Some locales are showing ISO codes instead of names

[Akerbeltz]

In the Settings > Language and Text menu, the pattern is
Language name_native (Country name_native)
e.g.
Deutsch (Germany)

but there are some locales for which this is showing the ISO codes for some reason:
Ug (CN)
Oc (Fr)
Gd (GB)
Ast (ES)

which should be (in the case of gd for example)
Gàidhlig (An Rìoghachd Aonaichte)

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Can you add details re your device and version
Also add the log at /home/phablet/.cache/upstart/application-legacy-ubuntu-system-settings-.log
Not seeing it on any devices I have, or is this in a desktop session?

[Akerbeltz (fios)]

It's on a physical device, Aquaris E4.5 with the UI set to Gaelic (gd-GB), 15.04 OTA 12.

There is something weird about the localized UI I just realized. If I set it to German (Germany), those 4 locales are showing in German (i.e. Uigurisch (China), Asturianisch (Spanien) etc) whereas the others are all showing native_name (native_country) e.g. Português (Brasil).

Attaching screenshot.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Then I have a theory (without having checked the u-s-s source code): Can this be a result of incomplete Gaelic translations of iso-codes?

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iso-codes

[Akerbeltz (fios)]

I can't believe that to be the case. That would mean that German would have had to localize Uyghur, Occitan, Asturian and Scots Gaelic but NOT Spanish, French, Chinese etc.

Unless you are suggesting that somewhere in those files is the native_name and native_country which Touch pulls when building langpacks and which, in the absence of a localized name show the ISO? That can't be right either because surely the fallback is always en-US, not the native language name?

In case there is a need for a list of locales for Touch, this ought to be pulled from a Touch-specific file of ISO codes because it's very much hit and miss with those lists you linked. I wouldn't even know which one to start with and they all pretty hefty.

[Akerbeltz (fios)]

To clarify, German is showing a mix. It has
Asturianisch (Spanien)
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesia)
Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia)
Bosanski (Bosna i Hercegovina)
Brezhoneg (Frañs)

Which disproves Gunnar's theory because (assuming the German team is as efficient as elsewhere), I would expect them to have completed the ISO lists and so I'd expect
Asturianisch (Spanien)
Indonesisch (Indonesian)
Malaiisch (Malaisia)
Bosnisch (Bosnien und Herzegowina)
Bretonisch (Frankreich)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Yeah, I was probably wrong. Otherwise, as you said, it should simply fall back to English.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.