W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

15 January 2026

Attendees

Present
addison, atsushi, Bert, JcK, jsahleen, MURATA8, Richard, xfq
Regrets
-
Chair
Joel Sahleen
Scribe
atsushi

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review

Action Items

<jsahleen> i18n-activity #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

xfq: on publication queue, expecting next week

<jsahleen> i18n-activity #196

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

addison: did, and he replied
… will create new one to track and remind myself

<jsahleen> i18n-actions #187

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

addison: no conversation on #187 yet

Info Share

Review RADAR Review

[silent]

joel: went through review reuqest list

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

<gb> Issue 283 not found

<jsahleen> i18n-request#283

<gb> Issue 283 SHACL 1.2 Core 2025-11-03 > 2025-01-15 (by nicholascar) [REVIEW REQUESTED] [SR] [LC]

<xfq> w3c/i18n-activity#2062

<gb> Issue 2062 SHACL shape and constraint messages (by jsahleen) [s:shacl] [needs-resolution] [t:bidi_strings]

<jsahleen> w3c/data-shapes#724

<gb> Issue 724 Allow `xsd:string`, `rdf:langString`, and `rdf:dirLangString` as values for `sh:message` (by jsahleen) [i18n-needs-resolution]

joel: in terms of comment on data shapes, we talked at above

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-activity#2067

<gb> Issue 2067 Input on the treatment of non-UTF-8 content when importing text in JS/HTML (by eemeli) [pending]

joel: talked last week for 2067

<jsahleen> zakim take up item4

Review RADAR Review

<jsahleen> zakim take up item 4

joel: checked yesterday, no incoming
… moved my two into waiting comment resolution

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-request#285

<gb> Issue 285 rdf12-n-triples 2025-11-21 > 2026-01-22 (by ktk) [REVIEW REQUESTED] [LC]

bert: not yet done for 285

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-request#291

<gb> Issue 291 css-anchor-position-1 2025-12-30 > 2026-04-01 (by fantasai) [REVIEW REQUESTED] [LC]

joel: assigned myself, they said no i18n portion on this spec, but not yet done

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-request#281

<gb> Issue 281 Web Sustainability Guidelines 2025-10-22 > 2026-01-09 (by mgifford) [REVIEW REQUESTED] [WD]

xfq: we have issue open for web s12y

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

AOB?

<jsahleen> zakim take up item 8

Intl and address format articles to publish

Intl and address format articles to publish

<xfq> * https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-address-formats.en.html

<xfq> * https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/intl/index.en.html

xfq: two articles listed above
… related to ECMA intl spec
… wide review period ended, all review comment issues fixed
… checked and no objection seen
… I wonder if anyone have any comment for official publication?

<xfq> https://www.w3.org/International/articlelist

xfq: also for ECMA script one, above link is article list, added which one is for which section
… added list for new section(s)

r12a: getting started section is for starting, I see formatting data issue

xfq: will address

Search engine crawling and indexing

joel: agenda+ from xfq

xfq: introduced during last meeting in 2025
… basically added some infomration about how lang negotiation will go
… joel and addison made some comments

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/pull/795#discussion_r2627970280

<gb> Pull Request 795 Add information about search engine crawling and indexing (by xfq)

xfq: discussed with r12a on this, this document is ...

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/pull/795/changes

xfq: we decided to lmit context of this document into lang negotiation
… following conversation with addison, we decided to have new article about lang
… in total three documents will be prepared

addison: my article is specific to language negtiation
… lang negotiation subjective to requirement of org requirement
… disfficult to fave search engine channels, depends on upstream request of language negotiation
… also depends on how to expose language negotiation. also for performance
… and results into spam indexing

xfq: my intention is only to outline considerations
… added some paragraph and for more about these

[discussion around index with language]

addison: my article talks about something of locales
… to feed somehting into search engine

bert: article page need to have W3C logo
… most of pages uses old ones

xfq: our template has not been updated, possibly

joel: need to update template for whole our pages?

xfq: we may have three different template

<jsahleen> w3c/i18n-actions#203

<gb> Issue 203 Add new logo to templates (by jsahleen)

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/

joel: action created as above link

Info Share

r12a: working for Korean lreq document
… getting some useful comment from Korean colleagues
… text need to be integrated into document with standard headings

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/pull/815/changes

<gb> Pull Request 815 Mention ruby specs in the Ruby Markup article (by xfq)

<xfq> https://deploy-preview-815--i18n-drafts.netlify.app/articles/ruby/markup.en.html#endlinks

xfq: quick item, on raised one PR for our document
… added link to ruby spec

r12a: murata-san is preparting for a11y of ruby, and would want him to contribute

xfq: no objection, and will merge this PR

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Maybe present: joel, r12a

All speakers: addison, bert, joel, r12a, xfq

Active on IRC: addison, atsushi, Bert, jsahleen, MURATA8, r12a, xfq