W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

20 November 2025

Attendees

Present
Addison, Bert, Fuqiao, JcK, Joel, Richard
Regrets
JcK
Chair
Addison Phillips, Joel Sahleen
Scribe
Bert

Meeting minutes

<jsahleen> agenda

<jsahleen> Yes, as you instructed. How to resurrect?

<jsahleen> Not that I recall, unless we want to add Makoto-san's rewrites

Agenda

Action Items

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

<addison> #197

<gb> Action 197 rename the repo and shortname and publish ruby accessibility document as a first draft note (on xfq, himorin) due 2025-11-18

jsahleen: This came out of TPAC?

<xfq> https://w3c.github.io/ruby-t2s-req/

xfq: Yes. There is also a document ruby text to speech

jsahleen: Makoto's doc?

xfq: Yes. Published as draft note, with a different shortname.

jsahleen: No normative sections?

xfq: No, it's a Note.

addison: Add it to editors?

xfq: Yes, I will do.
… We'll use the name without "s". Will ask Atsushi to rename or I'll d it myself.

r12a: And then send it for wide review?

xfq: Yes. It still has open issues, but can review it.

addison: It's a ‘draft note’, so not done.

<xfq> https://www.w3.org/2025/11/11-i18n-minutes.html#7242

xfq: Yes, that's what we resolved. See minutes here ^^

r12a: So send for review, then fix it, then publish as Note.

addison: So still in progress.

<addison> #196

<gb> Action 196 remind @duerst to create a list of gaps in URL standard (on aphillips, duerst) due 2025-11-17

jsahleen: Other action to remind Martin ^^

addison: I couldn't assign it to MArtin, so I assigned it to myself.
… Haven't heard back from him yet.

JcK: Which URL standard?

addison: I think it is the WHATWG thing.

JcK: In IETF there is a clear boundary between URLs with only ASCII and IRIs.

xfq: Discussion was to find shortcomings in WHATWG spec
… And if they are fixed it can replace the IETF spec.

addison: We'll no doubt talk about IRI in coming weeks.

<addison> #195

<gb> Action 195 contact WCAG about meeting at TPAC about language-related guidelines (on aphillips) due 2025-11-13

<addison> close #195

<gb> Closed issue #195

<addison> #194

<gb> Action 194 write back in support of adding ruby-base support in WCAG (on jsahleen) due 2025-11-13

<jsahleen> close #194

<gb> Closed issue #194

jsahleen: About other action items: we did a couple, can close them

<addison> #193

<gb> Action 193 send relevant emails requesting tpac stuff to member (on aphillips) due 2025-11-13

<addison> close #193

<gb> Closed issue #193

<addison> #189

<gb> Action 189 follow up with shane carr about ecma repo automation (on aphillips) due 2025-10-23

<jsahleen> #187

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

<jsahleen> #185

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

<jsahleen> #136

<gb> Issue 136 follow up on XML errata (by aphillips) [task]

<jsahleen> #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)

<jsahleen> #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

<jsahleen> #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

jsahleen: Who has info to share?

Nobody has.

Review RADAR Review

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

<jsahleen> https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/91/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=135218801&issue=w3c%7Ci18n-request%7C281

jsahleen: It looks like there is no new request. There are two in review.

<jsahleen> w3c/sustainableweb-wsg#170

xfq: Web Sustainability Guidelines we discussed at TPAC. Can move to Awaiting.

<gb> Issue 170 UX Review: 2.18 Web typography must be highly optimized and appropriate (by ehorrell) [taskforce-ux]

jsahleen: Question to do with font subsetting. ^^

addison: Deep and exciting topic...
… Looking at the issue, it doesn't have one of our labels. Might want to add tracker label, so we get notified.

jsahleen: I seem unable to add the label.

xfq: I can do it.

jsahleen: We're only asked about the last comment, about characters used for user input and system fonts.

addison: We may need to read this first and agenda+ it for the future.

r12a: Add it to the agenda as task for everybody or make it an action.

ACTION: jsahleen: Remind everyone to read w3c/sustainableweb-wsg#170

<gb> Created action #198

Pending Issues Review

r12a: I'll assign it to everryone in the group.

addison: I filed an issue on Sustainability Guidelines. Do you want to move to Awaiting comment resolution?

jsahleen: Anything else on Radar review?

Pending Issues Review

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

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-activity#2048

<gb> Issue 2048 `:lang(lzh)` elements in non-traditional-Chinese CJK elements should not switch font to Traditional Chinese one (by w3cbot) [pending] [tracker] [i:fonts] [i:inline_notes] [spec-type-issue] [jlreq] [clreq]

addison: lzh is a language tag for literary Chinese. The request is that font fallbacks should not go to Traditional Chinese.

<jsahleen> w3c/csswg-drafts#13050

<gb> Issue 13050 `:lang(lzh)` elements in non-traditional-Chinese CJK elements should not switch font to Traditional Chinese one (by tats-u) [css-fonts-4] [i18n-tracker] [i18n-clreq]

addison: Interesting proposal that lzh works differently.

r12a: I wondered if you couldn't do this with CSS. Assign the ruby to a Chinese font.

xfq: The problem is that it is falling back to Traditional Chinese fonts and shouldn't. It should use Japanese fonts.
… Not sure it is CSS. Seems implementation-defined.

addison: I think r12a's suggestion is plausible, you could use CSS with :lang()

jsahleen: What should we do? Correspond with the issue author?

addison: It's tracked.

xfq: Agree with r12a. Specifying the font is more reliable.

jsahleen: Do you want an action to respond?

xfq: I'll just do it.

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-activity#2040

<gb> Issue 2040 Missing internationalization/localizability from benefits (by aphillips) [pending] [needs-resolution] [t:loc_localization] [s:web-sustainability-guidelines] [ig:sustainableweb]

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-activity#2047

<gb> Issue 2047 Native Footnote/Endnote Element in HTML (by w3cbot) [pending] [tracker] [s:html]

xfq: This was proposed by Chinese Layout task force
… There is no semantic element in HTML for footnotes and endnotes.
… THis causes a few problems.

xfq: Was not discussed during TPAC.

addison: Maybe look at what ePub does.

xfq: They don't have a native solution either.
… They use classes.

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-activity#2040

TPAC debrief

addison: Next week is Thanksgiving in the US. Should we meet?

Bert: No opionion

xfq: Either is fine.

jsahleen: TPAC debrief. I wasn't there myself? Anybody wants to report?

xfq: Hallway conversation about HTML ruby extension.
… Did not discuss that during our meeting.
… HTML WG is out of charter and cannot publish.
… They should be rechartered, but unknown when.
… Philippe suggest to move it to the i18n group.
… As we have a very old ruby spec, so is in scope.

jsahleen: Should we go to that agenda item?

r12a: I went to a CSS session at TPAC.
… They were talking about automatically filling a box with text.
… If you have a couple of lines and they don't fill the width, rather then justifying, you can increase the font size.
… Can look good on something like a Wanted poster.
… It is something they do a lot in Arabic, stretch the text. But we've always considered that as part of justification.
… So this is just a heads up.

jsahleen: iOS does this in some cases.

r12a: It always takes up more vertical space.

s.also/also/

HTML Ruby Markup Extensions

<Bert> s|s.always/also/|

xfq: According to Florian we don't need to recharter to work on the ruby spec. It's a successor of our old spec.
… But I think it doesn't supersede the old spec, which also has other things.

r12a: I think we only want to make editorial chnages and would need to recharter to make substantive changes.

addison: Similarly we own the charmod Rec.
… Does WHATWG want to do riuby extensions? Are we the right home for it?

xfq: It seems WHATWG doesn't want to.
… We also have the DOM localization message resources to work on.

r12a: Is that a Note?

xfq: No, that would be normative.

r12a: I thought we were going to write requirements.

xfq: Several parts of the work. First part is the format. Second part is integartionj in HTML, which is for the WHATWG.

<xfq> https://www.w3.org/2025/11/14-apa-minutes.html#8ae2

addison: If we are going to write requirements, that wil be a Note.

jsahleen: What do we want to say to Florian?

addison: We publish pseudo-normative documents as Notes. We could publish ruby extensions like that. Although I think it should be normative.
… Do a new charter next year.

r12a: Or this year.

xfq: Or _start_ this year.

jsahleen: That doesn't seem to solve Florian's problem. He wants to publish the spec earlier.
… So somebody should write to him.

r12a: He's not on this call and our next call is only in two weeks.

addison: Not many calls left this year.

addison: As Fuqiao said, chartering takes time.
… And I'd like more than a week to review a spec.

xfq: We can do both: contact Florian offline and invite him to our next telcon.

jsahleen: Who contacts him? Addison? Somebody who taked to him at TPAC?

ACTION: addison: contact florian about ruby extension spec status and invite to next telecon

<gb> Created action #199

jsahleen: UTW can be postponed. How about DAPT?

DAPT

xfq: I'll ask Nigel. But it is probably quick:
… They changed from ‘und' to empty string.
… Can probably close this.
… We preferred empty in our previous discussions.

addison: If they close their isseu, we'll close ours, and they can publish.

AOB?

Summary of action items

  1. jsahleen: Remind everyone to read w3c/sustainableweb-wsg#170
  2. addison: contact florian about ruby extension spec status and invite to next telecon
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Maybe present: jsahleen, r12a, xfq

All speakers: addison, Bert, JcK, jsahleen, r12a, xfq

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