Enhanced Global Language Support
Sub-group dependencies
Some EGLS requirements are special cases of those of the Styling and Layout Sub-group.
Phonetics and sorting keys for metadata has EGLS issues. See Metadata sub-group.
Participants
| Name | Organization | Role | UT time | Preferred con call time |
| MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) | JEPA | (coordinator) | UTC/GMT +9 | |
| Karen Broome | Sony Electronics, Inc. | | UTC/GMT -8 | |
| Joshua Tallent | eBook Architects | | UTC/GMT -5 | anytime during the week. No Friday night or Saturday calls. |
| Tommy Lee | EZRead Inc. | | UTC/GMT +8 | best local time for conference calls: 7:00am - 10:00pm |
| Catherine Zekri | University of Montreal | | UTC/GMT -5 | |
| Mei-Li Chen | Institute of Information Industry | | UTC/GMT +8 | 00:00 ~ 04:00 UTC |
| Cho Ching Lu | Institute of Information Industry | | UTC/GMT +8 | 00:00 ~ 04:00 UTC |
| Si Wei Wang | Institute of Information Industry | | UTC/GMT +8 | 00:00 ~ 04:00 UTC |
| Takeshi Kanai | Sony Electronics | | UTC/GMT-8 | 1PM - 4PM |
| Kyoji Tahara | Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. | | UTC/GMT +9 | best time : 9:00-18:00 |
| Shu Tanabe | Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. | | UTC/GMT +9 | best time : 9:00-18:00 |
| Brady Duga | eBook Technologies | WG vice chair | UTC-7/8 | prefer 17:00 - 22:00 UTC (15:00 - 03:00 is ok) |
| Yu Ming Chang | CMEX | | UTC/GMT +8 | |
| Lin Mei Wei | CMEX | | UTC/GMT +8 | |
| Peter Lin | CMEX | | UTC/GMT +8 | |
| Hisashi Hoda | Voyager | | UTC/GMT+9 | best local time: 9:00-18:00 |
| Daihei Shiohama | Voyager | | UTC/GMT-8 | best local time: 9:00-18:00 |
| HyunYoung Kim | Incube Technologies, Inc | | UTC/GMT +9 | best time: 10:00-17:00 |
| KangHee Jung | Incube Technologies, Inc | | UTC/GMT +9 | best time: 10:00-17:00 |
Mission
This sub-group is tasked to enhance global language support in EPUB 2.1. See the second problem in "Current Industry Problems" in the charter: http://www.idpf.org/idpf_groups/IDPF-EPUB-WG-Charter-4-27-2010.html
The list of relevant lightning talks in the f2f: http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/wiki/F2F201006Agenda#Global_Language_Support
Background information
Contributions from EGLS members
External resources
- Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts
- Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts (W3C I18N WG)
- Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts (W3C Working Group Note 08 September 2009)
- Unicode Technical Note #22 Robust Vertical Text Layout
- Requirements for Japanese Text Layout, W3C Working Group Note, 4 June 2009
- Using Vertical Layout in Internet Explorer 5.5, Microsoft Corporation, Mark Grinols, October 2000
- Editor's Draft of CSS Text Layout Module Level 3, W3C
- Working Draft of CSS Text Level 3, W3C
- Candidate Recommendation of CSS3 Ruby Module, W3C
- Recommendation of Ruby Annotation, W3C
- Working Draft of CSS3 module: line, W3C
- JIS Z 8125:2004, "Graphic arts ― Glossary ― Digital printing", Japan Standards Association
- Ruby use cases from the JLReq document
Hebrew Requirements: The directionality and binding requirements specified for CJK languages will apply to Hebrew as well. I have some questions about how or if normalization/accent placement will be discussed in this process, but otherwise the requirements should not be different. (Joshua Tallent)
Process
The process overview of the entire WG
See "[egls] Our business plan" (Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:42:16 +0900), which was sent to the EPUB Revision WG mailing list.
Policies and guidelines of IDPF are available at Corporate Documents of IDPF.
Blueprint method
Requirements Guidelines shows useful hints for writing requirements.
Timeline
Timeline in the charter
Detailed timeline
Definitions
Page progression direction
Note: Do not use "binding direction" or "reading direction".
Writing mode (or text direction)
Note: Western manga sometimes uses the horizontal writing mode (lr-tb) and "right-to-left" page progression direction.
Scenarios
Issues
Technical Requirements
Specification