international projects

Welcome to the international projects page. This area is intended to include both internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) project information.

New Documents [Q4/2002]:

• Charset Detector Interface
• A composite approach to language/encoding detection (IUC 19 paper)
• How to change the font setting in Gecko from the Embedding Application
• How to build standalone universal charset detector from Mozilla source

Current Projects [Q4/2002]:

None

Old Projects [Q3/2001 - Q1/2002]:

• Tuning Startup Performance For International Library
• Fizzilla (Mac OS X build) Internationalization Improvement
• Redesign Windows Font Download Handler
  
• Linux Bitmap Font enhancment (by Netscape) [to be written]
• Linux TrueType Font Support (by Netscape) [to be written]
• Linux Thai font shaping Engine (by Sun) [to be written]
• International Domain Name support in Mozilla
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Old Project Information [Q4/2000 - Q2/2001]:

Specifications/Documentation

• Mozilla's Character Set subsystem
  • Modules, components and interfaces
  • character set converters [very old]
  • extensibility model [old]
• Charset Detectors
• A composite approach to language/encoding detection (IUC 19 paper)
• collation
• date and time format
• fonts
• input method support
• locale model
• locale scriptability
• Localizability and Localization
  • XUL coding style guidelines
  • XUL localizability issues
  • 15th International Unicode conference A16: "XUL - Creating Localizable XML GUI".
    • Full paper in HTML or MS Word .
    • Presentation slides .
  • A script to move entities from XUL files to external DTD files.
  • Localizing Mozilla
  • localization and leveraging tools
• message formatting
• string resources
• xptoolkit and i18n
• mail-news-i18n-spec
• Specify charset in internet search data set file
• UI/UE Documentation
• Browser Character Coding Menu
• Editor Character Coding Menu

How-to:

• kinput2 for Japanese input on Linux

See Also

• International Milestone Notes (see International section of each Milestone Notes)
• mozilla-i18n mailing list
• mozilla.i18n newsgroup
• International Quality Assurance
• Milestone Builds Information & Testing Hints
• Examples using the scriptable internationalization interfaces
• Mozilla-related Mail/Discussion Lists in languages other than English
• old projects page
• Online Development Resources
• universal localization program
• what are I18N and L10N?