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Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

26 Oct 2017

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
r12a, addison, andrewc, Steve, Bert, Fuqiao, JcK
Regrets
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
addison

Contents


trackbot, prepare teleconference

<scribe> ScribeNick: addison

Agenda

Action Items

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

action-663?

<trackbot> action-663 -- Addison Phillips to Remind all to review charmod for status for next week, set agenda item for working to promote to next status next telecon -- due 2017-10-19 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/663

close action-663

<trackbot> Closed action-663.

action-664?

<trackbot> action-664 -- Addison Phillips to Produce updated string-meta with additional text needed for fpwd by 2 weeks -- due 2017-10-19 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/664

action-670?

<trackbot> action-670 -- Addison Phillips to Remind members to send ideas about how to find experts to member list -- due 2017-10-26 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/670

action-671?

<trackbot> action-671 -- Richard Ishida to Close all dnt issues that need close -- due 2017-10-26 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/671

close action-671

<trackbot> Closed action-671.

Info Share

richard: (rootles for links)
... sent to some folks for review
... haven't had any feedback
... change approach of getting layout reqs
... need for various conversations
... useful to have
... let me know of comments

addison: goal?

richard: communicate status
... last week had action to find instances of underlining crashes with descending diacritics
... find all the languages that have dot below

<r12a> https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/

richard: invented my own way
... early mockup at link
... filters out ascii
... but focuses outside ascii
... look up character, see 37 languages, shows 285 m speakers
... get info for CLDR for the few it has
... and UDHR on Unicode site. 547 of those
... could be a problem for syllabic scripts
... number of speakers is native speakers
... some languages have largers speaker populations

addison: we use wikipedia for generating n-grams

jck: add code points to tool?

richard: plan to

Radar

https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1

richard: working on making self review easier

xfq: one of the contacts for that WG

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/sensors/issues/299#issue-262392533

xfq: from issue, chairs decided not to work through i18n and a11y questionaire
... because don't expect anything

richard: asking pertinent questions as approach
... rather than trawl the whole checklist

addison: maybe just a "risk areas" set of questions?

<scribe> ACTION: addison to respond to device and sensors and ask if they can self-review (while ack that we are going to review) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-672 - Respond to device and sensors and ask if they can self-review (while ack that we are going to review) [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-11-02].

UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: with ask being that they do a high level review

richard: add a para of text under the headings?

http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/

http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/

richard: will do the low-vision-needs comments, unless bert we need any rewrites

<scribe> ACTION: richard to forward remaining low-vision-needs comments [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-673 - Forward remaining low-vision-needs comments [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-11-02].

Charmod-Norm

http://w3c.github.io/charmod-norm/

https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/

pledge to read charmod for next time

AOB?

time change

meeting at 1600Z

so an hour earlier in north america

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: addison to respond to device and sensors and ask if they can self-review (while ack that we are going to review) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: richard to forward remaining low-vision-needs comments [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action02]
 

Summary of Resolutions

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Present: r12a addison andrewc Steve Bert Fuqiao JcK
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