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| 18 | <h1>useful resources for L10n work</h1> |
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| 21 | There are a few places to look for Mozilla L10n resources currently: |
| 22 | <ul> |
| 23 | <li><b>MLP</b>: The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/">Mozilla Localization Project</a> |
| 24 | is hosted on mozilla.org and contains a list of all major contributors to all languages supported on any |
| 25 | Mozilla version. There's a small howto, a page with various locale packs available for Mozilla, and |
| 26 | <a href="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/l10n/lang/">ftp.mozilla.org</a> |
| 27 | hosts downloads for locale packs and localized Mozilla binaries. |
| 28 | (There are currently 89 L10n projects [excluding en-US] registered, 10 projects have released 1.3a versions, |
| 29 | 30 have 1.2.1 available).</li> |
| 30 | <li><b>MozillaTranslator</b>: The <a href="http://www.mozillatranslator.org/">MozillaTranslator</a> tool |
| 31 | has its own website, with a mini-howto (contributors to the documentation wanted!), downloads of |
| 32 | the tool itself as well as its source code, and a download page for language packs |
| 33 | (often a bit outdated though).</li> |
| 34 | <li><b>Creating Applications with Mozilla</b>: <a href="http://books.mozdev.org/chapters/ch11.html">Chapter 11</a> |
| 35 | of the book about creating Mozilla applications (this chapter was written by Brian King) |
| 36 | is worth a look as well, esp. if you're writing your own application using the Mozilla framework |
| 37 | (I haven't come around to read it though).</li> |
| 38 | <li><b>l10ntools</b>: Finally, the new <a href="http://l10ntools.mozdev.org/">l10ntools MozDev project</a> |
| 39 | is currently built up and should contain a bunch of tools to deal with L10n work, some docs, and some |
| 40 | link to those other resources. |
| 41 | <br>One subproject is <b>mozpotools</b>, which allows converting Mozilla's locale files to the GNU gettext |
| 42 | .po format, use the common translation tools for that format (KBabel etc.), and then convert the files back |
| 43 | to Mozilla's format. |
| 44 | <br>l10ntools will also provide <b>XPI install scripts</b> for use in a locale's installable XPI language packs, |
| 45 | <b>scripts for creating XPI packs</b> from the .jar files that get exported by MozillaTranslator, and even |
| 46 | <b>scripts for creating localized binaries</b> from the XPI file created above and an existing .tar.gz or .zip |
| 47 | binary Mozilla build, as well as <b>some documentation</b> about those tools and prbably general L10n issues. |
| 48 | Other useful tools will probably be added if people give them to us.</li> |
| 49 | </ul> |
| 50 | In the future, <b>l10ntools</b> should have link to all those resources (or host them theirselves). |
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