[Bug 796381] Re: Too many language variants

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

** Changed in: dictionaries-common (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Too many language variants

Status in “dictionaries-common” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dictionaries-common

  In almost every application which can check spelling (FF, Pidgin, gedit) I get several variants of English language - US, UK, AU, CA - 5 in total.
  It seems logical to me that 99% of Ubuntu installations have English language (and dictionaries) installed, and 99% of users never use more then 1 English variant (and many people do not really know what the difference is). So there are 5 options in spell check menu which just confuse users and are never used. This seems to be not user friendly at all.
  Currently it even seems impossible to manually remove packages with language variants one doesn't use since language-support-en and language-support-writing-en depend on them.

  It would be expected that user could select language variants he wants to use and then only these variants get displayed all over the system.
  I'll really appreciate if this could be solved and Ubuntu UI could be made more friendly to people.
  I'll be happy to provide any additional information.
  Thanks!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: myspell-en-gb 1:3.3.0-2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Jun 12 19:41:01 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=ru_RU:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: openoffice.org-dictionaries
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (43 days ago)

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