Are you a locale leader and want us to include new members in our upcoming reports? Contact us!<\/a><\/p>\n In the past releases we reached a few small but important milestones for the Fluent project<\/a>:<\/p>\n For Firefox 60, currently in Nightly, we aim to migrate as many strings as possible to Fluent for Firefox Preferences. The process for these migrations is detailed in this email to dev-l10n<\/a>, and there are currently 2 patches almost ready to land, while a larger one for the General pane is in progress.<\/p>\n While Pontoon\u2019s documentation already had a section dedicated to Fluent<\/a>, constantly updated as the interface evolves, our documentation now has a section dedicated to Fluent for localizers<\/a>, explaining the basic syntax and some of the specific features available in Gecko.<\/p>\n We already talked about plurals in the December report<\/a>. The good news is that strings using the wrong number of plural forms are now reported on the l10n dashboard<\/a> (example<\/a>). Here\u2019s a summary of all you need to know about plurals.<\/p>\n How plurals work in .properties files<\/b> English has 2 plural forms, one for singular, and one for all other numbers. The situation is much more complex for other languages, reaching up to 5 or 6 plural forms. In Russian the same string has 3 forms, each one separated from the other by a semicolon:<\/p>\n The semicolon is a separator, not a standard punctuation element<\/b>:<\/p>\n Edge cases<\/b> Note that this string has still two plural forms, the first form (used for case ‘1’, or singular in English) is empty. That’s why the string starts with a semicolon. If your locale only has 1 form, you should drop the leading semicolon.<\/p>\n In other cases, the variable is indicated only in the second form:<\/p>\n If your locale only has 1 form, or use the first case for more than ‘1’, use the second sentence as reference for your translation.<\/p>\n There are also cases of “poor” plural forms, where the plural is actually used as a replacement for logic, like “1 vs many”. These are bugs, and should be fixed. For example, this string<\/a> was fixed in Firefox 59 (bug 658191<\/a>).<\/p>\n Known limitations<\/b> What about devtools?<\/b> You can ignore them, as there’s no way to exclude locales from DevTools, or fix them by creating the expected number of plural forms by copying the English text as many times as needed.<\/p>\n Future of plurals<\/b> You might have noticed that Focus (iOS\/Android) has been on a hiatus since mid-December 2017. That\u2019s because the small mobile team is focusing<\/a> on Firefox for Amazon Fire TV<\/a> development at the moment!<\/p>\n We should be kicking things off again some time in mid-February. A firm date is not confirmed yet, but stay tuned on our dev-l10n mailing list<\/a> for an upcoming announcement!<\/p>\n In the meantime, this means we are not shipping new locales on Focus, and we won’t be generating screenshots until the schedule resumes.<\/p>\n For Firefox on Fire TV – we are still figuring out which locales are officially supported by Amazon, and going to set up the l10n repositories to open it up to Mozilla localizations. There should also a language switcher in the works<\/a> very soon, too.<\/p>\n Concerning the Firefox for iOS schedule, it\u2019s almost time to kick-off l10n work for v11! Specific dates will be announced shortly – but expect strings to arrive towards the end of the month. March 29 will be the expected release date.<\/p>\n On the Firefox for Android front, we\u2019ve now released v58. With this new version we bring you two new locales: Nepali (ne-NP) and Bengali from Bangladesh (bn-BD)!<\/p>\n We\u2019re also in the process of adding Tagalog (tl), Khmer (km) and Mixteco Yucuhiti (meh) locales to all-locales to start Fennec single-locale builds.<\/p>\n Our 2017 fundraising campaign just finished, but we\u2019re already kicking off this year\u2019s campaign. A quick update on other localized campaigns:<\/p>\n The final countdown has started for the Internet Health Report! The second edition is on its way and should be published in March, this time again in English, German, French and Spanish.<\/p>\n Image by Elio Qoshi<\/p><\/div>\n Shout out to Adrien G,<\/a> aka Alpha, for his continuous dedication to French localization on Pontoon and his great progress! He is now an official team member, and we\u2019re happy to have him take on more responsibilities. 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Plural forms<\/h4>\n
\nPlural forms in Firefox and Firefox for Android are obtained using a hack on top of .properties files (plural forms are separated by a semicolon). For example:<\/p>\n#1 tab has arrived from #2;#1 tabs have arrived from #2<\/pre>\n
\u0421 #2 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0435\u043d\u0430 #1 \u0432\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u043a\u0430;\u0421 #2 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e #1 \u0432\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u043a\u0438;\u0421 #2 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043e #1 \u0432\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u043e\u043a<\/pre>\n
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\nSometimes English only has one form, because the string is used for cases where the number is always bigger than 1.<\/p>\n;Close #1 tabs<\/pre>\n
Close one tab;Close #1 tabs<\/pre>\n
\nPlurals form in Gecko are supported only in .properties files, and JavaScript code (not C++).<\/p>\n
\nIf your locale has more plural forms than English, and you’re copying and pasting English into DevTools strings, the l10n dashboard will show warnings.<\/p>\n
\nWith Fluent, plurals become much more flexible<\/a>, allowing locales to create special cases beyond the number of forms expected for their language.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s new or coming up in mobile<\/h3>\n
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