I am proud to announce that, thanks to the translators of the Bengalinux project [http://bengalinux.org] comprising volunteers from both India & Bangladesh like Baishampayan Ghose, Jamil Ahmed & Progga, the Bengali language support is now nearly complete in Debian Installer core packages (so-called "level 1" translations).
Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages in the *world*, with about 170M to 190M native speakers. It is the state language in some states from Eastern India and, of course, the national langauge of Bangladesh. This progress is one of the most visible consequences of the recent efforts by the debian-in development group to improve the support for languages of South Asia in Debian (and, indirectly, in Debian derived distributions). Combined with the huge effort aimed at building a "graphical" version of the Debian Installer, able to support languages with complex rendering algotithms such as South and South-East Asia languages, this will certainly give a big push to the development of Debian in this part of the world. Translations already exist for Hindi (180M speakers), Bengali (180M), Punjabi (30M) and effort will soon start for Gujarati (46M), Kannada (35M), Malayalam (35M), Sanskrit, Tamil (66M). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
