Comment 6 for bug 1439475

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

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.