W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

13 March 2025

Attendees

Present
addison, Atsushi, Bert, Fuqiao, Richard
Regrets
-
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
atsushi, xfq

Meeting minutes

<r12a> addison, meeting will start in 50 mins from now

<Bert> My regrets, I need to attend another meeting.

Agenda Review

Action Items

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

<addison> #160

<gb> Action 160 review graphemes in specdev and add balinese example and otherwise fix the text (on aphillips) due 2025-03-06

addison: in agenda item

<addison> #159

<gb> Action 159 write up proposal for specdev char-string section, adding material that deals with the encoding interface et al (on aphillips) due 2025-02-27

<addison> #158

<gb> Action 158 research activity 1971 (html 10896) about ruby bidi isolation with jltf (on himorin) due 2025-02-27

atsushi: sent a comment to the issue

<addison> close #158

<gb> Closed issue #158

<addison> #157

<gb> Action 157 write glossary proposal identifying options and next steps for those options (on aphillips) due 2025-02-20

<addison> #142

<gb> Action 142 check if we can publish the new version of jlreq (on himorin) due 2024-11-21

addison: did, review last week, and will come back

atsushi: kida-san will talk with r12a and xfq

r12a: can I ask what the issue is Kida-san is going to ask?

atsushi: What is the scope of editors

addison: Contributors will be a much longer list than the list of editors

atsushi: yes, should be

<addison> close #142

<gb> Closed issue #142

<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: 135, pending

addison: 127, also pending

<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)

xfq: 89, no progress on dark mode

addison: 33, one item in agenda

<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, 7, see no item on this front

<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

<addison> https://messageformat.unicode.org/

addison: unicode now have site for message format
… nice web site, but some issues on text

Review RADAR

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

addison: no new incoming

addison: completed WebAuthn lv3
… and in agenda item

Pending Issue Review

<addison> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3As%3Awebauthn%20

<addison> w3c/webauthn#1643 (comment)

addison: web authentication lv 3, went through, see no new issue but bunch of old issues still exist

<gb> Issue 1643 Use of in-field metadata not preferred (by aphillips) [type:technical] [i18n-needs-resolution] [@Risk]

addison: in TPAC we had some discussion and raised placeholder, on what they should do, but haven't performed yet
… will go back and ask on this

addison: despite from our recommendation in string, they developed their own way to deal with
… they have not performed alignment yet

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

addison: any other pending issue?

HTML dir=auto inheritance (i18n-activity 1819)

xfq: one item in INFRA for pending, without topic label
… will clean up

<addison> i18n-activity#1819

<gb> Issue 1819 Should dir=auto with no strong characters inherit directionality from parent or be ltr? (by w3cbot) [close?] [tracker] [s:html] [needs-attention] [i:bidi_text] [spec-type-issue] [alreq] [hlreq] [t:bidi_markup] [Agenda+I18N+WHATWG]

<gb> … [whatwg]

<addison> whatwg/html#10097

<gb> CLOSED Issue 10097 Should dir=auto with no strong characters inherit directionality from parent or be ltr? (by dbaron) [i18n-tracker] [i18n-alreq] [i18n-hlreq]

addison: last comment in the issue, I was pushing personally, not to do that
… if the content of auto are all neutrals, make sense to meet with

<addison> my comment: whatwg/html#10097 (comment)

r12a: I see comment from fantasai there

addison: my point is why we should do this way

r12a: fantasai seems to propose huristic based one

[checking browser behavior using bidi text demo tool]

r12a: one problem, difference between hebrew and arabic, in terms of number ordering

addison: still expecting to be default to surrounding text

r12a: using not number but range like 10-20, change happends between two

addison: if no strong character in sequence

addison: agreed on concern, and propose to reopen this with statement on concern

r12a: suggest to provide simple example and explanation

Specdev PR about characters and truncation

<addison> w3c/bp-i18n-specdev#153

<gb> Pull Request 153 Rewrite the character introduction (by aphillips)

<addison> https://deploy-preview-153--bp-i18n-specdev.netlify.app/#characters

addison: kind of wanting to have more meta conversation

addison: making terminology consistent, and fix truncation stuff

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

r12a: it's best to make sure people can understand mustard stuff, mustard is the core of this document

addison: need to review mustards in character section coming from charmod

<Bert> ("back of a napkin": isn't it "back of an envelop" or just "napkin"?)

xfq: not all of description in non-mustard is essential

xfq: suggesting, going through non-mustard part

addison: I have thought about removing the example boxes and just making all the text flat

r12a: that would be a bit heavy

addison: I would be totally happy not to have any of these because I'm rewriting Essentials

r12a: and it may be that we need to improve Essentials

addison: A) I could commit this and then we can iterate
… B) I can push this to one side and we try it the other direction
… I should merge this to the ED
… and we'll work on the truncating separately from the characters section

r12a: sounds good

addison: I could revert the truncation part and put it in another PR

r12a: thank you addison for doing all this stuff

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Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/string section with charmod/character section coming from charmod

Maybe present: r12a, xfq

All speakers: addison, atsushi, r12a, xfq

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