W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

06 August 2026

Attendees

Present
addison, Daniel, eemeli, Filippo, JcK, Richard, xfq
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
atsushi

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review

daniel: per attendee, ARIA-notify for next week
… safer

aria translatable attributes

<Daniel> w3c/aria#2862

<gb> PR 2862 Editorial: I18n considerations for translatable attributes (by daniel-montalvo) [editorial] [i18n-needs-resolution] [spec:aria]

daniel: direction/lang attribute for translatable one
… detail in PR

xfq: brief background, relatively comment issue
… natural language string in aria description, but they don't have land/dir metadata
… since it's not possible to change attribute as element, so adding some text to spec document may be possible

addison: text mostly looks good, this is true thing over all attribute
… for language/dir metadata
… it's best you can do for this situation
… probably good to have note

daniel: thx xfq for putting good place for having note

addison: we may have additional one for lang/dir for some cases
… you might want to have something for rendering in a11y tech, such as attribute should be bidi isolated
… for rendering as text

daniel: these will be exposerd to a11y tree, so wondering how to apply for this specific case

eemeli: theoretical problem, or has been idenrified?
… number of cases on locale from current element would not be correct
… could not find any example whether is the exact issue

addison: common case is text localized along with original source language comment

eemeli: like page localized with partial non-localized text

addison: yes

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-site-conneg.en.html#inpageLinks

r12a: theoretical, point of this kind of issue, link target, with title from target page in other language
… usually page author stick with title retrieved, but not align with language or localized at the page

addison: any next step? of course, we could have additional comment to the PR

daniel: discuss also next week, includig other points

[detail conversation on real examples/use cases]

addison: strong guidance is to use the same laguage for aria attribute as host content language and direction
… for displaying them correctly
… if not, opposite direction text would appear

addison: for direction, it's just for display purpose but not for like readout, so isolated shall be considered as default, and having some note could be better

Action Items

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

<addison> #222

<gb> Action 222 Review dictionary proposal and draft response (on aphillips, r12a)

Info Share

addison: NSS in loading language

ah,, miss.ed in double fixing...

[character code in file systems]

<r12a> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/ruby-position

r12a: had edited MDN ruby position document
… PR accepted recently for bcd table

Review RADAR Review

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

addison: no new

Pending Issue Review

<addison> i18n-activity#2158

<gb> Issue 2158 Examples are USA-centric (by aphillips) [pending] [needs-resolution] [t:loc_examples_x] [wg:vc] [s:vc-recognized-entities]

addison: this document contains examples but mostly USA-centric ones
… editorial but need to be updated

[no objection]

<addison> i18n-activity#2159

<gb> Issue 2159 `legalName` does not permit a "language value object" (by aphillips) [pending] [needs-resolution] [t:bidi_strings] [t:lang_strings] [wg:vc] [s:vc-recognized-entities]

addison: VC for lang/dir metadata, but couple of issues remains, so asking them

<addison> i18n-activity#2160

<gb> Issue 2160 Show some non-ASCII/non-English examples and label the English (by aphillips) [pending] [needs-resolution] [t:loc_examples_x] [wg:vc] [s:vc-recognized-entities]

Jck: issue on domain name, no such attribute

PR Reviews

<addison> w3c/bp-i18n-specdev#185

<gb> PR 185 Add guidelines for writing examples (by aphillips) [Agenda+] [Best Practice] [normative]

<addison> https://deploy-preview-185--bp-i18n-specdev.netlify.app/

addison: added examples and new section at the end

<addison> https://deploy-preview-185--bp-i18n-specdev.netlify.app/#writing_specs

addison: rather than intermixing examples

xfq: had look last time, and seems good

r12a: should refer HTML instead of current ITS spec?

addison: could change

r12a: code elements are not translated in default

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-translate-flag.en.html

<addison> w3c/bp-i18n-specdev#188

<gb> PR 188 Refine string definitions and usage guidelines (by xfq)

<xfq> https://deploy-preview-188--bp-i18n-specdev.netlify.app/#char_string

xfq: this is for string definition, link to preview above

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/bp-i18n-specdev/pull/188/changes

xfq: changed few thing in this PR, string definition section and changed masturd around string, description of USV string
… some editorial fixed on code point around surrogates, removed non-character concepts

xfq: already got some comments

addison: you need to be a bit careful here, for specdev and infra
… historically, we probably point USVstring instead of Unicode, UCS2 has sequesnces of 16bit ones
… in general recommendation is DOMstring, and USVstring is when really needed
… you can see in third mustard
… this kind of recommendations are kind of tricky

AOB?

<addison> homework:

<xfq> w3c/i18n-drafts#931

<gb> PR 931 Add language metadata article (by xfq)

xfq: one new PR for review, on language metadata article

addison: do we need to have dedicated article, or language metadata altoghether, for better noticable by reader?

xfq: could merge, but may want to change shortname to something else
… and have redirection

addsion: mentioning each other, which is already in

r12a: using info class for paragraph, to state more information in these paragraphs

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All speakers: addison, addsion, daniel, eemeli, Jck, r12a, xfq

Active on IRC: addison, atsushi, Daniel, eemeli, r12a, xfq