398393 - [ti] Tigrigna: Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Mozilla Localizations :: Registration & Management, enhancement)

Description

[kirk spock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: 

Tigrigna is spoken in two east African counries(Ethiopia and Eritrea) being an official langauge in Eritrea. It is also an official language in one Region of Ethiopia, Tigrai. It has over 15 million speakers around the globe.
So far there has not been any localized Firefox browser in Tigrinya(Tigrigna).
I want to contribute in developing one. It seems I am the only to take the initiative.
Name: Guesh
email:[e-mail]
website:www.guesh.bravehost.com

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Great :-) You need to read this wiki page:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Starting_a_localization

Create yourself a wiki page for your localisation, which registers you as the team for that language. Then, follow the instructions on the wiki to produce a language pack you can distribute through addons.mozilla.org. Once you have reached that stage, we can consider your pack for official status - although I should warn you that this is a separate process with its own complexities. Still, the community will still be able to get your pack from addons.mozilla.org in the meantime.

If you have read carefully and find the documentation isn't good enough in any way, please let us know and we will improve it.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Guesh, is it OK to use just 'ti' as locale code? Are there distinct variants in Ethiopia and Eritrea?

I have questions about the rendering support, looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrigna, Firefox 2 displays that pretty bad, and Firefox 3 alphas are not a whole lot better, at least on XP and OSX.

I didn't try any whacky font installations or the like, but did you? Can one set up a system to actually display Tigrigna in Firefox? It might be worth trying to display Tigrigna in Firefox chrome on such a system by just doing a test extension.

Comment 3

[kirk spock]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Great :-) You need to read this wiki page:
> http://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Starting_a_localization
> Create yourself a wiki page for your localisation, which registers you as the
> team for that language. Then, follow the instructions on the wiki to produce a
> language pack you can distribute through addons.mozilla.org. Once you have
> reached that stage, we can consider your pack for official status - although I
> should warn you that this is a separate process with its own complexities.
> Still, the community will still be able to get your pack from
> addons.mozilla.org in the meantime.
> If you have read carefully and find the documentation isn't good enough in any
> way, please let us know and we will improve it.
> Gerv

OK, 1.I have read this http://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Starting_a_localization.
I have created an account, but not a wiki page for my l10n that registers me as the team for my language. Please, I need the wiki page that enables me to add my team language.
The others steps I can follow on.

Comment 4

[kirk spock]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Guesh, is it OK to use just 'ti' as locale code? Are there distinct variants in
> Ethiopia and Eritrea?
> I have questions about the rendering support, looking at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrigna, Firefox 2 displays that pretty bad, and
> Firefox 3 alphas are not a whole lot better, at least on XP and OSX.
> I didn't try any whacky font installations or the like, but did you? Can one
> set up a system to actually display Tigrigna in Firefox? It might be worth
> trying to display Tigrigna in Firefox chrome on such a system by just doing a
> test extension.

For me it is ok. Although there are several dialects for Tigrigna, I don't think they are not very much deviated to be called as variants. But It seems that some one has tried to use the a locale name(ti-ER) for Eritrean Tigrigna which is the closet of dialects to mine(in Ethioipa). Just today did I see it this in the bug list #290583.
I have not tried it in Firefox but it should be possibe to use one the existing softwares, like Visaul Geez, Power Geez to go around this. 
>It might be worth
> trying to display Tigrigna in Firefox chrome on such a system by just doing a
> test extension.
I will give it a try though not sure how for now.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Guesh: you can create the wiki page for yourself. Just create an account on the wiki, then create a new page. The wiki itself should have documentation on how to do that; if not, please let us know.

Gerv

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Hi Guesh: how are you getting on? Have you been able to make any progress?

Gerv

Comment 8

[Seth Bindernagel]

Hi Guesh:

Due to the lack of recent activity on this bug, we are going to resolve it as "incomplete".  If you choose to restart translation activity, then no problem at all.  Please notify the l10n-drivers team using the l10n mailing list ([e-mail]) and file a new bug in Bugzilla.  That bug should indicate that you are interested in translating the upcoming version of Firefox, which is 3.1 right now.

All the best,
SethB