Beginning to capture knowledge from the discussions

Folks,

We have a pretty good set of (around 20) experts in the Southeast Asian 
Layout task force group already, although i'm still reaching out to 
others, and haven't yet broadcast the group's existence widely.

We've also had some interesting and useful discussion in the github 
issues list, and i look forward to that continuing.  I think we have 
already found a couple of things that will eventually affect the design 
of the CSS spec.

I wanted to let you know that I am beginning to capture in document form 
the knowledge that can be gleaned from the issue list.  I just posted a 
link to a document called Javanese Script Gap Analysis at 
https://github.com/w3c/sealreq.  You are welcome to raise issues against 
the content of that document, as i try to distill what i'm learning 
about SE Asian script support on the Web.*

I plan to begin similar documents for Thai, Lao, Khmer, and any other 
scripts for which we are accruing information, so that the information 
can be easily found and referenced. So please watch out for those. Of 
course, you are also welcome to suggest text for the documents.

best regards, and keep up the good work,
Richard.






* The W3C has other task forces which have traditionally been focused on 
producing documents, typically including a substantial layout 
requirements document that describes how a writing system works in a 
technology-agnostic way. This is then coupled with a gap-analysis 
document.  For now, i'll try to summarise the way the script works in 
the gap-analysis documents as well as describing gaps i'm aware of. 
(I'm also adding information to my personal pages at 
https://r12a.github.io/doclist#scriptnotes.)

Received on Tuesday, 5 June 2018 16:32:12 UTC