15:49:31 RRSAgent has joined #i18n 15:49:31 logging to http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-irc 15:49:37 Zakim has joined #i18n 15:49:44 trackbot, prepare teleconference 15:49:46 RRSAgent, make logs world 15:49:48 Zakim, this will be 4186 15:49:48 ok, trackbot; I see I18N_CoreWG()11:00AM scheduled to start in 11 minutes 15:49:49 Meeting: Internationalization Working Group Teleconference 15:49:49 Date: 14 February 2013 15:50:05 Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2013Feb/0014.html 15:50:19 agenda+ Isolating Direction in HTML5 15:50:30 agenda+ Ruby Annotation Extension Spec 15:50:50 agenda+ Moving Forward Bidi Change Proposal 15:51:16 rrsagent, draft minutes 15:51:16 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 15:54:41 DavidClarke has joined #I18n 15:55:14 I'm unlikely to be able to phone in today 15:58:51 addison, i think you need to explain shepherding to aharon - esp that no subject matter expertise is especially required 15:59:20 s/addison, i think you need to explain shepherding to aharon - esp that no subject matter expertise is especially required// 16:00:15 matial has joined #i18n 16:00:27 I18N_CoreWG()11:00AM has now started 16:00:32 fsasaki has joined #i18n 16:00:40 zakim, dial richard please 16:00:40 ok, r12a; the call is being made 16:00:50 +aphillip 16:00:57 zakim, this will be i18n 16:00:57 ok, r12a, I see I18N_CoreWG()11:00AM already started 16:01:04 zakim, who's here? 16:01:04 On the phone I see aphillip 16:01:05 On IRC I see fsasaki, matial, DavidClarke, Zakim, RRSAgent, aphillip, r12a, trackbot 16:01:12 zakim, dial richard please 16:01:13 ok, r12a; the call is being made 16:01:13 +Richard 16:01:22 +??P18 16:01:38 +??P15 16:01:39 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:01:49 zakim, ??p15 is me 16:01:49 +matial; got it 16:02:18 chair: aphillip 16:02:20 scribe: fsasaki 16:02:31 rrsagent, draft minutes 16:02:31 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 16:02:34 Regrets: Norbert 16:02:43 + +1.617.245.aaaa 16:03:18 present: aphilip, davidClarke(IRC), john, matial, r12a 16:03:37 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:03:44 s/aphilip/aphillip/ 16:03:57 present+ fsasaki 16:03:59 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:04:07 John_C_Klensin has joined #i18n 16:05:02 Topic: Agenda 16:05:28 topic: action items 16:05:38 action-165? 16:05:38 ACTION-165 -- Richard Ishida to contact Tab about plans to make the ruby spec extension -- due 2012-12-12 -- OPEN 16:05:38 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/165 16:05:45 richard: can be closed 16:05:50 close action-165 16:05:50 Closed ACTION-165 Contact Tab about plans to make the ruby spec extension. 16:06:04 richard: robin berjon has produced an HTML extension draft 16:06:07 action-166? 16:06:07 ACTION-166 -- Richard Ishida to inform wg when bidi documents are ready for review -- due 2012-12-12 -- OPEN 16:06:07 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/166 16:06:09 + +1.408.536.aabb 16:06:17 close action-166 16:06:17 Closed ACTION-166 Inform wg when bidi documents are ready for review. 16:06:22 richard: ready for review 16:06:29 action-170? 16:06:29 ACTION-170 -- Addison Phillips to coordinate with richard regarding KLReq -- due 2013-01-16 -- OPEN 16:06:29 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/170 16:06:36 aharon has joined #i18n 16:06:39 aphillip: placeholder 16:06:41 action-174? 16:06:41 ACTION-174 -- Addison Phillips to write article about floating times in HTML -- due 2013-01-30 -- OPEN 16:06:41 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/174 16:06:50 aphillip: have started this 16:06:52 http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/FloatingTime 16:07:17 aphillip: feel free to comment. Have xxx third of the text in 16:07:21 action-175? 16:07:21 ACTION-175 -- Richard Ishida to contact Robin Berjon about what he's doing wrt ruby extension work -- due 2013-01-30 -- OPEN 16:07:21 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/175 16:07:25 richard: done 16:07:32 close action-175 16:07:32 Closed ACTION-175 Contact Robin Berjon about what he's doing wrt ruby extension work. 16:07:35 action-176? 16:07:35 ACTION-176 -- Addison Phillips to ping anne about encoding spec -- due 2013-02-07 -- OPEN 16:07:35 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/176 16:07:46 aphillip: will keep open 16:07:49 +??P8 16:07:54 action-177? 16:07:54 ACTION-177 -- Addison Phillips to establish scribing rotation -- due 2013-02-07 -- CLOSED 16:07:54 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/177 16:08:01 action-178? 16:08:01 ACTION-178 -- Norbert Lindenberg to coordinate proposing text for ITS directionality with richard -- due 2013-02-07 -- CLOSED 16:08:01 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/178 16:08:09 present+ aaron 16:08:16 present+ johnOConner 16:08:22 action-182? 16:08:22 ACTION-182 -- Richard Ishida to send note with updated text for directionality to MLW-LT -- due 2013-02-14 -- OPEN 16:08:22 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/182 16:08:32 joconner has joined #i18n 16:08:35 action-183? 16:08:35 ACTION-183 -- Addison Phillips to write draft of new charmod-norm -- due 2013-02-14 -- OPEN 16:08:35 http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/183 16:08:43 aphillip: not done yet 16:08:45 q+ 16:08:51 Topic: Info Share 16:09:02 ack me 16:09:52 aphillip: john klensin joined as invited expert, welcome! 16:10:19 johnC: have worked on i18n issues on IETF and ICANN for some years, IDN and other topics 16:10:44 ... felt to participate in this work no an ongoing basis rather than complaining later 16:10:52 aphillip: great, welcome! 16:10:58 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:11:14 johnC: recently adobe received funding to work on ITS2 16:11:24 .. we are attempting to add tags to jack rabbit 16:11:34 aphillip: cool 16:11:36 +1! 16:11:49 very cool, joconner :) 16:12:02 richard: what is jack rabbit? 16:12:14 joconner: an open source repository 16:12:24 .. would like to add the ITS tags into the schema for content 16:12:50 richard: this week published program for MLW workshop in rome 16:13:02 .. if you want to go register asap. many spaces are taken already 16:13:22 .. have a good program http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/rome-workshop/rome-program 16:13:29 .. Mark Davis is doing the keynote 16:13:48 .. have the usual format with many different people in the room who haven't met before 16:13:58 .. other topic - bidi in HTML work: 16:14:21 koji has joined #i18n 16:14:25 .. some of the things work, thought it is good to put this out so that people can look at it 16:14:31 .. then korean layout requirements doc 16:14:44 .. lot of english + format editing 16:14:51 present+ kojii 16:14:58 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:15:12 +[IPcaller] 16:15:23 zakim, [ipcaller] is me 16:15:23 +koji; got it 16:15:29 zakim, who's noisy? 16:15:43 r12a, listening for 11 seconds I heard sound from the following: aphillip (74%), +1.408.536.aabb (4%) 16:15:44 aphillip: next will speak at xyz 16:15:53 http://events.imug.org/events/95268092/?eventId=95268092&action=detail 16:16:01 s/xyz/imug conference/ 16:16:03 s/xyz/IMUG/ 16:16:22 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:16:30 zakim, agenda? 16:16:30 I see 3 items remaining on the agenda: 16:16:32 1. Isolating Direction in HTML5 [from aphillip] 16:16:32 2. Ruby Annotation Extension Spec [from aphillip] 16:16:32 3. Moving Forward Bidi Change Proposal [from aphillip] 16:16:39 zakim, take up 1 16:16:39 I don't understand 'take up 1', aphillip 16:16:46 zakim, take up agendum 1 16:16:46 agendum 1. "Isolating Direction in HTML5" taken up [from aphillip] 16:17:30 zakim, take up agendum 2 16:17:30 agendum 2. "Ruby Annotation Extension Spec" taken up [from aphillip] 16:18:03 richard: robin berjon working on HTML5 ruby extension spec 16:18:31 .. he was unaware of stuff we are doing, need closer communication 16:19:07 .. robin sent the draft to public i18n cjk list for review 16:19:20 .. we need to look into this in the next couple of weeks of possible 16:19:21 action: addison: remind group to review berjon's ruby spec extension proposal 16:19:21 Created ACTION-184 - Remind group to review berjon's ruby spec extension proposal [on Addison Phillips - due 2013-02-21]. 16:19:34 .. what is proposed: availibility of an rb tag 16:19:48 .. fantasia proposes an rb.rb.rt model 16:19:55 .. that is with multiple bases 16:20:01 s/fantasia/fantasai/ 16:20:03 .. I think that this is not necessary 16:20:33 richard: fantasai is concered that if you have an inline set in your ruby 16:20:48 .. annotations at the end of the base characters should be dropped 16:21:06 .. I think that can be done easily done by the browser re-organizing information 16:21:22 .. doing that with markup is a very long tail for waging a small dog 16:21:32 .. now double sided ruby: 16:21:48 .. fantasai is against nesting of ruby elements 16:22:08 .. she wants to go closer to what the old spec said 16:22:23 .. but the old spec uses an rtc element for the secondary level of annotation 16:23:14 .. having done nested stuff I think it's straightforward, I'm not support about the current html5 approach 16:23:44 .. fantasai's proposal is easier but has to be described like that 16:24:28 zakim, agenda? 16:24:28 I see 3 items remaining on the agenda: 16:24:30 1. Isolating Direction in HTML5 [from aphillip] 16:24:30 2. Ruby Annotation Extension Spec [from aphillip] 16:24:30 3. Moving Forward Bidi Change Proposal [from aphillip] 16:24:53 I'm logging. I don't understand 'take up next agendum', fsasaki. Try /msg RRSAgent help 16:24:53 zakim, take up agendum 3 16:24:53 agendum 3. "Moving Forward Bidi Change Proposal" taken up [from aphillip] 16:25:22 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:25:45 richard: in the past we wanted to get isolated spans used in inline markup 16:25:59 .. we had thought that we would write an extension spec for HTML5 16:26:15 .. with two attribute in HTML5, corresponding to new unicode control characters 16:26:28 .. however, thinking it over, I thought this might not be the best way forward 16:26:47 .. the best way might be: to create a new attribute "direction" 16:27:06 .. that attribute would have ltr, rtl, auto as values 16:27:16 .. and it would produce isolation by default 16:28:42 .. you cannot like in CSS put in two things and have the 2nd one taken up 16:28:46 .. e.g. two instances of "dir" 16:28:58 .. we already have problems confusing rtl and ltr when they type 16:29:11 .. adding lri rli has the potential to increase typos 16:29:23 .. people have to take "intelligent decisions" what to choose 16:29:36 .. most people have no clue about the importance of isolation 16:29:46 .. and continue what they have always done 16:29:56 .. there is a downside of using new values 16:30:02 aaron: another downside: 16:30:13 s/aaron/aharon/ 16:30:18 .. lri and rli more or less explicitly say "this should be isloated" 16:30:29 .. that is fine for inline markup, but what about a block element? 16:30:43 .. it doesn't makes sense to write

16:30:59 .. so ltr and rtl would not get completely deprecated really 16:31:11 richard: an alternative would be the "direction" attribute 16:31:20 .. with the three values ltr, rtl, auto 16:31:36

:-( 16:31:37 .. it has the advantage to use it alongside dir 16:31:38 q+ 16:31:51 ack me 16:32:53 felix: what guidance would we give people for non-HTML scenarios? 16:33:13 richard: good question - will come back to that later? 16:33:48 richard: if we deprecate dir we can move into the direction of "direction" 16:33:59 aphillip: that would make many pages invalid 16:34:03 richard: correct 16:34:23 .. additional advantes of direction attribute: people continue to use the same values 16:34:37 .. they just need to know "direction" rather than "dir" 16:34:46 .. and it doesn't rely on CSS available 16:35:07 .. the drawback is that it is a pain to use two attributes at the same time 16:35:36 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:35:46 richard: one new topic related to this 16:35:57 .. we almost never want to do non-isloated text 16:36:31 .. in unicode report that describes lri and rli it says you can still use the old values 16:36:37 Najib-ma has joined #i18n 16:36:47 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 16:36:49 .. if we go away from the old values we will loose the ability to embed 16:37:00 .. which may be useful in some circumstances 16:37:14 .. we could have a new attribute that produces isolation 16:37:22 .. and we could keep dir 16:37:34 .. the new attribute could be EDI 16:37:39 .. or bd for "base direction" 16:37:43 s/EDI/BDI/ 16:38:04 .. aharon already said you can use direction aspect of block elements 16:38:12 .. so we can give clearer guidance 16:39:23 I don't see the difference between the direction attr and the bd(i) attribute 16:39:51

16:40:01 richard: some people have used directionality in a way they shouldn't 16:40:06

16:40:23 .. so generally we always want isolation 16:40:29 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:40:41 aharon: yes 16:41:18 .. it is not theoretical: 16:41:35 .. I know people who use dir in a way that does embedding, not isolation 16:42:07 .. changing the semantics of dir is not an option, and taking it away is not an option either 16:43:26 .. it is incorrect to say that block elements are isloated 16:43:41 s/isloated/isolated/ 16:44:58 aharon: what to do about dir name and CSS - that is not an issue 16:45:10 .. if you have 16:45:15 .. meaning it is isolated 16:45:28 ... directionality is ltr, i.e. 16:46:48 .. dir is then ignored by new browser if they use direction 16:48:04 aphillip: we have an auto? 16:48:14 aharon: dir=auto is isolating 16:48:33 richard: in implementations currently it isolates but doesn't do the "auto" part 16:48:58 s/we have an auto/is auto equivalent to FSI/ 16:50:09 aphillip: what actions follow from this? 16:50:37 https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2013Feb/0010.html 16:50:37 richard: need to continue discussion, basic proposal is in mail I sent 16:50:49 q+ 16:51:03 richard: need to decide whether we should choose option two 16:51:11 .. and need to think about getting things moving 16:51:29 .. and then we need to find something to author extension spec ... 16:51:51 .. before we do all that I think 16:52:29 ack me 16:52:32 ack fsasaki 16:52:35 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2013JanMar/0229.html 16:53:27 felix: should we look into this proposal? 16:53:51 richard: that proposal just said that there are two types of direction 16:54:02 .. there is a note about isolation, and I think the proposal is still valid 16:54:28 .. the point is then you define the attribute values 16:54:58 aphillip: we were pointing to HTML4 16:55:12 richard: rlo and lro also don't exist in HTML5, but as concepts they do 16:55:18 richard: like to hear opinions 16:55:26 zakim, unmute me 16:55:26 matial should no longer be muted 16:56:08 aphillip: need to look into more material before making decisions 16:56:31 matial: we cannot change dir behavior because we don't want to break existing pages 16:56:45 .. we cannot unify one attribute because often documents are composed from various pieces 16:57:31 .. telling to use two different attributes for direction, one for blocks and one for inline, will be hard to educate people 16:58:28 matial: xxx is the best thing (scribe missed) 16:58:34 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:59:02 s/xxx/bdir/ 16:59:02 matial: "bdir" 16:59:21 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html fsasaki 16:59:50 richard: enjoin folks to read email and send comments 17:00:00 scribenick: aphillip 17:00:09 zakim, mute me 17:00:09 matial should now be muted 17:00:21 joconner has left #i18n 17:00:26 richard: publish blog post? 17:00:34 ... could publish on i18n home page 17:00:49 -fsasaki 17:00:49 q+ 17:00:59 joconner has joined #i18n 17:00:59 ack najib-ma 17:01:05 I favors option 2. 17:01:14 Thinks it is reasonable. 17:01:20 But I fear people think of "direction" attribute as a new name of "dir" attribute. 17:01:22 and then will be surprised by the effect of isolate, if any. 17:01:27 That's all 17:01:40 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 17:02:17 action: richard: publish blog post as wiki, put on front door, and announce to winter list 17:02:17 Created ACTION-185 - Publish blog post as wiki, put on front door, and announce to winter list [on Richard Ishida - due 2013-02-21]. 17:02:32 richard: one more question for aharon 17:02:44 ... people have used dir embedding wrongly 17:02:54 ... but are there other cases where you want to embed rather than isolate on purpose? 17:03:08 joconner has left #i18n 17:03:09 aharon: no, because then you get with LRM,etc. 17:03:41 richard: if you put dir on span in same direction, no action? 17:03:48 - +1.408.536.aabb 17:03:51 aharon: other way around 17:04:07 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 17:05:53 john: classic problem with domain names 17:06:25 Topic: AOB? 17:06:55 Regrets+ ning 17:07:59 aharon: in LTR context, span with LTR starting with RTL character 17:08:41 -john 17:08:42 Be 17:08:43 -aphillip 17:08:45 -koji 17:08:52 -??P8 17:08:55 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-minutes.html aphillip 17:09:08 -matial 17:09:58 zakim, bye 17:09:58 leaving. As of this point the attendees were aphillip, Richard, fsasaki, matial, +1.617.245.aaaa, john, +1.408.536.aabb, koji 17:09:58 Zakim has left #i18n 17:10:01 rrsagent, bye 17:10:01 I see 2 open action items saved in http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-actions.rdf : 17:10:01 ACTION: addison: remind group to review berjon's ruby spec extension proposal [1] 17:10:01 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-irc#T16-19-21 17:10:01 ACTION: richard: publish blog post as wiki, put on front door, and announce to winter list [2] 17:10:01 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2013/02/14-i18n-irc#T17-02-17