789724 - Rename "Other Languages" to "Unicode" on the Fonts pref pane (port TB bug 323747)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Bug 323747 renamed "Other Languages" to "Unicode" in the "Fonts & Encodings" dialog for TB. I think we should follow suit(e).

It's not very clear what "other languages" means. Technically it evaluates to Unicode. Some localizations, e.g. German, already show "Unicode" instead and I think it makes sense since it describes exactly what it means instead of introducing a term that needs explanation.

When fixing this, we should fix/adapt (en-US) Help in one go.

Comment 1

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Overview of how this is translated into other languages (heh):
http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-central/search?string=font.langGroup.unicode&find=pref-fonts.dtd

Comment 2

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Attachment: patch [Checkin: Comment 8]

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

> http://mxr.mozilla.org/l10n-central/search?string=font.langGroup.unicode&find=pref-fonts.dtd

In my opinion, some of these translations already use "Unicode". Changing the entity only makes more work for those localisers. Perhaps a post to m.d.a.l10n instead?

Comment 4

[Ian Neal]

Comment on attachment 659523 [details] [diff] [review]
patch [Checkin: Comment 8]

Philip's suggestion is worth considering, kairo probably knows more about l10n than me, r=me either way

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 659523 [details] [diff] [review]
patch [Checkin: Comment 8]

I notice that some locales have even translated the Firefox string as Unicode too. (Simply remove the pref- prefix to see strings for all applications.)

Comment 6

[Philip Chee]

I sent a message to mozilla.dev.L10n. Let's see what they think.

Comment 7

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #6)
> I sent a message to mozilla.dev.L10n. Let's see what they think.

FTR: There was just one reply, suggesting to change the entity name so we make sure that nobody misses the modification. [I'm leaving out the translation statistics provided there because they were for browser/ instead of suite/.] I tend to agree with that (better safe than sorry), so I'll go with my patch as-is.

Comment 8

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Comment on attachment 659523 [details] [diff] [review]
patch [Checkin: Comment 8]

http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/c652d0ae41a7

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley) from comment #7)
> FTR: There was just one reply, suggesting to change the entity name so we
> make sure that nobody misses the modification. [I'm leaving out the
> translation statistics provided there because they were for browser/ instead
> of suite/.] I tend to agree with that (better safe than sorry), so I'll go
> with my patch as-is.

Sorry I didn't get to look at it, but my first reaction was the same, I feel better with doing the change of entity name so people actually do look at it.