Re: Change for name of "bn" language...

2013-03-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2013-03-15 06:49, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunna...@ubuntu.com): >> @Christian: Do we want to spread the use of our OSs to Bangla speaking >> people? I guess we do. So let's not make them face an outdated name of >> their language even before they have installed it.

Re: Change for name of "bn" language...

2013-03-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunna...@ubuntu.com): > The acceptance made the fix of https://launchpad.net/bugs/991002 easier. > In Ubuntu we now use the common_name field when present also for > languages. We have also patched the bn_XX locales (for nl_langinfo()), > and with the change in localech

Re: Change for name of "bn" language...

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:50:12PM +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > @Christian: Do we want to spread the use of our OSs to Bangla speaking > people? There's no question that we all have the same goal here, which is to get Free Software (Debian, Ubuntu) used by as many users as possible, regardle

Re: Change for name of "bn" language...

2013-03-14 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2013-03-13 20:44, Steve Langasek wrote: > I understand that we need the iso-codes XML files to not deviate from the > standard; but I also believed that the common_name field existed for cases > where Debian had decided that we should display something other than the > standard name... so I'm co

Re: Change for name of "bn" language...

2013-03-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve Langasek (steve.langa...@ubuntu.com): > > We should have discussed the change and Ubuntu should have doone it too..:-) > > Yep, evidently - sorry, it seemed like an uncontroversial change to me. No problem. For reference, I started a mini discussion with people I have confidence i

Re: Change for name of "bn" language...

2013-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Christian, On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 07:14:15AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > * languagelist: Use 'Bangla' as the preferred name for the language of > Bangladesh, for consistency with iso-codes; thanks to Gunnar Hjalmarsson > for the patch. LP: #991002. > -- Steve Langasek Mon

Re: Change for name of "bn" language...

2013-03-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > We should have discussed the change and Ubuntu should have doone it too..:-) Reading this mail again make it sound harsh, as I wrote it hastily (I was about to reach my final train station during my daily commute). Of course, not offense is intend

Change for name of "bn" language...

2013-03-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
* languagelist: Use 'Bangla' as the preferred name for the language of Bangladesh, for consistency with iso-codes; thanks to Gunnar Hjalmarsson for the patch. LP: #991002. -- Steve Langasek Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:08:05 -0700 Well, that's a tricky one. In finally compromised to use th