L10n:Teams:vi

Vietnamese (vi)

Team Facebook Group

Team members

Localizers in training

Active projects

• All projects on Pontoon [1]

L10n kit

• Transvision: search and compare translations between English and Vietnamese texts (for applications and Firefox OS)
• Pontoon
• Style Guide

Localizing SUpport.MOzilla.org (SUMO)

If you want to help localize http://support.mozilla.org/vi into your language, please do the following:

1. Create a SUMO account
2. If you can, get in touch with the Group Leader(s) listed here via a Private Message. If there is nobody listed there, please get in touch with Michał / vesper.
3. Read our universal l10n documentation here. For language-specific documentation, please get in touch with your Group Leader(s).
4. Visit our forums and introduce yourself to the community. We don’t bite, unless you’re made of cake ;-)
5. You're ready to go! If you have any questions, ask them on the forums.

Team communication

• Mailing list: dev-l10n-vi@lists.mozilla.org
• Facebook group: [2]
• Vietnamese Firefox homepage [3]
• Vietnamese Thunderbird homepage [4]
• Project site (outdated): Vi-site @ MozDev
• Community website (down): mozilla.vn
• IRC chat: N/A

About Vietnamese Name

Like some countries which have relations to Chinese culture, surname comes first in a full Vietnamese personal name. However, a difference from other countries is people never address a Vietnamese person by their surname even in formal situations, due to the fact that the "Nguyễn" surname alone is accounted for 40% of the people.

For expample, "Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng": "Nguyễn" is the surname, "Mạnh" is the middle name, "Hùng" is the first name.
- The borderline between the middle name and the first name is usually blurred. Even in official documents, it is common to see the first name is "Mạnh Hùng".
- In informal situations: "Hùng" or (less common, a bit less informal) "Mạnh Hùng"
- In formal situations: "Mr. Hùng" or (less common, a bit more formal) "Mr. Mạnh Hùng"

However, in the process of communicating with foreign people, some people write their names in reversed order and/or use English/Western nicknames. E.g. I sometimes input in my internet profile as "Hùng Nguyễn", "Williams Nguyễn", or "Williams Hùng Nguyễn"... Westerne order is also common for overseas Vietnamese.

Quick Tips:

• If there is an English/Western nickname at the beginning of someone's full name, they expect you to call them by that nickname.
• If someone's full name is written in only 2 words ("Minh Nguyễn"), especially when combining with the extremely common surnames ("Nguyễn", "Trần", "Lê"), then for 90% of the cases, the first word ("Minh") is the first name.
• A common practice: a surname is written in UPPERCASE.
• More on Vietnamese name with a list of common surnames