W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

04 January 2024

Attendees

Present
Addison, Atsushi, JcK
Regrets
-
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
atsushi

Meeting minutes

Pending Issue Review

<addison> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Apending

addison: added review on one of VC specs
… bunch of cryptographic ones

<addison> i18n-activity#1807

<gb> Issue 1807 Handling/encoding of nonMandatory and bbsMessages (by aphillips) [pending] [needs-resolution] [t:char_choosing] [s:vc-di-bbs]

addison: basically says messages are byte arrays obtained from UTF-8
… here suggesting some cleanup

atsushi: seems some duplication to other specification

addison: in any case, they need to have some text to say what is the data

<addison> Initialize bbsMessages to an array of byte arrays containing the values in the nonMandatory array of strings encoded using the UTF-8 character encoding.

addison: made a wording suggestion around UTF-8

<addison> i18n-activity#1806

<gb> Issue 1806 Example could use I18N best practices for language (by aphillips) [pending] [needs-resolution] [t:loc_examples_x] [s:vc-di-bbs]

addison: example has text without any i18n labels

<addison> i18n-activity#1805

<gb> Issue 1805 Should `u` specify the byte value? (by aphillips) [pending] [needs-resolution] [t:char_ref] [s:vc-di-bbs]

addison: created bunch of fields with encoded, here starting with 'u' lower case

<addison> i18n-activity#1804

<gb> Issue 1804 "XML Schema formatted date string" not specific enough (by aphillips) [pending] [needs-resolution] [t:loc_time] [s:vc-di-bbs]

addison: field for formatted date, described as XML schema formatted
… there are bunch of formatted schema
… suggest to have some context and to be more specific

addison: will submit all of these

WHATWG+I18N

addison: we had issue with WHATWG, discussed on TPAC. and will have call in Feb
… will go through list of issues

<addison> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AAgenda%2BI18N%2BWHATWG

addison: need to bring developed list of issues to be brought there

addison: made a list via label, and tagged ones related
… if anyone find any issue, you can tag it, and I will go through list for presenting to them

addison: email issue should be here ;)

String-Meta changes

addison: want to call out string-meta text

<addison> https://deploy-preview-81--string-meta.netlify.app/

JcK: saw improovements

[comments on domain and email/user-part, for display and encoding]

addison: section 2.4 mentioned on legacy protocol, so we may put some more here?

AOB?

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 221 (Fri Jul 21 14:01:30 2023 UTC).

Diagnostics

No scribenick or scribe found. Guessed: atsushi

All speakers: addison, atsushi, JcK

Active on IRC: addison, atsushi