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Issue 28278: Not able to localize Chromium
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Reported by arangel....@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2009
[Language]
Macedonian
[Version number]
All
[OS details]
All
[Where is the poor translation?]
There is no translation.

Chromium is an open-source browser project, at least thats what it says on the 
project web site and yet it lacks a process for localization of the software in 
other languages. I want to translate Chromium in Macedonian, it's a language 
spoken by around only 2 million people, it's not supported in the current version 
cause Google only supports languages that are more widely used. There should 
be a process in place, including documentation, PO files (easiest way, all the 
open-source project use them) and a way to register localization teams in order 
to get Chromium localized in as much languages as possible. 

There is no easy way to localize Chromium in any other language than the 
languages that are supported by Google for Chrome.

Comment 1 by marcos.a...@gmail.com, Nov 20, 2009
Any news here? :O
This is a very interesing idea!
Chromium must support more languages.
Comment 2 by jshin@chromium.org, Nov 23, 2009
Thank you very much for the offer. Internally, we have discussed the issue before, 
but haven't yet reached the stage of setting up all the infrastructure and other things 
necessary.

Note that just translating strings is only a part of Chrome l10n. We also need CLDR 
(http://www.unicode.org/cldr ) data to be populated (it's also an open source project 
so that you can volunteer there). The most tedious part is the UI dimension.  


Cc: mal.chromium lafo...@chromium.org i...@chromium.org
Comment 3 by jshin@chromium.org, Nov 23, 2009
 Issue 28348  has been merged into this issue.
Comment 4 by or...@chromium.org, Nov 25, 2009
(No comment was entered for this change.)
Status: WontFix
Comment 6 by lafo...@chromium.org, Mar 18, 2011
<b>[Language]</b>
Macedonian
<b>[Version number]</b>
All
<b>[OS details]</b>
All
<b>[Where is the poor translation?]</b>
There is no translation.

Chromium is an open-source browser project, at least thats what it says on the 
project web site and yet it lacks a process for localization of the software in 
other languages. I want to translate Chromium in Macedonian, it's a language 
spoken by around only 2 million people, it's not supported in the current version 
cause Google only supports languages that are more widely used. There should 
be a process in place, including documentation, PO files (easiest way, all the 
open-source project use them) and a way to register localization teams in order 
to get Chromium localized in as much languages as possible. 

There is no easy way to localize Chromium in any other language than the 
languages that are supported by Google for Chrome.
Labels: -Translation bulkmove Type-Localization
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