Firefox/Feature Brainstorming:Internationalization

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Specific features References
Language support
  • Improve complex glyph rendering
  • Support more complex languages (Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, pangool, all Indian dialects)
  • Multilingual browser, to allow single binary for multilingual systems
  • Being able to switch user-interface language without restarting the browser
Localization
  • Times are converted local times
  • Units such as currency, weight, distance are converted or highlighted, and allow for right click interactions

See bug #240914. (David Baron said: I expect this will be fixed for Gecko 1.9 (i.e., Firefox 3.0...)

See bug #356184.

General tasks
  • Ability to highlight text/tables in a webpage and then right click and "Export to OpenOffice.org Calc/Writer or Microsoft Excel/Word" depending on users preference and operating system.

Many people I have shown Mozilla Firefox to have missed such a feature as it is in Microsoft Internet Explorer.

  • Improving bidi text editing. Sometimes it crashes in textarea, which is very annoying in wikis (suppose you're writing an article for wikipedia).

bug#315748

Variant button
  • A variant button to show a human friendly variant list, in particular the list of available languages in the server.

The main intention is to use the variant button as a language button.

This could also go to section 3 of this page.

The variant button

Text from this document could be copied to this page.

MALAYALAM support

Please try to include the support for MALAYALAM language followed by millions of people from the Kerala state in India. IE already supports this.