W3C

– DRAFT –
Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

25 February 2021

Attendees

Present
addison, Atsushi, Bert, David, Felix, Fuqiao, Najib, Richard
Regrets
-
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
addison

Meeting minutes

trackbot, prepare teleconference

Agenda Review

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/coga/issues/246

Action Items

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

action-997?

<trackbot> action-997: Richard Ishida to Publish typographic character units in complex scripts for wide review -- due 2021-02-25 -- OPEN

close action-997

<trackbot> Closed action-997.

action-998?

<trackbot> action-998: Addison Phillips to Clean up early review column -- due 2021-02-25 -- OPEN

close action-998

<trackbot> Closed action-998.

Info Share

fuqiao: miniapp is discussion i18n architecture
… discussed 3 proposals
… one similar to webapp manifest, one similar to json-ld, and one new one

richard: moving forwards on website providing proxy links to github

RADAR Review

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

Use cases for bidi and language metadata on the Web

<r12a> https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en

richard: did a fair bit of rewrite on this
… homogenizing the two parts of the doc
… added another example to the ebook catalog at the top
… would like to send for wide review

https://www.w3.org/International/articles/strings-and-bidi/

Action: r12a to link between https://www.w3.org/International/articles/strings-and-bidi/ and https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en

<trackbot> Created ACTION-999 - Link between https://www.w3.org/international/articles/strings-and-bidi/ and https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en [on Richard Ishida - due 2021-03-04].

Action: richard: publish lang-bidi-use-cases for wide review

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1000 - Publish lang-bidi-use-cases for wide review [on Richard Ishida - due 2021-03-04].

truncation requirements in specdev

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2021Feb/0013.html

https://www.w3.org/TR/international-specs/#char_trunc_byte_boundary

<xfq> DOM issue: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/933

<Bert> +1 to mentioning the DOM explicitly

review updated personas of coga-usable

fuqiao: may not finish today?
… felix reviewed their spec and we gave comments

Publish segmentation article

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

richard: sent typographic scripts for wide review
… a few comments from norbert
… some technical points

<atsushi> comment

Action: richard: publish qa-indic-graphemes

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1001 - Publish qa-indic-graphemes [on Richard Ishida - due 2021-03-04].

Tracking progress on language enablement

richard: talked to sponsors of lang enablement
… the i18n initiative
… from this point try to capture where things stand, are we waiting on a spec or browsers, etc
… get an idea of movement
… some things have dropped off gap analysis because fixed
… good to track that

<r12a> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/3

richard: wondering how to do

fuqiao: some issues very similar, e.g. <q>

richard: could have created a generic issues repo, but too difficult to follow
… one issue per repo, taken it some of the way
… have to have issue twice because of diff requirements or slight diffs

review updated personas of coga-usable

felix: had a quick look at what they wrote

<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/coga/issues/246

felix: initial comment was about adding a persona for life situation, e.g. non-fluency
… they haven't taken that up
… good to propose more detailed text, could make a proposal

Action: felix: update coga issue 246 with proposed text

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1002 - Update coga issue 246 with proposed text [on Felix Sasaki - due 2021-03-04].

https://w3c.github.io/coga/persona/

(all the names are western names)

Action: fuqiao: check personas for writing system problems like vertical, non-spacing, et al as discussed in teleconference

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1003 - Check personas for writing system problems like vertical, non-spacing, et al as discussed in teleconference [on Fuqiao Xue - due 2021-03-04].

Summary of action items

  1. r12a to link between https://www.w3.org/International/articles/strings-and-bidi/ and https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en
  2. richard: publish lang-bidi-use-cases for wide review
  3. richard: publish qa-indic-graphemes
  4. felix: update coga issue 246 with proposed text
  5. fuqiao: check personas for writing system problems like vertical, non-spacing, et al as discussed in teleconference
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