Hi, > I think we can consider the volume or the number of subscribers of the > debian-user mailing list, and compare it with the volume or the number > of subscribers of all other language-specific debian-user-foo lists > combined. Is there anybody who can do this count? > > Can you think of another way to estimate the proportion of users using > locales?
In case of Japanese, I cannot imagine any Japanese people using Linux without locale, except for server purpose. (I don't run apache, postfix, and so on under Japanese locale.) In short, all Japanese users of Desktop Linux use locale. Estimating number of users from ML subscribers: Since there are [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lists whose public language is Japanese, Japanese people tend to subscribe them and don't subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even debian-japanese@lists.debian.org . (The public language of debian-japanese@lists.debian.org is English and the list is mainly used by foreign people who want to configure Japanese environment.) I think the administrator of debian.or.jp mailing lists knows the number of subscribers of [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists. Also I imagine ordinary Chinese and Korean people use locale. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
