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Language Packages
By default, Mail Redirect extension is bundled with following localizations: en-US, de-DE, de-AT, fr-FR, it-IT, sv-SE, cs-CZ, es-ES, es-AR. If you use other localization of Thunderbird/SeaMonkey you must download Language Pack for you language. Language packs for may be downloaded from this page:
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How to Translate MailRedirect To a New Language
You should watch the following rules when translating to any language:
- The resulting document must be encoded with Unicode (UTF-8). This means that any characters above ASCII value 128, i.e. those that are not basic latin like "ä" or "a" have to be written with a special syntax. E.g. "ä" must be either be written as "\u00E4" or "a¤". Many modern text editors allow to write the text using normal characters and when saving to specify the output character set (UTF-8).
- Special care has to be taken for the characters "!", "<" and ">", they cannot be used directly in the description text in localized files. Instead, they have to be escaped with \x21, \x3C and \x3E respectively.
- For Windows, you will need to download the GNU Tools for Windows (Cygwin). The only packages needed are ash, fileutils, sh-utils and zip.
- Download the source code that matches the release for which you want to
prepare a translation from the source code page.
Unpack the source code and go to the directory mailredirect/locale/en-US.
Translate all files except contents.rdf to your language and save them encoded with UTF-8. - In order to create an installable XPI file, change to the root directory of unpacked sources. Type "sh make-lang.sh xx-YY" or "sh make-lang.sh xx-YY version", where xx-YY represents the language code you have transalated (e.g. pl-PL or de-AT), and optional parameter version is the mailredirect release compatible to your translation (e.g. 0.1.x)
- Open the generated XPI file in Mozilla, and try to install created extension.
If you encounter problems, such as Mailredirect does not seem to initialize at all, or you get a strange error message below the normal Mail Window, or some dialog windows appear without any contents, double check the syntax of the translated files and make sure you have followed the instructions on using Unicode above.
When you are ready to release your translation, send a mail to the mailing list with the XPI file attached (the size is usually below 10 KB)