Re: Hindi and Software

[Rajesh Fowkar <rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ruchir Tewari saw fit to inform me that: 
>the biggest example of this is china - in china internet connectivity
>started 4-5 years after it did in india. however right now the chinese
>internet user base is already 5 times larger than in india. i think
>this is large part due to localisation - my chinese friends always browse 
>the web in chinese instead of in english. the linux-chinese howto
>has been around for quite a while and people are fluent in using chinese 
>from the regular keyboards. 

But in china, chinese is the only language I suppose. Here in India a fellow 
from south will say he wants kannada / malyalam / telugu / tamil.
A fellow from east will say i want all this stuff in assamese etc.