1422742 - [ach] Strings longer than allowed in pipnss.properties

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ach / Acholi, enhancement)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

pipnss.properties includes a few special strings with hard length limits
https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n/gecko-strings/file/default/security/manager/chrome/pipnss/pipnss.properties#l10

Once converted to UTF-8, the string needs to be shorter than the specified limit (32 or 64 bytes), otherwise it will be truncated in the interface.

There are currently some strings in your localization that exceed this limit:

Fips140TokenDescription (Nyonyo me Gwoko kuc me purugram (FIPS)) is longer than 32 bytes (current length: 38 bytes)

To check the length of a string, you can use the Console in Firefox:
1. Open Tools->Web Developer->Browser Console
2. In the input field at the bottom of the window copy and paste the following code, replacing YOURSTRING with your actual translation

(new TextEncoder('utf-8').encode('YOURSTRING')).length

3. Press enter

The number displayed is the current string length.

One important consideration: it might be impossible for some languages to come up with a reasonable translation within these limits, since the length in bytes does not match the length in character. For example: "cookie" is 6 bytes, "కుకీలు" is 18 bytes.

In this case, it's better to keep the English text than a translation that won't be understandable because of truncations.

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Looks like this was fixed
https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ach/rev/ee96c965c0cf