Fabien, that's awesome! I'm glad to hear the progress. What should we do for the older bugs : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796546 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796545
Should we close them out? Or make it into a Meta bug? There's a number of RTL bugs already filed. Regards, Naoki On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Fabien Cazenave <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/02/14 17:32, Axel Hecht wrote: >> On 2/4/14 5:17 PM, Fabien Cazenave wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> TL;DR: the RTL support and Arabic locale are broken at the moment, but >>> we could fix it rather quickly — and it would be nice to do so. >>> >>> We used to be RTL-proof in the very early ages of this project and the >>> Arabic locale was in quite good shape. But as we focused on the >>> “official” 1.x locales, we lost traction on Arabic and RTL — most apps >>> don’t display well at all in RTL mode now. >>> >>> Here’s the wiki page and tracking bug for the RTL support: >>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:B2G/RTL >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906270 >>> >>> Ahmed Nefzaoui (Tunisian contributor) has started working on RTL patches >>> and he’s done a very good work so far. >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883673 >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833401 >>> >>> My opinion about that is that’s it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: >>> we won’t get proper RTL support without supporting Arabic (or Hebrew) >>> officially, and vice-versa. >>> >>> Suggestion: what about promoting Arabic to an “officially supported >>> locale” status, include it in our test builds, and get some help from >>> the Arabic-speaking community to report RTL issues and propose fixes? >>> >>> Ahmed suggested to organize a localization sprint for Firefox OS during >>> the next Arabic Mozilla meet-up. I think it would be a great opportunity >>> for a couple Gaia developers and UX engineers to meet the Arabic >>> community and land the most important RTL fixes while the translation is >>> being done. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> :kazé >> >> I'm happy to see motion on both Arabic and RTL. >> >> Regarding the localization status, though, there's no such thing as >> mozilla-supported builds to begin with. As for other status indications, >> Arabic has and had all branch repositories, it's included in all >> language files, so builds like those for the Keon do include Arabic. >> >> Not sure what we can do more on the localization front. >> > > It does make a difference when a locale is a 1.x-target or not. No > RTL-specific bug will be addressed properly if it’s not a blocker, and it > will only become a blocker if we have an RTL locale in the, say, 1.4 targeted > locale list. > > I understand it’s a product decision. CC’ing Chris Lee. > >> It should make a difference to commit to RTL support on the engineering >> front, though. Adding a pseudo-localization for RTL on top of >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900182 would help, and get >> us out of the chicken and egg between coders not having a complete RTL >> locale available, and not being able to interact with it. >> >> Axel > > FWIW, we’ve started to add an RTL checkbox to the building blocks, in order > to test them in “RTL-English” mode. I’d prefer to rely on a real Arabic > locale to have a better user feedback, but having an “RTL-English” locale > would help too! > > :kazé > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
