Created attachment 794665 [details] two-identical-lines-for-tatar.png Tested on Fedora-20-Alpha-TC4-x86_64-DVD.iso gnome-initial-setup-0.12-7.fc20.x86_64 There are two identical lines visible for the Tatar language in the screenshot, both look exactly like this: Tatarça (Urıs Patşahlıq) Which seems to mean “Tatar (Russian Federation)” (http://www.alumnieeni.com/ru_en_name.asp lists “Urıs Patşahlıq” as meaning “Russian Federation” in Tatar) When selecting the upper of the two lines, continuing, logging out of Gnome once and logging in again to make the language change come into effect, I can see that the locale LANG=tt_RU.utf8@iqtelif was chosen. Which is Tatar in Latin script: $ LANG=tt_RU.UTF-8@iqtelif date Com Sin 6 13:00:25 CEST 2013 When I select the lower of these two lines and do the same, I find the resulting locale to be: tt_RU.utf8 Which is Tatar in Cyrillic script: $ LANG=tt_RU.UTF-8 date Җом Сен 6 13:01:34 CEST 2013 The list of languages shown by gnome-initial-setup lists language endonyms, i.e. the name of a language is written in that language itself. Therefore, Tatarça (Urıs Patşahlıq) can only be correct for the tt_RU.utf8@iqtelif, for the tt_RU.UTF-8 it should be written in Cyrillic script. Probably like this: татар теле (усия Федерациясе) (see https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F)
(In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #0) > Probably like this: > > татар теле (усия Федерациясе) First letter missiing here, cut&past error, should have been: татар теле (Русия Федерациясе) > (see https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F)
Rui Matos told me the translations come from the iso-codes package. Therefore, I reported this upstream bug: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=314422&group_id=30316&atid=413077
Followup from the upstream bug report: Date: 2013-11-01 23:29 Sender: Tobias Quathamer Hi, thanks a lot for the bug report. This should be fixed now and will be part of the next release. Please note that an automatic transliteration of the latin script into cyrillic has been added. If this results in strange or wrong words, please do not hesitate to open another bug report. Regards, Tobias
It is fixed in iso-codes-3.49 on Fedora 20: mfabian@ari:~ $ rpm -q iso-codes iso-codes-3.49-1.fc20.noarch mfabian@ari:~ $ rpm -ql iso-codes | grep tt /usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES/iso_3166.mo /usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES/iso_639.mo /usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES/iso_639_3.mo /usr/share/locale/tt@iqtelif/LC_MESSAGES/iso_3166.mo /usr/share/locale/tt@iqtelif/LC_MESSAGES/iso_639.mo /usr/share/locale/tt@iqtelif/LC_MESSAGES/iso_639_3.mo mfabian@ari:~ $
Created attachment 861320 [details] lines-for-tatar-in-latin-and-cyrillic-look-different-now-in-gnome-control-center-region.png
As the screen shot in comment#5 shows, it works in Fedora 20. -> VERIFIED.