Re: Multi-language to be or not to be

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- --On Sunday, February 11, 2007 16:33:21 -0800 "Joshua D. Drake"
<jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>>> The reality is this, the majority (likely > 98%) is English
>>>>> speaking.
>>>> of what?
>>> The postgresql community.
>>
>> And that statistic is derived from what sources?
>
> *sigh*, I am not going to argue the obvious with you. If you don't
> agree, don't agree.

I personally don't agree either ... I would guess that the majority of
PostgreSQL users are non-English as *first* language ... just because they can
communicate in English doesn't mean that their are either fluent in, or
comfortable with, the language ...

I'd love to see our demographics some day, but would guess that the Japanese
themselves are a fairly high percentage of users, based on how they've
organized over there ... Spanish is probably another high percentage language
... French, German, Chinese (Mandarin?), Arabic ... if you look at 'first
languages', I suspect that "English" is alot smaller then 98% ... whether its
less then 50%, that I wouldn't hazard a guess ...

Personally, I think it almost does us a dis-service statistically not to have
more translations available on our main web site ...

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