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

[Smokey Ardisson]

At 10:51 PM +0200 on 7/4/09, Markus Amalthea Magnuson wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 21:58, Smokey Ardisson<alqahira at ardisson.org> wrote:
>
>>  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).
>
>Could you give me some pointers on how to proceed with this, I could
>give you a hand.

Thanks, Markus;  see the top section of 
http://wiki.caminobrowser.org/User:Sardisson/Localizing_Gecko_Strings 
Having a build with the tableName NSLog() is not absolutely necessary 
(so you could do testing with b3/a nightly), but it is useful.  The 
hardest part is really step 2; it's time-consuming if, like me, you 
don't interact with Gecko code very much (or if, also like me, you 
don't really code ;-) ).  If you have more specific questions, it's 
probably easiest if you catch me on irc sometime.

>  > 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.
>
>So how would I go about filing a bug on not using that file in the
>Camino localization?

The plan is to remove the unused files en masse as part of bug 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394105 before l10n 
freeze; right now I'm just collecting the list on the wiki page so we 
don't spam the bug file-by-file.  I had really hoped to have had more 
time to attend to this earlier in the 2.0 cycle so everyone would 
have fewer strings to translate, but I've had too many other things 
end up on my plate. :-(

Best,
Smokey
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