We’re planning several sessions at the upcoming Firefox summit including one specifically about AMO and L10n in which we hope to connect with localizers and start looking at some of the pain points of localizing AMO. With that in mind I’ve been collecting topic ideas and I’d like to hear any others you have. [...]
Also tagged AMO, Mozilla, VerbatimThe webdev and L10n-drivers teams have been talking about implementing an online localization tool for a few months and I’m happy to report that a plan is progressing. Seth Bindernagel has been giving updates about the planning process and the direction we’re going in. Our planning decisions will probably come up but my [...]
Also tagged Mozilla, VerbatimI’m going to be in Portland next week giving a casual introduction to localization at PDXPHP’s October meeting. It’s scheduled for 6:30pm on October 9th, so stop by if you’re in the neighborhood, and feel free to bring questions.
Oh, and going to the Slashdot 10-year anniversary party isn’t an excuse to miss this. [...]
This post has some general tips that I’d recommend to anyone wanting to write a multilingual web application. The majority of my code these days is PHP, but I think these tips are applicable to most web programming languages. In no particular order:
UTF-8 is your friend. Use it.
The big step from ASCII [...]