Correlating the language statistics from glreach with the Mozilla-l10n Tinderbox, we can see that Firefox 1.0 RC1 will have official localised builds in the native languages of over 88% of the world's Internet users.
The big ones we are missing are Korean (3.9%), Malay (1.8%) and Arabic (1.7%). The Korean Firefox l10n website redirects back to mozilla.org, and their main website links to English builds. We don't yet have a Firefox effort in Malay at all...
By the same measure, Internet Explorer is at 94% - they have Korean and Arabic, but no Malay. But they only offer 24 languages, while we are already at 26. Proof that open source caters well for minorities?
Posted by gerv at October 26, 2004 10:44 AMIt's sad to see, tha there isn't an arabic version of any version of Firefox/-bird. IMHO is the arabic world one of the worlds most important places for IT in the future. Maybe someone could try to convince the Arabic seamonkey translators to localize also fx
Posted by: Mac at October 26, 2004 02:30 PMgo go malay :) im waiting for that
Posted by: anon at October 28, 2004 05:56 AMIf you know a technical journalist from the mentioned language groups, you should get them to write about the lack of a localised Mozilla Browser.
Posted by: anon2 at October 28, 2004 09:03 PM