Re: Bug in the .pot file

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Danilo Åegan wrote:

> 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).
>  

I agree. But all of the 2 million citizens are speaking macedonian. It's 
the same with the hungarian minority in Northern Serbia or any other 
country that has other nationalities, they all speak/use the country's 
official language. I thought that the numbers for all languages were 
based on those facts.

> 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? :)
>  

The same. If you're an Albanian or a Serb living in Macedonia, you use 
macedonian language everywhere, including computers in school, offices etc.

> 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.
>  

Ok, no problem.

Cheers,
Arangel