L10n:B2G/Localizers

For now, this is just a collection of blog posts.

Localizing

Clone the en-US repo:

   hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/gaia-l10n/en-US

and your locale's repo (I use pl as an example):

   hg clone ssh://hg.mozilla.org/gaia-l10n/pl

Install compare-locales and use compare-dirs to diff your locale against en-US:

   compare-dirs en-US pl

Alternatively, you can go to Elmo and look for the stats for 'gaia' or 'gaia-community'

https://l10n.mozilla.org/teams/pl (replace 'pl' with your locale)
https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/dashboard?tree=gaia (for es and pt-BR)
https://l10n.mozilla.org/shipping/dashboard?tree=gaia-community (for all other locales)

Testing

It's possible to test localizations using a desktop build of B2G. The trickiest part is adding your locale to the build, but you only have to do it once. All the work that follows happens in your locale's HG repository.

Download B2G Desktop

First, you'll need a desktop build of B2G. Download one from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mozilla-b2g18/ and install or unzip the package.

Set up Gaia

Clone Gaia.

   git clone git://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia.git
   cd gaia

Setup the l10n repo

In your `gaia` clone from the step above:

   cd locales
   hg clone ssh://hg.mozilla.org/gaia-l10n/pl/

(Replace pl with your locale.)

Enable your locale

shared/resources/languages.json

Next, add you locale to shared/resources/languages.json:

   {
     "ar" : "العربية",
     "en-US" : "English (US)",
     "fr" : "Français",
     "pl" : "Polski",
     "zh-TW" : "正體中文"
   }

Localization files

You'll need to have Python installed for this next step. OS X and most Linux distributions come with it by default. You can download the Windows installer at http://www.python.org/download/.

Run python build/multilocale.py --config shared/resources/languages.json --target apps --target shared --source locales/ pl (replace "pl" with your locale) to copy the localization files to apps' folders and enable your locale in the appropriate locales.ini files.

Create a profile

Now create a profile with your locale enabled:

   make profile (or ./build.sh gaia if you're building the entire B2G project)

Run Gaia

   /path/to/b2g-bin -profile /path/to/gaia/profile

(On Mac OS X, the path to the b2g executable is /Applications/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/b2g-bin. You'll also need to specify absolute path to the profile, without the trailing slash.)

Troubleshooting/Known Issues

You may need to restart your desktop build the first time you change the locale to yours.
When an app appears to not work with your locale:
1. Make sure its locale/locales.ini lists your locale
2. Close the desktop build and wait a minute. I'm serious. I think there's some caching issue with the debug server running on port 8080.
The "Language" panel in the Settings app might read "undefined" instead of showing your locale's name.
The names of the applications will be in English.
To localize dates (like the one on the lockscreen) localize shared/date/date.properties