Re: Localized Pages

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Bennett, Daniel wrote:

> Hey monkey boy

Hi.


> from his emails I believe he's saying that 
> coming from his point of view -- as a non-native English speaking person
> -- internationalization of something as technical as GNOME is a low 
> priority

Why? Why should it be any more low-priority than for example translating 
Windows? That certainly isn't low-priority to Microsoft, and part of 
Microsofts success is that Microsoft programs are localized into many 
languages (and offers support for a lot of character sets an input methods).


> and offers up the idea of actually asking visitors if it's an 
> issue or if most others, like him (being non-English), also think that 
> the foreign languages can be a couple of clicks away without seriously 
> cramping anyone's ability to successfully find information.

I think it is an issue, and the people who need the translations the 
most are the ones that definately wouldn't even realize there was a 
"poll" or something like that to ask about preferred language (I don't 
know if that was suggested).


Christian