Curated list of localized language names for Firefox UI
"Francesco Lodolo [:flod]" <[email protected]>
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Hi localizers, Follow-up to the email about dictionaries. Another part of improving the experience when switching language is to display localized language names in the UI. Currently, Firefox display languages localized in the language of the build, for example showing "French" in an English build. This happens for spell checking in the context menu, when customizing the preferred languages for web content, and for the brand new language switcher. Like for dictionaries, we want to create and maintain a curated list of language names to use in Firefox UI, instead of exposing hundreds of strings to all languages for translation. There are a few challenges, and we need your help to understand if we're using the right approach. This is the initial curated list https://mozilla-l10n.github.io/firefox-languages/ It's manually generated by looking at CLDR data where possible, since it provides both localized names, and a capitalization rule to use such name in the context of "UI list or menu", which is exactly the context in which these will be used. Here you can find the full analysis https://mozilla-l10n.github.io/firefox-languages/complete.html I realized afterwards that the dictionary discussion generated a bit of noise in the mailing list, so let's try a different approach. If something looks wrong for your language, please provide feedback or corrections via any of these methods (whichever is easier for you): * By commenting in this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481729 * By opening a pull request to edit https://github.com/mozilla-l10n/firefox-languages/blob/master/output/languages_curated.json * By opening an issue on https://github.com/mozilla-l10n/firefox-languages * By reaching out directly to me, either via email, IRC or Telegram Francesco