Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

Meeting minutes

trackbot, prepare teleconference

Agenda Review

Action Items

https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

action-989?

<trackbot> action-989: Addison Phillips to Check tus and if necessary ping unicode folks about d145 normalization case fold ordering questions -- due 2021-01-21 -- OPEN

Action: addison: follow up with Mark Davis on liaison status and google participation

<trackbot> Created ACTION-996 - Follow up with mark davis on liaison status and google participation [on Addison Phillips - due 2021-02-25].

action-995?

<trackbot> action-995: Richard Ishida to Add i: labels to issue filing instructions -- due 2021-02-18 -- OPEN

close action-995

<trackbot> Closed action-995.

Info Share

jck: ietf is processing a document on rapid reactions to email messages using emoji
… differences in cultural interpretation of e.g. checkmark

(discussion of dragon infestations)

<r12a> https://twitter.com/r12a/status/1362375256971829249

richard: earlier today I sent a tweet

richard: looped lao and looped thai; different writing styles
… slanted tamil

addison: candidates for css generics?

richard: yes mentioned in that context

richard: also writing a gap analysis topic related to thai
… probably khmer and lao as well?
… in thai there are two diff sizes of space
… actually high end typogrfaphic approach is to have larger space between sentences
… thai fonts on mac don't support em space

<r12a> https://r12a.github.io/scripts/fontlist/?script=thai&text=%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87%20%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%A2%E2%80%83%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B0#result

RADAR Review

https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/projects/1

https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Apending+label%3As%3Apayment-request

<r12a> https://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/#payment-request

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2021Feb/0005.html

Wide review for Typographic character units in complex scripts

richard: have reviewed this internally previously

<r12a> https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-indic-graphemes.en.html

richard: would like to send for wide review
… any objections?

Action: richard: publish typographic character units in complex scripts for wide review

<trackbot> Created ACTION-997 - Publish typographic character units in complex scripts for wide review [on Richard Ishida - due 2021-02-25].

richard: for each of the graphics can click link to see the characters and *then* you can click a link to see uniview

richard: one other bit of info, looking at developing proxy urls for github content
… looking at test suite, which moved to github
… however, left the index file in CVS
… haven't done a redirect yet; make a new version

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-tests/