Re: Bug in the .pot file

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Åegan)]

ÐÐÑÐÐÐ ÐÑÐÐÐÐÐ,

Today at 13:06, ÐÑÐÐÐÐÐ ÐÐÐÐÐ wrote:

> When listing partially supported countries you've listed Macedonia
> with 1.5 milion citizens. Macedonia has exactly 2 milion 71210
> citizens.

This is about native language speakers, not citizenship.

Also, that can't be true (you cannot be that precise, since someone
must have died, and someone must have been born since that estimate
was done :).  This is just an illustration of the types of problems
one might have with determining "real" number of speakers.

I applied the same rules for Serbian (10M is not only from Serbia,
it's including Serbia, Montenegro and Republic of Srpska, meaning we
didn't count Kosovo population, and it's *very* imprecise: the true
figure might have been 9M, but it might have been 11M as wellâI don't
know and I don't care).

Of course, I didn't make the figure up for Macedonian, I took it from
ethnologue.

> Check it at http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mk.html

Indeed, look at "languages" section lower on that page.

Languages:
  Macedonian 68%, Albanian 25%, Turkish 3%, Serbo-Croatian 2%, other 2%

So, there would be less than 1.4 million Macedonian speakers.  Should
I change the figure to 1.4? :)

Just kidding, don't make too much of the figure in release notes, it's
just an estimate, and changing it this late in the game would break
everyone's translations, and I don't want that.

Cheers,
Danilo