@Christian I won't repeat any clarifications with respect to your latest comment (#12) that shafin already made.
After having read both your and shafin's comments carefully, I still think that the arguments for making the proposed change are more convincing than the arguments against. The constitution of Bangladesh, UN ... and also the most commonly used OS. It's highly likely that sooner or later Bengali will be exchanged for Bangla in the ISO standards, so this is more like making a change some time before "upstream" (ISO) does - it's not a matter of introducing a permanent difference. I understand that you are worried about possible consequenses of patching a language name - the "giant can of worms", as you put it. Please note that I don't advocate differences to the standard which are not very well founded; to me the Bangla/Bengali case seems to be an exceptional case. If we keep the bar high for even discussing exceptions, I'm quite sure that approving this proposal won't cause a flood of similar requests. Nevertheless, unlike me you have a long experience of the iso-codes package, and I fear that you may think I'm naive. I have asked David Planella, Ubuntu's translations coordinator, to review the merge proposal including the comments in this bug report. I would suggest that we await his input before discussing this topic further. On 2012-10-21 18:56, Christian Perrier wrote: > By the way, I renamed bn_IN.po to bn.po. Thanks! That's clearly a step in the right direction. @shafin Are you possibly aware of any attempts to call ISO's attention to the issue and make them change the name in the standard? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991002 Title: Change name for bn-BD from 'Bengali(Bangladesh)' to 'Bangla(Bangladesh)') Status in “iso-codes” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “localechooser” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “iso-codes” package in Debian: Won't Fix Bug description: The official name for the state language for Bangladesh is Bangla, as detailed on section 3, part 1 of the Bangladesh constitution (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/research/bangladesh-constitution.pdf). However, language selector continues to refer to this language as Bengali (Bangladeh). While Bengali has been historically used as the english name for the language during colonial periods, the name 'Bangla' is more widely used nowadays. It is also the name with which native speakers identify the language. This package uses Bengali(Bangladesh) as the identifier for language code bn-BD. Please change the name to Bangla(Bangladesh). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 29 16:14:25 2012 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=bn_BD:bn:en_IN:en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=bn_BD.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: language-selector UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-19 (41 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iso-codes/+bug/991002/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
