W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

31 July 2025

Attendees

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

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review

Action Items

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

<addison> #179

<gb> Action 179 add issue to getTextInfo expressing interest in a health warning or pointer to string-meta etc (on xfq) due 2025-07-31

<addison> close #179

<gb> Closed issue #179

tc39/proposal-intl-locale-info#102

<gb> Issue 102 Inferring text direction from locale (by xfq)

<addison> #178

<gb> Action 178 inquire with tc39 about reviews of specs (on aphillips) due 2025-07-31

<addison> #177

<gb> Action 177 enable transcription of zoom call so we can experiment (on xfq) due 2025-07-31

<addison> close #177

<gb> Closed issue #177

<addison> #176

<gb> Action 176 add WG comment to html 11395 (on aphillips) due 2025-07-03

<addison> close #176

<gb> Closed issue #176

<addison> #169

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

<addison> #169

<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

Review RADAR Review

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

r12a: I did some tests today
… float supports logical properties
… in Chrome and the other two major browsers

o/

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-tests/results/css-logical#float

Pending Issue Review

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

r12a: they just published the document
… shaping is a particular aspect of the transformations that apply to glyphs
… when rendering them
… and which bits of the technology do what

addison: I've closed our issue

Address formats around the world

w3c/i18n-drafts#622

<gb> Pull Request 622 Address formats around the world (by xfq)

https://deploy-preview-622--i18n-drafts.netlify.app/questions/qa-address-formats.en.html

xfq: PR above and preview, discussed this last time, and converted documents into html and updated with last updates on latin styling and so on
… any comment or should send this out to wide review?

<addison> there is rarely a "perfect" solution => there is no one specific "perfect" solution

xfq: Richard already gave comment there

addison: above is my minor suggestion
… this is a great summary, but no perfect one could be there

[gathering comments]

xfq: give me action to publish for wide review

ACTION: xfq: publish address formats around the world article for wide review

<gb> Created action #180

PR Review

addison: moving into other PR review

xfq: articles or WG documents, or?

addison: couple of people are wondering for timezone, temporal in JavaScript, and making comments and suggestions from there

AOB?

Summary of action items

  1. xfq: publish address formats around the world article for wide review
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