IRC log of i18n on 2017-05-04

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Meeting: Internationalization Working Group Teleconference
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Date: 04 May 2017
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Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017May/0001.html
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Chair: Addison Phillips
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ScribeNick: addison
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agenda+ Agenda
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agenda+ Action Items
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agenda+ Info Share
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agenda+ Radar Review
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agenda+ Review and close Charmod-Norm issues
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agenda+ OWL-Time and urgent reviews
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agenda+ Support for bidi in strings
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agenda+ Default base direction for documents
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Regrets: Steven, Jck (?)
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Present+ Bert
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Present+ David
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zakim, take up agendum 1
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agendum 1. "Agenda" taken up [from addison]
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agenda?
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present+
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zakim, take up agendum 2
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agendum 2. "Action Items" taken up [from addison]
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https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open
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action-552?
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action-552 -- Addison Phillips to Write to json-ld about potential for a serialization form for natural language strings to address issues with dir and lang -- due 2016-09-29 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/552
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action-554?
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action-554 -- Addison Phillips to Work to schedule a review of microformats -- due 2017-03-30 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/554
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action-611?
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action-611 -- Addison Phillips to Contact martin to see if unicode-xml will be worked on soon so that wg can decide if alternate next steps are needed -- due 2017-04-27 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/611
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close action-611
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Closed action-611.
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present+
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action: addison: update unicode-xml to indicate current status
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Created ACTION-616 - Update unicode-xml to indicate current status [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-05-11].
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action-612?
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action-612 -- Addison Phillips to Create a bidi/lang recommendations document in order to go to tag -- due 2017-04-27 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/612
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action-614?
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action-614 -- Addison Phillips to Ping anne about encoding tests (reviewing, etc.) -- due 2017-04-27 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/614
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addison: not sure what to expect from anne
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richard: henri going through tests
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... and some others
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.... couple of changes as a result
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... do they want to change or should I?
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... question is: see you/folks are finding time to look at tests
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... what do you see as next steps?
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... how should we be involved?
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action-615?
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action-615 -- Addison Phillips to Finalize floating time article for publication -- due 2017-05-04 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/615
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action: richard: give addison access to i18n-drafts
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Created ACTION-617 - Give addison access to i18n-drafts [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-05-11].
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zakim, take up agendum 3
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agendum 3. "Info Share" taken up [from addison]
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welcoming Bert Bos
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bert: more than 20 years ago created the WG
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... have been in the group before
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... but have been doing other things, such as CSS
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... html, xml, mathml, traction protection
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... that's teh DNT header
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... at W3C a long time
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... since this group is looking for help reviewing
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... sounded interesting. hope to learn a bit more about the things I'm reviewing and i18n
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agenda?
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zakim, take up agendum 4
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agendum 4. "Radar Review" taken up [from addison]
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https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1
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Bert: will take ORDL
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http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/
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richard: changing tests for unicode bidi in css
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... in writing modes
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... bidi isolation didn't work according to test results page
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... couple of other values
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... but do seem to work, checked FF
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... and chrome seems same
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... still behind with Edge
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https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repo/results/writing-modes-bidi#inline
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richard: did work on JS course for EdX
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... sent comments
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... not a lot to say but a few things
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... talking about strings in later section
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addison: need to add the text about supplementary charasters, drafting reply to your email
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ack najib
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najib: have some tests for rare cases
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... of isolation
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http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/
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https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/399
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agenda?
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zakim, take up agendum 8
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agendum 8. "Default base direction for documents" taken up [from addison]
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https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017May/0002.html
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richard: two links, first is to a ttml issue
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... there should be an 'auto' value
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... largely about usefulness of auto for insertion of text
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... but another way it can be useful
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... can be useful as "overall direction" for the document
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... currently we say that the default should be ltr
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... so if you run across ARabic and don't mark it, it will look wrong
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... default auto would use strong character in text to determine
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addison: inherits down
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richard: use xsl model for establishing direction in ttml
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... region auto
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... only have to supply span in cases where rtl paragraphs or spans don't start with a strong
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... suggested this to webvtt I think?
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... think they accepted
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... mati thought it sounded logical
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ack najib
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najib: agree on the intention
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... it depends on the text in question
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... if the text is in an html page
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... page normally begins with title
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... title may not have same text as normal paragraph
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http://www.w3c.org.ma/Press/securewebauthwg.ar.html
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... have many texts that being with "W3C... (something)..."
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... so always start with a first strong of "W"
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richard: those are cases that have to be addressed
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... if ttml is by default auto
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... dont' have to add rtl at doc top in every doc
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... in sitution like w3c---something--- have to do something
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addison: concerned about layout effects of this
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richard: could do a couple of things,
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... in spec-dev could say make default auto
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... or say ltr-or-auto
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... with discussion of pros-cons
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... true for new formats. for ttml not probably usable
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... xsl model, overall direction for region derives from writing-mode
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... css no longer includes text direction in writing-mode
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... writing-mode has no allowance for auto
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... already have vast number of values for writing-mode
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... but wanted to bring up question
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David: support this
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... if ltr default and we change
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... won't break anything I think
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addison: suggest we go to larger community?
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action: richard: create a short document about making direction default recommendation to be 'auto' and send to www-international@ for review
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Created ACTION-618 - Create a short document about making direction default recommendation to be 'auto' and send to www-international@ for review [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-05-11].
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agenda?
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zakim, take up agendum 6
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agendum 6. "OWL-Time and urgent reviews" taken up [from addison]
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https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Aowl-time
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scribenick: Bert
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addison: Most key thing is OWL time describes a whole bunch of things, non-gregorian calendars, etc.
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... Fine from LOD POV, but
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https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/405
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... looks problematic from i18n.
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... Time zones don't use IANA IDs.
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... And maybe there's a false assumption about how TZs work, in terms of offset.
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r12a: Is that in one of their examples?
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addison: Yes
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... The standard for time zone in general is IANA. Dateandtime.com has their own, not IANA.
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... The example uses abbreviations.
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r12a: Level of coverage?
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addison: I'm not sure about the level of coverage.
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r12a: The example is not a real site...
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https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aest
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addison: Sorry, it's the domain ^^^
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r12a: No objection from moe to sending this comment.
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s/moe/me/
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https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/404
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r12a: As separate comments?
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addison: Yes
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addison: Need links to Gregorian calendar for "general"
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https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/403
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addison: Time units week, etc. can take decimal value: "6.7 weeks"
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... Not entirely clear what those periods are.
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https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/402
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r12a: Comment sounds good to me.
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addison: Week number from ISO, but different countries count weeks differently.
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r12a: Several countries have different first days for the week, Sunday/Monday.
15:53:29 [Bert]
addison: This is also about what is the first week.
15:53:32 [najib]
Or Friday
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https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/401
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r12a: "First week of the year is the week containing the first Thursday". Is that an attempt to get around that?
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... Might be good to add some of that detail to your comment.
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addison: Description of time zone: they say it's a region and an offet, but it is really a bit more than that.
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s/Or Friday//
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... And the possibility of future changes.
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r12a: You might want to point to them to one of our documents,
15:55:52 [addison]
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/400
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probably www.org/TR/timezone
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addison: Last issue is conversion to Gregorian.
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... Most times have a defined relation to Gregorian.
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agenda?
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... Any comments or objections to these six issues?
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zakim, take up agendum 7
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agendum 7. "Support for bidi in strings" taken up [from addison]
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addison: Do we want to talk about bidi strings today? We have 3 minutes.
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r12a: Happy to.
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https://aphillips.github.io/i18n-discuss/notes/i18n-action-612.html
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addison: I pointed to our other docs about lang. and base direction.
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... Added quick pros and cons.
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... Example of Payment API spec added dictionary pattern.
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r12a: Biggest comment is that Tantek will probably say there is a third option: use control characters from Unicode.
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addison: That doesn't solve the language problem.
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r12a: But it is worth mentioning.
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addison: As a "Solution 3" that we don't recommend?
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r12a: Not sure it's a solutuion 3.
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could be just an additional paragraphy
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present- Richard
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Note: Leonie's request was about ARIA
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ok
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will you reply?
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s/but do seem to work/but now do seem to work/
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s/xsl model, overall direction/actually, in the TTML case they use the xsl model, overall direction/
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s/actually, in the TTML case they use the xsl model, overall direction/xsl model, overall direction/
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s/already have vast number/TTML use the XSL model and so already have vast number - adding auto would increase that substantially/
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addison: yep
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s/paragraphy/paragraph/
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