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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:
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33 (often a bit outdated though).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
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>
50 In the future, <b>l10ntools</b> should have link to all those resources (or host them theirselves).