Mozilla localizations
Mozilla localizations are localized versions of Mozilla products. This usually entails that a product has been both translated into a certain language and that language and region specific features have been added.
Localization is normally carried out by teams of volunteers.
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is the most heavily localized cross-platform web browser to date.[1] The first official release in November 2004 was available for 28 different locales including British English/American English, European Spanish/Argentine Spanish and Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters/Simplified Chinese characters. Firefox 4 initially shipped with over 80 locales and introduced 10 new locales, including 6 African languages.[2]
The following table lists releases of Firefox and its precursors for the Microsoft Windows operating system, listing all locales available at the end of each version's releases.[2]
| Locale | 1.0 2004 |
1.5 2005 |
2.0 2006 |
3.0 2008 |
3.5 2009 |
3.6 2010 |
4.0 2011 |
5.0-9.0 2011 |
10.0 2012 |
11.0-12.0 2012 |
13.0 2012 |
14.0-15.0 2012 |
16.0-28.0 2012-2014 |
29.0-30.0 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acholi | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Afrikaans | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Akan | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Albanian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Arabic | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Armenian | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Assamese | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Asturian | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Basque | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Belarusian | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bengali (Bangladesh) | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bengali (India) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bosnian | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Breton | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bulgarian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Croatian | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Czech | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Danish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dutch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English (UK) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English (US) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English (SAE) | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Esperanto | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Estonian | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Farsi (Persian) | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Finnish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Frisian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fula | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Galician | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Georgian | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Greek | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gujarati | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hebrew | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hindi | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hungarian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Icelandic | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Indonesian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Irish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Japanese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kannada | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kashubian | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Khmer | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kazakh | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Korean | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kurdish | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Latvian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ligurian | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lithuanian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Luganda (Ganda) | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Macedonian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Maithili | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Malay | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Malayalam | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Marathi | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mongolian | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Occitan | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Oriya | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese (European) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Punjabi | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Romanian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Romansh | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Russian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scottish Gaelic | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Serbian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sinhalese | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Slovak | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Slovenian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Songhai | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sotho | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish (Argentina) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish (Chile) | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish (Mexico) | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish (Spain) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Swedish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tamil | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tamil (Sri Lanka) | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Telugu | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Thai | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Turkish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ukrainian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vietnamese | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Welsh | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Zulu | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Total | 28 | 38 | 43 | 59 | 75 | 76 | 82 | 83 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 |
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird, the email application, has somewhat fewer localised releases. The initial release was in US English only but since then, it has been released in 45 languages and for 47 locales.[3]
| Locale | 1.0 2004 |
1.5 2006 |
2.0 2007 |
3.0 2009 |
3.1 2010 |
3.1-11.0 2011 |
(current) 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Albanian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Arabic | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Armenian | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Asturian | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Basque | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Belarusian | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bengali (Bangladesh) | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Breton | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bulgarian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalan | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chinese (Simplified) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chinese (Traditional) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Croat | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Czech | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Danish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dutch | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English (UK) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English (US) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Estonian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Finnish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Frisian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Galician | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Greek | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hebrew | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hungarian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Icelandic | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Indonesian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Irish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Japanese | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Korean | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lithuanian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Macedonian | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Polish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese (European) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Punjabi | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Romanian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Rumantsch | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Russian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Scottish Gaelic | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Serbian | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sinhalese | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Slovak | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Slovenian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish (Argentina) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish (Spain) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Swedish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tamil (Sri Lanka) | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Turkish | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ukrainian | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vietnamese | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Total | 1 | 30 | 35 | 46 | 49 | 50 | 53 |
Mozilla Firefox OS
| Locale | 1.0 2013 |
1.1 2013 |
1.2 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bengali (Bangladesh) | No | No | Yes |
| Bulgarian | No | No | Yes |
| Catalan | No | Yes | Yes |
| Chinese (Simplified) | No | No | Yes |
| Chinese (Traditional) | No | No | Yes |
| Croatian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Czech | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dutch | No | Yes | Yes |
| English (US) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | No | No | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Greek | No | Yes | Yes |
| Hungarian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | No | Yes | Yes |
| Macedonian | No | No | Yes |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Romanian | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Russian | No | Yes | Yes |
| Serbian | No | Yes | Yes |
| Serbian Latin | No | No | Yes |
| Slovak | No | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish (Spain) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Turkish | No | Yes | Yes |
| Total | 9 | 17 | 24 |
Web content and legal info
Though much of the Mozilla web content can be localized, the extent of localization varies from locale to locale. For example, the Mozilla Firefox Privacy Policy is currently only available in English.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "Survey of Gaelic Corpus Technology" (PDF). Bòrd na Gàidhlig. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Mozilla Firefox release files". Mozilla. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
- ↑ "Mozilla Thunderbird release files". Mozilla. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
- ↑ "Mozilla Privacy Policies". Mozilla. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
External links
- Mozilla Localization Teams
- Mozilla Firefox homepage for end-users
- Firefox Nightly Builds
- Mozilla Foundation homepage
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