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Bug 684845 - add Japanese to common initial languages list
add Japanese to common initial languages list
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Region & Language
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-26 03:38 UTC by Jens Petersen
Modified: 2012-11-27 10:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
cc-common-language: add Japanese (973 bytes, patch)
2012-09-26 03:38 UTC, Jens Petersen
none Details | Review
common: add Japanese to the popular languages (1.29 KB, patch)
2012-09-26 09:59 UTC, Bastien Nocera
none Details | Review
common: add Japanese to the popular languages (1.33 KB, patch)
2012-09-26 10:00 UTC, Bastien Nocera
accepted-commit_after_freeze Details | Review
common: add Japanese to the popular languages (1.33 KB, patch)
2012-09-26 20:54 UTC, Bastien Nocera
committed Details | Review

Description Jens Petersen 2012-09-26 03:38:14 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.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-09-26 07:52:23 UTC
(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.)
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2012-09-26 09:50:05 UTC
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This (slightly outdated) research show that Japanese would be the next logical language to be added though: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
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2012-09-26 09:59:45 UTC
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
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2012-09-26 10:00:56 UTC
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
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2012-09-26 20:54:07 UTC
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
Comment 6 Ma Hsiao-chun 2012-10-09 18:31:48 UTC
What about Chinese (traditional)?
Shouldn't you treat two Chinese flavors equally?
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2012-11-27 10:19:28 UTC
Attachment 225234 [details] pushed as 5bf6c41 - common: add Japanese to the popular languages