- From: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:28:53 -0400
- To: ishida@w3.org
- Cc: public-i18n-geo@w3.org
I would like to discuss the emails I sent on accept-charset in form and the
recommendations for minimal web i18n, if there is time.
Richard Ishida wrote:
>
> AGENDA
> I18N GEO TF teleconference
>
> Please feel free to suggest additional items for the agenda.
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> Day : Wednesday
> Date : 1 October 2003
> Start : 19:00 UTC, 20:00 UK, 12noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern,
> 5am Australia (next day!)
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> Bridge : +1-617-761-6200 (Zakim)
> with conference code 4186 (spells "I18N")
> Duration : 60-90 minutes
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>
> **** indicates a topic that will receive particular attention this week
>
> Draft agenda
> ============
>
> REVIEW OF AGENDA
>
> REVIEW OF ACTIONS (see below)
>
> Action: ac, write to public evangelist list about default charset
> declaration in Apache
>
> ACTION: Lloyd, write up some code samples relating to date formats and
> link to them from the Q&A page at a later date
>
> All: send in pointers to existing guidelines
>
> REVIEW OF DEPENDENCIES (see below)
>
> HTML (SP): Approve para re application/xml+xhtml for bidi CSS vs markup
> Q&A
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0028.html
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0029.html
>
> HTML (SP & MI): help clarify how charset information should be declared
> for html and xhtml 1.0 pages
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0033.html
>
> MEETINGS:
> **** Technical Plenary in Cannes, beginning of March 2004
> Will we hold a meeting? Who will attend?
> Are there other groups we should sit in on?
>
> **** Telecon time change in October
>
> NEW MEMBERS
> **** Deborah Cawkwell
>
> INFO SHARE
> **** [Here you can contribute news or informative titbits about
> events, developments, etc that affect our work. It is information share
> only - if processing is needed we should add an agenda item - although
> of course clarification questions are allowed.]
>
> **** RI: outcome of ISO royalties issue:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2003/Ref871.html
>
> UPDATES ON FRAMEWORK ACTIVITY
> -
>
> SPECIAL TOPICS
>
> Review of WG work items (current and potential)
> - Guidelines devt
> FAQ development
> Articles: Phil's introduction to web i18n; Richard's bidi
> background; ...
> Framework activity (including WAI collaboration)
> Usability work: developing web site; reviewing content &
> architecture; testing approach
> Test suite development & results gathering
> Other outreach coordination
>
>
> FAQ REVIEW
>
> **** We must limit the time dedicated to this today so that we can
> discuss the guidelines
>
> Last chance review
> **** RICHARD
> (Last week's comments still to be integrated)
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-ruby.html
>
> First discussion
> **** ANDREW
> How to set up .htaccess in Apache
> Still to be posted.
>
> UPCOMING Q&A ASSIGNMENTS
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Send to group Publish
> (latest)
> Martin: DONE 25 June
> Richard: DONE 2 July
> Tex/Phil: DONE 9 July
> Richard: DONE 16 July [css vs markup for bidi]
> Lloyd: DONE
> Tex DONE 31 July [what is bidi & which langs]
> Andrew DONE 6 August
> Martin DONE 13 aug
> Richard DONE 20 aug [intnl vs mlingl sites]
> Tbd 18 aug
> Tbd 25 aug
> Tex - 9 sept
> Lloyd - 17 sept
> Russ 15 sept 24 sept
> Andrew 22 sept 1 oct
> RI/Martin 29 sept 8 oct
>
> **** More assignments
>
> GUIDELINES REVIEW
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/
>
> **** Rework of section 2.2 incorporating XHTML served as
> html or xml and use or not of xml declaration
> (To be worked on tomorrow)
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Sep/0025.html
>
> - Richard's bidi backgrounder
> http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/bidi/
>
> - Andrew's proposal for addition to guidelines 2.2
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0060.html
>
> DISCUSSION
>
> - is there an issue with Mac browsers and utf-8?
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jul/0002.html
>
> - should we limit ourselves to xhtml served as text/html for the
> guidelines?
>
> **** what should we do wrt distinguishing behaviour for
> XHTML served as text/html or app/xml or app/xhtml+xml?
>
> **** should we limit our scope to html (which includes xhtml served
> as text/html),
> or extend it to cover xhtml served as xml?
>
> - should we assume the use of xml declaration for xhtml 1, or
> factor in that many won't use it?
> eg.
> http://www.webstandards.org/learn/reference/prolog_problems.html
>
> EDUCATION & OUTREACH
> - Article by Phil and co.
>
> AOB
>
> ================================================
> Details:
>
> GUIDELINES CONTENT OWNERS
> ================
>
> Steve
> Anything in section 3 (character sets, encoding, entities)
> [first priority]
> Anything in section 10 (Objects)
>
> Martin
> character sets & encodings in forms
>
> Lloyd
> Forms
>
> Richard
> Bidi
>
> Russ
> automatic layout
>
> Andrew
> i was thinking of jotting down some notes on the following
> areas, and
> then seeing what i could add to other sections.
> 3 Character sets, character encodings and entities
> 4 Specifying the language of content
> 5 Text direction
> 6.4 Ruby
> 7 Lists
> 8 Tables
> 8.1 Mirroring tables in bidirectional text
> 15 Writing source text
>
> John
> Navigation
>
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> Richard Ishida
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>
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>
> See the W3C Internationalization FAQ page
> http://www.w3.org/International/questions.html
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