locale-langpack/ includes useless Shavian (en@shaw) files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-touch-meta (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
1. adb shell
2. ls /usr/share/
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/
- 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:/
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/
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.