superreview requested: [Bug 392918] Convert all . strings files to UTF-8 for diff-friendliness and iconv them to UTF-16 during build

Smokey Ardisson (no bugmail - do not email)  has ask=
ed
Mark Mentovai  for superreview:
Bug 392918: Convert all .strings files to UTF-8 for diff-friendliness and i=
conv
them to UTF-16 during build
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D392918

Attachment 284885: trunk patch
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=3D284885&action=3Dedit

------- Additional Comments from Smokey Ardisson (no bugmail - do not email)

Who said Sunday afternoons had to be boring?  Our .strings files were a
mess=E2=80=94wrong encoding, wrong line-endings, you name it. :P=0D
=0D
Here's the trunk patch.  Some notes:=0D
=0D
1) That libs:: line is now a nightmare; is there some better way to write i=
t?=0D
2) Two of the Localizable.strings (Appearance and Navigation) had their
localization named "Localizable.strings" instead of "English"; that's fixed
here.=0D
3) Parts of the Security group in the source tree were showing up as missing
because the referred to the now-removed Personal prefPane folder.  I'm not =
sure
how this didn't break the copying or something of Security.nib, but those a=
re
fixed in this patch, too.=
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