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M.Khouli
M.Khouli

Reputation: 4122

Why the language selection section in android settings doesn't show all the available locales?

When you print all the available locales in android using this code

Locale[] locales = Locale.getAvailableLocales();

you will find locales that you can not select them from Settings -> Language & Input ->Language .

For example from the settings you will find only 5 English locales

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While the available the number of the supported locales in the previous code is much bigger. for example :

09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-cc
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-ck
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-cm
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-cx
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-dg
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-dm
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-er
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-fj
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-fk
09-14 16:03:04.835 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-fm
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-gb
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-gd
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-gg
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-gh
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-gi
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-gm
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-gu
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-gy
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-hk
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-ie
09-14 16:03:04.836 12432-12720/com.q.sampleapp I/locale: en-im

So the question is why they are not identical ? and How to change that list in the setting -> language & input.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 143

Answers (1)

gnasher729
gnasher729

Reputation: 52622

Supporting a language requires more than just requiring the locale. You have one list of supported languages and one list of supported locales. You can't expect them to be identical. On the other hand, since you can have more than one locale for a language, you will have fewer languages as well.

Upvotes: 1

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