[Debian-in-workers] Starting D-I translation effort for Bangla - step 5

[Baishampayan Ghose]

Chris,
> Well, well, well....your comments tickles my mind. I know these issues
> can very rapidly grow to political issues (we already has similar
> cases, not with languages and default countries but with country
> names).
Hehe :)

> Actually, Bengali being the official language from Bangladesh would
> make me more comfortable in putting BD as default country.
Yes, I know that ...
 
> Of course, one could argue for India for two reasons:
> 
> -I suppose that Bengali is the official language of some India states
> and thus, India being a federation, be regarded as "an official
> language in India" even if not an official language of the Federation
> itself
> 
> -the translator (you) originates from India and it can be his
> privilege to define the default country...:-)
I agree with you fully on the above two reasons.
 
> However, putting IN as default could also be regarded as offensive by
> people from Bangladesh so, if you don't mind I would prefer taking no
> risk and use BD as default.
> I'm maybe over-cautious here but, well....I speak from experience and
> I do my best to avoid hurting people's feelings....
Heh. But what about _my_ feelings ? ;-)

> For my statistics page, are you aware of how many people actually
> speak Bengali (both in BD and IN...and possibly other countries)? I
> can find references on ethnologue.com but I also like having advices
> by more clued people.
Umm. I don't have any concrete stats with me, but I know well that
there are more bengali speakers in present Bangladesh than India. So I
guess, it quite logical to put bn_BD as the default locale.
So go ahead and commit it ...
Regards,
-bg-

-- 
Baishampayan Ghose
b.ghose at gmail.com

+-------------------------------+
|  Audio, video disco |
+-------------------------------+