• Northern Sotho

    July 31st, 2009 by seth bindernagel with 1 comment »

    Northern Sotho is an official language of South Africa, and you’ve probably guessed why I am blogging about it.  Thanks to the folks at Translate.org.za, Firefox is now available for use in this language (by way of an AMO Collection).

    Since one of our localization community leaders, Dwayne Bailey, posted the following message via Facebook, I thought I would repost it on my blog.  Sorry for lifting the email and reposting if you’ve already read this note, but I’m hoping to provide maximum coverage.

    “Are you a Sepedi speaker, Firefox user or able to help test a Pedi version of Firefox? Yes that probably means all of you ;)

    “This work is soon to be part of the African Network for Localisation (ANLoc) (http://www.africanlocalisation.net/) activities where we’ll be localising Firefox into a number of African languages. So your help here can help change the way Africans view the internet, create content, etc, etc. You’re about to change the world!

    “OK testers here we go:

    1. Make sure you have Mozilla Firefox. Visit http://www.mozilla.com and install Firefox if needed.
    2. Start Firefox
    3. Visit the Northern Sotho collection https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/northern-sotho
    4. Install both the Northern Sotho language pack and the Locale Switcher
    5. Restart Firefox
    6. Change your user interface language by selecting: Tools -> Languages -> Northern Sotho
    7. Restart Firefox

    “Enjoy Firefox in Northern Sotho!  Whenever we update the translations you should get new copies.   Please provide any feedback on the Translate.org.za Facebook wall (or on Seth’s blog).

    “If you would like to get involved in the actual translation or in fixing errors then please contact Dwayne via Facebook (or Seth’s Blog). If your interested we could have a Northern Sotho Firefox bug day at our offices and work at fixing any errors.  But most of all HAVE FUN!”