> The question is, do the kernel developers want to encourage people who don't
The majority of the world population do not speak English. There are
existing contributors do not speak English (and I'm not being funny about
the USSA here) - you don't notice because they have a team member who
speaks passable English.
There are also entire non-English sites around things like Linux that
monoglot English speakers generally don't notice exist.
For the kernel I would follow the kernel tree so that its always
/[languagecode]/Documentation/...
that works fairly well although their are political fights you can get
into over China/Taiwan and over Burmese.
Alan
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