Which languages are not used as systems default even by their native speakers?
Hello,
in addition to this initial question by me
https://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2023/09/msg00016.html
I would like to ask you for languages that are not used as systems
default by their nativ-speakers.
This question is related to package "backintime" [1][2] and will result
in a new feature.
One example might be Faroese. Some of them do use English or Danish as
systems default. There are several reasons why this happens. But this is
IMHO not relevant for this thread here.
Another that comes into my mind is Traditional Chinese. I assume most of
its users do use Simplified Chinese.
The idea is to "identify" such users (e.g. who setup "Danish") and
remind them at the first(!) start of an application that this
application do offer its GUI in a language (e.g. Faroese) that might fit
better to their needs or native language.
To implement something like this I need such a list of languages:
Danish -> Faroese
Simpl. Chinese -> Trad. Chinese
Norwegian Bokmål -> Norwegian Nynorsk
Norwegian Nynorsk -> Norwegian Bokmål
etc
This won't catch everyone or every language. For example lot of users
speaking such "minor" languages just use English as default language. I
can't catch them. Or I have to give them a list of 44 languages [3] they
might check just because they do use English.
For example Esperanto is another example. Esperanto speaking users are
using different system default languages.
But there might be other "clear" examples like Faroese?
Do you have more examples?
[1] -- <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/backintime>
[2] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime>
[3] -- <https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/backintime/common/>
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