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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $langtoolsdir = '/usr/share/language-tools';

# get the locales available on the system
my @avail_locales = map { chomp; s/\.utf8//; $_ } qx( locale -a | grep -F .utf8 );

# add items without country code to facilitate lookups
my %extended_localelist;
for my $loc (@avail_locales) {
    ( my $lang = $loc ) =~ s/_[A-Z]+//;
    @extended_localelist{$loc, $lang} = (1, 1);
}

# get the directory names in /usr/share/locale-langpack plus possible other
# translation directory names in /usr/share/locale and /usr/local/share/locale
my %translation_dirs;
if ( opendir my ($dh), '/usr/share/locale-langpack' ) {
    $translation_dirs{$_} = 1 for readdir $dh;
}
my %langpack_langcodes = map { s/[^a-z].+//; $_, 1 }
                         grep !/^\./, keys %translation_dirs;
for my $t_dir ('/usr/share/locale', '/usr/local/share/locale') {
    if ( opendir my ($dh), $t_dir ) {
        for ( readdir $dh ) {
            for my $lang ( keys %langpack_langcodes ) {
                if ( /^$lang[_@]/ ) {
                    $translation_dirs{$_} = 1;
                    last;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

# get the intersection of available translation_dirs and the extended locale list
my %intersection;
for ( keys %extended_localelist ) {
    $intersection{$_} = 1 if $translation_dirs{$_};
}

# adjustments
if ( open my $fh, '<', "$langtoolsdir/main-countries" ) {
    # If country code items in a language exist:
    # - Remove the item without country code, since gettext won't find a
    #   translation under e.g. 'de_DE' if the first item in LANGUAGE is 'de'
    #   (see https://launchpad.net/bugs/700213). 'en' is kept, though, since
    #   it's always the last item in LANGUAGE per design.
    # - Make sure that the main dialect of the language is represented among
    #   the country code items (see https://launchpad.net/bugs/710148).
    my %main;
    while ( <$fh> ) {
        next if /^\s*(?:#|$)/;
        my ($k, $v) = split;
        $main{$k} = $v;
    }
    my %count;
    for ( keys %intersection ) {
        next if /^en[^a-z]/;
        ( my $not_country = $_ ) =~ s/_[A-Z]+//;
        $count{$not_country} ++;
    }
    for my $langcode ( keys %count ) {
        if ( $count{$langcode} > 1 ) {
            delete $intersection{$langcode};
            $intersection{ $main{$langcode} } = 1 if $main{$langcode};
        }
    }
} else {
    # not access to the language-to-main-dialect map
    # => stick with a minimum of list manipulation
    delete $intersection{'zh'};
}

# print the resulting list of language options
print join("\n", sort keys %intersection) || 'en';