854487 - Localize the list of countries

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, defect)

Description

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

:pascalc noticed that the list of countries isn't localized (templates/includes/lang_switcher.html).

Pascal points out that there should be localized versions of the country names in another project (for example, Firefox). So we should be able to get those strings into our application, instead of just wrapping this in the translation code and thereby making hundreds of new strings to be localized.

:pascalc, can you describe at a high level how we would pre-localize these strings?

Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

In the past what I did on the old mozilla.com PHP site was just to find the properties file in Mozilla source code that contains these strings, write a script that downloads them and convert them to the .lang format we use on mozilla.org, which was pretty straightforward as I already had a php parser for properties. I think there are equivalent python scripts in the gettext world, I am thinking specifically of:

http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/prop2po
and
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/moz2po

The source file in Engish is there:
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-aurora/fr/file/default/toolkit/chrome/global/regionNames.properties

The source file for locales is there:
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/file/default/toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/global/regionNames.properties

You just have to change the locale code, the locale code is the Firefox locale code following http standard, not gettext/Unix style ones, so pt-BR and not pt_BR and fr and not fr_FR

Comment 2

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

of course I mixed up the links :) the first link is the l10n source, the second is the en-US source.

Comment 3

[Greg Cox [:gcox]]

This is an RFE specific to mozillians, which is decom'ed.
If this is found to pertain to people.mozilla.org then please open a new issue.