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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1882234@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your interest in translating Ubuntu into Gilaki!

AFAICT Gilaki isn't available anywhere in Ubuntu, which means that you
would need to start from scratch. This page summarizes the steps to
establish a new language in Ubuntu:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/KnowledgeBase/StartingTeam

The first thing to do is to get the locale into glibc. I say first,
because having a new locale accepted may take quite some time. The name
of your locale would probably be glk_IR.

This is the URL to file a glibc bug to request the creation of a new
locale:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=glibc;component=localedata

So prepare a suggestion, file a bug, and be then attentive to questions
and change requests from the glibc developers.

As regards adding Gilaki to Launchpad, please ask a question at
<https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad> with such a request.

Once that has been done, and the ~ubuntu-l10n-glk team has been set up
properly, I can appoint the team for translating Ubuntu into Gilaki.

Creating language packs is a later thing. We apply a threshold, so
language packs are created only when at least 5% of the translatable
strings have been translated. Currently it means that you and your team
need to translate approximately 16,000 strings before it's time to
request the creation of Gilaki language packs. Same with the installer.
(Dropping Ubiquity as affected package for now.)

One important thing to remember is that the bulk of Ubuntu translations
should not be made at Launchpad. Most translations should better be done
upstream at GNOME, Debian, freedesktop, etc. They will then be imported
to Ubuntu in various ways. One advantage with doing the work upstream is
that other Linux distros but Ubuntu will benefit from it.

At last: Before starting all this, are you confident that you and your
team will have the patience and endurance to reach a reasonable Gilaki
translation coverage?

** No longer affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Gilaki language isn't exist

Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  New

Bug description:
  I wanna translate strings to Gilaki but Gilaki is not one of the
  available languages of the live session and installer.

  I talked about it here in Xubuntu's twitter account:
  https://twitter.com/Xubuntu/status/1268740596501549056

  So they suggest to ask my request to add this language here.

  Thank you

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