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Catalan Language is currently the seventh language in Europe with more than 12 millions of speakers in total. The European regions in which this language is spoken are Catalonia, The Valencian Country (where catalan is also known as "valencian"), the Balearic Islands, "Franja de Ponent" area (Aragón), the state of Andorra, L'Alguer region (Italy) and North Catalonia (France - Languedoc).

We vindicate the right to  Català/catalan be included in the list of languages available on Messenger Plus Live! again.

We think Messenger Plus Live! should keep expanding in that direction, including new languages that would call the attention and appeal more users if they can have one in their own mother tongue on default installer.

Catalan language has had a top-level internet domain .CAT since February 2006, with more than 30,000 sites with this domain until today.

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Catalan translation is updated again by el_libre
Please, admins, make it official and include again on installer.

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=80799

http://catmidia.cat/index.php?option=com_remosito...unc=fileinfo&id=60

Thanks!

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Originally posted by daniol
Please, admins, make it official and include again on installer

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It isn't up to the admins to include the file again in the installer. Patchou, the creator of Plus, is the only person who can take that decision. And first of all, he can't include the file if it isn't posted in the forums . Therefore, el_libre should first upload it to the forums, and notify Patchou. After that, it's up to Patchou to decide.

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Originally posted by daniol
with more than 12 millions of speakers in total

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IMO, That's a bit too much... As a primary language, and skopen usually, there are about 4.5 million people. No more than 10 million people can speak it, and no more than 11 million can understand it.

Anyway, that's not the point. Patchou doesn't care about the number of catalan speakers but the number of people who choose Catalan in the instalation of Plus. What I mean is that, in the case that Patchou decides to include the catalan language in the instalation, a lot of people should demand it... otherwise Patchou will end removing the language. (which was not what happened to the old catalan translation.... as far as I know, it was removed due to the old translators not updating it anymore).

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Originally posted by daniol
Catalan Language is currently the seventh language in Europe with more than 12 millions of speakers in total. The European regions in which this language is spoken are Catalonia, The Valencian Country (where catalan is also known as "valencian"), the Balearic Islands, "Franja de Ponent" area (Aragón), the state of Andorra, L'Alguer region (Italy) and North Catalonia (France - Languedoc).

We vindicate the right to  Català/catalan be included in the list of languages available on Messenger Plus Live! again.

We think Messenger Plus Live! should keep expanding in that direction, including new languages that would call the attention and appeal more users if they can have one in their own mother tongue on default installer.

Catalan language has had a top-level internet domain .CAT since February 2006, with more than 30,000 sites with this domain until today.

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Catalan translation is updated again by el_libre
Please, admins, make it official and include again on installer.

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=80799

http://catmidia.cat/index.php?option=com_remosito...unc=fileinfo&id=60

Thanks!

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Stop making up facts and stop making this political. Next thing you know you will problably ask for the flag to be displayed in Plus!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

Only 9.1 million speak it.

Hello, without entering into personal considerations, I would also like to see Catalan reintroduced into Messenger Plus! with the same status as any other language. Please.

hello everyone,

I would also be very happy to see catalan language again listed as an option.

@riahc4: as I see it, this is not a politic matter. there is a lot of people (like me for example) who have catalan as their mother tongue. there is a lot of activity of catalan culture on the net too, and there is nothing wrong in asking for something as simple as getting your language as an option for some software that wants to get to as many people as possible.

cheers!

It doesn't matter how many people speak it, or how many of them use the web......it's how many Messenger Plus! Live users of it there are.

I'm sure that if a large enough percentage of Plus' users were catalan speakers then it would be included by default

hello again,

@djdannyp: I agree. it's just a matter of numbers. as I am not into statistics, I couldn't tell how many of the Plus users would use catalan, but there is something that I would like to point out: Plus is an extension for Microsoft's Messenger. Windows Live Messenger can be installed in catalan. Microsoft must have their reasons for doing so.

best regards

plus is created by one person, with a limited budget

messenger has god knows how many staff in its team, and will have a budget thousands of times larger.


i can't see why anyone complains. what difference does it make if the installer includes your language or whether you have to add it yourself

please, let me repeat what i said before:

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Originally posted by Choli
the old catalan translation.... as far as I know, it was removed due to the old translators not updating it anymore

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so don't ask for the catalan language to be added again to Plus... because we have not any updated catalan translation... Maybe you shoud try to contact old translators and/or start updating the translation by yourselves

hi Choli,
this is a very good reason not to have it with the default languages...
maybe I'll try to contact people on charge of this translation and help a little bit if I can.
thanks and best wishes ,' )