Arabic Layout TF telecon

Mostafa: Re issue #49: this seems it needs a lot of work. But I don’t think we have the time for this, as it is not an essential part of our document.
... I suggest that we list all the problems that we see, but we don’t have to fix them all for the first public draft.

Shervin: +1. Mostafa, whenever you had time, you can leave a comment on the CLDR issue opened in regards to our issue, to list the problems.
... Not doing that can lead to the issue being closed by CLDR and not getting any results.
... How are we going to proceed here? Is there an action here?

Mostafa: We can keep the issue to keep gathering information, until the problems are fixed.

Richard: About Najib’s example in this issue: which place is correct for the Arabic percent sign?

Mostafa: In Iran both sides are used by different people, but I see it mostly from the left side.

Najib: It’s different in different parts and groups in Arabic script. Some people put it on the left and some put it on the right.

<Shervin> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/bidi.jsp?a=%DB%B1%DB%B0%DB%B0%D9%AA&p=Auto

<Shervin> http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/bidi.jsp?a=%D8%A2%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4+%DB%B1%DB%B0%DB%B0%D9%AA+%D8%A2%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4&p=Auto

Najib: I added some new words to the glossary and corrected some translations and added some descriptions. If it’s OK for the document, I can send a PR.

Shervin: The process for creating HTML for a PR is done using a script.
... I can do that in a couple of weeks.

<Shervin> ACTION Shervin Update the glossary with changes introduced in June 21st by Najib

<trackbot> Created ACTION-60 - Update the glossary with changes introduced in june 21st by najib [on Shervin Afshar - due 2016-06-28].

<najib> http://printwiki.org/Sinkage

Najib: PrinktWiki is useful for understanding the concept some of the terms.

Shervin: If itis used, don’t forget to add it as a source to our list of sources.

<Shervin> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/137j59fPt1nkl0h6O72SR50SX3MHk0lWzmqcEaAmo1zM/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/177yHWJ9WZLDyekFioxFPOrmycN-76ueXnQ2jrucxh3w/edit#

Mostafa: I have the text ready for the section 2.3 direction.
... I only have to prepare the images before this is ready for PR.

Shervin: Can you put this on the Wiki? That would be easier for the commenting.

<Shervin> Proceeding to action items: https://www.w3.org/International/groups/arabic-layout/track/actions/open

https://github.com/w3c/alreq/wiki/Draft-for-“2.3-Direction”

Najib: The direction of the numerals can also be mentioned.

Richard: That might be a little too complicated for this section. We have links for further reading.

Mostafa: +1

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/groups/arabic-layout/track/actions/open?sort=owner

Shervin: This is an essentail part of the document and it can take some time before it reaches its final form.

Najib: Re action-58 I’m going to add some images from Wikipedia, because of Wikipedia’s license.
... For action-37 I’m going to prepare a draft for and will put it on the wiki.

<Shervin> https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues

Mostafa: I’m interested in working on the justification section.

Shervin: Please keep in mind that there are two schools of thought when it comes to Arabic justification.
... I’ll send the links to the documents.