German language is missing regions

Bug #1474509 reported by quassy
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Switchboard Locale Plug
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Bug Description

For the Installed Language German only two regions are available: Deutschland, Schweiz (Germany, Switzerland). There are some essential German-speaking countries missing (where German is an official language): Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg

elementary OS 0.3 Freya (+daily) in VirtualBox

quassy (quassy)
Changed in switchboard-plug-locale:
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → New
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quassy (quassy) wrote :

Apparently I did not get that "Region" is used to label the Variety of a language. Still de_AT (German spoken in Austria) is different to de_DE (German spoken in Germany) and should be available. I am not sure about the other "regions".

And I think the label should be not be "Region".

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Marvin Beckers (embik) wrote :

We're pulling these regions from the system, it's nothing we set up by hand - If the languagepack doesn't offer a region option for Austria, I don't see any way to "fix" this.

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Marvin Beckers (embik) wrote :

Okay reviewing this issue you're actually right, GNOME3 on Fedora (as an example) provides more regions (for example Austria), so there IS something wrong on our side. I'll investigate that.

Changed in switchboard-plug-locale:
status: New → Confirmed
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Marvin Beckers (embik) wrote :

Okay, here is a short update: It looks like this is caused by the language-tools (Perl scripts, and I don't know anything about Perl) shipped with accountsservice, the service responsible for various user settings. I do not understand the script yet (it's located at /usr/share/language-tools/language-options), but it looks like it's filtering the list of available locales. I'm not quite sure, but assuming it works as intended, it _could_ be removing language codes such as de_AT because there are no separate translations for this country/region available.

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