+
+ - no fallback mechanism: If people would try to use some non-fitting locale packs, they get
+ crashes and XML errors because we have no fallback if lookup for
+ a locale string fails somewhere (string or file not found).
+ See bug 71797.
+ - SeaMonkey vs. Aviary: The differences between SeaMonkey and the "aviary" applications based on the new toolkit
+ make work difficult sometimes fot getting source L10n to work correctly.
+
L10n work for the two product lines is getting more and more different,
+ though the source files are similar or identical on both sides.
+
This situation would get much better if we
+ port seamonkey to "new toolkit"/xulrunner,
+ 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 out there).
+ - MLP web pages are a mess: We (MLP staff) know about that, and we are working on it. See
+ MozillaWiki - L10n:MLP_page_structure.
+
- L12y bugs: Just as a reminder, we have some localizability problems left in Mozilla code.
+
All relevant bugs (should) have the "L12y" keyword set.
+ Query for All bugs with L12y keyword set
+ (87 bugs found as of Wed Feb 23 12:56:11 PST 2005,
+ 48 of them in Core product,
+ 14 of them in "Mozilla Application Suite" (Seamonkey) product,
+ 13 of them in Firefox product,
+ 6 of them in Thunderbird product,
+ the other 6 in PSM, Update, mozilla.org).
+ - No stringbundles from non-privileged files: This started to hurt me when trying to make about:plugins
+ localizable (see bug 56863).
+ In fact, I had to give about:plugins full chrome privileges just to access stringbundles - this opened
+ a potential security issue though.
+ See bug 98298.
+ - XUL FastLoad problems: XUL FastLoad fails to update the strings
+ after a locale switch. There is a workaround in place (killing the FastLoad file),
+ which also fails sometimes, and was promised to be replaced by a fix for 1.1 final (!).
+ See bug 142623.
+
+This should be some points to start for contributors who want to help us, and an overview what's bugging us
+most currently. I'm sure the list is not complete, but it's what came to my mind when writing the slides...
+