[minutes] Internationalization telecon 2024-05-16

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                              – DRAFT –
            Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

16 May 2024

    [2]Agenda. [3]IRC log.

       [2] 
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/6d544156-352c-46f2-b6ec-383b4e2462fb/20240516T150000/
       [3] https://www.w3.org/2024/05/16-i18n-irc

Attendees

    Present
           Addison, atsushi, Ben, Bert, r12a, xfq

    Regrets
           JcK

    Chair
           Addison Phillips

    Scribe
           xfq

Contents

     1. [4]Agenda Review
     2. [5]Action Items
     3. [6]Info Share
     4. [7]RADAR Review
     5. [8]Pending Issue Review
     6. [9]Ruby-t2s-req as a DNOTE?
     7. [10]Is the string-meta explainer finished?
     8. [11]AOB?
     9. [12]Summary of action items

Meeting minutes

   Agenda Review

   Action Items

    <addison> #97

    <gb> [13]Action 97 add explainer to next week's agenda (on
    aphillips) due 2024-05-16

      [13] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/97

    <addison> close #97

    <gb> Closed [14]issue #97

      [14] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/97

    <addison> #96

    <gb> [15]Action 96 evaluate and where necessary fix
    i18n-glossary#76 (on r12a) due 2024-05-02

      [15] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/96

    <addison> #93

    <gb> [16]Action 93 create best practices for consumers in
    string-meta (on aphillips) due 2024-04-25

      [16] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/93

    <addison> #90

    <gb> [17]Action 90 steal some of henri's text from
    scroll-to-text-fragment for string-search (on aphillips) due
    2024-04-18

      [17] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/90

    <addison> #89

    <gb> [18]Action 89 update i18n specs to support dark mode (on
    xfq) due 2024-04-18

      [18] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/89

    <addison> #87

    <gb> [19]Action 87 write to IETF ADs about RFC9457 with JcK's
    assistance (on aphillips) due 2024-04-04

      [19] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/87

    <addison> #79

    <gb> [20]Action 79 schedule a follow-up call with WHATNOT in
    ~April (on aphillips) due 2024-03-07

      [20] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/79

    <addison> #78

    <gb> [21]Action 78 compare infra to i18n-glossary export list
    and report back (on aphillips) due 2024-03-07

      [21] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/78

    <addison> #43

    <gb> [22]Action 43 pull together the list of win/mac/etc apis
    for setting base direction and/or language (on aphillips) due
    2023-09-18

      [22] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/43

    <addison> #33

    <gb> [23]Action 33 Close issues marked `close?` or bring to WG
    for further review (on aphillips)

      [23] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/33

    <addison> #12

    <gb> [24]Action 12 Upgrade/edit the explainer to address issues
    raised by google (on aphillips) due 18 Jul 2023

      [24] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/12

    <addison> close #12

    <gb> Closed [25]issue #12

      [25] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/12

    <addison> #8

    <gb> [26]Action 8 Follow up on the status of Canvas and
    formatted text (on aphillips) due 18 Jul 2023

      [26] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/8

    <addison> #7

    <gb> [27]Action 7 Remind shepherds to tend to their awaiting
    comment resolutions (Evergreen) (on aphillips, xfq, himorin,
    r12a, bert-github) due 18 Jul 2023

      [27] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/7

    <addison> #4

    <gb> [28]Action 4 Work with respec and bikeshed to provide the
    character markup template as easy-to-use markup (on r12a) due
    27 Jul 2023

      [28] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/4

   Info Share

    addison: Ben Allen from Igalia
    … new member
    … if you need anything, don't suffer and be silence

    Ben: what got me interested in i18n in the first place is I was
    annoyed in my 1st semester intro to programming class
    … when people couldn't do introductory assignments involving
    use of their own name
    … because the number of chars in their name would get counted
    wrong
    … I've been on TC39-TG2 for 1.5 years now
    … I just need to get to know the W3C side

    r12a: I've been in the W3C for 21 years

    Bert: I've been in the W3C for a very long time
    … I've been doing CSS, HTML, XML, some privacy stuff
    … a lot of different things

    atsushi: I'm from Japan
    … working in several WGs
    … and the Japanese task force

    xfq: I'm Fuqiao Xue

   RADAR Review

    <addison> [29]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/projects/1

      [29] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/projects/1

    xfq: W3C Staff, Internationalization Lead since January this
    year
    … joined the W3C in 2017
    … based in Beijing, China

    addison: Addison Phillips
    … chair and IE of the group

   Pending Issue Review

    <addison> [30]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/
    issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Apending

      [30] 
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues?q=is:issue+is:open+label:pending

   Ruby-t2s-req as a DNOTE?

    addison: there was an email from fantasai
    … about converting one of Murata-san's document into a draft
    note

    <addison> [31]https://w3c.github.io/ruby-t2s-req/

      [31] https://w3c.github.io/ruby-t2s-req/

    <addison> [32]https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/
    member-i18n-core/2024May/0002.html

      [32] 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2024May/0002.html

    addison: there were a couple of emails on our member list about
    it

    atsushi: I have no additional info other than Murata-san shared
    in the email
    … he's working on this and will finish it

    xfq: @@1
    … we can wait Murata-san to work on it

   Is the string-meta explainer finished?

    addison: anything else on that?

    <addison> [33]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/blob/
    gh-pages/explainers/string-meta-explainer.md

      [33] 
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/blob/gh-pages/explainers/string-meta-explainer.md

    addison: see ^

    addison: is this document done or does it need more work?

    <addison> [34]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/blob/
    gh-pages/explainers/
    string-meta-explainer.md#if-i-have-direction-metadata-how-can-i
    -make-use-of-it-in-apis-or-display-frameworks-are-there-apis-th
    at-use-this-metadata

      [34] 
https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/blob/gh-pages/explainers/string-meta-explainer.md#if-i-have-direction-metadata-how-can-i-make-use-of-it-in-apis-or-display-frameworks-are-there-apis-that-use-this-metadata

    addison: ongoing work to convert the API reference section to
    an article

    r12a: there's a piece of text with a brown background
    … is it supposed to be like that?

    addison: because it's not really JSON
    … because we have "..."

    r12a: it looks like the document is broken

    xfq: maybe you can use three three backticks in a row, without
    'json' after it
    … for the fenced code blocks

    addison: yeah, that would get rid of the brown

    <addison> [35]https://w3c.github.io/i18n-discuss/explainers/
    bidi-html-demo.html?item=4&dir=rtl

      [35] 
https://w3c.github.io/i18n-discuss/explainers/bidi-html-demo.html?item=4&dir=rtl

    addison: there was a thread somewhere about the Arabic text
    … sent by Najib

    xfq: it's about another page, but the text is probably the same

    addison: if you go down underneath References, you'll see very
    small little numbers and text
    … those are footnotes in Markdown
    … I could convert these to just plain links

    r12a: it would be a lot easier
    … because you've got the same kind of numbering going on in
    References
    … that doesn't look terribly prominent

    xfq: the API reference section will be removed once we have the
    article, right?

    addison: yeahk, we'll probably have a link to the article
    … rather than maintaining it in 2 places

    xfq: the Chinese and Japanese examples also link to the
    "Bidirectional Text Demo" page

    addison: yes, it should select the correct font there

    xfq: maybe we should rename the "Bidirectional Text Demo" page
    to something more general
    … because it also demonstrates non-bidi text

    addison: maybe we call it "string-meta demo"

    雪, 刃, 直, 令, 垔 (Japanese)

    雪, 刃, 直, 令, 垔 (Simplfied Chinese)

    r12a: the first line is Japanese
    … Kaku Gothic
    … the second is PingFang

    addison: that's your system
    … the Markdown has <span lang=ja/zh-Hans>
    … your browser should demonstrate the difference between the
    chars visually based on the language selection
    … my browser does a decent job

    [36]https://www.w3.org/International/articles/
    lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en.html

      [36] 
https://www.w3.org/International/articles/lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en.html

    [37]https://www.w3.org/International/articles/
    lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en.html#text_processing

      [37] 
https://www.w3.org/International/articles/lang-bidi-use-cases/index.en.html#text_processing

    [Discuss SC/TC/Japanese font selection]

    ACTION: richard: fix code points examples in
    lang-bidi-use-cases

    <gb> Created [38]action #98

      [38] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-actions/issues/98

    xfq: [39]https://www.w3.org/International/articles/
    lang-bidi-use-cases/index-data/codepoints#fig_ja_zh_fonts uses
    zh instead of zh-Hant
    … but it should use zh-Hant instead

      [39] 
https://www.w3.org/International/articles/lang-bidi-use-cases/index-data/codepoints#fig_ja_zh_fonts

    <Najib> HI

    <Najib> If necessary, action on me to provide a new text for
    the Arabic example.

    <Najib> It appears also elsewhere.

    <addison> yes, please: did you already do that in the issue
    with richard?

    <Najib> ?

    ACTION: najib: provide new arabic example text for explainer

    <gb> Cannot create action. Validation failed. Maybe najib is
    not a valid user for w3c/i18n-actions?

    <Najib> May be

    ACTION: ntounsi: provide new arabic example text for explainer

    <gb> Cannot create action. Validation failed. Maybe ntounsi is
    not a valid user for w3c/i18n-actions?

    <Najib> I already had actions

    <Najib> Please go ahead.

   AOB?

    [40]w3c/i18n-drafts#550

      [40] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/pull/550

    <gb> [41]Pull Request 550 Update the titles of the techniques
    page (by xfq)

      [41] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/pull/550

    xfq: see the PR ^

    addison: it looks weird to me to have an article with non-title
    case title

    [42]https://w3c.studio24.net/docs/
    proposed-site-map-v2/#sentence-case-for-navigation-labels-and-h
    eadings

      [42] 
https://w3c.studio24.net/docs/proposed-site-map-v2/#sentence-case-for-navigation-labels-and-headings

    addison: I don't care that much, but I think it looks weird

    r12a: well, only if you're volunteering to change all of the
    article titles

    addison: I'm not volunteering to do any work on this ;-)

Summary of action items

     1. [43]richard: fix code points examples in
        lang-bidi-use-cases
     2. [44]najib: provide new arabic example text for explainer
     3. [45]ntounsi: provide new arabic example text for explainer

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