L10n talk - FOSDEM 2003 - Mozilla Meeting

This talk will give a short insight of

How to make the Mozilla UI localizable (entities, string bundles)
How Mozilla can switch to different languages (chrome URIs, chrome registry)
How we do the actual localization work (MozillaTranslator)
Current problems (localeVersion updates etc.)
Useful resources for localization (l10ntools etc.)

There will be enough time for discussion of this between slides and after the presentation.

Speaker: Robert Kaiser <KaiRo@KaiRo.at>

Living in Steyr, Upper Austria, and attending Vienna University to become a Chemistry and Physics teacher
Known as "KaiRo" on IRC
Maintainer of the Mozilla German Project (http://mozilla.kairo.at/, sometimes called "German (Austria)" because of it's internal name of "de-AT") since late 1999, first German Mozilla version was M12, released at 2000-01-01. Counting Download numbers of ftp.mozilla.org, Mozilla German seems to be the most-used Mozilla Localization.
Creator of EarlyBlue and LCARStrek themes
Recently contributing some smaller things to main Mozilla trunk, like resolving breakage of language switching pref panel, localeVersion updates, making about:plugins themable ("make it look better") and localizable

The slides

This presentation was created for the European Mozilla Developer Meeting 2003 at FOSDEM in Brussels.
The slides for this talk are written in HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS.
You need to turn on Mozilla's "Site Navigation Bar" for navigating through the slides. Click "Next" to start with the first slide from this index page. "Start" will take you back to this index from all the slides.
There's now an overview page that allows access of all slides without the navigation bar - and remember to look at the problems slide!
All slides and images © 02/2003 Robert Kaiser.

Localization (L10n): Achievements and Future Directions