W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

05 June 2025

Attendees

Present
addison, Atsushi, Fuqiao, JcK, Nat, Richard
Regrets
-
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
atsushi

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review

Action Items

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

<addison> #169

<gb> Action 169 reply to html 10843 and css 9832 (on aphillips) due 2025-05-08

<addison> #162

<gb> Action 162 poll I18N/CSS for new day/time (on aphillips) due 2025-03-25

<addison> #157

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

<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> #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

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RADAR Review

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

addison: no new incoming

Pending Issue Review

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

addison: ITS attribute for extensino, added as agenda

<addison> i18n-activity#2008

<gb> Issue 2008 Add the ITS Attribute set to the as an allowed HTML extension item (by w3cbot) [pending] [tracker]

WebAuthn lang/dir serialization

<addison> https://www.w3.org/2025/06/04-webauthn-minutes.html

addison: note from WebAuthn minutes above

addison: WebAuthn lv2 has additional feature on string
… we have asked them to add direction and lang for level 2 review

<addison> https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/pull/2280/files

<gb> Pull Request 2280 Replace in-field string metadata with resource-level default fields (by emlun) [type:technical] [subtype:algorithms/WebIDL]

<addison> https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/#sctn-strings-langdir

BCP 47 Extension T in the Choosing a Language Tag article

<xfq> w3c/i18n-drafts#658

<gb> Pull Request 658 Mention BCP 47 Extension T (by xfq)

xfq: linke above for PR
… from last discussion, updated text

<xfq> https://deploy-preview-658--i18n-drafts.netlify.app/questions/qa-choosing-language-tags.en.html#extension

xfq: added several new t extension text

r12a: raised couple of questions, translation from Hebrew to latain
… for last example. also for previous one, from uk cyrl to latn

xfq: spec says extension followed by separators

xfq: will update PR

Isomorphic string and ByteString guidance in specdev

[discussion about example text]

<addison> https://deploy-preview-158--bp-i18n-specdev.netlify.app/#char-string-byte-oriented

addison: considered about adding examples on another encoding schemes

<r12a> 👍

JcK: open for 24houes for additional review?

addison: will wait for improovement suggestions for a while, and merge it

AOB?

addison: next week, we'll talk about glossary strategy

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 244 (Thu Feb 27 01:23:09 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Maybe present: r12a, xfq

All speakers: addison, JcK, r12a, xfq

Active on IRC: addison, atsushi, r12a, xfq