11.29.06 - 07:59pm
I’ve spent the last few days catching up on years of archive of translate-i18n. It’s been an interesting read so far, the challenges we face are the same in other places, and are pretty independent of the used technology. Given the recent 50-2-100 discussion in .l10n and .planning, I found two threads from April this [...]
11.15.06 - 07:19pm
During the l10n session today we came up with an request from dynamis for him to be able to not have a string argument show up in a formatted l10n string. We came up with the idea to specify zero width in the format, but it’s actually precision 0. foo=does “%1$.0S” work? as foo.properties does [...]
11.09.06 - 12:02pm
I’m getting a whole slew of spam in my mozilla.com account these days titled It’s “Name” :), ‘sent’ by Name Surname. I bothered looking at the mail now, just to see what’s happening, and the messages talk about oil, and a company called Cana Petroleum (CNPM) Now I’ve been googling and found Reuter’s stock ticker [...]
11.08.06 - 11:24am
Not speaking Punjabi actually made me speak Chinese. Well, not really. The lesson to take away is, you may not be able to speak a language, but looking at a patch on a mac with Chinese fonts sure does catch some bugs. Looking at the bugzilla diff pages in UTF-8 encoding is a good exercise [...]
