https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133188
--- Comment #13 from Amit Shah <amit.shah(a)redhat.com> ---
My view is that as far as defaults go, we should have safe defaults.
For someone not familiar with Hindi (e.g. from the southern states of India),
Hindi is a bad default.
All the text leading to the language selection in the installer is in English.
The live image itself boots into the GNOME desktop, and the 'Try Fedora /
Install Now' stuff is in English.
With the new UI, it's really easy to see the Indian languages being available
in Indic scripts.
It should also depend on the percentage of completion of the localisation for
the language, maybe indicate in the installer that the language is 80% there,
but some stuff may be rendered in English.
For the bigger picture, I'd suggest we should have a way to start the installer
in other languages based on kernel cmdline parameters, so the live image also
boots into a localised version of the desktop.
Also, if a user downloads the image from a localised version of the website,
the localised version of iso should be offered. The current infrastructure
doesn't support this, as far as I can see.
I'd say for the majority of the population trying out Fedora in India, English
would be the language of choice, rather than localised ones.
Given all this, I'd say English is the safe default here.
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