Re: [idn] Comments on protocol drafts

["A. Vine" <avine@eng.sun.com>]

C C Magnus Gustavsson wrote:
> 
> > For non-European scripts (that is, the majority of the world),
> 
> Yes, but know also that the native speakers of European languages are more
> than the speakers of Chinese and roughly three times as many as the native
> speakers of English.
> 

Not true.  See the Ethnologue:

http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/top100.html

Even with fuzzy numbers, the difference is pretty stark.
-- 
Andrea Vine, avine@eng.sun.com, iPlanet i18n architect
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