scribenick +muthu
https://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/guidelines/process.html
https://www.w3.org/International/groups/indic-layout/track/actions/open
https://www.w3.org/International/groups/indic-layout/track/actions/2
Action-2: Suggested reviewers for Devanagari: SK Mohanty
<trackbot> Notes added to Action-2 Provide names of additional participants and indications of who will edit/create Devanagari, Bengali, and Tamil documents.
Suggested reviewers for Bengali: SK Mohanty, Kalika Bali
Suggested reviewers for Tamil: Mani
<muthu> Mani Manivannan
<muthu> Nara Andiappan
https://www.w3.org/International/groups/indic-layout/track/actions/5
https://github.com/w3c/iip/pull/11
https://w3c.github.io/iip/gap-analysis/taml-gap.html
https://w3c.github.io/iip/gap-analysis/beng-gap.html
https://w3c.github.io/iip/gap-analysis/deva-gap.html
<Neha> https://rawgit.com/w3c/iip/r12a-taml-quotations/gap-analysis/taml-gap.html#quotations
<Neha> https://github.com/w3c/iip/issues/13
<vivek> https://github.com/w3c/iip/issues/13
<r12a> https://w3c.github.io/alreq/#characters-tables
https://w3c.github.io/iip/gap-analysis/deva-gap.html
For each section - have an issue per section
Add what's missing
for that issue
And Add what should be expected behavior
which is more of a requirement
for that issue
Background discussion included the following points:
Vivek: Base Glyphs Definition
Rules for combined glyphs (conjuncts)
What works for Devanagari fonts?
Lot of font foundries came up in 1990s
None of them picked up Open Type
they did not know how to use open type tables
there were no guidelines
for legal combinations for glyphs
these font designers could not figure out the open type logic
Looking at section 2.1
Encoding Considerations
a. Unicode overcompensates
b. over definitions - historical
c. modern usage
d. what are the defects
Unicode provides supplemental chapters
0931 - character - Nepali, Konkani, Marathi only
UTR - Text segmentation + Behavior of encodings
2.2 Font Considerations
a. What is the Behavior of a character b. Creating a simple template for font definitions
Gap Analysis: Point out problems where prevent people from using the web
outline why this is a problem and whether we are going to do something about it
or not
<r12a> close action-2
<trackbot> Closed action-2.
<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/groups/indic-layout/track/actions/open
<r12a> ACTION: Vivekananda to complete devanagari and bengali sections 2.6
close action-5
<trackbot> Closed action-5.