Re: bug-gnuzilla Digest, Vol 30, Issue 7

[kristian kankainen]

I have the estonian .xpi file, where should i put it, before i change
the general.useragent.locale string variable in about:config?
if/when i succeed, i'll add it to the wiki
(http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/IceCat)

thank you
/laglik


> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:11:02 +0100
> From: "alexus.fs" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Translating IceCat
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> Il giorno sab, 14/03/2009 alle 14.20 +0200, kristian kankainen ha
> scritto:
>> Hello
>> I can't find any information about translating IceCat, should i comply
>> to firefox's guidelines?
>> Could someone tell me where a .po file or alike is?
>
> you should start finding in the internet the firefox langpack file for
> the language you want to translate
> (i.e. https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/4194 for estonian or
> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.7/win32/xpi/it.xpi
>  for italian...)
>
> in the 'chrome' folder of the .xpi langpack file you will find the .jar
> translation file
>
> if this file is packed, to edit it may be necessary a Java Development
> Kit... you should install openjdk-6-jdk:
> $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk
>
> now to modify the .jar file:
> a) unpack it using the 'jar' command (it will give you a folder with a
> lot of files and sub-folders)
> b) edit it using a text editor (such gedit or scite)
> c) repack the folder into a single .jar file using the command jar.
>
> references:
> - the  jar format:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jar/jar.html
> - the jar command:
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/jar.html
>
> an example (suppose working with 'myfile.jar' in the '~/tmpjar' folder):
> $ cd ~/tmpjar
> $ jar xf myfile.jar (unpack)
> ... editing ...
> $ jar uf miofile.jar /sourcejar (repack... sourcejar is the folder where
> you get the extracted/edited file)
>
> editing:
> a) the firefox .xpi langpack needs to be re-branded to make it a
> icecat .xpi langpack... the files to modifiy are in
> the /locale/branding/ folder of the unpacked jar file
> b) you should find-in-files (using grep should work) the terms 'Firefox'
> and 'Mozilla' in the other files and folders and replace them with 'GNU
> IceCat' and 'GNUzilla' (i think you should not modify theese terms when
> used in credits or license files or copyright information)
>
> hope it will help
> bye
>
> PS: if you have a langpack for IceCat not listed here:
> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/IceCat
> please contact the manteinet of this page and send him the link (or,
> only if the link is not available, the langpack file). thanks.
>
> alexus
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