Languages should be in native language

Bug #241317 reported by Pete Goodall
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
language-selector (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Arne Goetje

Bug Description

I recently changed the default language of my desktop to be Chinese in order to test Chinese support. Now when I go back to the Language Selector and try to change it back to English I cannot tell which selection is English because all the language names are written in Chinese characters. To be more specific, I mean the language selection drop-down near the bottom of the dialog, not the list of available languages above.

If I chose another language from the list the display does not change, so cannot even cyle through the choices to get the right one. In order for the changes to take effect I must reboot everytime. This is going to take a long time. :-(

It would be nice if all languages were written in their native character (to the extent that the character is installed on the system). I believe this is how the language selection works in the oem-config-gtk package.

Tags: pet-bug
Pete Goodall (pgoodall)
description: updated
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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

I'll keep this in mind for Jaunty, together with redesigning the UI.

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :
Changed in language-selector:
assignee: nobody → arnegoetje
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.4.0

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language-selector (0.4.0) jaunty; urgency=low

  * gnome-language-selector: GUI overhaul (for details see:
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyLanguageSelectorImprovements )
  * allow for different language settings per user
  * for installed languages use the native language and country names in
    the comboboxes (LP: #241317)
  * get rid of the reboot / session restart notification popup. This
    information is now integrated into the main UI. (LP: #260380)

 -- Arne Goetje <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:40:14 +0800

Changed in language-selector:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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