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

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--- Comment #29 from Ankit Patel  ---
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #25)
> According to
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
>
> Hindi has 258-422 million speakers which is more than any
> other of the Indian langauges.
>
> I did this for all languages supported by Fedora, looking at
> which language has the most speakers for a given territory.

That's good.
> But I can of course change that if users tell me they want
> something different.

Ok. There's a glitch here, I will try to explain in my comments further.

[...]
> But for India, English seems to be not an unreasonable choice because
> it is commonly used everywhere in India.

How do you know that English is not an unreasonable choice for India?
Rather how do you know that English is a reasonable choice for India?
OR how do you know that English 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.

maybe not!

We can't really make decisions based on a single user's (or group of users')
reports, rather we should really research and analyze the data.

Let's not assume anything when there's a market data, which I could see that
you have done earlier.

[...]

Thanks,