W3C

Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

25 Sep 2014

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Addison, Richard, Xiaoqian, Koji, Leandro
Regrets
David
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
Addison Phillips

Contents


agenda additions at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2014Sep/0019.html and https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2014Sep/0020.html

Agenda

Action Items

http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

close action-81

<trackbot> Closed action-81.

Info Share

addison: will be on holiday next week
... richard to host
... leandro to scribe

richard: mongolian is really hard
... I have a mongolian character picker that doesn't work terribly well
... FF doesn't support vertical LR text
... and chrome supports it, but not in textarea or in tables and such
... and mongolian characters with ZWJ produces different results on different browsers
... need to write more writing-mode and other tests

xiaoqian: does counter styles support mongolian and tibetan?

<r12a> http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-predefined-counter-styles-20130725/

richard: yes

xiaoqian: browser vendors interested in minority scripts, want more examples

<r12a> http://rishida.net/blog/

richard: a few notes in my blog
... scroll down
... justificaiton, line breaking rules
... and working on a new entry which calls out features of typography currently being worked on in CSS
... and asks people to consider whether they have problems with those features
... points to the spec, to tests and to jlreq/ilreq etc


RADAR

https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Review_radar

What Time is This Meeting At?

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2014Sep/0018.html

Option B "What we've been doing, sort of": 1500 UTC

midnight tokyo

koji: works for me

<scribe> ACTION: addison: send email to the group seeking objections from non-attendees [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/09/25-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-346 - Send email to the group seeking objections from non-attendees [on Addison Phillips - due 2014-10-02].

Chinese generic font family names in CSS

https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Chinese_font_families

richard: publishers in China
... serif, sans, fantasy, monospaced, etc.
... they have more font families than that (and different)
... also can't easily solve problem using downloading
... because the fonts are very large
... wrote wiki page to summarize
... probably affects JP and KO users also
... might need more categories?
... other scripts and publishing traditions need other styles
... what can we do about this?
... start discussion on CSS + CJK list

xiaoqian: described problem clearly

koji: interesting
... in japan most systems don't have many fonts
... can I confirm who the "customer" is? browser vendor? web authors?

xiaoqian: digital publishers

koji: different from epub and web
... only four or five font families
... epub different: kindle or kobo have different fonts

<r12a> http://rishida.net/scripts/fontlist/#chinese-t

<r12a> http://rishida.net/scripts/fontlist/#chinese-s

<r12a> http://rishida.net/scripts/fontlist/#japanese

<scribe> ACTION: xiaoqian: ask for more input on the problem of font family names [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/09/25-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-347 - Ask for more input on the problem of font family names [on Xiaoqian Wu - due 2014-10-02].

xiaoqian: how will webfonts work for east asian languages?

koji: font subsetting makes them smaller, so not really 10 mb
... but data plans can be an issue

leandro: link to css spec is to wrong place

richard: will add some questions to the page as well

Plans for Chinese Layout task force

richard: watch for activity

<Leandro> Folks, I have to run to another meeting. Talk to you next week.

AOB?

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: addison: send email to the group seeking objections from non-attendees [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/09/25-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: xiaoqian: ask for more input on the problem of font family names [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/09/25-i18n-minutes.html#action02]
 
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