Independent Status Reports - International Special Edition

The independent status reports include news and updates from 
Mozilla application and extension projects hosted on mozdev.org 
and elsewhere in the Mozilla community.

Here are updates from just some of the many International projects 
active in the Mozilla community. The report was posted on April 8, 
2004. For more projects, refer to the 'Language' category in the 
mozdev project listings.
http://www.mozdev.org/categories/language.html

April is International Month!
http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article4560.html

l10nzilla, software to help in Mozilla based apps L10N.
l10nzilla is web based tool to aid in creating and maintaining 
localisations of Mozilla based applications. It is a combination of 
a MySQL database for storing translations with a PHP based front 
end for editing and a Java based command line program for 
importing/exporting translations and generating JAR files for 
inclusion in the language packs.
Some Notable Highlights include:
- stores translations from many Mozilla/XUL applications and/or versions
- supports web based translation by many translators
- translates JAR files based on translations stored in database
- imports/exports translations as HTML
- imports/exports translations as po files (alpha code)
- maintains statistics on translations
- supports UTF-8
Please get in touch if you would like to use L10NZilla in your Mozilla 
apps localisation.
http://l10nzilla.mozdev.org/

Mycroft, now at 1100+ Search Plug-ins for Mozilla and Firefox.
We are providing over 1100 search plug-ins, in a total of 34
languages covering 51 countries. Last month, we've processed over 100
requests and received over 100 contributions.
For Localizers: get in touch via the mailing list. We can tell you what 
plug-ins are popular for your country. This way, you can ship a localized 
version of Mozilla or Firefox with a set of useful search plug-ins.
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/mozdev-intl.html

kairo project, Robert Kaiser's collected works.
The 'kairo' project at mozdev is mainly for collectiong smaller pieces of 
work done by me. Currently, the slides of my talks about L10n topics at 
FOSDEM 2002-2004 are up there. I plan to eventually add some scripts for 
XPI packaging and installing in the future, raw versions of those scripts 
(as I use them for providing Mozilla German XPIs) are available at my Mozilla 
L10n resources site (scripts/ and xpi/ directories), but I want to add OSS 
licenses, overhaul the scripts and comment their use before moving them to mozdev.
http://kairo.mozdev.org/
http://resources.kairo.at/mozilla/l10n/

l10ntools, localization tools for Mozilla.
The l10ntools project has now closed and has been moved to sourceforge.
Our tools enable translation of mozilla using PO (gettext) files and the 
use of the variety of PO-editors there are (e.g. kbabel, POedit, etc). 
So far at least the South African, Irish and Brazilian Portugese teams 
are using these tools.
http://translate.sourceforge.net/

Gaeilge, Mozilla Localisation Resources for the Irish language.
This is the project for the Irish localisation of the Mozilla Firefox Web 
browser. We are in the process of translating version 0.8 and hope to have 
a finished product in the next few weeks. After this initial release, 
we foresee a faster rollout of language packs and builds for subsequent 
Firefox releases.
We are utilising MozPOTools, created by the the South African translation 
team and hosted at the l10ntools project, which are a collection of scripts 
to convert Mozilla resources to gettext .po format and back. 
The Irish localisation team is made up of volunteers from around the world; 
please send an email to the project mailing list if you'd be interested 
in helping out. We are in particular need of translators.
http://gaeilge.mozdev.org/

Read more about each of these projects in the full report at
http://www.mozdev.org/status/2004-04-08-l10n-status.html