Re: Supported languages in 2.12

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Thanks for your reply, Danilo :)

On 24/08/2005, at 10:43 PM, Danilo Åegan wrote:
> > > Please be patient: I'll be updating the notes only once or twice,  
> > > and
> > > I'm going to do that near the end of the cycle, instead of doing  
> > > it a
> > > dozen times.
> >
> > Thus coping with several indignant translation teams at once. ;)
>
> Yeah, and you just had to push it :-P

<hastily conceals large stirring spoon>

:D

I am innocent, INNOCENT, I tell you!
> If it's in the weekly translation status, then it will be in the
> release notesâI am using exactly the same data for both :)

Great: you might have saved yourself some mails by saying that in the  
first post. ;)
> (fwiw, if anyone wants access to entire database with such global
> statistics as can be seen in weekly stats for a period of more than a
> year, for instance to create nice graphs of fluctuation of number of
> supported and partially supported languages, I'd be glad to let them
> have it â I have data for every day except when there was a problem
> somewhere :)

That would be cool. :) Not something I can do right now, though.
> > I'd hate to see all our effort go to waste. ;)
>
> No need to worry at all :)

<phew> ;)
> > World-wide Vietnamese-speaking population: a minimum of 84 million
> > people
>
> Just don't make a big fuss out of this figure: I will be using value
> from
>   http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=VIE
> which is 68 million instead, but if you are going to cause me problems
> because of this, I will oblige :)

I thought you wanted population stats. ;)  Census July 2005 in  
Vietnam was 83.5 million, and there are at least half a million  
Vietnamese people living in other countries, 100 000 of them in  
Australia with me. :)  (Well, not actually in my house: we don't have  
enough bedrooms.)

However, the number of Vietnamese people in Vietnam who have access  
to computers is pitifully low. :(  Increasing rapidly, but still  
tiny. Outside the homeland, of course, in the sort of countries which  
take in and support surviving refugees, there is plenty of access.

I don't think our community would benefit from the computer-using  
figures being made public. :(

As for causing you problems, I'm a bit busy right now, but anything  
for a friend... :D
> It's just a very rough estimate to give human touch to the translation
> stats, and by no means does it mean that so many people will be able
> to use the translation (some may not even be able to read, most will
> not have a computer AND Gnome on it, etc.).

Worse still, they may use Windoze!  :o

(The shame, the shame ... )

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN