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See [http://www.tyndall.org.uk/howto-cvs-fx.html Firefox Trunk in CVS] for more detailed instructions on getting your localisation committed.

Also see [[L10n:Updating Localizations in CVS]] for how to keep up to date with changes on the trunk.

Discuss with Chase/BSmedberg remaining issues for full l10n of trunk.

See those resources for some info on what's going on:
[http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/l10n/trunk-l10n.html Migrating FF L10n to trunk], [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279768 Bug 279768 - make build system work with --enable-ui-locale]


=Directories to localise=
If you're starting from scratch, these are the CVS directories you need to 
download and translate:
<pre>mozilla/browser/locales/en-US/
mozilla/dom/locales/en-US/
mozilla/netwerk/locales/en-US/
mozilla/other-licenses/branding/firefox/locales/en-US 
mozilla/security/manager/locales/en-US/
mozilla/toolkit/locales/en-US/</pre>

The localized files end up in the following directories, corresponding to the paths above (replace ab-CD with your locale code, possibly only two letters):
<pre>l10n/ab-CD/browser/
l10n/ab-CD/dom/
l10n/ab-CD/netwerk/
l10n/ab-CD/other-licenses/branding/firefox/
l10n/ab-CD/security/manager/
l10n/ab-CD/toolkit/</pre>

For anonymous checkout of the <code>mozilla</code> repository, use <code>:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot</code>, for anonymous checkout of the <code>l10n</code> repository use <code>:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/l10n</code> as CVSROOT.

=Posted to n.p.m.l10n, 2005-04-20 01:33 UTC=

We're days from Firefox 1.1a release, and we're ready to give you
localized trunk builds.

As I'm writing it, first builds on l10n tinderbox that should be grean
are bakeing.
At the moment we have 9 builds that possibly will build. It's not too
much. We have overall 13 builds in CVS. That's not too much.

So please, if you want to have 1.1 alpha in your language, start your
work now.

To check changes in some timeframe you can use our 
[http://bonsai.mozilla.org bonsai tool].
Just put this
<pre>mozilla/browser/locales/en-US/,mozilla/dom/locales/en-US/,mozilla/extensions/reporter/locales/en-US/,mozilla/netwerk/locales/en-US/,mozilla/security/manager/locales/en-US/,mozilla/toolkit/locales/en-US/</pre>
(probably will break) in Directory input, and type the timeframe to
check what changed in that timeframe.
<p class="note"> line corrected as noted by BSmedberg.</p>


The very last change is in reporter tool - update your locales ASAP please.

We will not have time to help those who will wake up in a last day.

Greetings<br>
Zbigniew Braniecki

=Building a localised Firefox=

Assuming you know how to build Mozilla. If you do not, go check out the build instructions [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/build.html overhere].

To build a localised Firefox, you must have your l10n CVS checkout folder next to your mozilla CVS checkout folder (as ‘siblings’). E.g. Projects/Mozilla/mozilla/ and Projects/Mozilla/l10n/nl/.

If you don’t have it already, checking out the l10n folder is done with:

<pre>cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/l10n co l10n/nl</pre>

Where you should substitute ‘nl’ with the language code which you want to work on.

Then, you should add the following line to your mozconfig file.

<pre>ac_add_options --enable-ui-locale=nl</pre>

Again, substitute ‘nl’ for the language you want to build. Now if you build Firefox, it will automatically have the ‘nl’ locale.

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