Closed Bug 685264 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Warn localizers about restrictions for length of strings

Categories

(Mozilla Localizations :: Infrastructure, defect)

Product:
Mozilla Localizations
Component:
Infrastructure
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 435874

People

(Reporter: unghost, Unassigned)

Details

There are some cases when length of translated strings should not exceed hard limit. http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/manager/locales/en-US/chrome/pipnss/pipnss.properties is biggest offender.
If l10n strings exceed these limits, they will be truncated. There were some bugs on this issue - see Bug 320231, Bug 629034 and Bug 505970
IMHO, compare-locales should be taught to warn localizer if max length of string has been exceeded.
I filed bug 435874 ages ago, but never figured out a solution that would add that to compare-locales without making it a totally app-specific bitch.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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