[Bug 1763025] Re: ubuntu installations in Kenya are problematic because default language is little known Oromo, not English or Swahili

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 20.10.12

---------------
ubiquity (20.10.12) groovy; urgency=medium

  [ Gunnar Hjalmarsson ]
  * d-i/patches/localechooser-post-base-installer.patch:
    - Set sw (Swahili) as the default Kenya language (LP: #1763025)
  * Translation update (LP: #1897444)

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * POTFILES.in entries were not updated after a directory rename

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>  Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:41:38
+0100

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to ubiquity in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1763025

Title:
  ubuntu installations in Kenya are problematic because default language
  is little known Oromo, not English or Swahili

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in localechooser package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  even on a fresh install and since many may years, despite even Debian
  Bug reports - e.g. #756277:

  There is an error with locale information for Kenya in ubuntu
  installation. Language is automatically set to 'Oromo' (understood
  only by a 3% minority of Ethiopian descent) yet the official languages
  in Kenya are (the not selectable) en-KE (somehow British English,
  Kenyan flavour, paper format A4, currency KES, currency format KES
  123,456.00 or 123,456/= ) and (the also not selectable) sw-KE (somehow
  Swahili, Kenyan flavour, paper format A4, currency KES, currency
  format KES 123,456.00 or 123,456/= )

  >>> please make work both locales, en-KE (default) and sw-KE. (Remove
  Oromo from Kenyan locales)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1763025/+subscriptions