Axel Hecht Mozilla in Your Language

November 6, 2008

FOSDEM 2009

Filed under: Mozilla — Tags: — Axel Hecht @ 11:27 am

FOSDEM 2009 will be on February 7/8. Please block your schedules for that weekend, as it will be great as ever.

If you’re in Europe, you know that you want to come. If you’re not, you know that John suggested to try Europe out, and there’s hardly a better chance to do so than FOSDEM.

“This” years program committee will be Brian King, Paul Rouget and me. If you’re interested in presenting, please add yourself to the session proposals on the wiki. We’ll start this off as free-form as you’re used to.

As always, we’re going to keep you updated on things as we find them out, more details to come.

November 5, 2008

extensions, l10n, and tools

Filed under: L10n,Mozilla — Tags: , — Axel Hecht @ 4:15 pm

Wladimir Palant has two recent posts on perl scripts he did for helping him in managing localizations for Adblock Plus and TomTom Home.

Sadly, Wladimir ignored about a year of development in the compare-locales work, and a whole other flock of utilities available as part of the translation toolkit.

This year of development is the result of testing almost 80 different locales against up to 4 different applications and thousands of localizable strings, trying to catch more and more fatal errors in each update. The development hasn’t stopped yet, too. There is more in-depth work going on in Gandalf’s Silme project, for example.

While I appreciate that more folks are paying attention to l10n and extensions, it’s unfortunate to see such work being invested in steps back in capabilities.

Another approach was recently started by Jean-Bernard “Goofy” on the babelzilla wiki and forum. I’m looking forward to add to and help with that project.

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