[tor-bugs] #26843 [Applications/Tor Browser]: TBA: Investigate how Mozilla Fennec provides localization

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#26843: TBA: Investigate how Mozilla Fennec provides localization
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 Reporter:  sysrqb                               |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_revision
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-mobile, TBA-a2,                  |  Actual Points:
  GeorgKoppen201811, TorBrowserTeam201812        |
Parent ID:  #26782                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by boklm):

 * status:  needs_review => needs_revision
 * keywords:  tbb-mobile, TBA-a2, GeorgKoppen201811, TorBrowserTeam201812R
     => tbb-mobile, TBA-a2, GeorgKoppen201811, TorBrowserTeam201812


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:17 gk]:
 > Okay, I have an updated branch for review, `bug_26843_v6`
 (https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/gk/tor-browser-
 build.git/commit/?h=bug_26843_v6&id=1313336490abb4773e20d40347db79e46c26727e).
 >
 > Compared to `bug_26843_v5` it is rebased on the latest `master` and
 contains an indication in the bundle name that the .apk is actually not a
 single-locale one, using "multi" as Mozilla does.

 It seems that when we are running `AB_CD=multi ./mach package`, the
 variable `MOZ_CHROME_MULTILOCALE` contains all the locales we want.
 However, when we run `./mach build chrome-[% lang %]`, only the current
 and previous locales are included in `MOZ_CHROME_MULTILOCALE`. Is `./mach
 build chrome-[% lang %]` ignoring the variable `MOZ_CHROME_MULTILOCALE`
 (and in this case it doesn't matter if it doesn't contain all the
 locales), or should we add all the locales before running the first
 `./mach build chrome-[% lang %]`?

 We could use this line to set all the locales in `MOZ_CHROME_MULTILOCALE`:
 {{{
 export MOZ_CHROME_MULTILOCALE='[% tmpl(c('var/locales').join(' ')) %]'
 }}}

 An other minor thing: I think it would be better to extract the locales in
 a sub-directory (such as `/var/tmp/dist/locales`) instead of directly in
 `/var/tmp/dist`.

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