Whatever comments above, my stance is still the same. Iso-codes references the standard, whatever the standard is : "good" or "wrong". We even list "Taiwan, province of China" as name for Taiwan and, believe me, this is way much more controversial than Bengali/Bangla.
In short, if you want us to use Bangla in iso-codes as the English name for "bn", then get the standard changed. As I explained already, Ubuntu maintainers are free to patch the package to use whatever name they think is appropriate. I have no way to prevent them from doing so, except 8 years experience telling me this is opening a can of worms. But, *I* will not patch iso-codes upstream. Neither in the released tarball, nor in the Debian package. Debian will be right, whatever "right" is. Ubuntu will be wrong, whatever "wrong" it is. That won't be the first time that clumsy, short-term solutions are adopted in Ubuntu, this seems to be the way development works there, sometimes. I really don't care. As a kind of compromise, I'll think about the possibility to add a specific field we could name "common_name" in the ISO-639 XML file. This is the trick we used for the "Taiwan" issue or the "Macedonia" issue in ISO-3166. Maybe that could work as people wanting to use iso-codes and play with alternatives (at the expense of other people not agreeing with the use of alternatives to complain), to have the possibility of doing it. -- 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
