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This page summarizes internationalization/locatization related JIRA issues.

I searched in JIRA for unresolved issues that are more or less related to internationalization/locatization. I followed a style similar to bug triage agenda, although no such triage is scheduled, at least for now. I may miss something. Please feel free to add more issues here. I'm updating this list in a future as more issues are added to JIRA. Issues will be removed from the list as they are resolved.

I've listed the issues as groups, but the order of importance/appropriateness.

I'm not including issues that are only related to the viewer internals, because they are more appropriate for the regular bug triage. (Example: VWR-1180^[c] Inappropriate uses of ctype (is*) functions in prevalidate methods for LLLineEditor.)

Contents 1 UI Translation 1.1 Translation to new language 1.2 Related issues 1.3 Cultural conventions 2 International Character Handling 2.1 Displaying Non-ASCII texts 2.2 Input 2.3 LSL issues 2.4 Keyboard issues 2.5 Chat/IM Log 3 Service/Policy 3.1 Unfiendliness for no English speaking residents 3.2 Unawareness of non-English 3.3 Language demography

UI Translation

Translation to new language

• VWR-1293^[c] - Votes: 0 - Traditional Chinese UI for Second Life Viewer - LandRover McMillan
  • Looks ready for import, although I'm not eligible to evaluate the texts themselves. -- Alissa
• VWR-1822^[c] - Votes: 2 - First draft of English (British) translation - Gudmund Shepherd
  • Looks ready for import. -- Alissa
• VWR-774^[c] - Votes: 2 - First draft of Swedish translation - Danne Carfagno
  • Still in an early stage. -- Alissa

Related issues

• VWR-1594^[c] - Votes: 2 - Inconsistent ' & ' use in en-us locale file - Gudmund Shepherd
• VWR-1719^[c] - Votes: 2 - Need for a better mechanism to add new UI translation - Alissa Sabre
• VWR-335^[c] - Votes: 0 - Needs two Chinese on Language selection - Alissa Sabre
• VWR-87^[c] - Votes: 1 - Inappropriate texts in About floater translations - Alissa Sabre
• VWR-1841^[c] - Votes: 0 - Switching of UI language requires viewer restart - Alissa Sabre
• VWR-146^[c] - Votes: 0 - First Look clients don't acknowledge language changes under Edit, Preferences,Language - Bastien Culdesac
  • This issue was against 1.13.2. I don't think it is still there. -- Alissa

Cultural conventions

• VWR-1593^[c] - Votes: 0 - Improve localisation ability of Second Life - Gudmund Shepherd
• VWR-721^[c] - Votes: 4 - Dates are not displayed in the local date format - Jon Meriman

International Character Handling

Displaying Non-ASCII texts

• VWR-1742^[c] - Votes: 0 - Unicode problem when using Turkish alphabet characters in viewer. - Vixen Heron
• VWR-1629^[c] - Votes: 0 - Hebrew is not usable in the Viewer since 1.11/1.12 unless you have once installed at least 1.10 . - Smiley Barry
• VWR-593^[c] - Votes: 2 - Better display of UTF characters - catherine pfeffer
  • This issue is on Russian (Cyllilic) alphabets, although the detailed problem statement is unreadable due to a JIRA bug (WEB-67^[c]). -- Alissa
• VWR-252^[c] - Votes: 1 - Poor line folding (word wrap) behaviour on Japanese text - Alissa Sabre
  • I know fixing only for Japanese texts is not hard, but I believe we need to take care of other languages such as Arabic and Thai. That needs some general mechanism. -- Alissa
• VWR-112^[c] - Votes: 1 - Arabic language needs to be displayed right to left rather than left to right - Rob Linden

Input

• VWR-298^[c] - Votes: 1 - Practically impossible to enter Japanese text when viewer is running full-screen on MacOS - Alissa Sabre
• VWR-250^[c] - Votes: 0 - Preedit (composition) strings are shown poorly when typing Japanese text on Windows - Alissa Sabre
• VWR-240^[c] - Votes: 3 - Cannot input Japanese characters from keyboard on Linux - Alissa Sabre

LSL issues

• VWR-422^[c] - Votes: 3 - LSL scripts created on Mac with non-ASCII characters won't compile in Windows viewer - Simon Nolan
• SVC-222^[c] - Votes: 0 - I18n support in LSL - amanda levitsky
• SVC-391^[c] - Votes: 0 - llEmail and llHTTPRequest do not handle non-ASCII characters - Omei Turnbull

Keyboard issues

• VWR-1541^[c] - Votes: 1 - Shortcut key Ctrl-` cannot be entered on Japanese version of Windows with 104 keyboard - Sat Nemeth
• VWR-1676^[c] - Votes: 0 - Cmd+A causes the viewer to quit with french keyboards (Mac OS) - Ben Vanguard

Chat/IM Log

• VWR-1373^[c] - Votes: 0 - Wrong characters in Chat Log and IM Log when using umlaut characters (e.g. German äöüÄÖÜ) - Nati Gynoid

Service/Policy

Unfiendliness for no English speaking residents

• VWR-1563^[c] - Votes: 4 - Profile Mute button should display muted state (confuses international Residents) - Winter Ventura
• SVC-311^[c] - Votes: 1 - Translate the OIHUD and Orientation Island Tutorials to languages other than English - Boroondas Gupte
• MISC-264^[c] - Votes: 1 - Request for new password fails, primary account locked out - Akash Gausman
  • This issue may look inappropriate here, but I intentionally included it. I think this one reveals a problem of SL as a service for non-English speaking residents. -- Alissa
• WEB-67^[c] - Votes: 4 - Unable to report bug that essentially depends on presense of non-ASCII characters - Alissa Sabre
• SVC-412^[c] - Votes: 1 - Include "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" header in the messages forwarded from second life. - Carty Capra

Unawareness of non-English

• VWR-1843^[c] - Votes: 0 - Inappropriate default folder name for Make Outfit - Alissa Sabre

Language demography

• WEB-201^[c] - Votes: 0 - Group Active Users metrics currently by Country - by National Language - meta linden