[FoRK] i8n question

[Steve Nordquist]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:49:55 -0600, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Any localizations experts hereabouts?
>
> I need to figure out how common it is for users to set their language
> preference in the browser, so that the Accept-Language request header
> is accurate.  Can anybody suggest a resource or angle to get an
> answer?

Hakon Lie answered that here ca. 2000, (less so W.R.T. Asia at the time; I  
think I saw a bit about that in interviews in Next Generation (now online  
only; and a subscription triweekly broadsheet promises such stuff) but you  
can probably find the answer from a structured query to the current Opera  
CTOs (probably in an Opera Community blog.  Amazon used to share such  
metrics; now I guess you'd ask LiveJournal (etc.; that, there's a chart  
 from Le Monde last week (  
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-651865,54-999097@51-999297,0.html  
...ValleyWag?  I clicked Citez and it crashed Kestrel here...) to cover.)   
Oops, I'm told I live in Siberia for citing Livejournal instead of Orkut.   
Gotta go smoke an Elk now....

iirc Koreans and Denmarkers were solid on accurate Accept-Language, and  
it's likely in Southeast Asia (Australia less so) but Welsh-only speakers  
in Wales were only doing it 50% of the time and English-America and  
English were fighting like pantsuits and pantsuits with cuffs (so, 25% of  
people being fickle, often.)