On 06/20/2013 09:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
Frankly I'm not 100% convinced that it's a good idea to try and guess
language even from a fairly reliable geolocation mechanism like ours.
It's still not 100% reliable - people behind corporate VPNs can be
routed through just about anywhere - and even when it gives a correct
geographic location, what the hell do you do for, say, India? Where
you'd need to have house-level accuracy to have a snowball's chance in
hell of guessing what language someone speaks?
It is not that bad despite the recognized thousands of languages, only
about 30 or so are considered major and less than that would have meet
the necessary L10N criteria anyway. Most speak in India speak several
different languages and you can guess the primary language spoken in any
given area quite reliably since the states boundaries were drawn by the
major language spoken in that area. Speaking as someone who has done
L10N work before, I would assume a number of users in India who install
Fedora would want the installation in English and not in their native
language since technical terms often have translations that local
speakers themselves wouldn't recognize. If the installer lets one pick
English quickly, it is not a problem if the default guess is wrong.
Rahul
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