Bad Localization Example (Java on OS X)

This is the dialog window that appears when you try to run a Java Applet on Mac OS X 10.5.7 with the last Java update (I’m running Java 1.5.0_19 according to this test).

Take a look at the checkbox:

• In Italian it’s “l’accesso” (definite article+noun), not “laccesso”. The same error appears in the first label, so I suppose they have some difficulties dealing with apostrophes. This problem was already there before the Java update.
• Applet’s name and author are gone, replaced by {0} and {1} (this started with the last Java update).

Here’s my questions:

• Who is to blame for this window? Sun (as I suppose) or Apple? Sure it’s not Mozilla’s fault, since the same thing happens with Safari 4.
• Is this happening only with the Italian localization of OS X? Are other locales affected as well?
• How can we try to fix that, since someone will think for sure that this is our (Mozilla localizers) fault?

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