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Search by exonym (e.g. "Dutch" for nl) not working in language search dialog
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Description

Searching for languages by exonym (the name of that language in the user's language, rather than the name of that language in the language itself) doesn't work anymore.

  • Open VE
  • Open the language inspector (open the style dropdown, click "more", select "Language")
  • Open the language search dialog (click on the "..." button)
  • Type "nl"; this successfully finds "Nederlands (nl)"
  • Type "Nederlands"; this successfully finds the same thing
  • Type "Dutch"; this should also find nl, but it doesn't

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Change 571819 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/core@master] mediawiki.language: Rename languageData back to languageNames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/571819

Change 571819 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] mediawiki.language: Rename languageData back to languageNames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/571819

Change 571829 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_34] mediawiki.language: Rename languageData back to languageNames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/571829

Change 571830 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_33] mediawiki.language: Rename languageData back to languageNames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/571830

Change 571830 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_33] mediawiki.language: Rename languageData back to languageNames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/571830

Change 571829 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_34] mediawiki.language: Rename languageData back to languageNames

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/571829