It seems that the language-pack-sw* packages (in Hardy at least) simply do not contain Swahili locale data. The file /var/lib/locales/supported.d/sw is an empty file (zero bytes long), unlike all the other files in that directory.
So, the locales package and the locale-gen program can't compile a Swahili locale. And by design, you can't persuade gdm to let you select a locale you don't have on your system, so the menus don't include it as a language choice. It might be worth mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if the language pack maintenance team as a whole has any advice or suggestions? Perhaps the folks you are sending out with a Ubuntu machine can actually help create the missing locale data themselves, and contribute it back to Ubuntu! Jonathan -- Swahili support broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237130 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
