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The official name of Afghan language is "DARI" but Ubuntu has listed it under "Afghani" in the input sources.

Please, Who should I contact to solve this issue...?

سیف الله فضل
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    Welcome to AskUbuntu, سیف الله فضل. This could *probably* be considered a bug more than a feature request. [Follow these steps in Ubuntu](https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/report-ubuntu-bug.html.en) and hopefully someone can get it resolved in short order. –  Dec 07 '20 at 12:15
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    Does this answer your question? [How do I report a bug?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/5121/how-do-i-report-a-bug) – BeastOfCaerbannog Dec 07 '20 at 13:01
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    @BeastOfCaerbannog: Since this is an upstream matter, the guidance on how to report Ubuntu bugs does not help much. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Dec 07 '20 at 17:58
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    @GunnarHjalmarsson OK. I retracted my close vote. – BeastOfCaerbannog Dec 07 '20 at 18:12
  • @GunnarHjalmarsson even so, a bug should reported downstream as well so that Ubuntu devs can follow through and (if necessary) add a patch themselves – muru Dec 08 '20 at 14:10
  • @muru: Well, yeah, that's how it generally works. In this particular case it simply won't happen that we would carry an Ubuntu specific patch for changing the name of a keyboard layout (which would also involve translations). So - in this case - a downstream bug would just be unnecessary paper work. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Dec 08 '20 at 19:57

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Possibly there is a misconception. The keyboard layouts are often named after the countries where they are typically used rather than the language. So Afghani is consistent with how many other layouts are named, even if that keyboard layout is typically used for typing the Dari language.

If you still think it's wrong, please note that this is not an Ubuntu specific thing. Ubuntu uses the XKB data provided by freedesktop.org, and bugs should be reported here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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  • Thanks for the quick reply. There's a consistency for all other languages. But the word "Afghani" is never used as a language name at anytime for any country. (Afghani is the currency name of Afghanistan). I'm a newbie in Linux and don't know who should I contact to report this. – سیف الله فضل Dec 07 '20 at 18:39
  • @سیفاللهفضل: Just use the link I provided and report it as an issue. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Dec 07 '20 at 18:57