[Caminol10n] A few questions on the localization of Camino 2.0

[Smokey Ardisson]

At 5:39 PM +0200 on 7/1/09, Markus Amalthea Magnuson wrote:

>* Are we supposed to translate "Camino Crash Reporter"?

Yes.  It's entirely strings-based, with strings in Camino Crash 
Reporter.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings, 
Camino Crash 
Reporter.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings, and 
one string that's read from 
Camino.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings

Or do you mean are you supposed to localize the "Crash Reporter" part 
of that string?  I'd use your judgement as a localizer as to what 
would be most understandable to your users.  (We'll be referring to 
it in our English documentation as "Camino Crash Reporter" or "Crash 
Reporter", just like we do all of the other jargon-y features like 
the "pop-up blocker" or the "Bookmark Manager".)

>* Are we really supposed to translate internal error messages such as:

See my messages to the list 
http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/caminol10n/2009-June/002598.html and 
http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/caminol10n/2009-June/002614.html

>"The "coords" attribute of the <area shape="rect"> tag is not in the
>"left,top,right,bottom" format." and similar ones? In general a huge
>amount of the new strings seems to be of this kind, are all of these
>actually visible in Camino?

These "internal error messages" typically show up in the Console if 
you have the hidden pref to show them.  I haven't had the time to 
finish auditing all of them to see which ones are ignored by the 
localization system (or are only relevant to XUL apps despite being 
Core strings).

>* In the file global_locale_printdialog_properties.strings there are
>strings with question marks in them, which I suppose have some special
>meaning. What do the marks do?

You mean & (ampersands)?  Those are Windows access key markers :P 
That file is only used on Windows and Linux; our print dialogue is 
defined in the PrintPDE's nib.

>* In the file global-region_locale_region_properties.strings there is
>the string "Starting Plugin for type", does the word "type" here have
>any special meaning, i.e. are being replace on run time?

No, the actual type is postpended to the string by code somewhere (it 
looks like it's only used by Java), so the final string you'd see is 
something like "Starting plugin for type application/x-java-vm".

Best,
Smokey
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