This is just to get an idea of the languages used by people in this community, and the desires people have for the Pyra.
Oh, you are using a non-Latin-script Balto-Slavic language? Which one? Russian?Oh man, looks like a i am a minority here. Guess i could manually deal with Cyrlic text by myself, that's something somewhat managable on Linux. But just how much of an issue can it become (in theory) when it comes to doing the same on the Pyra?
Chances are that something will already be available, but how useful it will be in the context of the downscaled Pyra keyboard, I dunno. Most likely at some point some amount of manual configuration/tweaking for Russian layouts will have to be done by someone, possibly youThe "яверт" layout looks kind of awkward to use, but i guess i will have to make it work. If anything i will just use an on-screen keyboard or something (Man..).
Anyway, do you know if any of the alternative Russian layouts ("яверт", "яжерт" etc') will be available by default in the Pyra's Linux distro, or will i have to manually configure them?
You are forgetting how international support sells more devices. Lowering the price, and solidifying the project for yourself.Good idea.
Looking at this completely egocentrical I voted for just having English support.
Adding the diacritics used in dutch would be nice but isn't a necessity.
Is this a guess or a fact? If it's a fact I'd like the source for your evidence.You are forgetting how international support sells more devices.
For the purposes of this poll, that's completely irrelevant. The objective of this poll is to collect real data on language usage in the community, which means individual participants need to answer the questions honestly and egocentrically in order to provide an accurate overall picture collectively.You are forgetting how international support sells more devices. Lowring the price, and solidifying the project for yourself.Good idea.
Looking at this completely egocentrical I voted for just having English support.
Adding the diacritics used in dutch would be nice but isn't a necessity.
But yes, its possible to have a lot of international support without any inconvenience to the English user.
The poll just conveniently hides the difference between real keyboard support, and printing letters everywhere.
Yeah I was a bit lazy there. The goal of the first question is to get info about the first language, the goal of the second question is to get info about 2nd (or 3rd, 4th) languages. I made the sweeping assumption that those other languages (missing from the 2nd question) mostly have native speakers, so it would just be a duplication of the first question. That assumption is false, of course. I could change the poll, but it's a bit late for that.Not that it really affects me, but why doesn't the second question cover all the languages or language groups that the other questions do?
- Neelix
As expected, English is dominating.
Obviously this poll is biased towards English since this is an English forum where everyone writes in English and the questions are in English so you need to understand English (at least to some extent) in order to be able to participate in the poll.Maybe you should ask this question on the german forums![]()
Also note that there are always two ways to look at the results from a poll like this: (I'm taking the example of Portuguese now)
I personally tend to prefer the second way of looking at things.
- We could say: "Clearly Portuguese is not important because nobody in the community uses it, so we shouldn't support it."
- We could say: "Clearly this community could be bigger in Portugal and Brazil, because Portuguese has 265 million native speakers (cf. English has ~400 million, German has 95 million) yet nobody in the poll speaks Portuguese. So we should certainly support Portuguese well, in order to attract more Portuguese speakers."
No, you just stated "sells", implying there is precedence or other evidence. Consider the difference between "Bright colors sell more cereal", "Bright colors may sell more cereal" and "Bright colors will sell more cereal". The first implies a known phenomenon or correlation that provides reasonable evidence for a belief that bright colors will sell more cereal. The second implies some existing rationale it could happen, but no evidence. The third implies some well known and reliably repeatable mechanism that forces more cereal being sold.B-zar: As you may have noted, i didnt say "will" because i dont know that any devices will be sold at all.
Most brazilians are not allowed to travel freely within their own country. If you want to compare them to Germans, the number has to be cut by two decimal-points.Yeah I was a bit lazy there. The goal of the first question is to get info about the first language, the goal of the second question is to get info about 2nd (or 3rd, 4th) languages. I made the sweeping assumption that those other languages (missing from the 2nd question) mostly have native speakers, so it would just be a duplication of the first question. That assumption is false, of course. I could change the poll, but it's a bit late for that.Not that it really affects me, but why doesn't the second question cover all the languages or language groups that the other questions do?
- Neelix
As expected, English is dominating.Obviously this poll is biased towards English since this is an English forum where everyone writes in English and the questions are in English so you need to understand English (at least to some extent) in order to be able to participate in the poll.Maybe you should ask this question on the german forums![]()
Doing the poll on the German forums would of course create an even bigger bias.
Also note that there are always two ways to look at the results from a poll like this: (I'm taking the example of Portuguese now)
- We could say: "Clearly Portuguese is not important because nobody in the community uses it, so we shouldn't support it."
- We could say: "Clearly this community could be bigger in Portugal and Brazil, because Portuguese has 265 million native speakers (cf. English has ~400 million, German has 95 million) yet nobody in the poll speaks Portuguese. So we should certainly support Portuguese well, in order to attract more Portuguese speakers."
I personally tend to prefer the second way of looking at things.