Re: [PATCH] Chinese Language Maintainer

From: Ganesan Rajagopal
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 05:25:21 EST


>>>>> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> That aside, please remember that Europe as a whole is a small place on the
> bigger world stage. The total volume of potential developers in the huge
> and rapidly modernising nations like India and China is vast, and there
> are large highly skilled technical nations that don't teach English to
> everyone technical by default.

Speaking for India only, while the medium of instruction in primary and high
school is available in native languages, English is almost universally
preferred. Moreover, technical education is completely in English. I don't
see much value in translating developer documentation into Indian
languages. User documentation is another story.

Ganesan

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Ganesan Rajagopal

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