14:57:30 RRSAgent has joined #i18n 14:57:30 logging to http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-irc 14:57:38 trackbot, start teleconference 14:57:40 RRSAgent, make logs world 14:57:42 Zakim, this will be 4186 14:57:42 ok, trackbot; I see I18N_CoreWG()11:00AM scheduled to start in 3 minutes 14:57:43 Meeting: Internationalization Core Working Group Teleconference 14:57:43 Date: 01 June 2011 14:58:00 Chair: Addison Phillips 14:58:06 Scribe: Addison Phillips 14:58:06 ScribeNick: aphillip 14:58:25 Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2011Jun/0000.html 14:58:36 rrsagent, draft minutes 14:58:36 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 14:58:52 rsagent, set logs world-visible 14:59:01 rrsagent, set logs world-visible 14:59:07 rrsagent, draft minutes 14:59:07 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 14:59:20 Regrets: Felix 14:59:40 possible regrets: David 14:59:44 I18N_CoreWG()11:00AM has now started 14:59:52 +hta 14:59:54 zakim, dial richard 14:59:54 ok, r12a; the call is being made 14:59:56 +Richard 15:00:02 +Addison_Phillips 15:00:33 zakim, mute me 15:00:34 zakim, hta is aharon 15:00:36 sorry, aharon, I do not know which phone connection belongs to you 15:00:38 +aharon; got it 15:00:43 matial has joined #i18n 15:00:44 zakim, mute aharon 15:00:44 zakim, mute me 15:00:47 aharon should now be muted 15:00:49 aharon was already muted, aharon 15:01:14 +??P14 15:01:49 zakim, mute me 15:01:49 matial should now be muted 15:05:03 Topic: Minutes and Agenda review 15:05:10 WOFF added 15:05:34 Topic: Action Items 15:06:04 Finish edits and convert time zones document to HTML 15:06:42 Talk with Bert about how to deal with change marks in Ruby spec 15:06:58 not yet. they have their f2f currently. two weeks 15:07:19 Rewrite response with new proposal to do normalization in comparison 15:07:41 Forward revised normalization letter to CSS including information about namespaces 15:08:10 Topic: Info Share 15:08:27 One piece of information for "infoshare": there will be a conference about multilingual technologies (including both i18n related topics but also language technologies like machine translation, various European and international language communities, politicians etc.) at the end of June in Budapest. This may be of interest for some of you. 15:08:37 (above from Felix) 15:09:07 Topic: WOFF 15:10:02 http://www.w3.org/International/track/products/1 15:10:47 r12a: chris sent some responses... let's take them one by one 15:10:53 http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/2 15:11:32 r12a: why aren't you using xml:lang? but maybe not xml:lang, since for identifying localizations 15:11:57 ... so might be a language attribute 15:12:01 ... they want to use xml:lang 15:12:33 ... last email has their formal response 15:13:19 Several elements store their data in text child elements; this is to support localization. The text elements MAY be given a lang attribute in the XML namespace [XML]. For backwards compatibility, lang attributes in the default namepsace are also accepted in older content, and SHOULD be treated the same as xml:lang. New content SHOULD instead use xml:lang. 15:13:37 r12a: legacy content can use @lang to be interpreted as xml:lang 15:15:00 addison: don't have any restrictions with "MAY"? 15:15:56 addison: do they define 'match' using bcp47? 15:16:27 chair: consensus? 15:16:37 richard: think that it shouldn't have been an xml:lang 15:18:28 ... could use to tag content contained in another language 15:18:49 no objections 15:18:54 no pb 15:19:05 http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/4 15:19:32 http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/5 15:19:37 they rejected 15:20:10 r12a: they rejected because it would invalidate existing content; agree in principle, but can't do it 15:21:17 addison: can't have externally applied dir or lang 15:21:48 r12a: "well, we tried..." 15:22:10 ... made our point clearly and they understand, but still decided this way 15:22:21 addison: so disagree, but will not object 15:22:51 http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/6 15:23:29 r12a: other information could appear in different languages 15:23:36 ... that is not localizable 15:23:43 ... things like vendor credit and licensee 15:23:57 ... all represented by elements but only one can appear 15:24:48 ... their response: could just use parenthesized aside 15:24:58 addison: works only if you have two 15:27:17 r12a: arabic, hebrew, urdu, etc... mixed direction text probably wouldn't look right (like with parens!) 15:28:12 BIDI FONT CO (english) 15:28:49 addison: so, push back? 15:28:59 WERBEH w3c (world wide web consortium) 15:29:06 r12a: I would probably 15:29:41 http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/7 15:29:45 done what we asked 15:29:57 http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/8 15:30:06 done 15:30:22 http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/9 15:30:42 just decided to accept our wording 15:30:57 "The automatic removal of OpenType features such as GPOS and GSUB information at any stage in the process of deploying a WOFF file is strongly discouraged. Many writing systems around the world rely on these features for very basic display of text in the script that they use." 15:31:39 we want to push back on 2 and 6, and we object to 5 but will not pursue 15:32:28 we want to push back on 6 but not 2 15:32:57 ACTION: richard: reply to WOFF indicating our acceptance/non-acceptance of issues per 2011-06-01 telecon 15:32:57 Created ACTION-44 - Reply to WOFF indicating our acceptance/non-acceptance of issues per 2011-06-01 telecon [on Richard Ishida - due 2011-06-08]. 15:33:25 Topic: Richard's Personal names document 15:33:33 http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names 15:33:57 richard: wrote a blog post awhile ago and so converted to this document 15:34:02 ... and here it is 15:34:22 ... should we move to wide review? 15:34:28 ... did put some feedback in 15:35:36 http://inter-locale.com/whitepaper/IUC26-a302-Names.pdf 15:36:40 zakim, unmute me 15:36:40 aharon should no longer be muted 15:36:44 addison: think it's ready for wide review 15:36:57 aharon: fascinating article 15:37:20 ... not sure that specific recommendations are always something that can be implemented 15:37:36 ... may not be practical solutions 15:37:54 ... if you can, use single name field 15:38:07 ... if you need sort name, greeting/salutation, etc. 15:38:18 ... you end up asking lots of questions or to repeat information 15:38:22 ... confusing user 15:39:21 addison: if you build a full solution it's really complicated, so you need to look at your user's needs, and decide on the scope you need 15:40:03 richard: make the "general guidelines" aspect more obvious 15:40:24 zakim, mute me 15:40:24 aharon should now be muted 15:41:08 not really 15:41:42 addison: ready for wide review still? or want to think about it? 15:41:54 richard: no, it is what review is for.... 15:42:01 ... will look at Mark's comments first 15:42:23 ACTION: richard: publish qa-personal-names for wide review 15:42:23 Created ACTION-45 - Publish qa-personal-names for wide review [on Richard Ishida - due 2011-06-08]. 15:42:48 Topic: Normalization 15:45:46 (addison summarizes....) 15:45:47 can you throw some urls at us? 15:46:29 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2011AprJun/0060.html 15:46:51 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2011AprJun/ 15:46:57 who is the owner of charmod-norm? 15:47:08 we are the owners 15:47:19 http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/ 15:49:32 move to note path from rec track 15:53:04 MUSTard 15:54:20 richard: publish a new working draft; plus wiki page stating current thinking 15:54:32 ... WD says "work in progress" 15:56:05 finding source is first hurdle 15:56:40 could dump source and start with html version 15:58:24 basically update status of the document 16:01:19 ACTION: addison: dump charmod-norm and add disclaimer paragraph, dates, etc. so that we can publish an interim working draft 16:01:20 Created ACTION-46 - Dump charmod-norm and add disclaimer paragraph, dates, etc. so that we can publish an interim working draft [on Addison Phillips - due 2011-06-08]. 16:01:58 keep same, change status, dates, and from rec to note 16:02:35 richard will do it starting two weeks from now if addison works on the wiki in the meantime 16:03:11 Topic: Time Zones 16:03:12 http://www.w3.org/International/docs/timezones/Overview.html 16:03:14 rrsagent, draft minutes 16:03:14 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-minutes.html r12a 16:03:41 Topic: AOB? 16:04:22 bye... 16:04:26 bye 16:04:30 rrsagent, make minutes 16:04:30 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 16:04:36 -matial 16:04:39 aharon has left #i18n 16:04:42 rrsagent, bye 16:04:42 I see 3 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-actions.rdf : 16:04:42 ACTION: richard: reply to WOFF indicating our acceptance/non-acceptance of issues per 2011-06-01 telecon [1] 16:04:42 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-irc#T15-32-57 16:04:42 ACTION: richard: publish qa-personal-names for wide review [2] 16:04:42 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-irc#T15-42-23 16:04:42 ACTION: addison: dump charmod-norm and add disclaimer paragraph, dates, etc. so that we can publish an interim working draft [3] 16:04:42 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2011/06/01-i18n-irc#T16-01-19 16:04:46 -aharon 16:04:52 zakim, who's here ? 16:04:52 On the phone I see Richard, Addison_Phillips 16:04:53 On IRC I see RRSAgent, Zakim, aphillip, r12a, trackbot 16:04:55 zakim, who is here? 16:04:55 On the phone I see Richard, Addison_Phillips