61863 - Platform specific L10n files prevent XP Language Packs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61626

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect, P3)

Description

[Robert Kaiser]

Files listed in http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_what2.html#platform
such as
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/components/prefwindow/resources/locale/en-US/unix/platformPrefOverlay.dtd
do prevent us from making real XP Language Packs!

As platformPrefOverlay.dtd has less entities on Unix than on Windows, I can't
use the XPI Package created by MozillaTranslator (Linux) on a Windows platform
(see bug 60900), other files may stop packages from working the other way round.

Can't we include all entities we use on our platforms in the L10n files? In this
case, we would at least be able to use the files on all platforms.

The _real_ XP solution would IMHO be use of entities like win32.mousewheel.label
(<platform>.<current entity name>) in platform*.* files, and no different
.dtd/.properties files for different platforms. If only XUL (perhaps also .js)
files would vary in use of unix.*/win32.*/mac.*/whatever entities, we would be
able to really provide one Language Pack for all Mozilla platforms...

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

Affected files seem to be only 5 .dtd files, listed at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_what2.html#platform

Comment 2

[tao]

I am taking this over

Comment 3

[tao]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61626 ***

Comment 4

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified as dup.