On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:46:42AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > 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. add Russian to that list too :-)
> > --- > Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ > "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Adobe put Dmitry in jail for the crime against society of revealing that they were selling ROT-13 as "encryption." He is rotting in US prison as a political prisoner for speaking out. Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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