Help us create a curated list of dictionaries for each shipping locale in Firefox
"Francesco Lodolo [:flod]" <[email protected]>
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Hi localizers, As hinted in a previous message, we are currently working on improving the experience in Firefox for multilingual users. That includes, among other things: 1) Adding a language switcher in Preferences to switch to another language that is already available on the system (i.e. already installed as a language pack). 2) Adding UI to preferences to manage basic interaction with dictionaries. 3) Add the ability, on release, to install a new language directly from Preferences (it would download, install and enable a language pack from AMO). As part of #3, we also want to install dictionaries for that language. For example: user chooses to install Italian on an English build, the system will download the language pack and also install the Italian dictionary. In order to do that, we need a curated list of dictionaries that will be installed with each locale, and we need your help and feedback to make sure that list is meaningful and provides a good experience. Here's the first version of this list: https://mozilla-l10n.github.io/firefox-dictionaries/ You can also see the complete list of dictionaries available on AMO: https://mozilla-l10n.github.io/firefox-dictionaries/complete.html This list was created by: * Picking one dictionary when language has more than one available, usually looking at the number of users on AMO. The complete list provide a list of such locales. * Verifying that the dictionary can be installed. Ideally, there should be only one dictionary per language, but there can be exceptions. For example, the current list would also install de-CH and de-AT for German. Here's the *help we need from you*: * Install the dictionary currently suggested for your language, and check that it provides a good experience. If that's not the case, we should remove it. * Determine if you need more than one dictionary, and why that's the case. You can provide feedback by replying in this email thread, or in the tracking bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481375 Note that this list will keep receiving updates in the future, for example if a new dictionary become available, or if we start shipping a new locale. Francesco