Minutes 2006-06-21: GEO telecon

http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-minutes.html


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21 Jun 2006

   See also: [2]IRC log

      [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-irc

Attendees

   Present
          Richard, Russ, Andrew

   Regrets
          None

   Chair
          Richard

   Scribe
          r12a

Contents

     * [3]Topics
         1. [4]Info Share
         2. [5]best practices titles
         3. [6]'Primary language'
         4. [7]RFC 3066
     * [8]Summary of Action Items
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Action review

   <scribe> ACTION: Andrew, review
   [9]http://esw.w3.org/topic/geoEncoding and draft some more text, and
   discuss on 28th [recorded in
   [10]http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action02]

      [9] http://esw.w3.org/topic/geoEncoding

   <scribe> ACTION: Andrew, provide status on article on how to use
   link element for translated content next week [recorded in
   [11]http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action03]

   Andrew can't find previous notes - will start again

   RI: please use the test and results pages

   <scribe> ACTION: Andrew, provide status next week on article on how
   to use link element for translated content [DONE] [recorded in
   [12]http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action05]

   <scribe> ACTION: Andrew, Work on comments for What should I consider
   wrt moving to UTF-8? [recorded in
   [13]http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action06]

   <scribe> ongoing - working on other two actions first

   <scribe> ACTION: RI, change the IRC channel in the agenda [recorded
   in [14]http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action07]

   to be done next week

   <scribe> ACTION: RI, send Andrew comments related to "What should I
   consider wrt moving to UTF-8" [recorded in
   [15]http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action08]

   not done

   RI, send CSS3 and International Text for wider review [DONE]

Info Share

   Russ: Bill Gates will retire in two years to concentrate on
   charities. Ray Ozzy will be the Chief Architect

   RI: Molly presented at talk on i18n at @media conference
   ... v good response
   ... about 800 people total in the conference, about one third in her
   presentation
   ... note that the photo linked to from the i18n home page post about
   her talk has had 173 views in less than 24 hours
   ... we provided around 250-300 quick tips cards and they all
   disappeared immediately after the presentation

Best practices titles

   RI: i'd like to change titles to :
   ... Internationalization Best Practices: Handling Bidirectional Text
   in XHTML and HTML Content
   ... Internationalization Best Practices: Character Sets and
   Encodings in XHTML and HTML Content
   ... any objections

   no objections raised

'Primary language'

   RI: we may need to change the term
   ... eg

   document language

   audience language

   web unit language

   language metadata

   language metadata declaration

   document language metadata

   readership language

   [16]http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html

     [16] http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html

   default langauge

   base language

   Discussion about possibilities. Moving away from RI's current
   favourite 'Document language' because of potential translatability
   issues. What we really need is something that contrasts with
   'text-processing language' and really indicates that this is an
   indication of the intended readership's linguistic abilities. Tried
   'readership language' or 'audience language'.

   <scribe> ACTION: RI, send out note asking for feedback on possible
   new names for 'primary language' [recorded in
   [17]http://www.w3.org/2006/06/21-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action09]

RFC 3066

   RI: in the best practises doc we have fudged references by alluding
   to BCP47
   ... propose that we refer to RFC 3066bis, since it is now in force,
   and add editor's notes to say that that will be changed to RFC ????
   soon
   ... and delay publication of the document as Note until RFC 3066bis
   has a number

   Agreed.


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