In Karmic, this is fixed. The translations are pulled from libicu. However, your second point ('cannot be translated by Rosetta') is still valid. See bug 421917.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- Region and city names shows unstranslated, and can't be translated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356662 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs