https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133188
Mike FABIAN mfabian@redhat.com changed:
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--- Comment #25 from Mike FABIAN mfabian@redhat.com --- (In reply to Ankit Patel from comment #24)
As one can notice, in my output "hi_IN" is first preference, while "en_IN" in Fabian's. I think it's mostly because of #comment 2, #comment 3 and #comment 4.
Yes, I used langtable 0.0.26 which switched the priority of Hindi and English compared to langtable < 0.0.26.
But my original question remains unanswered? How did you decide earlier that "hi_IN" was the most common? OR How did you decide now that "en_IN" is the most common one? Did you do any research/analysis or gathered any data points to make this decision?
According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
Hindi has 258-422 million speakers which is more than any other of the Indian langauges.
I did this for all languages supported by Fedora, looking at which language has the most speakers for a given territory.
But I can of course change that if users tell me they want something different.
For Switzerland the default is German only because the number of German speakers there is greater than the number of French speakers. What else could I do? There is no common language for all of Switzerland.
But for India, English seems to be not an unreasonable choice because it is commonly used everywhere in India. Therefore, I think Siddhesh’s argument in comment#0 is understandable. Choosing English as the default is maybe more “neutral” for India than any of the Indian languages.
In Future, it may be nice to make that more precise, i.e. add more data for more precise locations to langtable to make it possible to make Marathi the default in Pune for example.
We don’t have to use that information of course, but it would be nice if langtable had that sort of information as well (which language is used mostly in which parts of countries). If such information were available in langtable, we could offer German as the default for Zürich in Switzerland than and French for Geneva in Switzerland, Marathi for locations in Maharashtra, ..., if we want to.