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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

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.

** Affects: ubuntu-touch-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1455917

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

Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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.

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