[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1133188] Select English as the default language for India geolocation

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133188

--- Comment #27 from Rajesh Ranjan  ---
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #25)
> (In reply to Ankit Patel from comment #24)
>
> 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.

0.027% population of India think English as their native :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_...

Just to support “neutral” way, Hindi and other Indian language are paying the
cost.

If English is commonly used everywhere in India (a great myth created by the
few), then why data here is very different:

1.

http://www.business-standard.com/content/general_pdf/042014_04.pdf

Why top 10 news channel, no English channel is present. The viewer-ship of
Hindi is 50 times that one English and all Indian language channels surpass
English.

2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_India_by_readership

among top ten only one newspaper is of English language

3.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/tv/news/TRP-Verdict-D...

Top 10 TV Soaps, no one from English.