709136 - [ff] Enable Fulah localization on SUMO

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Localization, task)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We need to enable the localization of SUMO in Fulah [ff].

Ibrahima, this is one of the better places to get the community to help out directly. If it makes more sense to redirect to another language, though, we can also do that.

And, Ibrahima, we'd need "Fulah" in Fulah again to set this up, please add that here, utf-8 encoded. Thanks.

Once we have a decision what to do, and possibly the description, this bug will be fixed by Mozilla staff.

Comment 1

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

According to wikipedia, it's 'Fula':
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_language

Comment 2

[Ibrahima SARR]

Hi,
"Fulah" in Fulah is not "Fulah". This word is unknown to us actually. There are two names for Fulah in Fulah:
- Pulaar (mostly used in Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea(s)
- Fulfulde (mostly used in Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad etc...
Note: these terms do not reflect dialectal variations.
In order to make everybody comfortable, we usually combine the two words:
Pulaar-Fulfulde
If that is not adequate for use with Firefox, Fulfulde is more widespread.

Regards
Ibrahima(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #0)
> We need to enable the localization of SUMO in Fulah [ff].
> 
> Ibrahima, this is one of the better places to get the community to help out
> directly. If it makes more sense to redirect to another language, though, we
> can also do that.
> 
> And, Ibrahima, we'd need "Fulah" in Fulah again to set this up, please add
> that here, utf-8 encoded. Thanks.
> 
> Once we have a decision what to do, and possibly the description, this bug
> will be fixed by Mozilla staff.

Comment 3

[Ibrahima SARR]

"Fulah" in Fulah is not "Fulah". This word is unknown to us actually. There are two names for Fulah in Fulah:
- Pulaar (mostly used in Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea(s)
- Fulfulde (mostly used in Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad etc...
Note: these terms do not reflect dialectal variations.
In order to make everybody comfortable, we usually combine the two words:
Pulaar-Fulfulde
If that is not adequate for use with Firefox, Fulfulde is more widespread.

Regards
Ibrahima

Comment 4

[Ibrahima SARR]

SUMO IN FULAH

How much work is needed for localizing SUMO? We want to do everything that will make Firefox in Fulah a great experience for Fulah users. Motivation is very high right now.
Regards

Comment 5

[Ibrahima SARR]

Hi
I managed to get the .pot template of SUMO and am now translating. I have ywo questions:
1 - Should I translate "Army of Awesome" or leave it as such?
2 - Should words in braces be translated or left out? EX: {message} {group} 
Regards

Comment 6

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

(In reply to Ibrahima SARR from comment #5)
> Hi
> I managed to get the .pot template of SUMO and am now translating. I have
> ywo questions:
> 1 - Should I translate "Army of Awesome" or leave it as such?
> 2 - Should words in braces be translated or left out? EX: {message} {group} 
> Regards

Before I answer, let me answer and comment on previous comments:

It's nice to hear that you really care about community of Fulah users. Therefore, it's good to have as much articles translated in your language as possible.

On the other hand, this bug is about enabling your localization, and I'm CCing James to help us with that.

As for your questions in comment 5:
1) That's up to you. Some locales leave it as it is, and others translate it. Also,you don't have to literally translate it. Feel free to translate it so that it has the same meaning to users who'll read that.
2) Nope, those are the tags that we use, so don't translate those.

Comment 7

[Ibrahima SARR]

Thank you very much Milos! The file is huge but amost done!!! WIll update on completion.
Regards

Comment 8

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Not sure why this was assigned to me.

The name for the language is "Pulaar-Fulfulde" according to comment 2.

This will enable translating the SUMO UI and KB into Pulaar-Fulfulde.

Comment 9

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

Kadir,

Please add Fulah locale to SUMO.

Thanks!

Comment 10

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/commit/4f2c0166ea43faccfe8eead947ce3c05955f439c

Comment 11

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Verified able to translated KB articles into Pulaar-Fulfulde on the /ff locale.