User:GPHemsley/BCP 47/2011-06-27

Call info

• Monday, June 27, 17:00 UTC (10 AM PT, 12 PM CT, 1 PM ET)
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 251 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 251 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #l10n for backchannel

Participants

• Gordon P. Hemsley
• Jonathan Kew
• Simon Montagu
• Kevin Scannell

Notes

• Fonts really need a revamping
  • Really need to talk to UX
  • Current system is from legacy support for disparate encodings (irrelevant in the post-Unicode world)
  • The future will eliminate 'accept' and implement preferences using wildcards
  • Code today generally only cares about the Unicode character ranges to determine proper fonts, though knowledge of language could help focus that choice further
• Project branch for all this work
  • Simon will help oversee things
• Look into Unicode's CLDR to localize language, script, region, and variant names
• Code changes will involve C/C++ changes
  • Mostly located in intl/locale/src/
  • Some graphics stuff in gfx/thebes/

Links

• bug 556237 – Implement font and encoding negotiation based on BCP 47
• bug 192636 – Map *-Latn languages to Western script (ISO 15924 script codes)
• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/e338daa71bc2/intl/locale/src/
• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/e338daa71bc2/intl/locale/tests/
• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/e338daa71bc2/layout/reftests/font-matching/
• http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/e338daa71bc2/layout/reftests/text/