* Filter out translations for various languages (Arabic, Dzongkha, Indic,

Mongolian, Thai) that we cannot render properly for various reasons.

Makefile

@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ MKBOOTMSG    = $(BINDIR)mkbootmsg
 KEYMAPCHARS  = $(PRIVBINDIR)keymapchars
 BFLAGS       = -O -v -L ../..
 INCLUDES     = $(wildcard *.inc)
-TRANSLATIONS = $(addsuffix .tr,en $(notdir $(basename $(wildcard po/*.po))))
+# Filter out Arabic, Indic languages, and Thai, which we cannot render, and
+# Dzongkha and Mongolian, which ought to be rendered vertically.
+TRANSLATIONS = $(addsuffix .tr,en $(filter-out ar bn dz gu hi km ml mn ne pa ta th, $(notdir $(basename $(wildcard po/*.po)))))
 
 DEFAULT_LANG =
 

debian/changelog

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.5.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Ask for language before displaying the main menu (LP: #39888).
+  * Filter out translations for various languages (Arabic, Dzongkha, Indic,
+    Mongolian, Thai) that we cannot render properly for various reasons.
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>  Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:09:54 +0000
 

langnames.inc

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   [ "cs" "cs_CZ" "Čeština" ]
   [ "da" "da_DK" "Dansk" ]
   [ "de" "de_DE" "Deutsch" ]
-  [ "dz" "dz_BT" "རྫོང་ཁ།" ]
+  [ "dz" "dz_BT" "Dzongkha" ]
   [ "el" "el_GR" "Ελληνικά" ]
   [ "en" "en_US" "English" ]
   [ "eo" "eo_AQ" "Esperanto" ]
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
   [ "sq" "sq_AL" "Shqip" ]
   [ "sv" "sv_SE" "Svenska" ]
   [ "ta" "ta_IN" "Tamil" ]
-  [ "th" "th_TH" "ภาษาไทย" ]
+  [ "th" "th_TH" "Thai" ]
   [ "tl" "tl_PH" "Tagalog" ]
   [ "tr" "tr_TR" "Türkçe" ]
   [ "uk" "uk_UA" "Українська" ]

scrape-localechooser

@@ -21,13 +21,16 @@ my %langcode_override = (
 my @langname_notranslate = (
     'Arabic',
     'Bengali',
+    'Dzongkha',
     'Gujarati',
     'Hindi',
     'Khmer',
     'Malayalam',
+    'Mongolian',
     'Nepali',
     'Punjabi (Gurmukhi)',
     'Tamil',
+    'Thai',
 );
 my %langname_notranslate = map { $_ => 1 } @langname_notranslate;