The percentage of English speakers worldwide, contrary to what some think, is in constant decline...
This is irrelevant. That 7.6% refers to people who speak English
as their first language. The percentage of people who can speak English is much much higher, as is the percentage of web sites/software products/international organizations that use English (what language are RFCs written in?). In the computer world, if there is one language that can be called "international", that is most definitely English.
PastMaster:
Glad to hear it was not directed at software developers. The part from your post that I quoted was in the list of the reasons why "
Having a localised (i.e. local language) version of a piece of software is desirable". So, that part sounded as if you were referring to software developers and my point was that the lack of internationalization (for whatever reason) has nothing to do with arrogance or forcing anything to anybody (ie that even if a software author is simply not interested in making localized versions of an app, that doesn't make him arrogant in any way).
