- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:53:45 +0100
- To: <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
MINUTES W3C I18n GEO Phone Conference 11 Jun 2003 Present: Richard (chair, scribe), Lloyd, Phil, Tex, Russ, Martin, Andrew Regrets/Absent: Steve, Suzanne, Peter, Barry, Leslie, John New Actions ============ ACTION: AC, write up some text about byte order marks that could be used to develop section 2.2 ACTION: all, send in pointers to web sites or programs that can be used to inspect http headers of web pages Prior Action Items ============== ACTION: Phil, write the Q&A for review on 11 June. ACTION: Lloyd, write up some code samples relating to date formats and link to them from the Q&A page at a later date ACTION: RI, set up Phil and Suzanne as Invited Experts ACTION: AC to create a list of possibilities for 'non-displayable' characters All: send in pointers to existing guidelines Meetings =========== - Info share ============== Microsoft key creation tool now available for free download from www.microsoft.com/globaldev Q&A Review ========================= Phil's Q&A ---------------- Discussed Phil's contribution: - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-geo/2003Jun/0036.html - Would be a good idea for those who are interested to begin work on an 'article' about this topic, in addition to a Q&A - Phil, Suzanne, Tex ACTION: Phil, spec out content and audience for an introductory outreach article along the lines of "Why internationalise your site, and what it involves?" - do it in stages, and look around for currently available material - it's tough to produce Q&A's like this - Phil's Q&A needs tightening up and refocussing - Phil will work on it - no alternatives available at the moment Discussion - table about what browsers support what encodings ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- - the page at http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset-list.html is way out of date - not clear that this is useful information these days - people should just use utf-8 ! - might be more useful to say what fonts support what unicode ranges Comments on section 2.2 of guidelines: "Specifying a page encoding" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- - http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/#ri20030218.131104811 - various editorial suggestions - we could point to information about how to set the content-type header - given 'where practical' - have some text that explains how that may or may not be practical - point to the alternatives ACTION: AC, write up some text about byte order marks that could be used to develop section 2.2 ACTION: all, send in pointers to web sites or programs that can be used to inspect http headers of web pages Next meeting: ========== Same time, same bridge, next week. ============ Richard Ishida W3C tel: +44 1753 480 292 http://www.w3.org/International/ http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
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