1445749 - [iOS] Set up the list of locales shipping for v11

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for iOS :: Localization, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Delphine Lebédel]

The list for v10.x can be found here: 
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/v10.x/shipping_locales.txt

For the record: please note l10n has a new shipping criteria for locales:

Before, we used to be much "stricter" on the completion of a locale in
order for it to ship. However, studies and research[1] have shown that
it's a better user experience to ship partially completed locales
(even if minimally localized), rather than a completely localized
version.

On a side (but related) note, a colleague went to the Unicode
conference, where Google held a talk[2] showing their
studies show that many users in India use an English UI, however have
no idea what the language means and navigate by using visual cues.

On top of this, we think having partially localized available products
can be an incentive for people to get involved in localizing the
products (this has happened in the past in our own experience).

This has got us to reconsider our process for sign-offs on localized
products. We are going to start shipping locales that have reached at
least 30% completion, and will only in very rare occasions drop
locales. According to feedback, and monitoring closely the upcoming
versions, we may even drop that percentage and include all locales as
long as there is *something* there.

We (community and me) will still continue of course to monitor the
screenshots to make sure that nothing is broken, that there is no
major truncation, that fonts appear correctly (amongst other things),
etc.

I'll update this bug once I've updated the files in GitHub (today).

[1] http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com/Default.aspx?Contenttype=ArticleDetAD&tabID=63&Aid=47243&moduleId=390#Partial%A0
[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2BGM-X5w7KgLU11dEZLTUlWZlU/view

Comment 1

[Delphine Lebédel]

Breakdown:

* Total of 81 locales for v11 (vs 73 in v10) = 8 new locales
* We are also now adding our 4 RTL locales \o/
* New locales are: Aragonese (an), Arabic (ar), Persian (fa), Hebrew (he), Croatian (hr), Georgian (ka), Occitan (oc), Urdu (ur).

Comment 2

[Delphine Lebédel]

Opened:
For v11.x: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/3758
For Master: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/3759

Comment 3

[Delphine Lebédel]

Merged. Closing bug.