Hi Benjamin, Dave,
for mobile (and fxos) we're looking into doing sparse localizations of
toolkit. The work on the mobile side is bug 792077. The current attempt
is to leave the 'global' and other toolkit packages untranslated, and
use chrome overrides to supply a few localized files, as needed by
fx-android or -os.
That's all kinda nice and shiny, but it horribly breaks
getSelectedLocale(package), as that returns 'en-US' for 'global' and
friends. Breaks all kinds of url reporters and rtl detection.
Next step is to figure out if there's an acceptable way to make this
work still. I had three ways in my head:
- make the chrome urls/channels fall back to en-US and really have
sparse toolkit localizations. This sounds really intrusive, and probably
hard.
- make all call-sites of getSelectedLocale work around that, which I
don't think is feasible.
- add a prefbranch that gives "package overrides" or so, so that the
chrome reg would return the selected locale for the override package
instead of the one it's getting asked for, something like
pref("chrome.locale.override.global", "browser");
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792077#c17
I personally favor the third option. Does that sound feasible to you?
Axel
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