W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

12 December 2024

Attendees

Present
Addison, JcK, Richard, xfq
Regrets
-
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
xfq

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review

Action Items

<addison> #148

<gb> Action 148 propose specdev text related to design-principles#464 discussion (on aphillips) due 2024-12-12

<addison> #147

<gb> Action 147 Follow up on normativity warnings about glossary (on aphillips)

<addison> #145

<gb> Action 145 publish timezone for wide review (on aphillips) due 2024-11-28

<addison> #143

<gb> Action 143 make comments on the encoding issue attached to i18n-activity#1940 (on aphillips) due 2024-11-28

<addison> #135

<gb> Action 135 follow up on XR issue 1393 about locale in session (on aphillips) due 2024-10-17

<addison> #127

<gb> Action 127 make a list of shared topics of interest between TG2 and W3C-I18N (on aphillips) due 2024-09-30

<addison> #89

<gb> Action 89 update i18n specs to support dark mode (on xfq) due 2024-04-18

<addison> #33

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

<addison> #7

<gb> Action 7 Remind shepherds to tend to their awaiting comment resolutions (Evergreen) (on aphillips, xfq, himorin, r12a, bert-github) due 18 Jul 2023

<addison> #4

<gb> Action 4 Work with respec and bikeshed to provide the character markup template as easy-to-use markup (on aphillips) due 27 Jul 2023

Info Share

RADAR Review

<addison> https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/91/views/1

addison: two new incoming ones
… WebCodecs
… due Feb 28
… I took a brief look at it
… I'll take it
… the next one, WebRTC
… we last reviewed WebRTC in 2016
… it's a REC
… they're publishing some amendments to it

xfq: I'll take this one

Pending Issue Review

<addison> i18n-activity#1945

<gb> Issue 1945 Canvas TextMetrics additions for editing and text styling (by w3cbot) [pending] [tracker] [s:html] [whatwg]

<addison> i18n-activity#1957

<gb> Issue 1957 Ambiguous parameter comparison definitions (by w3cbot) [pending] [close?] [tracker] [s:controller-document]

Publish string-search as FPWD

<addison> Some time ago we split off materials in string-search from Charmod-norm. These materials have received some work, even though we are not actively developing this document. Most recently we merged an example from hsivonen.

<addison> We have not published this work to TR, however. The question is whether we should publish a DNOTE as FPWD.

addison: I merged the changes to string-search
… I noticed that we've never published it to /TR
… would we like to maybe publish string-search to /TR as a DNOTE?

<addison> https://w3c.github.io/string-search/

r12a: does it have appropriate words at the beginning to say this is still very, very drafty?

addison: I think it does

r12a: I would recommend that we have some kind of banner that says this is very much just the stuff that we've thought of so far
… and we will continue developing this over time

addison: OK

<xfq> +1 with the banner

<addison> proposed: publish string-search as FPWD with an appropriate banner

<r12a> +1 with the banner

<addison> +1

<JcK> +1

RESOLUTION: publish string-search as FPWD with an appropriate warning about the maturity of the materials in a banner

ACTION: add a banner to string-search

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

ACTION: addison: add a banner to string-search

<gb> Created action #149

addison: this has been a very useful thing in the past because people periodically discover that they want to create a string searching spec

ACTION: xfq: add string-search to i18n-editors and get an echidna token

<gb> Created action #150

String-Search PR for IVS

<addison> w3c/string-search#24

<gb> Pull Request 24 IVS in string searching (by xfq)

w3c/string-search#21

<gb> Issue 21 IVS in string searching (by xfq)

<addison> xfq: I filed an issue about this last year

<addison> ... some people searchnig have a base character with a variation selector

w3c/string-search#24

<addison> ... awhile ago I raised a PR to add text to string searching

https://deploy-preview-24--w3c-string-search.netlify.app/#cjk-ivs

addison: this isn't really an orthographic or dialectical variation
… it's yet another kind of encoding variation
… I would pull it up a level and maybe put it after the East Asian width subsection as its own subsection
… because those are both kind of encoding variations you find in CJK
… otherwise, I thought the text was pretty good
… images would be helpful
… there are two problems
… one is if you type in text with your IME
… and you don't have the variation selector, then you don't find text that has the variation selector if you're just doing naive code point matching
… and the other is if your IME produces the VS you won't find unmarked text or text with a different VS
… even though they're all really the same on some level
… so I think you do an okay job of spelling that out
… I'm maybe a little bit dubious about the possibility of people adding a feature of search or find commands for fuzzy vs non-fuzzy

JcK: I think I agree

r12a: it's not only Chinese that uses variation selectors
… I think we should give some though generalizing this a little bit, perhaps using Chinese as a good example
… but Mongolian uses lots of variation selectors and other scripts too
… so I think the concept here is that if you have a VS then you need to decide what to do about it

addison: for IVS Unicode has a registry of them
… so that may be a subsection of that

r12a: it's slightly different
… but it's all part of the same thing
… the main thing is that chars can be followed by this thing called a VS of one type or another

r12a: maybe renaming the section to something like "sequences with variation selectors"

I18N+CSS prep

addison: we have an i18n+css call coming up on Tuesday
… does anybody have anything particular that they want to discuss about?

w3c/i18n-activity#1944

<gb> Issue 1944 [css-text-decor] Control the line height of text containing emphasis marks (by w3cbot) [tracker] [s:css-text-decor] [spec-type-issue] [jlreq] [clreq] [mlreq] [klreq] [t:typ_misc] [wg:css] [i:emphasis]

[xfq describes the issue]

addison: you want the line spacing to stay the same and you want the marks to appear
… anything else on that call?

Vertical lists article

<r12a> https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-upright-counters-in-vertical.html

r12a: I rewrote some bits
… if you read this early on, you might want to read it again
… we can't test @@ because none of the browsers support the digits value
… the other thing is that when Japanese people were looking at these examples they all started saying text-upright digits numbers
… I was wondering maybe I should add another section that says "what about positioning?"

https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/issues

xfq: we have 7 open issues against this article
… ideally, we should close them before publishing

AOB?

Summary of action items

  1. add a banner to string-search
  2. addison: add a banner to string-search
  3. xfq: add string-search to i18n-editors and get an echidna token

Summary of resolutions

  1. publish string-search as FPWD with an appropriate warning about the maturity of the materials in a banner
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 240 (Tue Dec 10 03:59:59 2024 UTC).

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/@@/text-upright digits numbers/

Maybe present: r12a

All speakers: addison, JcK, r12a, xfq

Active on IRC: addison, JcK, r12a, xfq