F19 Installer a little better, but...

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/20/2013 09:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> Frankly I'm not 100% convinced that it's a good idea to try and guess
> language even from a fairly reliable geolocation mechanism like ours.
> It's still not 100% reliable - people behind corporate VPNs can be
> routed through just about anywhere - and even when it gives a correct
> geographic location, what the hell do you do for, say, India? Where
> you'd need to have house-level accuracy to have a snowball's chance in
> hell of guessing what language someone speaks?
It is not that bad despite the recognized thousands of languages, only 
about 30 or so are considered major and less than that would have meet 
the necessary L10N criteria anyway.  Most speak in India speak several 
different languages and you can guess the primary language spoken in any 
given area quite reliably since the states boundaries were drawn by the 
major language spoken in that area. Speaking as someone who has done 
L10N work before, I would assume a number of users in India who install 
Fedora would want the installation in English and not in their native 
language since technical terms often have translations that local 
speakers themselves wouldn't recognize.  If the installer lets one pick 
English quickly, it is not a problem if the default guess is wrong.

Rahul