{"id":1339,"date":"2009-03-10T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2009-03-10T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T18:36:15","slug":"ubiquity-internationalization-blogging-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/03\/ubiquity-internationalization-blogging-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubiquity internationalization blogging roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of good discussion lately about the problem of internationalizing Ubiquity&#8217;s command-line interface.  Because the CLI has notions about natural-language grammar embedded in it, localizing the interface to another language is not just a matter of substituting strings.  It will require more effort, but also potentially offers more reward.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the discussion has been taking place on personal weblogs, which makes it a bit hard to follow what&#8217;s been going on.  To counteract that, here&#8217;s a round-up of important articles that have been written so far.<\/p>\n<h4>Describing the general problem:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/01\/\u30d0\u30d3\u30eb\u306e\u5854\/\">The Tower of Babel<\/a>, by Jono<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/blog\/projects\/localizing-ubiquity-an-open-letter-to-linguists\/\">Localizing Ubiquity: an Open Letter to Linguists<\/a>, by Mitcho<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Language-specific articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/felipe.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/03\/thinking-ubiquity-in-portuguese\/\">Thinking Ubiquity in Portugese<\/a>, by Felipe<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/blog\/projects\/ubiquity-in-firefox-japanese\/\">Focus on Japanese<\/a>, by Mitcho<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yetanothertechblog.com\/2009\/03\/08\/thinking-ubiquity-in-italian\/\">Thinking Ubiquity in Italian<\/a>, by Flod<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Proposals for partial solutions:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mitcho.com\/blog\/projects\/writing-commands-with-semantic-roles\/\">Writing Commands with Semantic Roles<\/a>, by Mitcho<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/24\/overlord-verbs-a-proposal\/\">Overlord Verbs: a Proposal<\/a>, by Jono<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/23\/verb-final-languages-an-advantage\/\">Verb-final languages: An advantage?<\/a> by Jono<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is also now a mailing list, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/ubiquity-i18n\">ubiquity-i18n@googlegroups.com<\/a>, for discussing internationalization of Ubiquity.  We are eager for your feedback, especially if you&#8217;re a localizer in the Mozilla community.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Jono, on behalf of Ubiquity development team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of good discussion lately about the problem of internationalizing Ubiquity&#8217;s command-line interface. Because the CLI has notions about natural-language grammar embedded in it, localizing the interface to another language is not just a matter of &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/03\/ubiquity-internationalization-blogging-roundup\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12679,529],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}