 ok, r12a; the call is being made 19:01:08 +Richard 19:01:08 + +1.650.253.aaaa 19:01:13 - +1.650.253.aaaa 19:02:00 + +1.650.253.aabb 19:02:22 zakim, +1.650 is Mark 19:02:22 +Mark; got it 19:02:39 +??P6 19:03:08 +YvesS 19:03:38 YvesS has joined #core 19:04:35 mark has joined #core 19:05:34 Topic: Agenda and Minutes 19:05:45 Topic: Action Items 19:05:56 Richard: respond on our behalf to CSS on ruby issue 19:06:04 addison: set up document edit transition with dan for ws-i18n 19:06:17 addison: make a table of date changes for DST 19:06:23 in progress 19:06:28 +??P8 19:06:40 zakim, ??P8 is andrewc 19:06:40 +andrewc; got it 19:06:41 addison: ping martin about iri wg activity 19:06:52 addison: set up an introductory call or meeting with DOM Events folks to discuss 19:07:12 all: look at XForms 1.1 PR for internationalization issues, especially "input mode" at the back 19:07:38 Topic: Info Share 19:07:51 Unicode 5.2 was released 19:07:57 (and there was much rejoicing) 19:08:08 IUC33 is next week 19:08:40 likely no call next week 19:09:09 http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Xmllang_and_css 19:09:15 richard working on update to document describing styling via CSS (particularly with language info) 19:09:18 Using CSS selectors with xml:lang 19:09:22 ... see above 19:09:43 ... has worked fingers to bone figuring out how xml:lang and lang work with CSS 19:09:57 ... please look it over and send comments 19:10:27 Topic: UAX #46 19:10:33 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/ 19:10:57 Mark: related to IDNA... 19:10:58 -YvesS 19:11:30 ... and IDNA2003 contains rules for exchanging things in DNS with chinese, arabic, etc. 19:11:36 ... IDNA2008 is in process 19:11:45 ... may finish this year or early next 19:11:52 ... and there are incompatibilities between the two 19:12:04 ... which means that some old domain names no longer work 19:12:16 ... and some in 2008 will won't work with 2003 implementations 19:12:21 ... 2008 has many good things 19:12:40 ... but there are four serious incompatibilities, which uax46 calls 19:12:56 ... deviations 19:13:03 ... has implications for spoofing and compat 19:13:11 ... Unicode consortium is concerned 19:13:25 ... working with browser vendors to see if these incompatibilities can be dealt with 19:13:49 ... old UAX#46 was put on hold hoping IETF WG would deal with it 19:13:55 +YvesS 19:14:02 ... but they didn't, so this doc revived 19:14:21 ... can see in the link 19:14:28 http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/idna.jsp?a=3%96BB.at%0D%0A8%A1og.com%0D%0AOC%88BB.at%0D%0Afass.de%0D%0Afa3%9F.de%0D%0Af3%A43%9F.de%0D%0ASch3%A4ffer.de%0D%0A%EFC%A1%EFC%A2%EFC%A3%E3%83B%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%0D%0A%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%EFD%A1co%EFD%A1jp%0D%0AxC%81C%A7%0D%0AxC%A7C%81%0D%0AI%E2%99%A5NY%0D%0AE%92F%8CEBEFF%82%0D%0A%EFB%8B%EFA%AE%EFA%91%EFB2 19:15:49 Mark: links shows demo with various punycode transforms 19:16:53 ȡog.com 19:17:41 ... the "d" like character introduced in Unicode after IDNA 2003 19:17:42 öbb.at 19:18:08 ... if lower case works in all cases 19:18:12 faß.de 19:18:47 ... under 2003 remaps to "fass", but encoded as punycode under 2008 19:19:10 日本。co。jp 19:19:41 .... ideographic full stop fails under 2008 19:19:53 ... 2008 allows for pre-processing of the text in a domain name 19:19:57 ... called "custom mapping" 19:20:09 ... could make them all succeed (or make worse) 19:20:25 q+ to ask if there is any registered label with ideographic full stop character 19:20:41 ... any *user* can do custom mapping 19:21:08 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 19:21:25 q 19:21:27 felix: just on IRC due to bad sound: is any registered label with ideographic full stop character, so does the missing ideographic full stop hurt any existing data? 19:21:33 ack felix 19:22:02 Mark: full stop treated same as a period 19:22:06 ... but no longer 19:22:25 felix: tx for the explanation 19:22:37 ABC 19:22:45 (full width characters) 19:23:18 ... fail under 2008 but treated as ASCII in 2003 19:23:45 ... and these occur *frequently* in actual web pages (based on Google inspection of pages) 19:23:51 ... due to IME nature 19:24:09 Mark: proposal is to bridge gap by making stuff continue to work in 2008 that worked in 2003 19:24:17 ÖBB.at öbb.at fass.de faß.de fäß.de Schäffer.de ABC・日本 日本。co。jp x̧́ x̧́ I♥NY Βόλος ﻋﺮﺑﻲ 19:24:42 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 19:25:50 \u0001.com 19:26:30 Mark: what to do about four deviation characters 19:26:32 faß.de 19:26:38 ... such as estzett 19:26:50 ... good reasons for both distinct and same treatment 19:27:13 ... microsoft proposed to say that implementation (registrar) must bundle them 19:27:28 ... this is what UAX#46 recommends 19:27:39 ... then it'd work with any registrar 19:28:15 David: so bundling means that they would register both "fass" and "fa" 19:28:32 Mark: yes 19:29:00 ... two cases: "good" registrar will bundle 19:29:05 .. and remapping won't matter 19:29:11 ... "bad" registrar won't bundle 19:29:21 ... so two domains exist 19:29:34 q+ to ask the policy of DENIC for eszett - is their policy good or bad? 19:29:36 ... so don't support character 19:29:53 ... so use 2003 version of behavior 19:30:29 s/DENIC /DENIC (german registry)/ 19:30:45 basically: generate only *one* version for a given input 19:30:56 ... even though mutliple outcomes are possible 19:31:19 Mark: one of the main reasons for this is so users can see in browser 19:31:45 ... users don't like transform of name for display (remapping) 19:31:51 ... only transform on wire 19:32:07 Richard: btw, we have a bunch of tests that show what people see 19:32:23 q- 19:32:31 DENIC bundles 19:32:55 http://www.w3.org/International/tests/test-idn-display-0 19:33:09 Mark: other thing concerned with... 19:33:18 ... IDNA very concerned with TLDs 19:33:29 ... but in reality there are 1000's of registrars 19:33:47 ... e.g. google registers subdomains in google 19:33:52 ... or blogspot 19:34:33 http://ɓlog.blogspot.com/ 19:35:06 "xn--log-nsb.blogspot.com" 19:35:15 so many many "actual" registrars 19:35:37 ... belief is that "actual" registrars won't know to do anything about 2008 19:36:24 ... a long time to replace browsers 19:36:38 ... so how many on 2008 v. 2003 19:36:52 ... and that's what TR46 is 19:36:58 ... would like to inform you 19:37:07 ... and also think W3C should have a position on this 19:37:35 ... so HTML5 and XLink might need to be influenced 19:37:56 Mark: UTC will consider this, may publish as early as November... or may be longer 19:38:20 ... needs some wordsmithing, although that won't influence decision by UTC 19:38:56 richard: do you know what HTML5 is doing about this? 19:39:09 Mark: don't know, but believe that it is just conformant to 2003 at present 19:39:43 richard: what we really want is everyone to implement just this one way of doing it 19:39:51 Mark: think we have a lot of supprot from browser vendors 19:40:03 ... best if everyone does the same way 19:40:18 felix: again just on IRC (sorry), propose to put Thomas Roessler (W3C) into the loop, who is following IDNA and also ICANN actions also to some extend IIRC 19:40:31 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 19:42:27 addison: pub together or a pointer or do something to charmod-iri.... 19:42:46 Mark: ICU will implement TR46 19:43:24 Mark: have a followup in a couple of weeks? 19:43:38 ACTION: all: review UAX#46 draft for review in two weeks 19:43:51 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 19:43:59 mark@macchiato.com 19:44:06 Mark: send comments offline to above address 19:44:25 Topic: Language Tag Article Approval 19:45:05 Topic: HTML5 Review 19:45:17 In particular Hixie's remarks: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2009OctDec/0001.html 19:46:40 ACTION: addison: reply to Hixie in support of text at end of thread 19:46:51 Topic: Language Tag Article Approval 19:46:59 http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-choosing-language-tags (new article) http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/temp.php (updated article) 19:47:25 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2009Oct/0001.html 19:49:23 Mark: my concern is that people might use 'cmn' instead of 'zh' 19:49:40 ... will mess themselves up,b ecause 'zh' means, for all practical purposes Mandarin 19:50:17 ... fear is that they won't see the squirms that say otherwise 19:50:25 ... after reading first two sentences 19:51:02 http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-choosing-language-tags#extlangsubtags 19:51:11 There is always a 3-letter subtag that is equivalent to any language+extlang pairing. For example, zh-cmn (Mandarin Chinese) can also be expressed with the single subtag cmn. 19:52:19 Mark: so richard's suggestion good 19:52:29 ... use more specific tags in most cases, with some important exceptions 19:52:56 Mark: then follow with "there are however" 19:53:14 ... and follow with "there are situations where you should still use" 19:53:21 ... and move the sentence on Macrolanguage searching to end 19:53:40 addison expresses happiness with that 19:54:54 Mark: in decision two, change examples from 'cmn' to 'yue' 19:55:30 Felix: (on IRC) Sorry, have to leave at the top of the hour. My comments are editorial and proposals for "would be nice to have" additions, not "this is wrong" comments. So if you want to publish, please go ahead, the articles are good. 19:57:22 addison: tag "Chinese" as 'zh', including all Mandarin 19:57:36 ... all other Sinitic languages should use their specific subtags and not use 'zh' 19:59:09 Mark: for predominant form, use the macrolanguage 19:59:18 ... including Malay, for example 19:59:43 ... ISO distinguishes Filipino and Tagalog... also Twi and Akan 19:59:59 ... there are a number of issues with false distinctions 20:00:24 ... "be consistent" and "try to be consistent with everyone else" 20:00:32 -Felix 20:00:51 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 20:01:08 http://cldr.unicode.org/development/design-proposals/languages-to-show-for-translation 20:06:13 Mark: case sensitivity in file names can be important in file systems that are case sensitive 20:06:34 where it is important, consider using bcp 47 approach 20:07:21 (actually bcp47 has a canonicalization section on case) 20:07:26 Mark: ordering of variants 20:09:23 note, any particular recipient of the tags may or may not take the order as important 20:10:53 http://www.inter-locale.com/ID/rfc5646.html#canonical 20:14:51 maybe a variant faq 20:16:43 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 20:16:57 richard: publish for wide review with changes? 20:17:08 chair: any opposed? 20:17:11 none opposed 20:17:22 ACTION: richard: publish language tag articles for wide review 20:17:32 Topic: AOB? 20:17:35 after changes discussion so far 20:18:16 -andrewc 20:18:26 -YvesS 20:18:30 -aphillips 20:18:32 -Richard 20:18:34 -mark 20:18:37 RRSAgent, make minutes 20:18:38 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 20:18:43 zakim, bye 20:18:43 leaving. As of this point the attendees were aphillips, David, Richard, +1.650.253.aaaa, +1.650.253.aabb, Felix, YvesS, mark, andrewc 20:18:43 Zakim has left #core 20:18:51 andrewc has left #core 20:18:59 RRSagent, make minutes 20:18:59 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-minutes.html aphillip 20:19:04 RRSagent, bye 20:19:04 I see 3 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-actions.rdf : 20:19:04 ACTION: all: review UAX#46 draft for review in two weeks [1] 20:19:04 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-irc#T19-43-38 20:19:04 ACTION: addison: reply to Hixie in support of text at end of thread [2] 20:19:04 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-irc#T19-46-40 20:19:04 ACTION: richard: publish language tag articles for wide review [3] 20:19:04 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/10/07-core-irc#T20-17-22