Mozilla Browser - On helping with Local Language versions...

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On helping with Local Language versions...

Britzilla

2005-03-23, 5:45 pm

Firefox has "English ( British )" in addition to "English ( US )"
( although released weeks later than the US version... )

whereas Thunderbird doesn't have any UK-specific version at all...

well... rather than whinge about it
it would be better to offer to help

so, how can a user help produce
local language versions of Firefox and Thunderbird ?

{
notice the British spelling of

as opposed to the American spelling - which is

}

Nick Thomas

2005-03-23, 5:45 pm

Britzilla wrote:
> Firefox has "English ( British )" in addition to "English ( US )"
> ( although released weeks later than the US version... )
>
> whereas Thunderbird doesn't have any UK-specific version at all...
>
>
> well... rather than whinge about it
> it would be better to offer to help

>
> so, how can a user help produce
> local language versions of Firefox and Thunderbird ?
>
>

>
> {
> notice the British spelling of

> as opposed to the American spelling - which is

> }

Have you seen this webpage ? http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/
That is the home of Mozilla localisation projects.

If you follow the link for Thunderbird it seems that the last official
en-GB release was 0.6, but the British localisers offer an unofficial
language pack for Thunderbird 1.0 at their homepage.
(http://members.madasafish.com/~tyndall/tb_en-gb.html)

The Locale Switcher extension allows you to avoid the command line
tricks. (http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/switch-locales/)