[Debian-in-workers] Country names for Bengali

Denis Barbier barbier at linuxfr.org
Tue Mar 28 18:42:32 UTC 2006


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:10:50PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 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.

Can a native Bengali speaker please provide this file, so that I can
test collation rules?
Thanks.

Denis



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