– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference
29 March 2018
(discussion of the new minute format)
https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open
action-704
<trackbot> action-704 -- Addison Phillips to Write to imsc and suggest the terms 'widely accepted' or 'widely supported' instead of 'safe' -- due 2018-03-29 -- OPEN
<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/704
addison: they accepted it, but chose to use 'common' instead of 'widely accepted', etc.
… are we satisfied with common?
https://github.com/w3c/imsc/issues/236
https://github.com/w3c/imsc/commit/b7c99f35390886c5d46816c190e7a29329710ce9
(discussion)
close action-704
<trackbot> Closed action-704.
will tell them we're satisfied
richard: india international program
… the TF that is developing gap analysis
… and hopefully requirements for indic
… moving forward
… have several people in TF
<r12a> https://github.com/w3c/iip
richard: 2.5 gap analysis docs
… in repo on github
… link in IRC links to those docs
… gujurati is the "half"
… available as PR but have to induct the editor
… effectively 3 docs in first draft
… Devanagari and Gumukhi
<r12a> Devanagari gap analysis
<r12a> Gurmukhi gap analysis
<r12a> Gujarati gap analysis
richard: been busy looking at line-breaking
<r12a> http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/typography/linebreak.en
richard: writing tests
… there's an article, first draft
… have a look and send comments!
… some info that I think is correct but would like expert confirmation
… particularly southeast asian scripts with no word separators
… unicode says breaks on syllables rather than words
… find someone who can confirm
… sent a note to a few people
addison: make some noise about it
Action: richard: ask unicoRe list about southeast asian line breaking
<trackbot> Created ACTION-705 - Ask unicore list about southeast asian line breaking [on Richard Ishida - due 2018-04-05].
richard: talking to people from MDN
… had a meeting earlier this week
… proposal to put links to w3c i18n and a11y
… in MDN pages
… special section, not "other links"
… part of the answer to people's question since people ought to read the i18n stuff
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1
richard: publised the Encoding updated CR spec on Tuesday
(sounds of champagne corks popping)
http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/
richard: talking at Paris Web conference next september
<r12a> https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2018
location and dates announced
22-26 October
richard: need to tell that we're going
addison: survey yet?
richard: nearly published it this morning
… want to clarify situation
… editor's copy says WD
… still have 11 issues open
https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/
http://w3c.github.io/charmod-norm/#normative-references
Action: richard: publish charmod-norm for wide review
<trackbot> Created ACTION-706 - Publish charmod-norm for wide review [on Richard Ishida - due 2018-04-05].
Action: addison: mention meta idea on html 1292
<trackbot> Created ACTION-707 - Mention meta idea on html 1292 [on Addison Phillips - due 2018-04-05].
richard: did you notice webauthn wants to close one of your issues?
addison: will look for it
Succeeded: s/MDN/MDM/
Succeeded 2 times: s/MDM/MDN/G
Succeeded: s/XXXWeb/Paris Web/