532496 - Request for the language "Songhay" of the country "Mali" be added in localizable language names

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Abdoul Seydou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3.0.15 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3.0.15 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Hello,

I am not sure whether this is the right place but I would like for this request.
If this is not, please let me know where I should make the request.

The aim is that firefox recognizes the codes Son_ML as Soghay / Mali as explained here: 

" It turns out that for most languages, if you name the .dic and .aff files just using the two- or three- letter language code (no country code), then Firefox automatically looks up the localized language name.   So when I installed the French spelling addon, the files are named "fr.dic" and "fr.aff" (not fr_FR), and in my Irish Firefox these appear correctly in the context menu as"Fraincis".   Similarly for others I've tried.

Now for Songhay, I tried "son.dic" and "son.aff", but then it just said "son" in the context menu.  This is because Songhay is not in the list of localizable language names:

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1/ga-IE/file/507f8d16c478/toolkit/chrome/global/languageNames.properties "

We already have a splellchecker for firefox  and are working on the localization of firefox: http://pootle.locamotion.org/son/firefox36/

Any help in this would be appreciated.

Best Regards,
Abdoul Cisse


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

You would also need to change mozilla/intl/locale/src/language.properties to make the language appear in the languages-popup (Options->Content->Languages)

Comment 2

[Abdoul Seydou]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You would also need to change mozilla/intl/locale/src/language.properties to
> make the language appear in the languages-popup (Options->Content->Languages)

Thanks Jo for the reply and the info. I don't know where and how to make the change in  mozilla/intl/locale/src/language.properties
is this something I can from my end ?
Thanks in advance

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

(In reply to comment #0)

> " It turns out that for most languages, if you name the .dic and .aff files
> just using the two- or three- letter language code (no country code), then
> Firefox automatically looks up the localized language name.

This is not quite right: it works with or without the country code.

Comment 5

[Kevin Scannell]

In all of my testing, using the country code breaks the lookup.    ga_IE and ht_HT (and in fact we first used son_ML also) were like this until one of the addon editors complained about it.  They've been fixed since so I can't reproduce without a bit of effort, but here's an old screenshot of ht_HT:
http://mac.softpedia.com/screenshots/Haitian-Creole-spell-checker-Firefox_1.png

Hope I'm not doing something dumb - I did try a bunch of things to fix it.  Should a new bug be filed?  It's suboptimal as it is, since xx_YY is the usual naming scheme for myspell/hunspell dictionaries.

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

Are you talking about bug 514151 ? There was a confusion between using a _ (underscore) and a - (dash) as the separator. Now, you can use both.

Comment 7

[Kevin Scannell]

Yes, bug 514151 appears to fix this, thanks for pointing that out.  Sorry to get off-topic!

Comment 8

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/390d0ca57270