On 6/27/06, Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <..snipped>
> Thanks Taneem for your reply. I would also like to thank you very much > for your past involvement. > It seems you were not entirely convinced that there was a real need > for a seperate bn_IN. Could you please enlighten us why? > > In a similar manner, could you Sayamindu please enlighten us why you > are convinced there is a need for a seperate bn_IN translation? We > usually require rather solid motivations why translation efforts for a > language should be split, so could you please explain and summarize > the significant differences in written Bengali and/or terminology that > you think warrants the split efforts. > > Hi, Sorry for the late reply - I have been travelling lately: Bangla/Bengali already has split locales as bn and bn_IN in most of the major distros like Fedora [http://i18n.redhat.com/cgi-bin/i18n-status], Debian [http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/bn_IN], Ubuntu [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-l10n-bn-in and https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-bd]. Mozilla [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267132] and XFCE [http://i18n.xfce.org/stats/index.php?mode=2] also have bn_IN translations. bn_IN and bn_BD have different locale definitions due to differences in currency, time etc. >From the viewpoint of translations, translators based out of India follow the revised spelling and grammatical recommendations as mandated by the Govt. of West Bengal's [Indian State] Language Body -Pashcim Banga Bangla Akademi [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/20704765.cms]. While translators based in Bangladesh follow the specifications of the local language body. Due to dialectical differences in the spoken language and a major shift from the traditional written form by the Indian body it is becoming difficult to maintain consistency in common bn interfaces. Currently, gnome is the major desktop where a common bn interface is maintained with not so satisfactory results both as a stand-alone desktop as well as in conjunction with the distros. Please let me know if you require any more information/clarification. Thanks, Sayamindu _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
