W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

30 November 2023

Attendees

Present
Addison, Atsushi, Bert, Fuqiao, JcK, Richard
Regrets
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Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
atsushi

Meeting minutes

acribe+

Agenda Review

Action Items

<gb> Found actions in w3c/i18n-actions: #58, #57, #56, #53, #47, #43, #35, #33, #18, #16, #12, #11, #8, #7, #5, #4

<addison> #58

<gb> Action 58 revise localizable-manifests in light of tpac conversation and new explainer (on aphillips) due 2023-11-09

addison: agenda item for today, working on

<addison> close #58

<addison> #57\

<gb> Closed action #58

<gb> Action 57 add localizable content definition to the glossary (on xfq) due 2023-11-09

xfq: raised a PR for this, PR is still open

addison: let's review today

<addison> close #57

<gb> Closed action #57

<addison> #56

<gb> Action 56 check on permissions with w3ctag and follow up with plh on looking for notifications (on xfq) due 2023-11-02

<addison> close #56

<gb> Closed action #56

<addison> #53

xfq: done for permission at w3ctag

<gb> Action 53 come up with a set of information CSS want the i18n group to provide support for generic font families (on frivoal, fantasai) due 2023-11-01

<addison> #47

<gb> Action 47 make the CSSWG aware of Warichu (on frivoal) due 2023-10-04

<addison> #43

<gb> Action 43 pull together the list of win/mac/etc apis for setting base direction and/or language (on aphillips) due 2023-09-18

addison: 53 and 47 is CSS

<addison> #35

<gb> Action 35 make the edits of CSS #5478 (on fantasai) due 2023-08-30

addison: started on 43 but still working, pending

<addison> #33

<gb> Action 33 Close issues marked `close?` or bring to WG for further review (on aphillips)

addison: 33, keep working on closing ones marked as close?
… added as agenda item

<addison> #18

<gb> Action 18 Have informal explanation sessions about counter style translations with csswg members (on frivoal, fantasai)

<addison> #16

<gb> Action 16 Keep track of line-breaking in Korean for i18n-discuss#11 (on aphillips)

<addison> #12

<gb> Action 12 Upgrade/edit the explainer to address issues raised by google (on aphillips)

<addison> #11

<gb> Action 11 Triage all css properties to determine which are logical, physical, or na by default (on frivoal)

addison: 12, working, finish up with cleaning things, keeping alive for a while

<addison> #8

<gb> Action 8 Create pr against canvas formatted text (on aphillips)

<addison> #7

<gb> Action 7 Remind shepherds to tend to their awaiting comment resolutions (Evergreen) (on aphillips, xfq, himorin, r12a, bert-github)

<addison> #5

<gb> Action 5 Check into how to list questions at the top of a digest and/or improve lang enablement communications (on r12a)

<addison> #4

<gb> Action 4 Work with respec and bikeshed to provide the character markup template as easy-to-use markup (on r12a)

Info Share

<addison> https://www.w3.org/2023/11/29-coga-minutes.html

addison: had call yesterday with COGA colleages, minutes above
… reasonable start with them

r12a: got with them on interesting action items, seeking for another opportunity incl. finding experts for input to there

<gb> Cannot create action. Validation failed. Maybe addision is not a valid user for w3c/i18n-actions?

ACTION: addison: follow up with julie rowe on next steps with coga such as a work plan

<gb> Created action #59

<r12a> https://w3c.social/@webi18n/111489082413507311

r12a: post on mastdon above, on supporting fonts

[r12a described about images and backgrounds]

RADAR Review

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

addison: nothing here
… some in awaiting comment resolution could be marked as completed...

review localizable content PR

<xfq> w3c/i18n-glossary#57

xfq: PR above

xfq: added localizable content entry to glossary

<xfq> https://deploy-preview-57--i18n-glossary.netlify.app/#dfn-localizable-content

xfq: definition is adopted from localizable text
… didnot merged two entries, since both are used for different envoirnment

r12a: second 'contents' should be single form?

addison: depending on what 'document' is

addison: localizable text could be string content or text content

xfq: will update text around document

Working with Time and Timezones

<addison> https://www.w3.org/TR/timezone

addison: have a WG note, long standing one on timezone

<addison> https://w3c.github.io/timezone/

addison: working for revision on this note

addison: couple of things wanted to do, publish WG draft over WG note, for getting comments

addison: super happy to get feedback on this document

[silent for comment]

r12a: is there any used styling in 2.4?

addison: historical. just glossary one

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/articles/definitions-time/index.en.html

addison: we will want to go through this article

r12a: don't want to change, but perform checking

Localizable Manifests

<addison> https://deploy-preview-16--localizable-manifests.netlify.app/

addison: deploy preview as above
… some material should go to another document, but not yet

addison: both miniapp and manifest are active, and we need to update /TR/ one
… number of addition as 2.1
… section 3 is new, indicating language and direction

addison: some part could live in string-meta, but need to be in specific document alos

xfq: some text are mentioned as in string-meta, but @@@@

addison: merge this and publish to /TR/?

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/localizable-manifests/pull/16#discussion_r1395147047

xfq: +1 to merge
… added a PR for definitions

addison: all in glossary one

Needs Attention issues for WG review

<addison> i18n-activity#1763

<gb> Issue 1763 Make computation of directionality account for Shadow DOM. (by w3cbot) [close?] [tracker] [s:html] [needs-attention] [i:bidi-text] [alreq] [hlreq] [t:bidi_markup]

addison: issues marked as close? but asking for review around

addison: 1763, has middle sized thread with implementation issues

r12a: to consult with fantasai?

<addison> i18n-activity#1361

<gb> Issue 1361 input-purpose `language` should reference BCP47 (by w3cbot) [close?] [needs-attention] [needs-resolution] [s:adapt] [t:lang_values]

addison: older issue related to CR or something
… question is whether something needs to be performed?

addison: associated to long thread in whatwg/html#6519

<gb> Issue 6519 [not found]

<gb> Issue 6519 [not found]

<gb> Issue 6519 4.10.18.7 Autofill & the language value (by johnfoliot) [i18n-tracker]

<addison> i18n-activity#1006

<gb> Issue 1006 Informal spellings in specifications (by w3cbot) [close?] [tracker] [needs-attention]

addison: 1006, CSS general purpose one in spellings
… just to look into from translations point of view

xfq: will take this
… English usage in CSS specs

RESOLUTION: We consider informal spellings to be typos to be fixed when found and avoided if possible

addison: or maybe more general usage

r12a: this is CSS resolution, but not of us
… sounds good to me

<addison> i18n-activity#404

<gb> Issue 404 Should generalYear (etc.) be gregorianYear (etc.)? (by aphillips) [close?] [s:owl-time] [needs-attention] [needs-resolution] [t:loc_time]

addison: 404 is old one, on naming
… if they use general, many other calendars exist
… it seems they did not consider my comment

<addison> sdw#888

<gb> CLOSED Issue 888 should generalYear (etc) be gregorianYear (etc)? (by aphillips) [i18n-needs-resolution] [time]

<r12a> +1 to close from me

+1 to close, looking at spec text...

xfq: from the last comment, it seems they support only gregorian, but not others

addison: they tended to support others, but not included yet

xfq: spec text says, not limited to number used for gregorian

<xfq> +1 to close

addison: moving on?

<addison> i18n-activity#370

<gb> Issue 370 Standardized way to add indications of text direction (by r12a) [close?] [s:shacl] [needs-attention] [needs-resolution] [t:lang_declaration]

addison: this is about standalization of text direction in data-shapes
… quite old as 2017

<addison> close i18n-activity#370

<gb> Cannot close issue #370. Forbidden.

r12a: I think we've discussed with them whether this is ok or not

<addison> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2023OctDec/0075.html

addison: item in above email, comment in next call

AOB?

Using GH Discussions

r12a: kida-san is interested in Discussions feature
… discussions in thread, could be interested for us also
… can have comments, and comments to a comment
… could be useful for jlreq-d discussions
… one issue is notification, and xfq and I are talking with Dom for notification email

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/jlreq-d/discussions

addison: in message format group, we are using issue and discussion, also
… had some success in past, but tend not to use recently

r12a: having some wiki pages, but cannot have comments there

xfq: will talk with Dom

ACTION: xfq: follow up with dom about github discussion notifications

<gb> Created action #60

r12a: any info for upward arrow?

xfq: there are also thumb-up button etc.

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/jlreq-d/discussions

addison: will be shown as order with clicking 'top'

Summary of action items

  1. addison: follow up with julie rowe on next steps with coga such as a work plan
  2. xfq: follow up with dom about github discussion notifications

Summary of resolutions

  1. We consider informal spellings to be typos to be fixed when found and avoided if possible
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Maybe present: r12a, xfq

All speakers: addison, r12a, xfq

Active on IRC: addison, atsushi, JcK, r12a, xfq