Post by SOTE » 25 May 2021, 20:00
I see you are trying to push forward with Japan. You should have access to the data and views, so that would probably give the best indicator of what country to target next. I don't know if that points to Japan or not.
The issue is a kind of "What comes first the chicken or the egg?" type of problem. There does not appear to be the same level of grassroots support or long sustained history for AutoHotkey, like say there is in Korea/with Korean. Part of that might be cultural or about awareness. Japanese IT personnel and programmers are known for utilizing English based materials, in English. Even going so far as taking IT/computer related technical exams in English, as oppose to in their native Japanese. So various native Japanese speakers might be enjoying AutoHotkey directly in English. Those that are not bilingual to such a level, might be looking towards percieved established or "proper" programming languages that are more corporate approved such as C++, C#, Python, Ruby, etc... Additionally, it can also be that those so interested in such programming pursuits can be proportionally fewer than in other countries.
The website you posted hasn't been updated since 2014 (
http://ahkwiki.net/Top), and then refers to an even older website that hasn't been updated since 2011 (
https://sites.google.com/site/autohotkeyjp/). And that ahkwiki link for Japanese has been on the main AutoHotkey page as far back as I can remember, and it doesn't look like it has help to get activity. There is a possibility that if you link to it on the forums, that the exposure will help. But, that looks like a gamble. There are some Japanese AutoHotkey boards with recent activity, but they can come along with branding issues. They are not on dedicated websites or blogs for just clearly AutoHotkey or just programming, like the case for AutoHotkey.co.kr, so could create some unexpected controversy or negative image issues.
If you do decide to push onward, maybe it would be better to establish a Japanese subforum here (not a link), with an added call for those that will translate the newer AutoHotkey help file from English to Japanese (plus maybe send out some emails or messages to help stir interest or ask for moderators). But, this might be troublesome, unless you are seeing significant interest towards the idea.
A Japanese translation of the help for a very old version of AutoHotkey is here,
https://www6.atwiki.jp/eamat/pub/AhkHelp/AhkHelpJP_20090702.zip. Parts of more recent versions of the AutoHotkey help is translated from Japanese in various bits and pieces, in several places on the internet, but nothing like a complete updated .chm or .pdf (that I know of) other than what I linked to.
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There's also this one which I had in mind: http://ahkwiki.net/Top
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I see you are trying to push forward with Japan. You should have access to the data and views, so that would probably give the best indicator of what country to target next. I don't know if that points to Japan or not.
The issue is a kind of "What comes first the chicken or the egg?" type of problem. There does not appear to be the same level of grassroots support or long sustained history for AutoHotkey, like say there is in Korea/with Korean. Part of that might be cultural or about awareness. Japanese IT personnel and programmers are known for utilizing English based materials, in English. Even going so far as taking IT/computer related technical exams in English, as oppose to in their native Japanese. So various native Japanese speakers might be enjoying AutoHotkey directly in English. Those that are not bilingual to such a level, might be looking towards percieved established or "proper" programming languages that are more corporate approved such as C++, C#, Python, Ruby, etc... Additionally, it can also be that those so interested in such programming pursuits can be proportionally fewer than in other countries.
The website you posted hasn't been updated since 2014 ([url]http://ahkwiki.net/Top[/url]), and then refers to an even older website that hasn't been updated since 2011 ([url]https://sites.google.com/site/autohotkeyjp/[/url]). And that ahkwiki link for Japanese has been on the main AutoHotkey page as far back as I can remember, and it doesn't look like it has help to get activity. There is a possibility that if you link to it on the forums, that the exposure will help. But, that looks like a gamble. There are some Japanese AutoHotkey boards with recent activity, but they can come along with branding issues. They are not on dedicated websites or blogs for just clearly AutoHotkey or just programming, like the case for AutoHotkey.co.kr, so could create some unexpected controversy or negative image issues.
If you do decide to push onward, maybe it would be better to establish a Japanese subforum here (not a link), with an added call for those that will translate the newer AutoHotkey help file from English to Japanese (plus maybe send out some emails or messages to help stir interest or ask for moderators). But, this might be troublesome, unless you are seeing significant interest towards the idea.
A Japanese translation of the help for a very old version of AutoHotkey is here, [url]https://www6.atwiki.jp/eamat/pub/AhkHelp/AhkHelpJP_20090702.zip[/url]. Parts of more recent versions of the AutoHotkey help is translated from Japanese in various bits and pieces, in several places on the internet, but nothing like a complete updated .chm or .pdf (that I know of) other than what I linked to.