locale-langpack/ includes useless Shavian (en@shaw) files

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

1. adb shell
2. ls /usr/share/locale-langpack/

What you see: The directory listing includes "en@shaw".

This is the Shavian alphabet, an alternative alphabet for writing English. There is no point in including it on the phone:

- The number of people in the world who can read English in the Shavian alphabet, but not in the Latin alphabet, is probably less than 10.

- There is no performance, testbed, or regulatory reason (that I know of) to provide it.

- For those reasons, it is not selectable anywhere in the UI.

- Even if it was, the only translated file included is LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo, which nobody would see anyway, since Ubuntu Touch has no ATK function at the moment.

- Its translation coverage is unlikely to improve, since Launchpad does not allow translation into Shavian, and the Ubuntu Shavian team has not been active for five years. <https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-l10n-en-shaw/>

This is not a disk space problem (it's only 24 KB), merely a time problem. Every so often someone will look at /usr/share/locale-langpack/, wonder what on earth en@shaw is, and waste the next few minutes looking it up until they find this bug report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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