Firefox l10n

Dwayne Bailey dwayne at translate.org.za
Wed Mar 9 10:30:54 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:00 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> tir, 08.03.2005 kl. 15.57 skrev Dwayne Bailey:
> > Since Firefox is a default Fedora application when are we going to see
> > upstream l10n available to FC users?  The bugs seem to indicate a lack
> > of central FF l10n project.  This has changed and all FF l10n is in CVS
> > for the official languages.  Plus those that are released are listed.
> > 
> > We've been chatting on irc://irc.freenode.net/#pootle and it seems a
> > packager from Mandrake has created separate language RPMs for FF.  Would
> > be nice if we could have a similar setup on FC.
> 
> To have a separate binary for each language, would be a hell. 

No you misunderstood me.  firefox-language-af-1.0.1.rpm.  So you install
the languages you need.  Mandrake used to ship FF with all available
language already installed.

> Isn't
> Firefox able to check what language locale it runs under under start,
> and load the correct xpi (?) for the correct translation - and
> eventually fallback to english?

Yes it can.  Not sure if it will fallback to English.  -UILocale and
friends do that.

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