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Seamonkey Beta1 I18N Features
Contact: bobj (on sabbatical until
10/19/1999), msanz, lyecies
Last Update:
When we need to modify the Beta1 features requirements, the following
goals and non-goals should be used as a guide to prioritize which features
get added or deleted. Also refer to the Sea
Monkey I18N & L10N Milestones.
I18N Beta1 Goals
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Consistent with overall Seamonkey Beta 1 Criteria
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Dogfood (Windows, Mac and Linux)
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Japanese, German and French
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Browsing HTML
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Basic Mail Sending/Receiving of plain text and HTML mail (but
Windows only)
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Editing existing and new HTML documents
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Japanese IME support
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I18N Bookmarks
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I18N Enabled Sidebar
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Japanese What's Related
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Internet Keywords (?)
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Bookmarks (?)
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prototype content from International Netcenter
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others? notification?
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Localizable Components (Browser, Mail, Ender, Sidebar)
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Significant Performance Improvements (> 10% overall size or speed)
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Stability (fixing memory leaks and warnings, XPCom review)
I18N Beta1 Non-Goals
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Dogfood for non-Latin1 and non-Japanese
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Non-Latin1 printing on Linux
5.0 I18n Non-Goals (not budgeted)
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Mail I18N on Mac or Linux platforms
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Bi-directional (Arabic, Hebrew) support
I18N Beta1 Browser Features
I18N Beta1 Browser
& Ender Features
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Milestone (owner)
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Dependencies or Comments
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| Unicode converters for Latin1, Japanese, UTF-8 and others |
Done |
See current release
notes for full list. |
| Unicode character utilities |
Done |
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| StringBundle interface |
Done |
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| Multi-font Rendering |
Done |
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| Font preferences |
M10 (erik) |
Work with Matt on XUL UI |
| Charset/Lang sensitive font selection |
M10 (erik) |
Work with Gecko team on design. See 6451. |
| Font rendering performance I |
M12 (erik) |
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| Windows IME |
Done |
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| Mac IME |
M10 (tague) |
Need to complete candidate window positioning |
| Linux IME |
M10 (erik) |
Erik is assisting Sun to implement this. |
| Keyboard layout support |
Done |
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| Charset extensibility |
M10 (cata) |
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| View|Character Set Menu |
M11 (cata) |
Temporary menu is done. Real implementation is part of charset extensibility
work. |
| UI for Japanese Auto-Detect |
M11 (ftang) |
Back-end support is done and controlled by pref. |
| Charset override |
M11 (ftang) |
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| HTML META charset |
Done. |
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| XML <?xml encoding=xxx> |
M10 (ftang) |
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| HTTP charset |
M10 (ftang) - Done |
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| Line breaking |
Done |
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| Word breaking |
M10 (ftang) - Done |
Word break API |
| Word Jumping in Ender |
M10 (ftang) |
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| View Page Source |
M11 (ftang) |
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| Getting Locale |
Done |
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| Locale sensitive sorting |
Done |
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| Locale sensitive date/time formatting |
Done |
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| XPConnect interface for Locale |
Done |
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| XPConnect interface for StringBundle |
Done |
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| XPConnect interface for date/time formatting |
Done |
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| Form submission |
M11 (ftang) |
Back-end work for URL-encoded forms is done, but testing is blocked
waiting for GFX text widgets, bug 6262.
I18N multipart forms cannot be implemented until generic multipart forms
are working -- bug 8209
(pollman) ENCTYPE=multipart file upload does not work |
| Conversion API for Save as text or HTML |
M10 (tague) |
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| HTML Entity Conversion API for Ender |
M10 (tague) |
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| Copy & Paste (inter-application) |
M10 (tague) |
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| Unicode converter perf. tuning I |
M12 (ftang) |
Latin1, UTF-8, Japanese |
| UE for Character Code Menu |
M11 (tague) |
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I18N Beta1 Mail Features
(Windows only)
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Milestone (owner)
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Dependencies or Comments
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| IMAP |
M13 (phil) |
Search (5933),
Folder (7130),
Reply quote (11888) |
| 3-Pane view |
Done |
(8204) |
| Viewing messages |
Done. |
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| Composing messages |
M10 (nhotta) |
Back-end done. Can compose main body. Testing of header composition
is blocked waiting for GFX text widgets - bug 6262
(3979),
(10940),
(11892) |
| Forwarding and Replying |
M10 (IQA) |
Testing of header composition is blocked waiting for GFX text widgets
- bug 6262
(12220) |
| Send page from browser |
M10 (rhp/nhotta) |
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| Sorting header in thread pane |
M10 (bienvenu) |
(7844),
(8405), |
| International time/date formats |
M9 (nhotta) |
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Addressbook (Japanese)
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Create new address book
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Create new entry
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Edit properties
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M11 (nhotta) |
Already works for Latin1 |
| Send/Receive Attachments |
M11 (ducarroz/rhp/jefft/nhotta) |
Some functionality is working now.
Add UI for adding attachments (11116)
Attachment display (10883)
Open attachment (10802)
(10400),
(10620) |
| Auto-complete |
M12 (ducarroz/nhotta) |
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| File message |
M12 (jefft/nhotta) |
(10801),
(10802),
(10803) |
| Print message |
M12 (sspitzer/nhotta) |
(10895) |
| Undo "Delete Message" |
M12 (nhotta) |
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I18N Post-Beta1 Features
The features below are not show-stoppers for Beta1, but some of these may
get completed in time for Beta1.
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Windows Active IME support
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Linux I18N Printing
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Additional converters
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Korean (ISO-2022-KR)
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Traditional Chinese (ISO-2022-CN)
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Simplified Chinese (HZ-GB-2312, GBK)
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MacThai
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Vietnamese (VIQR)
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Korean (MS-949, IBM-1363) (IBM requested, but not planned)
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MS-949 and IBM-1363 are equivalent and are supersets of IBM949 with
5,000 additional characters.
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User-defined charset
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Unicode Normalization
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Copy & Paste between 5.0 and external applications
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Mail
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Find in message headers
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Find in body of current message
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Find in bodies of mailbox
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Charset override for mislabeled mail messages
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Default charset for unlabeled mail messages
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I18N Filtering
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Halfwidth-to-Fullwidth Japanese (Hankaku-to-Zenkaku) conversion
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I18N of New (M11) Address Book features
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10860 Add sender/recipients to Address Book
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10863 Address Book containing email history
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10867 History AB
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10837 Finish import tool for 4.x address books
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10868 Import (LDIF, CSV, TAB)
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10869 Sorting
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11366 Print Address Book Card
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10889 Delete Address Book
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10865 Menus, Command Keys, XUL Fragments, Toolbars L10N
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10866 Enable/Disable Menus
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