On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:40 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 13:36 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > We've had these discussions several times and the numbers we now have a > > are a result of this. > > The last time I recall this was discussed on this list, was that the > number of speakers is not even important at all. It's the number of > people who can read the written language as it is that's important. > > > While the number of speakers of a language in one country might be > > controversial, I've never seen any big fuss about the worldwide counts > > in our release notes. Not a problem. > > Oh, I've seen that.
For the GNOME release notes? In any major public place? > A difference of 19M people for Azerbaijani is > important. The debaters do it to the total. The ones who claim there are > only 17M Azerbaijani speakers in Iran don't assume the 19M difference > live somewhere else. They assume there are no such 19M speakers. > Considering that the whole population of the Republic of Azerbaijan is > only 8M, this is very important. If you really think this is an issue then please find a solution/patch for 2.12. It's too late to have a big discussion about it for these release notes. -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
