I'm currently thinking about using Gears for a project that will be
used by a large number of Japanese and Chinese-speaking people.  One
of the issues that we have with using Gears is that the installation
pages here:

http://gears.google.com

and here:

http://gears.google.com/download.html

are all in English.  I wasn't able to find a Japanese or Chinese
version of these pages.

This can cause issues for non-English speakers, it's not terribly user-
friendly to try to walk them through an installation page that's not
in their native language.

I'd like to have an install process that's a bit easier for our non-
English users to use. As I see it, there are a few ways to solve this:

1. We have a direct link to an installer that doesn't work through a
web page.  After some Googling, I don't *think* this is possible, but
I wanted to check to make sure.
2. We use localized install pages.  I did some googling before, but
couldn't find a Japanese install page for gears (I did find a Japanese
API page though).  If such a page exists, please tell me.

If there aren't any localized install pages, then we're willing to
translate those pages into Japanese and Chinese if you'd like the
help.  Probably we can't translate everything (for example, the user
agreement), but we could translate the interface at least and make it
easier for our users to install.  Let me know if you'd like the help.

I'm not sure if I should have posted this here or on the Gears
Engineering group.  It wasn't strictly about the codebase, so I wasn't
sure where it should go -- my apologies if I posted it to the wrong
location.

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