1431633 - Locale switcher should use language names from toolkit

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Locale switching and selection, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

We currently have language names in toolkit
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/global/languageNames.properties

I believe that language names used for the language switcher in Firefox for Android are coming from the OS, which leads to inconsistent results, and some of our shipping languages showing up only with the locale code.

In the future we might try to build/get this list from CLDR, but the idea is that we'll still have an internal source for this information, and we should use it instead of relying on the OS.

Comment 1

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

[triage] Makes sense but non-critical.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.