Saturday, 22 December 2018

Why is Esperanto in the source code but not in the Settings menu?

It seems like Android uses ICU and CLDR for date-time format localisation, and CLDR contains EO. ICU import the data from CLDR. The Android language files seems to be located at (which does not contain EO)

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git/+/master/core/res/res/

but it looks like it was added by this merge request back in 2012:

https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/build/+/30931

How come then I cannot see Esperanto under the language section in the Settings app on Android 8? Why is it not being generated into the core/res/res folder if it is in the locales_full.mk file? Is there something I am missing in the source code or is it simply a matter of it not being translated? If the later, where is this translation process (of languages in general) taking place?



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