I'm currently working on an update to Googlebar Lite, and I'm debating whether or not to drop some of the more outdated locales. I wrote a Perl script to gather some data about the locales, and this is what it reports as of my current development snapshot:
Locale Matches % Match Missing % Missing
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en-US 172 {Master Locale}
ca-AD 24 14.0% 6 3.5%
cs-CZ 12 7.0% 0 0.0%
da 7 4.1% 0 0.0%
de 8 4.7% 0 0.0%
el-GR 32 18.6% 6 3.5%
es-ES 4 2.3% 0 0.0%
et-EE 14 8.1% 6 3.5%
fr 13 7.6% 6 3.5%
hr-HR 31 18.0% 6 3.5%
it 23 13.4% 6 3.5%
ja-JP 9 5.2% 6 3.5%
nl 8 4.7% 0 0.0%
pl 6 3.5% 6 3.5%
pt-BR 31 18.0% 6 3.5%
ru-RU 22 12.8% 6 3.5%
sk-SK 32 18.6% 6 3.5%
tr 30 17.4% 6 3.5%
uk-UA 5 2.9% 0 0.0%
zh-CN 30 17.4% 6 3.5%
zh-TW 11 6.4% 6 3.5%
The 4 locales most out of date are el-GR, hr-HR, pt-BR, and sk-SK. Those are currently the ones I'm considering tossing out, but I also could make a case for tr and zh-CN. My non-scientific rule of thumb has been that I toss out locales that get to be more than 20% out of date (meaning that a sum total of 20% of strings either match or are missing). I'll give this a few more days to think about it. Do you have any ideas as to what I should do? If so, feel free to leave a comment below.