[Debian-in-workers] Country names for Bengali

[Denis Barbier]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:49:22AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Christian already informed that the bn_BD locale has an issue, I will 
> > try to dig out.
> 
> You can ask for help on debian-i18n, at least to be pointed at correct
> documentation about collation rules writing.
> 
> Denis barbier gave a very interesting talk at last Debconf about this
> (which talk, dammit, I couldn't attend because I had a D-I talk
> immediately after it).

Slides are available at
   http://people.debian.org/~barbier/talks/debconf5/glibc-locale.pdf

I wrote a first draft of collation rules, based on informations found in
   http://tdil.mit.gov.in/bangla.pdf
   http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/common/collation/bn.xml
   http://developer.mimer.com/collations/charts/bengali.htm
Could a native speaker please send a sorted list of words, say around 50,
one word per line?  I can then check that the file is not modified when
passed to the sort command.

Denis