IRC log of core on 2010-08-25

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16:34:50 [Zakim]
+David
16:35:05 [r12a]
zakim, +7 is Aharon
16:35:05 [Zakim]
+Aharon; got it
16:35:08 [Aharon]
zakim, mute me
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Aharon should now be muted
16:35:17 [r12a]
zakim, ??P is Norbert
16:35:17 [Zakim]
+Norbert; got it
16:35:24 [r12a]
zakim, who's here ?
16:35:24 [Zakim]
On the phone I see Richard, Aharon (muted), Norbert, David
16:35:25 [Zakim]
On IRC I see RRSAgent, fsasaki, David, Norbert, Zakim, Aharon, r12a, kennyluck, fantasai
16:35:38 [r12a]
zakim, where's Addison ?
16:35:38 [Zakim]
I don't understand your question, r12a.
16:36:15 [Zakim]
+[IPcaller]
16:36:48 [Aharon]
zakim, unmute me
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Aharon should no longer be muted
16:38:05 [Zakim]
+ +1.408.790.aabb
16:38:09 [Aharon]
zakim, mute me
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Aharon should now be muted
16:39:07 [David]
zakim, mute me
16:39:07 [Zakim]
David should now be muted
16:39:20 [r12a]
zakim, who's here ?
16:39:20 [Zakim]
On the phone I see Richard, Aharon (muted), Norbert, David (muted), Felix (muted), Addison
16:39:23 [Zakim]
On IRC I see RRSAgent, fsasaki, David, Norbert, Zakim, Aharon, r12a, kennyluck, fantasai
16:39:54 [r12a]
meeting: i18n telecon
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chair: Addison
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richard: created two new lists
16:50:50 [aphillip]
... public-i18n-cjk
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... and public-i18n-indic
16:51:13 [aphillip]
... later is so that India office can create Indic document similar to JLReq
16:51:35 [aphillip]
norbert: is that much different from thai, burmese and other indic derived scripts
16:52:49 [aphillip]
Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2010Aug/0006.html
16:53:40 [aphillip]
Topic: contact formats convergence
16:53:41 [aphillip]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2010Aug/0007.html
16:53:57 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-minutes.html aphillip
16:54:25 [aphillip]
haven't looked at document in detail yet
16:54:33 [aphillip]
seen some attributes like given name
16:54:45 [aphillip]
might need transliteration
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might need changes to things like street address
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needs a thorough review
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should be coordinated with our contacts in ietf
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how do we proceed here?
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when should we do a review?
16:57:27 [aphillip]
(above are Felix's intro)
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---
16:57:41 [aphillip]
norbert: everyone goes back RFC 2426 vCard
16:59:49 [aphillip]
addison: maybe ask wg when to review contacts api?
17:00:01 [fsasaki]
+1
17:00:12 [David]
+1
17:00:36 [aphillip]
ACTION: addison: ask device api WG when it would be appropriate to revew contacts API document
17:02:31 [Aharon]
zakim, unmute me
17:02:31 [Zakim]
Aharon should no longer be muted
17:03:03 [aphillip]
aharon: have some experience with language dependent addresses
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... quite often want to specify "here is the name of this town in (insert arbitrary language list)"
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... street name might want transliterated or translated
17:04:02 [aphillip]
... want to format according to user's language preference
17:04:07 [aphillip]
... turns out to be hard
17:04:27 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-minutes.html aphillip
17:04:45 [aphillip]
... might have name of town in Russian but street only in English, for example
17:04:48 [aphillip]
... so you get a mix
17:04:55 [aphillip]
... and not useful as mailing address
17:05:12 [aphillip]
RRSAgent, set logs world-visible
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-minutes.html aphillip
17:05:53 [aphillip]
RRSAgent, set logs world-visible
17:06:12 [aphillip]
Meeting: Internationalization Core Teleconference
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richard: might present choices to the user
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aharon: want to choose most useful representation (for example)
17:08:12 [aphillip]
... most useful language may not be user's or local language
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... for example, Russian user getting address in Israel probably would end up wanting Hebrew transliterated to Latin script
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... will see if I can share some documents
17:09:15 [aphillip]
Topic: Bidi topics (per paragraph auto-direction, etc)
17:10:13 [aphillip]
aharon: basically, at f2f meeting, one participant though there was a gap
17:10:53 [aphillip]
... that Unicode Bidi Algorithm, when not given explicit base direction, will choose direction based on first strong character for each paragraph
17:11:01 [aphillip]
... and there are editors that implement this functionality
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... such as gEdit
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... and some on Mac usw.
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... lets you write plain text
17:11:51 [aphillip]
... and the directionality works okay (such as having a note in Hebrew followed by address in London) and it all works
17:11:59 [aphillip]
... but this is absent in HTML and in HTML5
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... so add capability?
17:12:20 [aphillip]
... simplest case is <textarea>
17:12:35 [aphillip]
... and just have browser display each graf according to its own directionality
17:12:41 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-minutes.html aphillip
17:13:06 [aphillip]
aharon: resulting text could display in e.g. <pre>
17:13:22 [aphillip]
aharon: there is something to this
17:13:28 [aphillip]
... started playing around with solutions
17:13:42 [aphillip]
... what was worked out at f2f was very ambitioush
17:13:58 [aphillip]
... besides affecting textarea, you could put attribute dir=uba on any element
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... and have layout thereby affected
17:14:16 [aphillip]
... but at same time play nicely with CSS direction
17:14:41 [aphillip]
... but subsquent paras might have different direction from first
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aharon: speced and then went home tired ;-)
17:18:30 [aphillip]
... I developed some doubts
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... reported on proceedings
17:18:51 [aphillip]
... to standards body in israel
17:19:07 [aphillip]
... and some folks said: you went way overboard and use case not that compelling
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... and thus thought my doubts might be justified
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... and sent note to others at f2f
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... and responses were that good reasons for doubts but need to publish results as-is for discussion
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... did so
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... and now published my doubts
17:20:43 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-minutes.html aphillip
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aharon: one person: altough understand doubts, there is still a use case
17:21:34 [aphillip]
... and just use textarea and not some fancy rich text edit control
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... and just easy way to display
17:22:36 [aphillip]
addison: just want to reflect text back to user
17:22:46 [aphillip]
... pretty common use case?
17:23:28 [aphillip]
aharon: made compromise suggestion
17:23:51 [aphillip]
... allow uba only on <textarea> and something similar to text area but not an input
17:26:06 [aphillip]
addison: could use 'auto' and be similar?
17:26:20 [aphillip]
aharon: the detection algorithm is different
17:26:43 [aphillip]
... also dir=uba, the part that doing the direction is the CSS
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... html doesn't specify
17:27:05 [aphillip]
... only when broken into paras is direction determined
17:27:15 [aphillip]
... different than dir=auto, which is implemented on html levle
17:27:20 [aphillip]
s/levle/level/
17:29:25 [aphillip]
addison: could uba be default for textarea?
17:29:41 [aphillip]
aharon: separate issue
17:33:50 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-minutes.html aphillip
17:35:26 [aphillip]
agendum for next time: bidi in svg
17:35:46 [aphillip]
... such as spriting and image flipping
17:35:58 [aphillip]
Topic: AOB?
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Present: Addison, Richard, Norbert, Aharon, Felix, David
17:36:22 [David]
zakim, unmute me
17:36:22 [Zakim]
David should no longer be muted
17:36:32 [aphillip]
richard: character encoding tutorials would like to publish in a week's time
17:36:44 [aphillip]
agendum for next time: publication approval
17:37:01 [Zakim]
-David
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-Felix
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-Aharon
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-Addison
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-Norbert
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-Richard
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I18N_CoreWG()12:30PM has ended
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Attendees were Richard, +7.229.93.aaaa, David, Aharon, Norbert, [IPcaller], Felix, +1.408.790.aabb, Addison
17:37:20 [aphillip]
Meeting: Internationalization Core Teleconference
17:37:27 [RRSAgent]
I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-minutes.html aphillip
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s/i18n telecon/Internationalization Core Teleconference/
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RRSAgent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-minutes.html aphillip
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zakim, bye
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rrsagent, bye
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I see 1 open action item saved in http://www.w3.org/2010/08/25-core-actions.rdf :
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ACTION: addison: ask device api WG when it would be appropriate to revew contacts API document [1]
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