Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

Meeting minutes

trackbot, prepare teleconference

Agenda Review

Action Items

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

action-982?

<trackbot> action-982: Addison Phillips to Propose text for a stock health warning about selection/truncation e.g. on code units for inclusion in spec-dev -- due 2020-12-17 -- OPEN

close action-982

<trackbot> Closed action-982.

action-994?

<trackbot> action-994: Richard Ishida to Update automated welcome e-mail template -- due 2021-02-11 -- OPEN

richard: sent an email to plh; email didn't include the IG

close action-994

<trackbot> Closed action-994.

action-999?

<trackbot> action-999: Richard Ishida to Link between https://www.w3.org/international/articles/strings-and-bidi/ and https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en -- due 2021-03-04 -- OPEN

close action-999

<trackbot> Closed action-999.

action-1000?

<trackbot> action-1000: Richard Ishida to Publish lang-bidi-use-cases for wide review -- due 2021-03-04 -- OPEN

close action-1000

<trackbot> Closed action-1000.

action-1001?

<trackbot> action-1001: Richard Ishida to Publish qa-indic-graphemes -- due 2021-03-04 -- OPEN

close action-1001

<trackbot> Closed action-1001.

<fsasaki> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JN6Mrbs4CkQIerM5LVLAoOTOaXj5fnM5t5xzGQTHM-M/edit#heading=h.vxtuk5d311uk

action-1002?

<trackbot> action-1002: Felix Sasaki to Update coga issue 246 with proposed text -- due 2021-03-04 -- OPEN

felix: done, link above, wrote a new proposal

close action-1002

<trackbot> Closed action-1002.

action-1003?

<trackbot> action-1003: Fuqiao Xue to Check personas for writing system problems like vertical, non-spacing, et al as discussed in teleconference -- due 2021-03-04 -- OPEN

fuqiao: done, filed an issue

close action-1003

<trackbot> Closed action-1003.

Info Share

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/articles/strings-and-bidi/

richard: wanted to mention this article
… corrected the name of the string-meta doc
… and pointed to the TR ver
… language direction lookup section, strengthened

RADAR Review

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

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/PM/horizontal/review.html?shortname=payment-request

New article draft: Can we derive base direction from language?

<xfq> https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-direction-from-language.html

<r12a> https://github.com/w3c/string-meta/wiki/Base-direction-and-language-tags

Action: richard: publish qa-direction-from-langauge for wide review

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1004 - Publish qa-direction-from-langauge for wide review [on Richard Ishida - due 2021-03-11].

Changes to specdev

<r12a> http://w3c.github.io/bp-i18n-specdev/#char_indexing

richard: always afraid to edit specdev due to complicated markup
… wondering what to do about doc
… should we move all of the content e.g. 2.1.1 remove into separate docs
… just make this the checklist?
… or write everything into this doc

richard: add more summary text
… keep this largely the way it is

richard: want to change the markup in a number of ways
… automatically generating the links sections rather than manually editing

<r12a> §

richard: changed TOC to allow for three levels