Public bug reported:
/usr/share/ubiquity/localechooser-apply now has these lines:
# Somewhat unclear: Oromo has the greatest number of
# native speakers; English is the most widely spoken
# language and taught in secondary schools; Amharic is
# the official language and was taught in primary
# schools.
ET) deflang=am ;;
I am an expat IT worker living in Ethiopia and I can confirm that
Ethiopia has 2 national languages: Amharic (am) and English (en).
English is the primary language of instruction in secondary school and
the *only* language of instruction at the University level. It is the
defacto international language. Also, since MS Windows has not
supported Amharic well, all computer systems here are using English US
as the interface. In summary, there should be no hard-coded override to
change the language to Amharic, even if a user chose English as the
language during the ubiquity dialogs.
Right now, when I choose English as the interface, it is set as the
locale, but the language is set to Amharic. Hopefully this can be
corrected before 16.04. We have a Linux revolution going on down here
and everyone is confused why Amharic takes over even though they chose
English during install :-)
Regards from Ethiopia, "land of 13 months of sunshine" (kudos if you get
that joke)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amharic english ethiopia language locale
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localechooser-apply: Don't default to am (Amharic) for Ethiopia (ET)
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