Additional QA on French translations

[TheoChevalier]

• Switching to fr locale code, as we never use fr-FR in Mozilla projects and the translation is neutral enough to target all french-speaking countries.
• Fixing typos and broken link

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[julienXX]

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[steveklabnik]

Switching to fr locale code,

Hm, I'm not sure if we should do this on a per-locale basis or not. Right now, it's to always use the extended one.

This PR still has conflicts as well.

[TheoChevalier]

Hm, I'm not sure if we should do this on a per-locale basis or not. Right now, it's to always use the extended one.

Using fr-FR would make only sense if we wanted to maintain translations for French spoken in France, then add different translations for French spoken in Belgium, Canada, etc. Which we won’t do because this is a neutral translation and would be a pain to maintain.
Using “fr” is consistent with what we’re doing on every other Mozilla website and product. It’s also totally fine to mix extended locale codes with non-extended ones. As a reference, here are the locale codes used on Mozilla.org https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/blob/master/bedrock/settings/base.py#L120-L133

This PR still has conflicts as well.

There was none an hour ago ;) Thanks, now fixed

[steveklabnik]

I understand, but Mozilla policy doesn't just make it Rust policy.

On Oct 6, 2016, 14:00 -0400, Théo Chevalier [email protected], wrote:

Hm, I'm not sure if we should do this on a per-locale basis or not. Right now, it's to always use the extended one.

Using fr-FR would make only sense if we wanted to maintain translations for French spoken in France, then add different translations for French spoken in Belgium, Canada, etc. Which we won’t do because this is a neutral translation and would be a pain to maintain.
Using “fr” is consistent with what we’re doing on every other Mozilla website and product. It’s also totally fine to mix extended locale codes with non-extended ones. As a reference, here are the locale codes used on Mozilla.org https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/blob/master/bedrock/settings/base.py#L120-L133

This PR still has conflicts as well.
There was none an hour ago ;) Thanks, now fixed

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[TheoChevalier]

I understand, but Mozilla policy doesn't just make it Rust policy.

Sure, of course. Just trying to understand why you would prefer fr-FR over fr, beyond consistency with existing locale codes.

[TheoChevalier]

Would appreciate if someone could review this one as I don’t think I will have much time to rebase it a fourth time.
Thanks!

[steveklabnik]

So sorry about that. :(

I still don't know what to do about fr vs fr-FR.

Otherwise, looks good to me. @brson what do you think?

[brson]

sgtm. The language codes can be sorted out later.

[alilleybrinker]

On the language codes: I think, if nothing else, that keeping the extended codes keeps the URLs as unsurprising as possible, which is a small bonus. Additionally, it leaves the door open for some future additional translation, if some intrepid person in fact wanted to provide a translation in Luxembourg French, Canadian French, etc. The reasons for using the shortened code seem comparatively thin. Sure, it saves a few characters and is consistent with Mozilla policy, but Rust is (as the FAQ points out) not controlled by Mozilla, so I don't think that consistency with Mozilla policy is of any particular relevance to the decision.