W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

16 October 2025

Attendees

Present
Addison, Atsushi, Bert, Eemeli, Fuqiao, JcK, Joel, r12a, Richard
Regrets
-
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
atsushi

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review

Action Items

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

<addison> #188

<gb> Action 188 convert number formatting article to html and publish to wide review (on xfq) due 2025-10-16

xfq: did it today, close

<addison> close #188

<gb> Closed issue #188

<addison> #187

<gb> Action 187 ping GOOG again for participation (on aphillips) due 2025-10-16

addison: ping but not heard back yet
… preparing other email to other companies

<addison> #185

<gb> Action 185 follow up with PLH on automating TC39 repos (on aphillips) due 2025-10-02

<addison> #135

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

<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

eemeli: submitted two breakout sessions

Review RADAR Review

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

addison: read ECMA one

addison: we should have permission now for repository

ACTION: addison: follow up with shane carr about ecma repo automation

<gb> Created action #189

Pending Issue Review

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

<addison> i18n-activity#2038

addison: we have two new incoming for discussion

<gb> Issue 2038 Support for Multi-language Render Templates (by w3cbot) [pending] [tracker]

addison: from VC

<addison> i18n-activity#2039

<gb> Issue 2039 Discuss adding `i18n.setAcceptLanguages` and `i18n.appendAcceptLanguage` (by w3cbot) [pending] [tracker] [s:webextensions]

addison: talking about API for managing accept language header

addison: Web extension one is early stage of incubation and discussion

ACTION: addison: add a comment to i18n issue 2039's parent to indicate interest and call for early review/engagement

<gb> Created action #190

Support for multi-language render

<addison> i18n-activity#2038

<gb> Issue 2038 Support for Multi-language Render Templates (by w3cbot) [tracker] [t:loc_localization] [s:vc-render-method]

<addison> w3c/vc-render-method#26

<gb> Issue 26 Support for Multi-language Render Templates (by vishwa-vyom) [class 4] [i18n-tracker]

addison: VC allow you to specify way to render credential, providing localization mechanizm, described
… two part for implementation, credential receiver what user locale matches with template and nagotiate to display
… credential author, provide templates with language tag
… added quick comment, as high level one

xfq: still draft in pre-FPWD phase

eemeli: could be a topic for breakout session of localization

Language tags for non-linguistic content

<addison> dapt#2032

<gb> Issue 2032 not found

<xfq> w3c/dapt#322

<gb> MERGED Pull Request 322 Use `und` in place of an empty `daptm:langSrc` (by nigelmegitt)

xfq: already merged PR

<xfq> https://w3c.github.io/dapt/#text-language-source

xfq: and this section in spec
… basically changed default value into und
… for undetermined one
… also referenced BCP 47 for valid tag

addison: forgot to mention about well-formed

xfq: added in another one

addison: if XML lang or lang value is empty, had some meaning
… und will inherit down into, but blank is not
… und has its own meaning in cldr or else

<xfq> ... und starts to have a meaning in the CLDR land of root

joel: trigger Intl API chain

<xfq> eemeli: und means not supported, falling back to the navigator default

addison: blank could be if content is explicitly mentioned as non linguistinc content

IRI and isolates

<Eemeli Aro raised an issue with the IRI RFC>

Another way to mark normativity in the glossary

<addison> w3c/i18n-glossary#85

<gb> Pull Request 85 Another way to mark normativity (by xfq)

<addison> https://deploy-preview-85--i18n-glossary.netlify.app/

addison: PR as above

xfq: [introduce background of marking normativity work]
… previous consensus was to classify terms into categories, and transfer ones into two documents
… in preview link, you could see some terms has blue box as normative

addison: splitting would not be better, and marking as this could be good

bert: comment on readability, blue box could be adjusted
… some label could be enough

addison: basically of set of attributes on display

xfq: we could have PR against any branch, other than main

xfq: this PR is already marking normative terms, we could start discussion based on this draft
… start from normative part, and decide on other parts

xfq: will prepare next step and bring back to WG

AOB?

Summary of action items

  1. addison: follow up with shane carr about ecma repo automation
  2. addison: add a comment to i18n issue 2039's parent to indicate interest and call for early review/engagement
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 246 (Wed Oct 1 15:02:24 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/FPWD phase/pre-FPWD phase

Succeeded: s/internal/Intl/

Maybe present: xfq

All speakers: addison, bert, eemeli, JcK, joel, xfq

Active on IRC: addison, atsushi, Bert, JcK, jsahleen, r12a, xfq