On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:46:42AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > > I think we can consider the volume or the number of subscribers of the > > debian-user mailing list, and compare it with the volume or the number > > of subscribers of all other language-specific debian-user-foo lists > > combined. Is there anybody who can do this count? > > > > Can you think of another way to estimate the proportion of users using locales? > > In case of Japanese, I cannot imagine any Japanese people using > Linux without locale, except for server purpose. (I don't run > apache, postfix, and so on under Japanese locale.) In short, > all Japanese users of Desktop Linux use locale. > > Estimating number of users from ML subscribers: > Since there are debian-*@debian.or.jp mailing lists whose > public language is Japanese, Japanese people tend to subscribe > them and don't subscribe debian-users@lists.debian.org or even > debian-japanese@lists.debian.org . (The public language of > debian-japanese@lists.debian.org is English and the list is > mainly used by foreign people who want to configure Japanese > environment.) I think the administrator of debian.or.jp mailing > lists knows the number of subscribers of debian-*@debian.or.jp > lists. > > Also I imagine ordinary Chinese and Korean people use locale. add Russian to that list too :-) > > --- > Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org> > http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ > "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Adobe put Dmitry in jail for the crime against society of revealing that they were selling ROT-13 as "encryption." He is rotting in US prison as a political prisoner for speaking out. Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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