ANLoc releases 7 new language packs for Firefox 3.6

Last September ANLoc Localise Software sub-project commenced its work to localise 5 open source software tools in 10 African languages.

After one month of hard work, ANLoc Localise Software is happy to announce the release of the first set of language packs for Firefox 3.6 in 7 African languages: Akan, Luganda, Lingala, Northern Sotho, Swahili, Wolof and Zulu.

The above language teams have reached the first milestone in this sub-project, which is to translate all words that appear when first starting FireFox browser, using menus or browsing the web in normal use, approximately 4000 words.

The next milestone is to translate all words the appear on using Firefox Extensions, Download manager, Bookmarks, Places, File browsing/downloading functionalities.

For more information about the Localise Software sub-project, please check the sub-project wiki

Please help us in testing these language packs and stay tuned for future releases.

For testing you will need to follow these steps:

• Download and install Firefox 3.6 (Windows, Linux or Mac)
• Download the language pack for within Firefox 3.6 Akan, Luganda, Lingala, Northern Sotho, Swahili, Wolof or Zulu.
• Install the locale switcher extension to switch Firefox to your language. You can now select Tool->Languages to change languages in Firefox.
• Use the translated version as much as possible, and try to review menus, dialogue boxes, error messages, etc.
• Send us your feedback (please mention which language you were testing and the date of downloading the language pack, we will try to update them regularly) to localise-software@africanlocalisation.net