Frank - I'm trying to keep this discussion all in n.p.m.seamonkey. Could
you cross-post there as well in future? Thanks.
> This would reach 91.5% of internet users directly. Of the
> remaining users, I think most will
> speak one of the languages on that list. After all, everyone
> speaks English, right? ;-) Any
> other packs are a bonus.
>
> Is reaching 91.5% of internet users a good enough goal ?
Remember, we are not saying "These are the only language packs we will
have", we are saying "We will not declare Mozilla as 1.0 software until we
have a language pack in these languages."
I hope and expect that Mozilla 1.0 will have localisations into many more
languages than those on that list.
> After all, everyone speaks English, right? ;-)
>
> No, they speak Chinese and Spanish ... :) read
> http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/top100.html and probably Gengali and Hindi
> .... :)
That was a joke, as I'm sure you've imagined :-) Although I should point
out that your figures are for the world population, and not the Internet
population (which, I suggest, has very different demographics.) It also
only shows first language. I would be interested in the number and
language of Internet users who do not speak _any_ of the languages on that
list well enough to use a browser in it.
> The other thing is this chart represent the internet users in March
> 2001, but not the % of the internet users when we reach mozilla 1.0. For
> example, if you read http://www.euromktg.com/globstats/ ( the page which
> you got the pie char ) , you can see the estimation for year 2003
> number, the English % will drop from 47.5% 3/2001 to 28.7% by 2003.
> Maybe we should also consider that.
We are shooting for a Mozilla 1.0 this year rather than 2003 :-). Are
there any more up-to-date figures we should be using?
Gerv
