Event Updated: W3C Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

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 W3C Internationalization Working Group Teleconference Upcoming Confirmed
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 31 August 2023, 15:00 -16:00 Europe/London

 Event is recurring every 7 days, starting from 2023-07-20, until 2023-11-03

  Location: https://www.w3.org/2017/09/i18n-meeting-info.html

[ Internationalization Working Group ](https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/i18n-core/calendar/)***NOTE WELL*** This meeting is scheduled in the `Europe/London` time zone. That time zone observes Daylight Savings/Summer Time. Your local time for this call may vary due to differences in your local time zone's observation of DST/ST from that of the UK.

(This event has a new access number/link beginning 11 May 2023)

 Agenda
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#### BE PREPARED

Things to do before the meeting:

#### AGENDA

**Topic: Agenda Review**
*Send `agenda+` requests to the public-i18n-core@ list in advance of the meeting!*

**Topic: Action Items**
*Review of open action items from previous meetings*

- [I18N-ACTIONS](https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues)

**Topic: Info Share**
*Share information of interest to the working group or pertaining to internationalization in general.*

**Topic: RADAR Review**
*Time to review new and on-going requests for specification review. Incoming requests are assigned to shepherds in this part of the call.*
*In addition, we review the status of specifications that have received comments. *Please review your issues and owned items in advance of the call**

- [RADAR](https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/projects/1)

**Topic: Pending Issue Review**
*Review of new and pending issues raised by working group members or via the various bots.*

- [Pending Issues](https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Apending)

**Topic: TPAC Planning**
*Are we ready for TPAC? Let's review the schedule and our agenda*

- <https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/wiki/2023-TPAC-Planning>

**Topic: WCAG 2.2**
*Review the status of their work in addressing our comments.*

**Topic: Backwards Deletion**
*Is this document ready for a wider review?*

- <https://aphillips.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-backwards-deletion.en.html>
- <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2023JulSep/0103.html>

**Topic: string definitions in RDF**
*RDF is struggling to find a definition for "Unicode string" that fits their needs. Addison has made some suggestions, but notes that we don't provide a string definition. In addition, there is the problem that Charmod-norm doesn't provide the specific "code unit vs. code point" performance out being discussed here.*

- [RDF issue](https://github.com/w3c/rdf-concepts/issues/51)
- [RDF pull request](https://github.com/w3c/rdf-concepts/issues/59)
- <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2023JulSep/0105.html>
- [definition discussion](https://github.com/w3c/rdf-concepts/issues/51#issuecomment-1699884210)

**Topic: Is `@context` in JSON bad?**
*The Verifiable Credentials folks are working to address our request for lang/dir metadata on the `name` and `description` (natural language text) fields. They claims that using `@language` in the `@context` is bad.*

- [Addison's comment](https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model/pull/1252#discussion_r1309397665)
- [Issue](https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model/issues/1264)
- <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-core/2023JulSep/0106.html>

**Topic: AOB?**

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#### REMINDER

Getting too many of these notifications? Read [this](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2022Mar/0013.html) email from Richard on how to manage notifications.

#### SCRIBE

If you are set to scribe and cannot make it, please send regrets to the chair. Volunteers to act as scribe cheerfully accepted.

(rota)

#### Chair's Link Farm

<https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues>
<https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/projects/1>
<https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Apending>

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 Participants
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### Groups

- [Internationalization Working Group](https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/i18n-core/) ([View Calendar](https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/i18n-core/calendar/))

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