1008296 - Add Norsk Bokmål to MDN

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, defect)

Description

[Jørgen Juel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140506152807

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to localize MDN to Norwegian Bokmål.


Actual results:

I could'nt, Norwegian Bokmål does not exist.


Expected results:

I would like to request that you add the no-BM as a new localization in Verbatim. The langauge is Norsk (Bokmål).

Comment 1

[Janet Swisher]

I think we usually use ISO 639-1 locale codes, so it would be 'nb' not 'no-BM'. We also don't usually use the territory code unless there's a need to have very different translations for different geographies. With that modification, please go ahead.

Comment 2

[Rob Hudson [:robhudson]]

If we match Firefox's language codes [1], which I believe we usually do, this would be "nb-NO".

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/libs/product-details/json/languages.json?view=markup

Comment 3

[Jannis Leidel [:jezdez]]

FWIW Django uses "nb" for the Norsk Bokmål translations, but MDN seems to be using Firefox's languages for some of the locales. That type of inconsistency needs to be cleared up before we make things worse.

Comment 4

[Janet Swisher]

Note that MDN now has a defined process for starting new localizations: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Contribute/Localize/Starting_a_localization

If there is still interest in this locale, please take a look, and reach out to the MDN community (as noted in that article).

Other projects in Pontoon use nb-NO, so I guess we should use that too.

Comment 5

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

The current situation is that Pontoon supports these languages:

Norwegian Bokmål (nb-NO)
https://pontoon.mozilla.org/nb-NO/

Norwegian Nynorsk (nn-NO)
https://pontoon.mozilla.org/nn-NO/

Both appear active on Pontoon, with a lot of overlap between teams and the same manager. If the translation team wants to take on MDN, they can follow the process for starting a localization.

I'm closing this request, because 1) it's very stale, 2) there is no "no-BM" team on Pontoon, so that would be needed first.