On 3/8/06, Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 14:43 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote: > > > I've added rni18n.xml now: commentary might need changing :)
I don't want to start another round of argument about speakers population. But in the last release, when Thai was first listed as a supported language, the most frequently commented point in my translation was the population of Thai speakers, which was very much lower than what people usually accept. The number of 20 millions instead of 65 millions had created flames in many forums, and the only way to stop it is to silently translate 20 millions into 65 millions. :-/ In my vague memory, the reference for this statistics was from a survey conducted by SIL (sorry if I'm wrong), which seemed to distinguish several Thai dialects as different languages. But the fact is that the Thai "script" is commonly used by all dialects, no matter what they are spoken. And another fact is that those dialects are not used in official documents, including computer programs. The "Central Thai" is just used throughout the country by 65 millions people. In short, the ethnic survey seems to be a linguistic research that reflects the native dialects, not the use of "official languages". Could you please consider changing the number for Thai? Or if this would break the principle, and exceptional measurements would cause confusion, as it had been the reason that barred out the change for some languages in last release, should the population just be removed to avoid controversy in local communities? Thanks, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
