Re: Announcing new team for bn_IN

["Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu gmail com>]

On 6/27/06, Christian Rose <menthos gnome org> wrote:

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> 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