Dirk Stöcker wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Maarten Deen wrote: > >> Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>>> Well, as said the advantage of having localized JOSM and the disadvantage >>> of larger file size goes hand-in-hand. Only 24% of JOSM users use english >>> software version - The majority uses localized JOSM (50% use german). >> >> Is that 50% of the non-english users or 50% of the total? > > 50% total. > >> That would mean that with just three versions, you would cater for either 62 >> or 74% of all users. >> I would think that's enough to make the effort. Maybe not make a localized >> version of every josm-latest, but at least for official ones. > > The numbers pretty much look like the user stats, so I would say nearly > 100% use native language when available. Only supporting the "MAJOR" > languages would be the totally wrong sign from my point of view. We want > more users outside of British and German area, not less. That is not what I'm saying. I'm saying: at least make a localized version for the main languages (which appear to be EN and DE). For the remaining languages use the version with all translations. I'm sure that when you create a .jar file in java, including/excluding certain things is not more than an additional makefile. Regards, Maarten _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
