The described behaviour was introduced with the fix of bug #693337. (Nowadays the list in question is provided by the accountsservice package via the /usr/share/language-tools/language-options script, which Tim mentioned.)
Selecting language is equivalent to picking the translation of choice, so the list of languages in a GUI represents available translations. Since there is no separate Belgium translation into Dutch, it would make no sense to present more than one Dutch option in the language list. Consequently, Peter, nl_NL is good enough. I'd consider this bug invalid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1516358 Title: Can't set language to Dutch (Belgium) Status in Ubuntu GNOME: New Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I want to set my language to "Dutch (Belgium)" but that just won't work. When I go through the motions of the settings menu (All Settings -> Region & Language -> Language), it lets me select the language, but in the end the language is never applied. - I could set the locale to "Belgium" - I could set the keyboard to "Belgian" (which is an - But not the language. I _can_ however set the language to "Dutch (Netherlands)", which is close but not good enough. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1516358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
