Via Gerv's blog, I've just learned that our Firefox localization story is even more impressive than I'd previously considered.
I have a large spreadsheet containing data on what percentage of the Internet population speaks which language. If I tell it which localisations we have in preparation for Firefox 1.5, it tells me we will be able to provide software in the native language of 95% of the Internet population. This compares with 92% for Firefox 1.0.Our volunteer (yes, it is all volunteer) localization community is amazing!If I then tell it which localisations have registered projects for Firefox, it tells me that when all of them produce a language pack, we'll have covered 99.93% of the Internet population. Estonian and Icelandic are the only two languages in my list that we don't have a localisation team for.
