On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:39 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:28 +0100, Danilo Åegan wrote: > > That is an issue. How about sorting them by number of speakers instead? > > The number of speakers of a language is "very" controversial, you know. > For example, there's been a huge controversy going about the number of > Azerbaijani speakers in Iran. When the people who talk about it are > serious, the range goes from 17M to 36M.
We've had these discussions several times and the numbers we now have a are a result of this. While the number of speakers of a language in one country might be controversial, I've never seen any big fuss about the worldwide counts in our release notes. Not a problem. > > The other way around it would be to let translators manually sort this > > in generated XML file, but I'd rather avoid it. > > XSLT supports localized sorting, I believe. But I have no clue how to do > it. -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
