How to build a language pack…en Español
July 23rd, 2008 by seth bindernagel
Ever wonder how to create a language pack? Here is a video from Ricardo Meza from our Mexican community describing how to do it….in just over 7 minutes.
The video is in Spanish, so if you don’t speak it, you’ll have to get some help. Ricardo sent it to me last night after we chatted for sometime about our localization community in Mexico. If we were to build and release es-MX, 97% of the country’s Internet users would be able to surf with a browser in Mexican Spanish along with web services relevant to the Mexican browsing/user experience.
Ricardo and many others in Mexico are excited to make this happen. Interested in helping? Comment on this blog post.
That’s nice.
A few comments, though. Please don’t use the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH anymore, that’s for Firefox 2 (as shown in the video), and we’re not going to take new localizations for that.
Technical nit, when editing the defines.inc, uncomment the line #define line where it is, don’t add it after the #unfilter, that’s just too easy to run you into trouble.
And a tutorial using vi, lolcats
Regarding es-MX, that’s bug 287634, I’d really love to see that sharing code with other Spanishs, though. We’ll get there, promised.
You right Axel, I was made this video a few months ago, so, I must update it according with the updated data from your tutorial.
I´ll follow your recomendation for the defines.inc file, thanks.
By the way, I’m too close to get our first language pack (es-MX) We’ll testing it and maybe we’ll talking about the next step for the es-MX localization!
Thanks to the help of Seth, we were able to move much faster in our translation using the es-ES files.
Greetings.