Is this official? There seem to be enough regulars here passable (or even
fluent) in French to support French questions.
In any event, as a matter of fact, French questions seem to get answered
most of the time.
Yes; as I understand and approve of it, comp.lang.c is an
English-language newsgroup by default; French questions go to
fr.comp.lang.c or whatever the equivalent is (kind of like
most WWW sites not in a specific top-level national domain
like .fr or .ru are English-language by default). And Polish
questions go to pl.foo, and so on. However, as you say, we
have enough people reasonably fluent in other languages to
support the occasional non-English question. I've attempted
to answer Spanish OPs on occasion, for instance.
But of course, you're not going to get as good answers to
questions that not everyone can understand. If I can't
read your post, I can't very well comment on it (except to
say, "hey, post in English next time!" ;-) And too many
non-English posts would turn the newsgroup into a veritable
Babel, with everyone having to filter out all the posts in
languages he didn't know. It'd be a mess. That's why the
language-specific groups exist.
-Arthur