Public bug reported: 1. adb shell 2. ls /usr/share/locale-langpack/
What you see: The directory listing includes "en@shaw". This is the Shavian alphabet, an alternative alphabet for writing English. There is no point in including it on the phone: - The number of people in the world who can read English in the Shavian alphabet, but not in the Latin alphabet, is probably less than 10. - There is no performance, testbed, or regulatory reason (that I know of) to provide it. - For those reasons, it is not selectable anywhere in the UI. - Even if it was, the only translated file included is LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo, which nobody would see anyway, since Ubuntu Touch has no ATK function at the moment. - Its translation coverage is unlikely to improve, since Launchpad does not allow translation into Shavian, and the Ubuntu Shavian team has not been active for five years. <https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-l10n-en- shaw/> This is not a disk space problem (it's only 24 KB), merely a time problem. Every so often someone will look at /usr/share/locale- langpack/, wonder what on earth en@shaw is, and waste the next few minutes looking it up until they find this bug report. ** Affects: ubuntu-touch-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-touch-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1455917 Title: locale-langpack/ includes useless Shavian (en@shaw) files Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 1. adb shell 2. ls /usr/share/locale-langpack/ What you see: The directory listing includes "en@shaw". This is the Shavian alphabet, an alternative alphabet for writing English. There is no point in including it on the phone: - The number of people in the world who can read English in the Shavian alphabet, but not in the Latin alphabet, is probably less than 10. - There is no performance, testbed, or regulatory reason (that I know of) to provide it. - For those reasons, it is not selectable anywhere in the UI. - Even if it was, the only translated file included is LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo, which nobody would see anyway, since Ubuntu Touch has no ATK function at the moment. - Its translation coverage is unlikely to improve, since Launchpad does not allow translation into Shavian, and the Ubuntu Shavian team has not been active for five years. <https://lists.launchpad.net /ubuntu-l10n-en-shaw/> This is not a disk space problem (it's only 24 KB), merely a time problem. Every so often someone will look at /usr/share/locale- langpack/, wonder what on earth en@shaw is, and waste the next few minutes looking it up until they find this bug report. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-touch-meta/+bug/1455917/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
