[minutes] Internationalization telecon 2017-10-26

https://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html





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            Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

26 Oct 2017

    [2]Agenda

       [2] 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2017Oct/0018.html

    See also: [3]IRC log

       [3] http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-irc

Attendees

    Present
           r12a, addison, andrewc, Steve, Bert, Fuqiao, JcK

    Regrets
    Chair
           Addison Phillips

    Scribe
           addison

Contents

      * [4]Topics
          1. [5]Agenda
          2. [6]Action Items
          3. [7]Info Share
          4. [8]Radar
          5. [9]Charmod-Norm
          6. [10]AOB?
      * [11]Summary of Action Items
      * [12]Summary of Resolutions
      __________________________________________________________

    trackbot, prepare teleconference

    <scribe> ScribeNick: addison

Agenda

Action Items

    [13]https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

      [13] https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

    action-663?

    <trackbot> action-663 -- Addison Phillips to Remind all to
    review charmod for status for next week, set agenda item for
    working to promote to next status next telecon -- due
    2017-10-19 -- OPEN

    <trackbot>
    [14]http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/663

      [14] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/663

    close action-663

    <trackbot> Closed action-663.

    action-664?

    <trackbot> action-664 -- Addison Phillips to Produce updated
    string-meta with additional text needed for fpwd by 2 weeks --
    due 2017-10-19 -- OPEN

    <trackbot>
    [15]http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/664

      [15] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/664

    action-670?

    <trackbot> action-670 -- Addison Phillips to Remind members to
    send ideas about how to find experts to member list -- due
    2017-10-26 -- OPEN

    <trackbot>
    [16]http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/670

      [16] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/670

    action-671?

    <trackbot> action-671 -- Richard Ishida to Close all dnt issues
    that need close -- due 2017-10-26 -- OPEN

    <trackbot>
    [17]http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/671

      [17] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/671

    close action-671

    <trackbot> Closed action-671.

Info Share

    richard: (rootles for links)
    ... sent to some folks for review
    ... haven't had any feedback
    ... change approach of getting layout reqs
    ... need for various conversations
    ... useful to have
    ... let me know of comments

    addison: goal?

    richard: communicate status
    ... last week had action to find instances of underlining
    crashes with descending diacritics
    ... find all the languages that have dot below

    <r12a> [18]https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/

      [18] https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/

    richard: invented my own way
    ... early mockup at link
    ... filters out ascii
    ... but focuses outside ascii
    ... look up character, see 37 languages, shows 285 m speakers
    ... get info for CLDR for the few it has
    ... and UDHR on Unicode site. 547 of those
    ... could be a problem for syllabic scripts
    ... number of speakers is native speakers
    ... some languages have largers speaker populations

    addison: we use wikipedia for generating n-grams

    jck: add code points to tool?

    richard: plan to

Radar

    [19]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1

      [19] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1

    richard: working on making self review easier

    xfq: one of the contacts for that WG

    <xfq>
    [20]https://github.com/w3c/sensors/issues/299#issue-262392533

      [20] https://github.com/w3c/sensors/issues/299#issue-262392533

    xfq: from issue, chairs decided not to work through i18n and
    a11y questionaire
    ... because don't expect anything

    richard: asking pertinent questions as approach
    ... rather than trawl the whole checklist

    addison: maybe just a "risk areas" set of questions?

    <scribe> ACTION: addison to respond to device and sensors and
    ask if they can self-review (while ack that we are going to
    review) [recorded in
    [21]http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

      [21] http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action01

    <trackbot> Created ACTION-672 - Respond to device and sensors
    and ask if they can self-review (while ack that we are going to
    review) [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-11-02].

    UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: with ask being that they do a high level
    review

    richard: add a para of text under the headings?

    [22]http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/

      [22] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/

    [23]http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/

      [23] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/

    richard: will do the low-vision-needs comments, unless bert we
    need any rewrites

    <scribe> ACTION: richard to forward remaining low-vision-needs
    comments [recorded in
    [24]http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

      [24] http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action02

    <trackbot> Created ACTION-673 - Forward remaining
    low-vision-needs comments [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-11-02].

Charmod-Norm

    [25]http://w3c.github.io/charmod-norm/

      [25] http://w3c.github.io/charmod-norm/

    [26]https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/

      [26] https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/

    pledge to read charmod for next time

AOB?

    time change

    meeting at 1600Z

    so an hour earlier in north america

Summary of Action Items

    [NEW] ACTION: addison to respond to device and sensors and ask
    if they can self-review (while ack that we are going to review)
    [recorded in
    [27]http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
    [NEW] ACTION: richard to forward remaining low-vision-needs
    comments [recorded in
    [28]http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

      [27] http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action01
      [28] http://www.w3.org/2017/10/26-i18n-minutes.html#action02

Summary of Resolutions

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