Why can't I remove language variants like English (NZ), etc.?

Question

I'd like to remove some unwanted languages from my system. I only use Italian, and English UK and US. In "Systems Settings" I can find a lot of languages that I don't even know why they have been installed. However, although I am an administrator, I can't remove the unwanted languages (as you can see the "-" is greyed out). I have tried running "sudo gnome-control-center" but there the only language displayed is English. Thanks a lot in advance for the help! Luca

Answer 1

Languages with localized variants are provided in a package: - English contains AU, US, UK, NZ, SA, etc. variants - Chinese contains variants, etc.

You can't remove specific variants without removing the whole package (from the desktop).

If you are adventurous, you can try removing those locales via the command-line, e.g. en_NZ.UTF_8, etc.