Tracking ticket for missing or incomplete localization

[taos]

Localization has come a long way since alpha 2. However, there are still a few things missing. I've collected open tickets concerning localization (bugs and enhancements). Feel free to add missing tickets - or to close this tracking ticket if you think it's not needed.

#7270 Localizing MediaPlayer's info window
#7586 [Terminal] window title and menubar are not localized
#7506 Filepanels mixing un/localized folder names
#7491 AboutSystem: clicking on localized license name doesn't open license file
#7321 FileTypes - Type and Display as not localized
#7293 Untranslated names of file systems in DriveSetup
#5743 Texts in resource file is not localized in Printers preflet
#6515 language mix due to country settings
#5817 Locale - Keyboard-Navigation bug.

Rather general problems attributed to or affecting localization:

#1586 Queries: not case-insensitive for "Umlauts"
#4181 'query' Cannot Parse Dates
#4335 [Interface Kit] menu draw a split second earlier than the contents draw
#4681 linkcatkeys fails when building on PPC
#5582 [AboutSystem] is slow to appear
#6263 Bash ls -Q
#6276 Console backspace doesn't properly handle non-ascii unicode
#6930 Tracker status window problems
#7406 Background preference window become very wide
#7434 Tracker gets in a node monitoring loop
#7454 [liblocale.so]About System, Locale and Time Preferences Apps crash after the start
#7552 [Locale preflet] Default translation of Deskbar and Tracker to on

Demos:

#7530 [Cortex] Cortex is not localized
#7532 [Playground] Playground is not localized

Tracker:

#4962 Localizing parsedate usage for Find panel
#6374 [Tracker] several strings not yet translated (patch)
#7289 Attribute labels not localized
#7521 [Tracker Add-Ons] Tracker Add-Ons menu items are not localized
#7567 [Tracker search] Enable search for localized names

Layout problems in localized version:

#5746 No room for the localized text in double-click test area
#6987 InfoWindow Owner clipped in layout
#7209 Does not work change the color of the font in the Terminal in Polish locale.
#7311 Artifacts in ProcessController
#7332 [ScreenSaver] increase window margins
#7369 [ScreenSaver] localized window is too wide

Non-latin scripts:

#6118 [Patch] WebPositive Fallback fonts enhancement
#6967 haiku needs a better font overlay or fallback mechanism

Keymap dependent problems:

#2499 [Keymap] hotkeys doesn't work with some keymaps (+ similiar #6225 WebPositive Ctrl+plus (Increase Size) Key Combination Does Not Work, #7428 Alt-Plus won't work in WebPositive)
#4891 can't input accented characters using dead keys
#5441 Allocate more positions for dead keys

CLI applications and tools (AFAIK no decision if they should be translated at all):

#6318 Fixing listport output and changing it to a localized BApplication
#7162 A bitsinfo localization
#7163 A pnginfo localization
#7164 A bmpinfo localization
#7167 A stxtinfo localization
#7168 A tgainfo localization

3rd party applications:

#7210 WebKit and WebPositive localization

Usually not visible (error messages or applications not (yet) included in standard haiku build):

#6109 ResEdit without ResListView.h and ResListView.cpp
#7576 [Locale Kit] localize /src/system/libroot/posix/string/strerror.c

The following tickets might have been (at least partially) fixed in the meantime:

#5471 [Locale] language list is lowercase for some locales
#7240 Localized status messages too big for window)
#6369 userguide update issue
#6729 [Locale] add initial scroll to selection
#6747 [BOutlineListView] incorrect behavior observed in Locale preflet's usage of the list view
#6805 [Locale] crashes after pressing Default button
#7245 Some enchancements and fixing of the Devices application localization
#7393 Minimal width of window

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New tickets in June 2011:

#7700 [findutils] find displays question marks instead of cyrillic characters
#7741 Localization: Translated variables in AboutSystem's catkeys

Patches submitted in June 2011 for still open tickets:

#7229

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New tickets in July 2011:

#7816 Korean (Hangul) fonts needed.
#7819 Instant change of locale
#7853 diff command fails on UTF8 characters in file names
#7873 B_TRANSLATE("String") between #ifdef and #endif not included in catalogs
#7874 Localization of Decorators

Patches submitted in July 2011 for still open tickets:

#7874

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New tickets in August 2011:

#7901 [patch] BLocale: B_ERROR gets returned from methods in the BLocale class ambiguously
#7912 [ReadOnlyBootPrompt] Keymap list not localized
#7947 [Time] Calendar doesn't respect current locale's week start day

In August 2011 the following localization related tickets were closed as fixed:

#7947 (in hrev42697, reopened)

Patches submitted in August 2011 for still open tickets:

#7901

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New tickets in September 2011:

#7961 Select the right font depending on language
#7964 Apple Aluminum Keyboard Layout files
#7967 Update menu modifier images to more accurately reflect the corresponding key that appears on the keyboard
#7974 latest icu-devel package creates incorrect directory

Patches submitted in September 2011 for still open tickets:

#1735, #7964

[pulkomandy]

Thanks for listing them ! I'll have a look when I get some time :)