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[Mingye Wang <arthur2e5@xxxxxxxx>]

Assuming this a language-selector problem since this is the only thing
to choose language during installation that I can think of so far.

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/wily/language-
selector/wily/revision/39 looks revelant, but it actually happened on
2008-03-06 -- almost 8 years ago, and there seems to be nothing about
zh_HK before then. Could you please point out when `before' actually
refers to?

* * *

And, well, a +1 on this bug, since some fallback is indeed necessary
here -- not only for zh_HK, but also for other smaller zh locales.

This tree roughly illustrates the 'relative distance' between locales.

zh:
  Hans: # simp script
    CN
    SG
  Hant: # trad script
    TW
    _geo_near_: # you might need a map here
      HK
      MO

For quite a while zh_HK users have been using zh_TW translations as
their main source of fallback text, especially for many translations
hosted on GNU TP. I haven't heard from any zh_MO users yet though.

Cross-script fallback is not recommended since:

  a. these chars do look quite different. (A user of one script is often able to recognize the other, but they look toooooo different and can almost be spotted with a glance.)
  b. the terminology used show significant difference across scripts.

See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757867#c2 on some
locale info.

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #757867
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757867

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1535214

Title:
  zh_TW is not set as fallback locale when selecting Hong Kong as
  location

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In 15.10, when selecting Hong Kong as the user location during
  installation, zh_TW is not set as a fallback language like before
  (i.e. 'LANGUAGE=zh_HK:en' rather than 'zh_HK:zh_TW:en'). Worse still,
  there is no 'Chinese (Taiwan)' available in 'Menu language' in
  'Language support' like before (Both of them should be packed into one
  locale option 'Chinese (Traditional)'). This is a major issue as most
  Hong Kong users rely on zh_TW locale as many software are not
  translated into zh_HK.

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