370917 - (land-ml) Land Malayalam Firefox localization

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ml / Malayalam, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We should get the Malayalam localization landed on the trunk, and then branch it.

Joyce, you can attach your localization for pre-landing review to this bug.

Filing this bug in "Other", as the component for Malayalam is not up yet.

Comment 1

[Joyce K Babu]

Attachment: Malayalam Localization

Comment 2

[Joyce K Babu]

Attached the Localized files.

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Joyce, you would want to request a review on that attachement on me. r? with requestee [e-mail].

Then it'll be in my queue next week.

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Moving over the right component. I'll do the initial import, btw.

Comment 5

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Hrm. Did I say anywhere that I did do the initial landing, and added ml to the incubator? You can see a compile a triggered today on http://l10n.mozilla.org/buildbot/, the incubator build will pick up check-ins to the ml localization automatically. Right now, that's taking the localization from trunk and compares it against the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH, and creates a language pack for that.

Comment 6

[Ani Peter]

Hi,

I have downloaded the attachement - Malayalam Localization.
There are files which are not localized. Can I start working on those files

Thanks
Ani

Comment 7

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Ani, the best start is to actually pull the existing work from CVS. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Patching_a_Localization should get you started, with MOZ_CO_LOCALES=ml.

Of course, I don't exactly know what Joyce would have locally already, so you want to get feedback from her.

Comment 8

[Ani Peter]

So I shall wait for her feedback and then start maybe...
I have sent her a mail and is waiting for the reply

Comment 9

[Joyce K Babu]

@Ani - I have replied to your mail with details.

With Axel's help, I have checked in the latest files. We now have 41% of the work completed.

BTW, its him not her :)

Comment 10

[Ani Peter]

Hi Joyce, 
Hope you received my mail with the translations. I am attaching the files here with some more corrected translations. 

Pike,

Except dom/chrome/layout/css.properties and 
security/manager/chrome/pipnss/pipnss.properties all files are translated. and I am attching the same here.

Comment 11

[Ani Peter]

Joyce,

Please review my translations.

Comment 12

[Ani Peter]

Attachment: Mozilla Malayalam Translations

Comment 13

[Ani Peter]

Attachment: Mozilla Malayalam Translations (conti..)

Comment 14

[Ani Peter]

Attachment: Mozilla Malayalam Translations (conti..2)

Comment 15

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Hi Joyce, I just saw that you landed localizations to the installer files. Sadly, the current code for the installer requires that we have a windows code page. I didn't find any codepage, at least none that iconv would support (and the windows extension codepages for Indian scripts are fakes, AFAICT).

So I'm afraid we'll have to revert those files back to English again. Maybe we get better in Firefox 3, we're going to evaluate a unicode-patched version of nsis.

Comment 16

[Ani Peter]

Hello Joyce,

Whats up? Could you let me know the status. Do you have the English installer files?

Thanks
Ani

Comment 17

[Joyce K Babu]

I have checked in the original English files.

@Ani - I have sent you a mail.

Comment 18

[Ani Peter]

Hello Joyce,

Appreciate if you could let me know about the cvs access I have asked you earlier. Also please tell me from where to get the files to translate to make our Malayalam translations to 100% from 75%.

Thanks
Ani

Comment 19

[Joyce K Babu]

@Ani - I have sent Axel an email regarding your cvs access and the untranslated strings. Will contact you when he responds.

Comment 20

[Ani Peter]

Ok Joyce. Thanks a lot

Regards
Ani

Comment 21

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Hi Joyce, I just looked at the compare-locales output and I see a few 'missing' strings, see 
http://l10n.mozilla.org/buildbot/compare/linux-langpack/66

The reports in the .properties files are actually spurious newlines, the values for the localizable entries should all be in one line.

In toolkit/chrome/global/charsetOverlay.dtd, you just checked in parts of a patch literally instead of applying it.

Comment 22

[Joyce K Babu]

Thanks Axel. I don't understand how the mistake happened. Because I had checked the locale with  compare-locale.pl script and directly edited the files before checking in.

@Ani - Can you tell me which tool you are using for translation? Are you using Mozilla Translator for translation? I had seen many strings with line breaks and missing closing quote in your submission, on running compare-locale.

Comment 23

[Ani Peter]

Joyce: I open the files in gedit and work on them.

Axel: please advice me whats to be done.

Thanks
Ani

Comment 24

[Ani Peter]

Axel: Is it like to work on the files listed at http://l10n.mozilla.org/buildbot/compare/linux-langpack/66 ??

Comment 25

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Yes, 66 is still the latest incubator build. Once you check in fixes, they will be automatically picked up and new builds will be run, you get a link to the latest builds on http://l10n.mozilla.org/~axel/dashboard/, click on "Builds", in the second chunk you find a box with ml, and a linkified number, that's the link to the latest comparison. The buildbot url in comment 5 should be http://l10n.mozilla.org/buildbot/waterfall now.

It currently lists 4 files that need edits, the edits should be fairly simple. I would have done them, actually, if there weren't funny chars in there that I don't understand, some odd dots. The DTD file is really obviously broken.

You can run compare-locales locally, too, btw. It's up on pypi now, at least a version that works on linux. Just
easy_install compare-locales
and then you can run it. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Compare-locales has more information.

Comment 26

[Ani Peter]

Pike: Thanks a lot for the above help..
Will revert if questions or doubts

Ani

Comment 27

[Ani Peter]

Pike: I have done some corrections according to the comparison file.
Could you please let me know whether all ok and what should I do next?

Thanks
Ani

Comment 28

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We're still at various syntax errors, sadly. See http://l10n.mozilla.org/buildbot/compare/linux-langpack/4469 for your latest build. And I suggest that you try running compare-locales locally, it's going to help you quite a bit.

My guess is that it's all stray newlines now, like for example, in http://bonsai-l10n.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=/l10n/ml/browser/chrome/browser/shellservice.properties&mark=4-5. The value for setDefaultBrowserMessage should be all in one line.

Comment 29

[Ani Peter]

Thanks Pike. Will work on and revert.

Thanks for the help.

Best regards
Ani

Comment 30

[Ani Peter]

Pike: I think I have completed all the changes you have asked me to do.

Please could you check.

Thanks
Ani

Comment 31

[Ani Peter]

Pike: any updates on this?

Thanks
Ani

Comment 32

[Ani Peter]

Thanks a lot Pike.
Now once you are back, please guide me what are the things to be done to have malayalam (ml) included for the next release.

Thanks
Ani

Comment 33

[Ani Peter]

Pike: Have translated the getting started file for Firefox 3 in ml including all suggestions from Joyce too. Hence the file is final and has attached the index.html file in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428188 and added required comments.

Thanks
Ani