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| 19 | <h1>Current Problems In L10n Area (helpwanted!)</h1> |
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| 21 | <div class="explanation"> |
| 22 | <ul class="bugs"> |
| 23 | <li><b>no fallback mechanism</b>: If people would try to use some non-fitting locale packs, they get |
| 24 | <span class="hilite">crashes and XML errors</span> because we have no fallback if lookup for |
| 25 | a locale string fails somewhere (string or file not found). |
| 26 | See <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71797" title="Mozilla fails to fallback to another skin or locale if the preferences point to a non-existant one">bug 71797</a>.</li> |
| 27 | <li><b>SeaMonkey vs. Aviary</b>: The differences between SeaMonkey and the "aviary" applications based on the new toolkit |
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28 | make work difficult sometimes for getting source L10n to work correctly. |
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29 | <br>L10n work for the two product lines is getting <span class="hilite">more and more different</span>, |
| 30 | though the source files are similar or identical on both sides. |
| 31 | <br>This situation would get much better if we |
| 32 | <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/wiki/User:Biesi#port_seamonkey_to_.22new_toolkit.22.2Fxulrunner">port seamonkey to "new toolkit"/xulrunner</a>, |
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33 | we'd still need volunteers for that effort (this is not strictly L10n, but it affects us a lot, and we still have quite a lot of SeaMonkey L10n work happening out there). |
| 34 | <li><b>MLP web pages are a mess</b>: We (MLP staff) know about that, and we are <span class="hilite">working on it</span>. See |
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35 | <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/wiki/L10n:MLP_page_structure">MozillaWiki - L10n:MLP_page_structure</a>. |
| 36 | <li><b>L12y bugs</b>: Just as a reminder, we have some <span class="hilite">localizability problems</span> left in Mozilla code. |
| 37 | <br>All relevant bugs (should) have <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describekeywords.cgi#l12y">the "L12y" keyword</a> set. |
| 38 | Query for <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords_type=allwords&keywords=L12y&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED">All bugs with L12y keyword set</a> |
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39 | <small>(<span class="hilite">87 bugs found</span> as of Wed Feb 23 12:56:11 PST 2005, |
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40 | 48 of them in <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords_type=allwords&keywords=L12y&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Core">Core product</a>, |
| 41 | 14 of them in <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords_type=allwords&keywords=L12y&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Mozilla+Application+Suite">"Mozilla Application Suite" (Seamonkey) product</a>, |
| 42 | 13 of them in <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords_type=allwords&keywords=L12y&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Firefox">Firefox product</a>, |
| 43 | 6 of them in <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords_type=allwords&keywords=L12y&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Thunderbird">Thunderbird product</a>, |
| 44 | the other 6 in PSM, Update, mozilla.org)</small>.</li> |
| 45 | <li><b>No stringbundles from non-privileged files</b>: This started to hurt me when trying to make about:plugins |
| 46 | localizable (see <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56863" title="make about:plugins localizable">bug 56863</a>). |
| 47 | In fact, I had to give about:plugins full chrome privileges just to access stringbundles - this opened |
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48 | a <span class="hilite">potential security issue</span> though. |
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49 | See <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98298" title="do not have stringbundle access from about:plugins">bug 98298</a>.</li> |
| 50 | <li><b>XUL FastLoad problems</b>: XUL FastLoad fails to update the strings |
| 51 | <span class="hilite">after a locale switch</span>. There is a workaround in place (killing the FastLoad file), |
| 52 | which also fails sometimes, and was promised to be replaced by a fix for 1.1 final (!). |
| 53 | See <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142623" title="No reload of Language strings due to XUL FastLoad">bug 142623</a>.</li> |
| 54 | </ul> |
| 55 | This should be some points to start for contributors who want to help us, and an overview what's bugging us |
| 56 | most currently. I'm sure the list is not complete, but it's what came to my mind when writing the slides... |
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