Had Ubuntu desktop 7.10, english language only. Then I installed all packages in Synaptic that matched "swahili", since this laptop is intended for a project in Tanzania. Got the spell checker in OpenOffice.org (still english menus) to check some swahili (the few words I know), but it is not possible to select the swahili language at login. sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales still only generates variants of english.
In the meantime the system has been upgraded to 8.04, but it did not help on this problem.
Got a hint, that I should edit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local , but "sw_TZ.UTF-8 UTF-8" and similar guesses don't work.
I assume UTF-8 should be used, since I want users to see the same files independent of their language preference. And, as far as I know, swahili uses the same alphabet as english.
Later i unintstalled all swahili packages (except OpenOffice) via Synaptic, then reselected swahili in "Language Support". I also selected danish, just to see if it worked.
Danish works fine, but swahili does not appear in the login->Options menu. So, I assume the swahili package is broken/incomplete.
<email address hidden> appears to be the man to talk to.
https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/UbuntuSwahi liTranslators