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John
Asked: 2019-12-30 02:42:54 +0800 CST

Where to find repository for Ubuntu language localization file source code?

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Ubuntu supports a number of different user interface languages (e.g. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17528/change-the-user-interface-language-in-ubuntu/). Where can I find the git (or other) repository storing the source code for these different language localization files?

I can't seem to find any git repositories containing ubuntu source code (I did find this link, http://archive.ubuntu.com/, but it doesn't appear to contain the original source code, but rather code processed for distribution). Though maybe the issue is that the Ubuntu language files are associated with an upstream project and I'm using the wrong search terms? Or maybe the issue is that there is no kind of web interface (e.g. Github) for viewing the Ubuntu source? Thanks!

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    The binaries for localization packages are usually named language-pack-*. You can search for them on https://packages.ubuntu.com as for any other package. See search results here.

    The source code packages for them are located in translations package section https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/bionic/translations/ . You can download them from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/ .

    All these packages are maintained by “Ubuntu language pack builders” team and they have source code repositories. For example there is a repository for language-pack-fr.

    For more common case there are more packages with localizations - you can get full list of them with check-language-support command (see its man-page for details).

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