[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 #38 from Rajesh Ranjan  ---
(In reply to Rahul Sundaram from comment #33)
> The languages story in India is far more complicated than assuming that
> everyone in a state speaks a particular language and contrary to the claims
> here, there is no such thing as a "national" language in India
> (www.thehindu.com/news/national/hindi-not-a-national-language-court/
> article94695.ece ) and "official" languages include English and Hindi
> (http://lawmin.nic.in/coi/coiason29july08.pdf).

Rahul,

Try to understand this is not the issue that one want Hindi to be a default
language for whole India, I already told, better to choose a locale by region
specific. After the globalization of economy there is not any part of world
where you can find people speaking only one language. So respect the language
of majority and choose as per the location, like Tamil for Tamil Nadu, Marathi
for Maharashtra, Hindi for UP etc.

btw, Probably you will be aware of the fact:

1.
http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/p17343.html

That English is having just an adhoc status?

2. http://www.rajbhasha.nic.in

And why this department is running?
> A simple count of number of speakers doesn't by itself mean much in a
> country where technical communication is predominantly in English and
> language has often been used as a political device.  If there are technical
> limitations on picking out more granular choices (certainly not a country
> wide choice), it might be useful to stick to whatever was the default
> before, discuss this in a mailing list and then make any changes after some
> consensus.

If number not matters, then what matters for choosing the same. Also English is
being protected unnecessarily by the few 'elites'. Why you are afraid of
choosing a language of India as a default language? What big benefit Fedora
will get by choosing English. Rahul, I feel here you are using this issue of
language like a 'political' person :-)

Rahul, just let me know if Hindi (though in practice I don't want only Hindi
for all the country and I see several have supported to use Hindi) is being
chosen as default what harm it will do to the people of India particularly to
'English' people. So, I am forced to call this demand of 'elitist' nature that
'English' Indian people is being annoyed if s/he sees Hindi or any Indian
language as a default. For me, it is not doing any harm though my mother speaks
Maithili.

When Fedora comes in a language, we can not treat it just a technical
communication. Till the date, census shows data that 'predominantly' Marathi is
used by the people of Maharashtra, I will demand to use Marathi as default for
the Maharashtra state and so on.

As Pravin wrote rightly, Fedora is the only OS that supports all 22 official
languages of India. It is one great USP of Fedora. Why not use it for the
promotion of Fedora?

Why do you want to paint the whole world with one colour? Please respect the
diversity and allow Our Fedora to follow as per the language of the mass.