Closed Bug 1764916 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

i18n: language code nds not resolved in spell checker list

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(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Firefox 99
defect

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: giacomo.dantonio, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Steps to reproduce:

I'm writing an add-on to add low german (nds) spell check to Firefox.
So far the spell check works when I load the add-on in debug mode.

To test it out on your side, you need to clone this repository and add the add-on in the about:debugging page: https://github.com/giacomo-dantonio/mozilla_nds_addon

Actual results:

When I open the context menu for spell check, the language is shown as "nds (Deutschland)". All other languages are shown with their colloquial names (e.g. Niederländisch, or Englisch, etc.).

I'm attaching a screenshot of this.

Expected results:

The menu entry for nds should have been "Niederdeutsch (Deutschland)" or "Plattdeutsch (Deutschland)", or something similar.

Since nds is an ISO 639-2 code, I think this is reasonable.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Spelling checker' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Spelling checker
Product: Firefox → Core

That's correct.

There are hundreds of language names (ISO 639-2 has more than 500), so we consciously only add locales that we ship in Firefox at this point. Adding a locale name to that file is part of a checklist when a localization moves to Beta, not even when they start in Nightly.

I'm afraid this makes it a WONTFIX.

Flags: needinfo?(francesco.lodolo)

Thanks!

I feel like there should be a way to show at least an untranslated language name so that it can at least show a human readable word, but I understand that this is a fairly niche case.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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