Re: How many people need locales?
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> I have yet to meet a person who would ever need a slovak locale.
> Nobody cares at all (collate order? who needs that? Different
> format of numbers? This is not only unneeded, but even harmful.
> Different format of date? Who cares.. Gettext? Maybe, but nobody
> I know is using it, because they mostly understand english and
> slovak menus are more difficult to get used to when 70% of applications
> would be in English anyway).
Quote from www.debian.org
What is Debian?
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer.
^^^^
I understand the "your" as intended to *any* person who wants a
operating system for his computer. I´m really sure that there
are people equipped with computers on this Earth who did not
understand any English word. So our Website has a bug and has
to be fixed by
s/computer/& if you understand English language/
In my opinion this would be no good fix for this situation.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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