Maintainers not able to add Punjabi translations

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Describe the issue

The Punjabi language is used in both Pakistan and India, but with different writing systems. The locales available for this in Weblate are pa_PK and pa respectively. (This is the same as how the Android locales are set up for this.) I have been translating applications for both scripts, which is easier to do together. However, pa_PK is not on the list of languages to choose from in the menu for adding a new translation, which says only a basic list of languages is included. For context, Punjabi is the 10th most spoken language in the world, and the majority of speakers live in Pakistan where it is the most widely apoken language. The language selection menu even includes ancient languages but does not have this option, it is odd that it is omitted entirely.

I have tried requesting adding it manually to maintainers, but here the maintainer of F-Droid suggests this may be a bug with Weblate since Android supports this locale but they were not able to add it on their hostes Weblate instance: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/342

In the meantime, I have been using the "und" Undetermined language code to store these translationa, but this puts a burden on project maintainers to manually export these and include them under the pa_PK locale when the Weblate application is supposed to be able to do this.

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Click "+" to add "Punjabi (Pakistan)"
2. Error appears saying project maintainer needs to add support for this
3. Project maintainer is not able to do this

Expected behavior

Ability to translate projects on Weblate to Punjabi.

Screenshots

Screenshots in the linked Gitlab issue re: F-Droid

Exception traceback

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