>
> Hi sajolida,
>
Am Fr., 30. Aug. 2019 um 16:22 Uhr schrieb sajolida <sajolida@???>:
>From the check of the security update feed (tails-security-check),
we also know in which language the session is started. This way we can
localize the security update notifications. I did some stats on logs I
had from January, March, and April.
The top 10 languages are:
1 English 76.66%
2 German 31.12%
3 Russian 26.59%
4 French 16.67%
5 Spanish 6.68%
6 Italian 3.77%
7 Portuguese 3.27%
8 Polish 2.55%
9 Low German 2.20%
10 Japanese 1.77%
* I attribute the presence of Low German to a UX bug caused by our
uncurated list of 284 languages in Tails Greeter. See #17002#note-3.
Simple UX issues like this one can have a huge impact, here hundreds
of users daily would probably have a better time using Tails in German
than Low German, possibly because of the way this list is displayed.
I can pretty much confirm your thoughts about that from my own experience
> when i started using Tails.
>
> I remember that i searched for german the first time when i booted Tails
> so i went down with the list because i thought English is the top entry and
> the first thing with german was "German, low" so i choosed it.
>
> I couldnt imagine that Tails is so shabby translated for german so my
> first thought was that it must be a dialect or something like that. Because
> of the reason some things in "German, low" seemed to be a little bit
> netherlandish i thought that it must be niedersächsisch because
> Niedersachsen and the Netherlands share a border and Niedersachsen is
> called Lower Saxony in english.
>
> With my explanation it seemed to be more logical for me why it is shabby
> translated.
> When i booted Tails the next time i typed in Bavarian and of course
> couldnt find it.
>
> I dealt with the fact to use Tails in english for a few weeks till i was
> curious and realized that i can go up with the list and not only down.
> Then i found Deutsch and felt pretty much *facepalm*.
>
> So i am pretty sure that your consideration might be true.
>
