125446 - Are the localization notes in <mimeheader.properties> correct ?

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Localization, defect)

Description

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looking at the blame log (http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvslog.cgi?
file=mozilla/mailnews/mime/resources/mimeheader.properties) [e-mail] 
 added some localizations notes.  

if localizers followed them, we wouldn't localize a few of the headers.

 25 # LOCALIZATION NOTE (BCC); DONT_TRANSLATE
 26 BCC=BCC
 27 # LOCALIZATION NOTE (CC); DONT_TRANSLATE
 28 CC=CC
 31 # LOCALIZATION NOTE (FCC); DONT_TRANSLATE
 32 FCC=FCC
 49 # LOCALIZATION NOTE (RESENT-CC); Do not translate "CC"
 50 RESENT-CC=Resent-CC

If localizers don't localize those, it would affect printing.

I'm not 100% certain those localization notes are correct, but I haven't 
investigated.

Comment 1

[ji]

Added localization engineers to the cc list.
For some Cummunicator 4.x localized versions, like Simplified Chinese 4.51, we
translated those headers, and for Japanese 6.x, we didn't translate those as a
conservative approach. We may need to translate those strings for the next
release, since we can have pseudo localized builds now and we should be able to
find problems at earlier stage.

Comment 2

[rchen]

->rchen.

Comment 3

[ji]

Renominating.
Now bug 86980 is fixed, but on a Ja build I still see the mail headers are in
English after printed out.

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

this is used for 1) printing and also 2) forward inline and maybe something
else. For forward inline, if we translate it, we will have problem. So we cannot
translate it base on that reason. 
nsbeta1-

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> looking at the blame log (http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvslog.cgi?
> file=mozilla/mailnews/mime/resources/mimeheader.properties) [e-mail] 

<http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla/mailnews/mime/resources/mimeheader.properties&mark=1.4>

***

{{
/mail/locales/en-US/chrome/messenger/mimeheader.properties
/suite/locales/en-US/chrome/mailnews/mimeheader.properties
/mailnews/mime/resources/mimeheader.properties
}}

Dumb question:
Is the latter needed or should it be removed ?
Or could SM and TB use it instead of theirs (duplicates) ?

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

That notice doesn't exist anymore - https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mail/locales/en-US/chrome/messenger/mimeheader.properties