in timezone selection the country name should be displayed as the native language of the country

[Wenfang Si]

arale device, r157, ubuntu-touch/vivid-proposed

Steps:
1. Open System Settings.
2. Go to date&time.
3. Tap on the timezone list item to change it.
4. Search 'madrid'

Expected:
In the search result the name of the country is 'España' and NOT 'Spain'

Actual:
It's 'Spain'

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hey Matthew, do you agree with that?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

Why is this a bug? Surely the user isn't expected to know the names of countries in languages other than their own?

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

I think that the bug description is not clear. I just tried to reproduce it here, with my phone set to Italian language.
If I search for "Madrid", I get "Spain", and not "Spagna". And if I search for "Roma", I get "Italy", and not "Italia".

I would expect place names to be translated to the current language. But then, I don't know if this is a bug in System Settings or if translations are just missing. Any hints on how to check?

[Wenfang Si (wenfang.si)]

Hi Alberto, John,

Thanks for your comments!

After confirmed with iahmad, I agree that the expectation I described is invalid (thus the test case is invalid). Sorry! It makes sense if everything be displayed as current "Display Language".

I tried your scenario, change my "Display Language"=Chinese, I also found the searched list is the same as when I'm using "Display Language"=English.

Is this the fact that there is only this English versioned list being used, no matter what current language is?

Wenfang

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

We seem to be confusing two things here.

If I travelled to Madrid for the weekend, and needed to set the time zone manually, it would be fairly obvious that "Madrid, España" is Madrid in Spain. But the same is not true for other locations: if I went to Vladivostok, I would find it extremely difficult to find "Владивосток" amongst "Владимир" and "Выборг" and "Выселки" and all the other Cyrillic place names, because I can't read Cyrillic! So, as Wenfang acknowledges, it is not a bug that when you have chosen to use English, we display place names in English. (This is different from when you are choosing display language in the first-run setup, or changing display language in System Settings, when we don't assume that you can read any language other than the one you're choosing.)

Conversely, it's not reasonable to expect a Russian reader who doesn't know English to find placenames written in English. Alberto is reporting that problem: with display language set to Spanish he still has placenames in English. That is a bug. It might be missing translations, or it might be something else. It's up to you whether you use this bug report to track that problem, or report it separately.