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

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

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

--- Comment #14 from Rajesh Ranjan  ---
(In reply to Amit Shah from comment #13)
> My view is that as far as defaults go, we should have safe defaults.
>
> For someone not familiar with Hindi (e.g. from the southern states of
> India), Hindi is a bad default.
>
> All the text leading to the language selection in the installer is in
> English.  The live image itself boots into the GNOME desktop, and the 'Try
> Fedora / Install Now' stuff is in English.
>
> With the new UI, it's really easy to see the Indian languages being
> available in Indic scripts.
>
> It should also depend on the percentage of completion of the localisation
> for the language, maybe indicate in the installer that the language is 80%
> there, but some stuff may be rendered in English.
>
> For the bigger picture, I'd suggest we should have a way to start the
> installer in other languages based on kernel cmdline parameters, so the live
> image also boots into a localised version of the desktop.
>
> Also, if a user downloads the image from a localised version of the website,
> the localised version of iso should be offered.  The current infrastructure
> doesn't support this, as far as I can see.
>
> I'd say for the majority of the population trying out Fedora in India,
> English would be the language of choice, rather than localised ones.
>
> Given all this, I'd say English is the safe default here.

I cannot support the theory of safe default. If IP comes from a language zone
Marathi, and if Marathi is displayed as a default what is the problem in having
the same. I never told Hindi should be the default for All India. And what is
the problem if the user who is installing Fedora would change the selection
from Marathi to English if he thinks to change (After all s/he is well English
Educated). On the basis of some so called current practice why we should ignore
the demography of India and its larger stats?