GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 684845
add Japanese to common initial languages list
Last modified: 2012-11-27 10:19:32 UTC
Created attachment 225190 [details] [review] cc-common-language: add Japanese I would like to recommend adding Japanese to the list of common initial languages listed in gnome-control-center. Japan has a large population (127M) and Gnome is a popular desktop. So it would help Japanese Gnome users by listing Japanese as one of the initial common languages in Gnome. This seems reasonable given that Gnome is popular in Japan and has larger population than Britain, France, or Germany.
(Neither pro nor con about adding Japanese, but mentioning some countries' populations feels wrong here, as the dominant/main languages in Britain, France, and Germany are all also dominant/main languages in some other countries.)
What André said. British English is there because I wrote the code, the rest are specific but generic enough languages that the population able to read it will be greater than the population of that country alone. With French selected for example, I have Canada, a large portion of Africa and a few South-East Asian countries able to read the interface. With Arabic, the whole of Maghreb and North Africa, etc. This (slightly outdated) research show that Japanese would be the next logical language to be added though: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm
Created attachment 225196 [details] [review] common: add Japanese to the popular languages Tenth place in the list: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm
Created attachment 225197 [details] [review] common: add Japanese to the popular languages Tenth place in the list: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm
Created attachment 225234 [details] [review] common: add Japanese to the popular languages Eigth place in the list: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm
What about Chinese (traditional)? Shouldn't you treat two Chinese flavors equally?
Attachment 225234 [details] pushed as 5bf6c41 - common: add Japanese to the popular languages