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Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Merging all languages (locales) into one Tor Browser
 package?
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David Bala=9Eic:
> On 7 September 2014 14:29, Sebastian G. <bastik.tor> <
> bastik.tor@googlemail.com> wrote:
>=20
>>
>> Downsides:
>> - Higher file size for the package.
>> - Higher bandwidth requirement for single package users.
>> - Users have to select their language during "install". (UI problem?)
>>
>=20
> Users already made a language choice when installing the OS (or booting=
 an
> OEM install for the first time).
> This choice should be good enough for the majority. The others can use =
a
> command line switch or similar.

I am not convinced by this argument. First, if you have 5 million users
then 3 million is a majority, too, which would still leave 2 million to
teach themselves how to switch to the desired locale. You might argue
"Well, it would be much much less than 2 million people that would be
affected." Maybe, who knows.

But even then the first thing you'll get as support is users asking
"Where do I get the [language of your choice] Tor Browser" as they
landed on the english Tor project landing page and assume they get the
english browser if they can't switch to the language they want (as
Mozilla e.g. offers (see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/) ),
which they don't want.

If you somehow avoided/managed that you need to take care of the people
that really want to use another language or you ask all on first start
which would be the second hurdle users have to take to get Tor Browser
running. And you need that for all supported OSes propably with
screenshots explaining things.

Then you need to take care of a fraction of them that activated a
language (e.g. Chinese) you ship by accident and are now completely lost
as they are not able to parse, e.g. Chinese and thus to get back the
language they want.

So, in short: I am quite concerned about the usability issues (and I
probably missed a bunch) that would follow from having all locales in
one bundle.

But there is hope for you: We plan to have a hardened/alpha series which
contains all the locales already in it. See:

https://bugs.torproject.org/12967

Georg


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