1422760 - [cak] Strings longer than allowed in pipnss.properties

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: cak / Kaqchikel, defect)

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 and need to be fixed:

- Fips140SlotDescription (FIPS 140 Chib'äl taq samaj, richin ewan tzij chuqa' ruwujil b'i'aj) is longer than 64 bytes (current length: 67 bytes)
- Fips140TokenDescription (Kema' okisaxel richin jikomal (FIPS)) is longer than 32 bytes (current length: 36 bytes)
- LibraryDescription (PSM aj rupam chib'alil taq ruk'u'x samja) is longer than 32 bytes (current length: 40 bytes)

Strings are available in this file in Pontoon
https://pontoon.mozilla.org/cak/firefox/security/manager/chrome/pipnss/pipnss.properties/

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HOW TO FIX THIS BUG

To check the length of a string, you can use the Browser 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, keeping the surrounding quotes

(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 characters. 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]]

Juan, is there anyone keeping an eye on bugs for cak?
https://mozilla-l10n.github.io/localizer-documentation/misc/bugzilla_l10n.html

Comment 2

[Juan Ajsivinac]

Hi Flod
I just made the changes in the three chains, it is very true that there is a bit limit, however I never read the comments of each of the channels, I'm sorry. How can I check other chains with similar case?

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Juan Ajsivinac from comment #2)
> Hi Flod
> I just made the changes in the three chains, it is very true that there is a
> bit limit, however I never read the comments of each of the channels, I'm
> sorry. How can I check other chains with similar case?

These are the only strings with this kind of limitations. We hope to have checks in the future.

The problem looks fixed, thanks!
https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/cak/rev/a4fa0435f8c8

P.S. please make that someone in the team is receiving emails for bugs filed in cak