W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

15 September 2022

Attendees

Present
Addison, Atsushi, Bert, Felix, fsasaki, JcK, Richard
Regrets
-
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
atsushi, fsasaki

Meeting minutes

<addison> trackbot, prepare teleconference

Agenda Review

addison: we had meetings during TPAC as usual

[some new agenda items added]

<r12a-again> close agendum-12

Action Items

<addison> https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

addison: 1109, no new item

addison: 1164, not completed yet

addison: 1183, asking around, but will ask someone who can contact with ECMA TC39 process

addison: 1185, published updated version?

r12a: did happen, but will check

addison: 1190, added, but not checked in yet

addison: 1195, little bit conversation on this, start catching up. probably need longer email thread

r12a: got an idea since Elika (fantasai) asked

atsushi: 1196, will pick up this during JL-TF call next Tue

addison: 1200, PR added, and will have discussion later

addison: 1201, it's string search stuff

r12a: 1202, not yet, but will do soon

addison: 1204, they are requesting us for CR transition, on pending TC39 one

Info Share

RADAR Review

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

addison: no new incoming

addison: no pending issue for autoplay policy detection

r12a: did not find anything else

addison: close this?

[agreed]

TPAC in review

r12a: surprised that TPAC starts from early hour, easier for around
… for on site, a little issue on voice via mask
… video worked really well

<Bert> (But the hotel breakfast only starts at 6:30, I think, so starting at 7 may be hard for that reason.)

addison: reception last night

addison: heard from several people that no one in the room but only remotely

bert: about infrastrucuture, no separate microphone for small room, setting up microphone was ideal

r12a: I see photo in group on twitter

addison: super masking stuff
… so far so good.

addison: meeting room stuff were pretty well

addison: invited from APA all afternoon

<Zakim> Bert, you wanted to notice that Squamish uses "7" as a letter.

addison: spent large time on CSS isuses, productive, Florian and Elika were with us for long time

r12a: we could do that other than TPAC
… occasional setting up meeting, like in advance from TPAC

addison: agree
… it was nice filler in the meeting, but we might work on other items
… but having every other weeks or occasionally could work

addison: also MathML people came

bert: only four of us were in room, more in zoom
… discussed on formula in other languages, or how these are spoken

addison: super interesting, our conversation touched many languages in the world, and also subject/SVO forms
… doing in math for various languages are nice

addison: had nice conversation with Anne last night
… touched with EAI people via email, right side of email address, how browser knows

JcK: there are proposal on restriction for right hand side of email
… to have restriction like DNS
… currently no restriction on right hand side not like left side
… like BiDi controls

addison: suspect to talk on that issue in near future
… would be interested in status about these
… challange in HTML are what is in common email services, and browser supports

JcK: number of email servers accept these

addison: challange here is filter, currently no restriction on right hand side
… otherwise there are some filter in some scripts

JcK: filter could be more extensive

addison: much more agressive filter, like punctuation, could be considered

addison: any other recapping?

Payments

addison: had a meeting with web payments to talk about secure payment information
… they accepted all of our comments, we have action plan for addressing different ones
… SPC lets browser post native popup box, with native language
… currency number, currency code, string, for user
… native experience is not secured to same as web page
… no control like numbers inside of web page
… language negotiation mechanism may not work for SPC
… and implementing language preference list in SPC

addison: it is interesting since similar discussion could happen with other browser based APIs

addison: other hot topic was DOMString and USVString
… some in DOMString since other specs uses DOMString
… may need to study more on two formats

addison: last piece is string-meta
… they have some text in natural language, they would go forward to CR with pending these as TC39
… potentionally reasonable for us
… will put comment in issue

JcK: is group in touch with TC39?

addison: don't know

addison: worring on some currency like bitcoin does not have currency as codepoint

JcK: real bankers could be in trouble

Linking info about string-meta & js

r12a: you created a place where everyone can see current progress, do you know the place?

addison: 1579

<addison> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/1579

r12a: two, we need to direct people to it, putting a link to relevant places
… looking through some of tracker issues, rather than actual WG issues, not clear but wondering

addison: some are in our repo

r12a: these would be taken into a list for where other WG people will check

<JcK> For the minutes on the email addres stuff: there is really no issue with the right side (domain-part, after @ for contemporary email address formats). The syntax rules are well-defined by IDNA2008, as is a completely reversible mapping between valid A-label and U-labels ("Punycode" and native character forms), and any address with an invalid domain-part is not going to work in actual email transport anyway. The more difficult issue is the left side (lo[CUT]

<JcK> which, once one moves off not-very-restricted ASCII (a letter-digit-hyphen restriction has _never_ been valid and some web implementations thinking it is has been the source of huge problems), the only current protocol restriction is valid UTF-8.

addison: some is not sent to group repository, or some are in pending

r12a: it might be better to add once needs-resolurion is filed against group

addison: this is a list which we think we are thinking

r12a: one example, link to our tracker isue, #193 for Vocab-duv, which points to email thread

ACTION: addison: triage the linked issues in #1579 into active vs. non-active

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1205 - Triage the linked issues in #1579 into active vs. non-active [on Addison Phillips - due 2022-09-22].

r12a: wondering why this is in our list, also spec is in active and raised against there?

r12a: one reason we gather links here, is other groups could check what are going

addison: I've pull this list from existing one, but will make sure all of these have a right link
… also move else to separate list
… or file pending issues

r12a: web shareone, #248, is closed, but w3cbot acts illegular?
… need to takeout these

addison: update.

r12a: thank you for doing this, really useful
… do you need needs-resolution label for parent tracker issue?

i18n-glossary edits

<addison> https://aphillips.github.io/i18n-glossary/

addison: have action item to add two into glossaly
… having same feeling as Richard's comment, and added notes

r12a: see also links are not in the same format as others

[linking issue]

r12a: I cannot see how these will fit in our normal text

addison: will update

r12a: in one paragraph is format here

addison: no local.css here, but in the html file
… used inline for character code style as our normal
… will take the most maintained one as glossary's local style
… I think header spacing is different, or something
… in some future, we could have one local.css, but not sure how echidna would work

r12a: gap-analysis documents have ones, and when you run the process, building page, and JS will take files

addison: we can have as link, and also take them as a file via echidna

r12a: ideal idea for local.css is just to have definitions relevant to specific document
… in addition, i18n general styling css file could be possible
… and local.css can overload like heading spacing

addison: jump into local.css and split something into i18n CSS and others as local.css

[discussed what to do]

ACTION: richard: create i18n CSS from local.css and do other related work (see notes)

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1206 - Create i18n css from local.css and do other related work (see notes) [on Richard Ishida - due 2022-09-22].

addison: will introduce update, and Richard can push PR against

<r12a> <span class="codepoint" translate="no"><bdi lang="ar" dir="rtl">&#x0681;</bdi> [<span class="uname">U+0681 ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH HAMZA ABOVE</span>]</span>

[styling of rtl part]

[way to copy from character picker]

<addison> r12a.github.io/pickers <- as a reminder

<r12a> https://r12a.github.io/pickers/arab-ar/index.html

<r12a> click on Character Markup

addison: will clean up edits, and commit these
… and pass ACTION

bert: on stylesheet, restriction exists in echidna, for external styles

r12a: for gap-analysis document, only one stylesheet, but contents are integrated to output

What's coming tomorrow with CSS folks

r12a: wanted to know what will be for tomorrow, and would prepare

addison: all labelled as agenda+ for TPAC

<JcK> I'm going to need to drop off but have very little to add to CSS discussions anyway. And, unless it is moved, I have a schedule conflict for next week, so will see you in two.

<r12a> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+tpac

<addison> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Agenda%2B+TPAC%22+label%3Ai18n-needs-resolution

<addison> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Agenda%2B+TPAC%22+label%3Ai18n-tracker

addison: most of these were discussed during a few past days
… ideal to have list of agenda
… we can do two per an hour, if go as usual

r12a: one pended for Friday?

addison: flow-relative syntax in tracker?

r12a: to add one, auto-spacing from text-spacing?

<r12a> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7183

<addison> @fantasai: which specific issues should we expect to discuss with CSS

r12a: added agenda+ TPAC label ^^

r12a: will change one for flow relative attributes

addison: trim-end and text-normal?

r12a: haven't raised, not in agreement where to go

[assessment on issues]

addison: will drop in email

addison: meeting will be from 10:30am Vancouver

<r12a> kʰai̯ tʰi

<r12a> https://r12a.github.io/app-pinyin-phonetics/index.html

<r12a> s/Erika/Elika/

<addison> close action-1190

<trackbot> Closed action-1190.

AOB?

Summary of action items

  1. addison: triage the linked issues in #1579 into active vs. non-active
  2. richard: create i18n CSS from local.css and do other related work (see notes)
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