- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:11:06 +0100
- To: <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
MINUTES W3C I18n GEO Phone Conference 19 March 2003 Present: Richard (chair, scribe), Lloyd, Andrew, Phil Regrets: Steve, Russ, Suzanne, Martin New Actions ============ ACTION: RI, apply agreed changes to FTF minutes and publish. ACTION: AC to create a list of possibilities for 'non-displayable' characters ACTION: Lloyd,send a list of deprecated tags in HTML by next meeting Prior Action Items ============== ACTION: TT, RI need to recontact Bill Hall DONE. Will talk at Unicode Conference. ACTION: RI to send invitation to Gerald Edgar, who observed during the Tech Plen DONE ACTION: RI to follow up tommorrow with Barry Caplan. DONE ACTION: Russ, follow-up wrt possible new member from Trados ACTION: RI to propose some new teleconf times to cope with daylight savings at next week's meeting. DONE during meeting for two weeks ahead and ongoing. ACTION: RI to ping Suzanne again. DONE ACTION: RI, set up an area on the W3C site for people to post proposals, and give people access. DONE Action: Richard, look at ways of making the document print with a smaller font, while avoiding any WAI issues. All: send in pointers to existing guidelines Suzanne: put together a list of short term vs. long term goals related to education and outreach - send it to us for discussion Dependencies =========== None. New participants ============== Phil Arko introduced himself. Barry Caplan of i8n.com has also joined the WG. Meetings & Events =============== New telecon times (due to changes in daylight savings) from 8 april onwards: GMT Friday, April 18, 2003, at 7:00 PM Seattle Fri 12:00 PM * Boston Fri 3:00 PM * London Fri 8:00 PM * Europe 9pm Australia Sat 5:00 AM No telecon next week due to Unicode Conference. Richard will make a pesentation at the regular W3C Offices team meeting on Friday. The aim is to inform the office staff around the world of what we are doing and solicit their help and support. Changes to FTF minutes proposed by Richard were accepted. ACTION: RI, apply agreed changes to FTF minutes and publish. Review of work progress ================== All planned conversions to invited expert have been done. Invited experts can now upload information to the upload location at http://www.w3.org/International/geo/upload/ Information was sent out from webreq@w3.org about tools that can be used for this. Ask Richard or webreq@w3.org if you have any questions/problems. We have to decided to use the term 'directives' for the pithy directive statements in a technique, formerly called 'rules'. Content development ================ Brainstorming session held: Section 3.1 Agreed that we should recommend the use of CSS rather than the Font tag Lloyd has been making a list of deprecated tags in HTML - we may want to add this list as an appendix or to the hints & tips ACTION: Lloyd,send a list of deprecated tags in HTML by next meeting & we can decide what to do with Section 3.2 AC: the meaning of 'undisplayable characters' is not clear - need to change the title ! non-graphic? Control chars? Font absence? Lacking rendering in browsers/OS, eg Khmer, Lao? Characters missing from Unicode? ACTION: AC to create a list of possibilities for 'non-displayable' characters another question is how to ensure that authors ensure that pages are read <<authors should provide links to information to help the user when there are known issues relating to the display of a particular script or language>> [could include where to download fonts from] <<provide the information in a way it will work, ie. << use a system that maximises likelihood of correct display >> << tell people how to find fonts for ordinary languages - especially for minorities >> need a sectoin suggesting that authors ensure that these things work do we need a chapter 20? How to perform validation & proofing of sites - check that sites display correctly or section by section, we could ask how do you validate that you made the right choices - eg. escaping too many chars, do the fonts work? LH sounds a bit like WAI conformance tests Next meeting: ========== Same time, same bridge, in two weeks. ============ Richard Ishida W3C tel: +44 1753 480 292 http://www.w3.org/International/ http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
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