On 18.01.13 23:43, Rubén Martín wrote:
Hi,
I would like to follow up a thread on web.l10n about locales in Firefox
OS
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/mozilla.dev.l10n/Xk9pHBz5uTU>
on behalf of everyone who showed their concerns there.
It seems we are only shipping locales that OEMs want to include and
excluding the rest. A lot of l10n teams are not happy to work and don't
see their locales shipped.
* People can't test their l10n work, no builds or support for these
locales. And for Firefox OS is really important to be able to have a
real device to test l10n (because of string sizes).
* Some regions have multiple official languages. For example in Spain
where a lot of people would like to have their devices in Catalan,
Basque or Galician.
* We are assuming we only ship Firefox OS with big carriers, what if a
small device manufacturer wants to ship Firefox OS device in Africa?
* If this is a device space problem as was commented, why not include
locales on demand on first start-up?
This is a tense situation for communities who want more information on
this decision and it would be nice to have a discussion about why are we
doing this or if OEMs are/should really decide what should we ship in
terms of locales.
Also keep in mind some mozillians could think (I'm not saying this is
the case) OEMs want to control what we ship and think about for example
what if an OEM is not comfortable in the future with our DNT feature.
Regards.
We have seen an additional question:
A external partner wants to shape/change the tone and style in which a
Firefox OS device communicates with users. There are bugs on that for
both en-US and Spanish right now.
A short note, Firefox OS doesn't support language packs, aka, locale
downloads on demand. Doing so technically implies that one website (the
language pack) injects data into a different website (the webapp),
changing the way it looks. That doesn't make language packs impossible,
but it's a tricky technical problem, which we haven't tackled yet.
Axel
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