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Survey Results

Survey results (12/12/2008 - 01/15/2008):

 (The survey is still active and accessible here:  Survey )

Total number of answers: 213

 Survey participants were from 4 continents: Chart.jpg |=Number of participants by country: |=By native language: |=What encodings do people use:

 26 India
 25 United States
 21 Czech Republic
 15 Poland
 14 Germany
 9 United Kingdom
 8 France
 8 China
 8 Brazil
 6 Sweden
 6 Japan
 6 Australia
 5 Finland
 41 English
 19 Czech
 18 Polish
 16 German
 13 French
 10 Spanish
 8 Tamil
 8 Swedish
 8 Russian
 8 Kannada
 7 Chinese
 6 Portuguese
 177 UTF-8
 7 ISO8859-1
 3 ISO8859-2
 3 ISO8859-15
 1 gbk
 1 euc-kr
 1 KOI8-R

Locales we should focus on:

 Votes  Locale Locale Name  Status
 7  sa_IN  Sanskrit - India In progress -- IEC community
 6  kn_IN  Kannada - India In progress -- IEC community
 3  sv_FI  Swedish - Finland 
 3  gu_IN  Gujarati - India In progress -- IEC community
 3  en_IN  English - India In progress -- IEC community
 3  csb_PL  Kashubian - Poland 
 3  bn_IN  Bengali - India In progress -- IEC community
 2  or_IN  Oriya - India In progress -- IEC community
 2  mr_IN  Marathi - India In progress -- IEC community
 2  ml_IN  Malayalam - India In progress -- IEC community
 2  fa_IR  Persian - Iran 
 2  br_FR  Breton - France 
 2  bn_BD  Bengali - Bangladesh 
 1  ur_PK  Urdu - Pakistan 
 1  tt_RU  Tatar - Russia
 1  qu_PE  Quechua - Peru 
 1  qu_EC  Quechua - Ecuador 
 1  qu_BO  Quechua - Bolivie 
 1  pa_PK  Panjabi - Pakistan 
 1  pa_IN  Panjabi - India In progress -- IEC community
 1  oc_FR  Occitan - France 
 1  mi_NZ  Maori - New Zealand 
 1  km_KH  Khmer - Cambodia 
 1  it_CH  Italian - Swizerland 
 1  fy_NL  Western Frisian - Netherlands 
 1  eu_FR  Basque - France 
 1  de_BE  German - Belgium 
 1  crh_UA  Crimean Tatar - Ukraine 
 1  ca_AD  Catalan - Andorra 
 1  be_BY  Belorussian - Belarus In progress EGC
 1  as_IN  Assamese - India In progress -- IEC community
 1  ar_OM  Arabic - Oman 
 1  ar_LB  Arabic - Lebanon 
 1  ar_JO  Arabic - Jordan 
 1  ar_IN  Arabic - India In progress -- IEC community

Level of localization

What level of localization is essential in general? The preferred level for respondents by native language:
 Votes  What level of localization is essential for you?
 83  BASIC: I need basic localization, I want system to sort according to my language, correct date, keyboard, fonts.
 61 NONE: I don't care. I don't mind using English locale.
 41 FULL: I need fully localized system - correct sorting, translated desktop and command line tools including man pages.
 20 APPLICATIONS: I need the above and also desktop applications to be translated.
 8  APPS + HELP: I need the above and also online help to be translated.
 Votes  Percent  Participnats native language  Level of localization
 5  71%  Chinese  FULL
 4  40%  Spanish  FULL
 3  38%  Kannada  APPS + HELP
 2  50%  Japanese  APPLICATIONS
 17  89%  Czech  BASIC
 6  46%  French  BASIC
 2  100%  Icelandic  BASIC
 2  50%  Italian  BASIC
 10  55%  Polish  BASIC
 3  50%  Portuguese  BASIC
 2  100%  Slovak  BASIC
 5  63%  Swedish  BASIC
 3  100%  Danish  NONE
 6  38%  German  NONE
 4  50%  Russian  NONE
 3  38%  Tamil  NONE
 2  66%  Telugu  NONE

 Votes  Would you prefer MT or English?
 148  English
 21  Machine Translation
 3  I don't know
 These numbers excludes native English speakers.

Next steps:

  • New locales, include data from the survey to the plan for new OpenSolaris locales
  • ... will be defined
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